On November 30, 2023, the same superconducting quantum computer "Zu Chongzhi No. 2" on display in the exhibition hall of the National Shield Quantum Technology *** of Science and Technology (taken on April 7, 2023). Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 5Question: The "new" tide is surging: the new quality of productivity stimulates the new momentum of China's economy
Xinhua News Agency reporters Wang Xiuqiong, Zhao Yang, Zheng Jingxia.
For Air Products, a multinational industrial gas company, "new productivity" is a new trend that is surging strongly in China's economic sea.
In recent years, we have seen a growing demand for reliable, high-quality industrial gases and advanced application technologies in emerging sectors such as new energy vehicles, new materials and high-end manufacturing. Su Junxiong, president of the company's China region, said in a recent interview with Xinhua News Agency, "The new quality of productivity contains huge energy in further promoting industrial transformation and releasing industrial value." ”
On January 31, the Politburo of the Communist Party of China (CPC) held its first collective study in the New Year, focusing on the development of new quality productivity. This advanced productive force, which is spawned by revolutionary breakthroughs in technology, innovative allocation of production factors, and in-depth industrial transformation and upgrading, has become a strong driving force for China's high-quality development.
Air Products is a witness and participant in the development of new quality productivity in China. Last year, the company set up an Asian hydrogen energy application research and development center in Haiyan, Zhejiang Province, to develop application technologies for China's hydrogen transportation, hydrogen fuel, hydrogen metallurgy, hydrogen energy community and other needs.
The interaction between new productivity and the green transition of energy will form a new growth engine. Su Junxiong said.
From new energy and quantum computers to industrial robots, China has shown a vigorous development momentum in the upgrading of strategic emerging industries, future industries and traditional industries, injecting new momentum for sustained and healthy development into China's economy, which is in the transition period of growth model.
Cai Wei, Chief Strategy Officer, KPMG China Advisory, says that strategic emerging industries and future industries constitute the core areas of new productivity, and the proportion of these industries in China's GDP continues to rise, with segments such as new energy, information technology and bio-industry performing particularly prominently.
According to official data, in 2022, the added value of strategic emerging industries such as new-generation information technology, high-end equipment, and new energy vehicles accounted for more than 13% of China's GDP. China plans to bring it to more than 17 percent during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.
Cai Wei pointed out that in recent years, the production and sales of new energy vehicles in China have increased significantly, the installation of robot technology has increased steadily, the output value of the new material industry has continued to grow, and the application of generative artificial intelligence has expanded rapidly in many industries, with a huge market scale.
These results and trends bode well for China's new quality of productivity, with the prospect of even greater growth and innovation in the coming years. He told reporters.
In Hunnan District, Shenyang City, a Level 4 autonomous vehicle developed by Neusoft Reach Automotive Technology (Shenyang)** conducts driving tests on a closed road (photo taken on July 9, 2021). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Qing From the first to the locality, China is releasing a strong signal to promote the development of new quality productive forces.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other seven departments recently issued opinions proposing that by 2025, a number of future industry incubators and pilot areas will be built, 100 cutting-edge key core technologies will be broken through, and 100 landmark products will be formed.
**State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) recently deployed investment work in 2024, focusing on accelerating the layout and cultivating new quality productivity, and proposing to deploy a number of specialized, special and new enterprises and unicorn enterprises with great potential and good growth in the field of strategic emerging industries.
A batch of major projects announced at the beginning of the year in various parts of China are full of "new" meaning: in the first batch of major projects to start construction in Hefei City, Anhui Province this year, new energy vehicles, new generation information technology, photovoltaic and new energy projects accounted for more than eighty percent of the total investment in industrial projects; Among the "three batches" signed projects in Henan Province in the New Year, the total investment in advanced manufacturing and strategic emerging industry projects is 5921900 million yuan, accounting for 89 percent of the total investment in the "signed batch" project1%。
A commentator's article in the Financial Times noted that China's local investment projects launched in early 2024 have "obvious scientific overtones" and show "ambition to climb the value chain and develop new growth engines." ”
On November 23, 2023, in the production workshop of the Great Demon King Konjac Food in Liuyang City, industrial robots were transporting products. Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Sihan photo CITIC ** chief economist Ming Ming believes that the key to the development of new quality productive forces lies in scientific and technological progress, which is inseparable from factors such as the improvement of talent quality, capital accumulation and technological development.
According to a report released by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the full-time equivalent of R&D personnel in China increased from 324 in 201270,000 person-years increased to 635 in 202240,000 person-years, ranking first in the world, and ranking second in the world in the number of highly cited scientists in the world.
In 2023, China will rank 12th in the Global Innovation Index released by the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the number of the world's top 100 science and technology innovation clusters will rank first in the world for the first time. According to official statistics, the intensity of R&D investment in China's society has increased from 1 in 201291% to 2. in 202364%。
The continuous accumulation of innovation potential energy is constantly transforming into industrial momentum. According to official data, in 2023, China's investment in high-tech industries will increase by 10% year-on-year3%, faster than the total fixed asset investment of 73 percentage points.
It is expected that in the short term, the proportion of new quality productivity in GDP will continue to rise, and the quality of China's economic development will improve. In the long run, under the empowerment and guidance of new quality productivity, China's industrial transformation and upgrading and international competition will achieve a major breakthrough, and the economic growth momentum and growth center will be strengthened.
The new quality productivity is expected to become a new growth pole of China's economy in the near future. He told reporters that in this process, the catalysis and support of relevant policies are still crucial, and institutional reform and guarantee should be followed up in a timely manner. (Participating in the writing: Chen Shangying, Wang Haiyue, Li Baojie).