The large-scale construction of advanced manufacturing clusters in China is exerting scale effects and competitive advantages such as collaborative innovation, talent gathering, cost reduction and efficiency increase. In the large-scale transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing industry promoted by digitalization, the competitive vitality continuously released by this advanced industrial cluster system provides more opportunities for the global manufacturing industry, and an open and competitive market is opening up greater imagination space.

Shanghai: Creating a strong growth pole for high-end manufacturing

In the first half of this year, the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size in Shanghai increased by 14.2% year-on-year; The total output value of industries above designated size was 1,879.792 billion yuan, up by 11.8% year-on-year; Of the 35 industrial industries, 28 industries achieved year-on-year growth in output value, with an increase of 80%. Behind the achievement of this “report card”, Shanghai cannot escape the bottom line thinking of the manufacturing industry and the top-level strategy of planning high-quality development, so as to continuously release the vitality of competition, refresh the height of “intelligent manufacturing” and stimulate the surging momentum.

New products and new industries are growing

At the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference held in Shanghai not long ago, a white and green new energy vehicle attracted many visitors to stop. “Although the car is small, it is powerful enough to pull eight adult Asian elephants at one time, and can achieve 7×24 hours of transportation, which can be adapted to airports, factories, logistics centers and other scenes.” The new energy driverless tractor “Q-Tractor” in the mouth of the narrator comes from Nishii Technology. After the exhibition, it was immediately “transferred” to work, effectively improving the efficiency of material operation between people and freight yards.

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The reporter saw at the scene that in addition to this global debut, the intelligent electric replacement unmanned commercial vehicle “Q-Truck” brought by West Well Technology was listed as a “treasure of the town pavilion” at this year’s conference, and has been commercially landed in many countries and regions such as Thailand and the United Arab Emirates. In June this year, the UK’s largest port Felixstowe added 100 “Q-Truck”, which will join forces with Nishii Technology to build the largest “cabless” new energy driverless commercial fleet in the UK so far.

New energy vehicles are becoming a beautiful “business card” for the high-quality development of Shanghai’s manufacturing industry. Data from the Shanghai Bureau of Statistics show that in the first half of the year, the total output value of the city’s industrial strategic emerging industries increased by 14.6%, the growth rate is 2.8 percentage points higher than the total output value of industries above designated size. Among them, the output value of new energy vehicles, new energy and high-end equipment increased by 69.8%, 57.8% and 33.1%, respectively.

The reporter learned from the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology that from January to June this year, Shanghai’s automobile production reached 962,000 units, with an output value of 335.46 billion yuan, an increase of 21.3%, of which the production of new energy vehicles reached 612,000 units, with an output value of 181.953 billion yuan, an increase of 69.8%. At present, there are 8 vehicle enterprises, more than 600 domestic and foreign major parts enterprises in Shanghai layout, a number of multinational car companies set up regional headquarters or R & D centers in Shanghai. Tesla founder Musk, who visited China earlier, said that in the world, the Shanghai super factory is not only the most efficient factory of Tesla, but also the factory with the best manufacturing quality.

In addition to the complete industrial chain supporting, Shanghai is also one of the first cities in the country to carry out the application of new energy vehicles. As of the end of June this year, a total of 150 brands have been promoted in Shanghai, and a total of 1.167 million new energy vehicles have been promoted, ranking first in the world. 720,000 charging piles, 120 power stations and 16 hydrogen refueling stations have been built.

In addition, Shanghai’s intelligent connected automobile industry ecology continues to improve. By the end of June 2023, a total of 624 vehicles from 29 enterprises had been issued road test and demonstration application licenses, and the test mileage exceeded 16.77 million kilometers; 926 1,800km intelligent connected vehicle test roads have been opened, forming a dislocation development layout of Jiading passenger cars, Lingang commercial vehicles, Fengxian parking garage, and Jinqiao vehicle networking.