Make up the short board and forge the long board to continuously build a new competitive advantage

“In 2021, when I first attended the closed-door session of the Forum, 50% of the manufacturers in the venue were our customers; Last year it was 70%. I did the math again this time behind closed doors and it was 100 percent.” At the 2023 China Automotive Forum held in Shanghai in July, Yu Kai, founder of Horizon, a domestic car-level AI chip manufacturer, sighed, “This progress is real!”

From 50% to 100%, it is a vivid epitome of the industrial chain constantly moving toward autonomy and control.

A stable and highly competitive industrial chain is essential for a large industry. The key to a new type of industrialization is to create new competitiveness. China already has the world’s most complete industrial system, but the problem of big but not strong, complete but not fine still exists. Consolidating the industrial foundation and striving to achieve autonomy and control in key areas and key links has become an important focus for promoting new industrialization.

We will improve the core capabilities of the industrial chain, and carry out projects to rebuild the industrial base and tackle key technical and equipment problems. We will strengthen the control of the industrial chain, cultivate more leading enterprises and individual champions with international competitiveness, and guide small and medium-sized enterprises to develop into specialized and innovative enterprises. Complement the short board, lengthen the long board, forge the new board, and enhance the continuity and competitiveness of industrial development…… In recent years, a series of important measures focusing on consolidating the industrial foundation, improving industrial resilience, and enhancing internal momentum have been launched.

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“China attaches great importance to the stability and competitiveness of the industrial chain, increases investment in research and development, and relevant domestic industries have made certain breakthroughs and achievements.” Chen Yutao, deputy director of the Standardization Working Committee of the China Enterprise Association, said that among the 262 key links in the new energy automobile industry chain, the proportion of links that domestic manufacturers can supply has reached 85.88%.

The new industrialization is also “new” in the reshaping of the pattern. In recent years, many places have broken with traditional thinking, actively built an innovation ecology, integrated themselves into regional coordinated development, and broadened the space for development.

In the “Optics Valley of China” in Donghu High-tech Zone of Wuhan, Hubei Province, a number of leading enterprises in the optoelectronic information industry are growing. Anhui Hefei speed up the layout of “core screen” industrial strategy; Hunan construction machinery, advanced rail transit industry competitiveness significantly enhanced……

The latest data show that China has built 45 national advanced manufacturing clusters in the fields of next-generation information technology, high-end equipment, new materials and new energy, with the total output value of leading industries reaching 20 trillion yuan. “We have placed the development of advanced manufacturing clusters in a more prominent position, paid more attention to the improvement of industrial basic capabilities and the overall strength of the industrial chain, and accelerated the construction of a modern industrial system.” Ministry of Industry and Information Technology responsible person said.

China has a huge market, a complete industrial system and complete supporting capabilities, which contains countless innovative forces. By firmly grasping the keyword of high quality and steadily promoting new industrialization, we will continue to strengthen new driving forces for industrial development and write a new chapter in building a manufacturing power.