According to data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology a few days ago, China's industrial economy will show a rebound in 2023, and the overall scale of the manufacturing industry will rank first in the world for 14 consecutive years. The status of a manufacturing power is stable, and it is also necessary to see that from big to strong is still an important proposition to be overcome.
Big and full of unique advantages made in China. Manufacturing power is not easy to come by. Made in China only took more than 70 years to complete the industrialization process of developed countries for hundreds of years, from "almost nothing can be made" to today's "large and complete", and in 2010, it regained the status of the world's largest manufacturing country that lost a century and a half. Made in China is not only large, but also accounts for nearly 30% of the world's added value of the manufacturing industry, and it is also the manufacturing industry with the most complete industrial categories and the most complete industrial system in the world. Among the world's 500 major industrial products, more than forty percent of China's product output ranks first in the world. Some foreign netizens once launched a challenge of "not making in China for 24 hours", and the conclusion was that "I can't survive", because everything from the clothes I wear to the mobile phones I use are made in China.
Scale advantage drives the bigger the bigger. Some people think that since it is big but not strong, it makes no sense to be big. As everyone knows, the scale advantage will form a virtuous circle and continuously consolidate the status of a manufacturing power. For example, the same product can be produced on a large scale, high efficiency, high quality and low cost in China due to the abundance of raw materials and the nearby matching of parts and components. With the scale of the manufacturing industry, the advantages of production efficiency in its core competitiveness have an important foundation, and the advantages of industrial supporting facilities and industrial scale can greatly reduce costs. The manufacturing power initially relied on the advantages of the huge market, labor, raw materials, and land to attract the low-end links of the global manufacturing industry to transfer to China; Since then, it has relied on the advantages of industrial chain clusters, logistics chains, production technology, industrial workers, and industrial supporting environment to realize the overall layout of the global manufacturing industry chain in China.
Daweiqiang has laid a solid foundation. Large scale and complete categories can ensure that the manufacturing industry has strong resilience, large room for maneuver and strong anti-risk ability, which is also an important advantage of China's manufacturing from large to strong. The scale is large, and it can also provide more funds, talents and application scenarios for the technological progress of the manufacturing industry. There is an empirical law in the aircraft industry, that is, for every 1 times the cumulative production of a particular type of aircraft, its unit labor cost decreases by 20%, which fully shows that the accumulated technology has incremental productivity. This "learning by doing" effect means that the larger the production scale of many products, the easier it is to improve technology, improve product quality and improve production efficiency in production.
Dawei provides more space for the new. Traditional industries account for 80% of the manufacturing industry, and old trees can also sprout, and many new industries are transformed and upgraded by traditional industries using new technologies, such as new materials, new energy vehicles, etc. On the basis of the existing manufacturing industry, new applications, new formats and new models can be derived by continuously extending the chain and strengthening the chain, or through digital empowerment and other means. To accelerate the formation of new quality productive forces, the focus is on leading the development of strategic emerging industries and future industries. The sound manufacturing system provides more space for the selection and cultivation of China's strategic emerging industries and future industries, and is also an important foundation for nurturing new quality productivity.
Dialectically looking at the big and strong made in China, we must see the big advantages, the strong direction, but also the shortcomings. China's manufacturing industry has large production capacity and output, but there are still many weaknesses in high-end links and basic capabilities. It is necessary to make up for shortcomings, identify the weak links of key core technologies and components, concentrate high-quality resources to tackle key problems, and improve the resilience and safety level of the industrial chain. It is also necessary to forge long boards, consolidate the leading position of advantageous industries, cultivate and expand emerging industries, look forward to the layout of future industries, and enhance the competitiveness of the whole industrial chain.
From big to strong, in the final analysis, it is necessary to consolidate existing advantages, forge new advantages, change from quantity to quality, from manufacturing to creation, and promote the manufacturing country to become a manufacturing power. (This article**: Economy** Author: Huang Xin).