Lingnan spring is early. On the first day of the 2024 Spring Festival, the provincial high-quality development conference was held in Shenzhen, where talents from all walks of life discussed to promote the mutual promotion of science and technology and industry, promote high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance, and continuously enhance the ability of scientific and technological innovation to support and lead high-quality development.
How to develop new quality productivity and shape new momentum and new advantages for development? Nandu Big Data Research Institute launched a series of reports on "Guangdong Science and Technology Growth" to interpret it in many aspects.
The third article focuses on the integrated development of science and technology and industry, and looks at how Guangdong can accelerate the construction of the whole process innovation chain and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system.
Guangdong "New Year's first meeting" was placed on the first day of the new year, Guangdong Provincial Party Secretary Huang Kunming pointed out in his speech at the meeting, to fully support enterprises to be the protagonist of innovation, promote the gathering of innovation resources to high-quality enterprises, government, industry, academia and research to work together to overcome the "neck" technology, forge the "trump card" technology, research and development of more "root technology", so that enterprises to stand up.
Promoting industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation and developing new quality productivity have become a strong driving force for Guangdong's high-quality economic development, and 20 strategic industrial clusters have achieved an added value of 549 trillion yuan. In 2024, Guangdong will further deploy five future industries, emerging technologies will continue to emerge, and new application scenarios and new tracks will continue to be developed in Guangdong. Strategic emerging industries are booming, future industries are about to develop, and innovative elements are accelerating in Guangdong. All parts of Guangdong are empowering industrial development and cultivating more than 750,000 high-tech enterprises have given birth to the "hard core force" of science and technology innovation, helping Guangdong's science and technology innovation + industry to blossom.
Consolidate the "foundation" of enterprise science and technologyIndustrial science and technology research "play the leading role".In the southwest of Panyu Automobile City, Guangzhou, there is the GAC Aion Intelligent Ecological Factory, which has been selected as the world's only "lighthouse factory" for new energy vehicles, where a new energy vehicle rolls off the assembly line every 53 seconds. Also busy is BYD's production workshop in Pingshan, Shenzhen, where on November 24, 2023, BYD ushered in its 6 million new energy vehicles off the assembly line. As the largest province of new energy vehicles, there is one "made in Guangdong" for every four new energy vehicles in the country.
Just the day before this day, in the Honor Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park on the other side of Pingshan, Honor's 1 millionth folding screen mobile phone of the year officially rolled off the assembly line, relying on the park, with an average of 28A mobile phone can be produced in 5 seconds.
On the last working day of 2023, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange ushered in a special gong knocking guest, the humanoid robot Walkers, which raised the gavel and sounded the gong together with Zhou Jian, chairman of the board of directors, executive director and chief executive officer of UBTECH, which produced it, to announce the successful listing of another high-tech enterprise in Guangdong.
These are just a glimpse of the highlights of Guangdong's science and technology innovation industry in 2023. In recent years, Guangdong has insisted on strengthening the main position of enterprise innovation, allowing enterprises to "play the leading role" in industrial science and technology research, and a number of science and technology leading enterprises such as Huawei, Tencent, BYD, Midea, and Gree have "danced with elephants", and a large number of technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises have exerted the power of "ant soldiers". It can be seen that a number of phenomenal "intelligent manufacturing" products represented by new energy vehicles, smart phones, humanoid robots, etc., continue to be born from Guangdong and shine all over the world; Guangdong Province 5G technology took the lead in 20 key areas to achieve vertical application, ultra-high-definition display industry, laser and additive manufacturing industry led the country, biomedical industry entered the first phalanx in the country, to create the integrated circuit industry "third pole" effect is beginning to show, a variety of robots and CNC machine tool products into the international market, behind which is the continuous growth of the national high-tech enterprise team in Guangdong Province.
Looking at the land of southern Guangdong, innovative enterprises are dotted around. According to the latest data released by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology,The number of high-tech enterprises in Guangdong Province exceeds 750,000,000,Accounting for 1 6 of the countryIt has ranked first in the country for eight consecutive years, and the number of small and medium-sized technology-based enterprises in the province has exceeded 760,000,000,Specialized, special and new small and medium-sized enterprises exceed 180,000 and nearly 1,500 specialized and new "little giant" enterprises. There are also a large number of Guangdong science and technology enterprises to achieve leapfrog growth with the help of multi-level capital markets. As of the end of 2023, a total of 208 high-tech enterprises and science and technology enterprises in our province have been listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board and the Growth Enterprise Market, ranking first in the countryThere were 50 new listed science and technology enterprises throughout the year, and the total number of listed companies on the "Science and Technology Innovation Board" reached 902. 27 companies, including Rising Group, Guangzhou Science City, Shenzhen Innovation Investment, and Zhuhai Gree, issued 43 science and technology innovation bonds and raised 402900 million yuan, accounting for about 1 10 of the country.
The policy of fertilizing fertile soil in spring rain moistens the jointing growth of enterprises. In recent years, Guangdong has continuously optimized the policy environment, promoted enterprises to undertake major scientific and technological research tasks, and promoted the deep integration of industry, university and research, continuously strengthened the main position of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation, and took multiple measures to enhance the independent innovation ability of enterprises. In 2023, Guangdong Province will guide enterprises to increase R&D investment through inclusive policies, and promote nearly 100,000 enterprises in the province to enjoy the pre-tax deduction of R&D expenses is expected to exceed 680 billion yuan; Not long ago, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Finance also issued 34.6 billion yuan of specialized and special new "little giant" enterprise award and subsidy funds.
"Lay eggs along the way, transform them on the spot".Accelerate the construction of the whole process innovation chainTo promote industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation and accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, as a "visible hand", it is very important to exert force and guide. According to Yang Jun, deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Guangdong is gradually building an innovation system of "enterprise-oriented, market-oriented, and deep integration of production, education and research". Explore the mechanism of "laying eggs along the way and transforming them on the spot" of scientific research achievements of major innovation platforms, open up the "last mile" of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and realize the leap of the innovation value chainVarious localities in Guangdong Province have also introduced policies to actively build an innovation support system from source innovation, technological research to industrial application, promote the deep integration of innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain and talent chain, and continuously improve the level of transformation and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements.
For example,ShenzhenIt has formed a "20+8" industrial cluster including intelligent terminals, automobile industry, artificial intelligence, robotics, biomedicine, etc. Guangming Science CityIt is one of the models created by Shenzhen's whole-process innovation chain. Upstairs is the scientific research personnel are carrying out innovative research, and downstairs is the enterprise personnel are busy starting a business, thanks to this, the valuation of the bright synthetic biology industry cluster has exceeded 27 billion yuan. In addition, in 2023, the number of 24 major scientific and technological innovation carriers planned and laid out by Guangming Science City will reach 20 under construction and operation. New Energy Vehicle Industrial Park in Pingshan, ShenzhenThere is also this "upstairs and downstairs" innovation and entrepreneurship complex model, as the country's first 100-meter prefabricated "skyscraper factory", providing 3210,000 square meters of high-quality industrial space. At the same time, the building has established a three-dimensional freight channel, large trucks can be driven to the 3rd floor to transport and unload, and light trucks can be directly driven to the 17th floor by elevator, truly realizing "industrial upstairs".
In Guangzhou Huangpu,"China Nano Valley" is gradually taking off, and more than 100 innovative enterprises in the nano field have gathered here. If the original innovation is the "from 0 to 1" led by the scientific research community, and the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements is the "from 10 to 100" led by the business community, then the transformation of scientific and technological achievements from "1 to 10" needs more new R&D institutions to undertake. The Guangdong Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area National Institute of Nanotechnology Innovation (hereinafter referred to as "Guangna Institute"), located in Nano Valley, promotes the rapid transformation of quantum dot project achievements by building a science and technology project incubation platform, providing achievement transformation services and industrial resource docking support. According to Zhao Yuliang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of the Guangna Institute, as of May 31 this year, the Guangna Institute has realized 22 projects that can be industrialized with its own scientific research achievements and 17 incubation project enterprises.
In Zhuhai High-tech Zone,In the production workshop of Mojie Technology, the automated production line is operating, and the world's lightest and thinnest AR glasses are currently born here. According to Dr. Li Zhu, founding partner of Mojie Technology, in 2021, the company began to explore in the "first no man's land" of mass-produced resin diffractive optical waveguide technology, breaking through the difficulties of AR optical display technology. Zhuhai High-tech Zone is also the birthplace of the national office application software WPS, "We have done a lot of foundation and R&D work in the entire digital office, from public network, private network to hybrid cloud, product strategy and facing different industries. Bi Xiaocun, senior vice president of Kingsoft Office, told the reporter that in 2023, Kingsoft Office will take the lead in implementing AI office applications in China, using AI large language models to reconstruct office services.
It can be seen that the development model of "R&D is transformation, transformation is application" has become a trend, and the development trend of "one district and one characteristic" in Guangdong High-tech Zone is becoming more and more obvious, and in 2023, Guangdong will add 3 new national-level innovative industrial clusters, bringing the total number of the province to 20. Among the top 30 national high-tech zones in the country, there are 5 in Guangdong Province, of which Shenzhen and Guangzhou high-tech zones are firmly in the first echelon of the top 10 in the countryThe leading, radiating and driving role of the high-tech zone in the high-quality development of the industry has been continuously enhanced.
Cultivating technology to tackle "internal strength".Solidly enhance the "hard core" of innovationIn addition to encouraging the transformation of scientific research institutions, the research and development of science and technology enterprises themselves has also been valued. In recent years, Guangdong has successively promulgated the Regulations on Promoting the Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements, the Regulations on the Promotion of Independent Innovation, the Several Opinions on Strengthening Basic and Applied Basic Research, the Implementation Plan for R&D Plans in Key Areas and the "12 Articles on Science and Technology", etc., to continuously improve the system of scientific and technological innovation policies and regulations, and break down the institutional and institutional obstacles restricting innovation.
The data shows that the Guangdong Science and Technology Innovation Iron Army has a large scale and strong momentum, and has become the main force supporting the manufacturing industry, creating 6 "90%":About 90% of Guangdong's scientific research institutions, 90% of scientific research personnel, 90% of R&D funds, and 90% of invention patent applications are in enterprisesMore than 90% of enterprises participate in the R&D plan in key areas of the province; The provincial engineering centers established by enterprises account for nearly 90%.
InGlory Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial ParkThe reporter from Nandu saw that on a complete mobile phone production line, only a few technicians carried out manual assistance operations in the necessary links. According to Honor sources, there are more than 100 processes in mobile phone manufacturing, and 75% of the processes are currently completed by automated equipment, and more than 40% of the equipment comes from independent research and development. According to reports, Glory has more than 13,000 employees in the world, more than 60% of whom are R&D personnel, and the total R&D investment exceeds 10% of the annual income, ranking in the forefront of the industry, because of this, Glory applies for more than 3,000 patents every month. Not only that, the distance between the Honor R&D center and the factory is only a flyover, which truly realizes the integration of production and research.
UBTECH exhibition hall in Nanshan Zhiyuan, Shenzhen, the panda robot Youyo, which can take Coke from the refrigerator to entertain visitors, has attracted everyone's attention. Since its establishment, UBTECH has dug deep into its own "technology fish pond" and is willing to invest in technology research and development. Nandu reporters learned that from 2020 to the first half of 2023, the company's R&D investment accounted for 56 percent of total revenue5%。As of June 30, 2023, UBTECH's full-stack technology has 1,800 patents related to robotics and artificial intelligence. Not only in UBTECH, today's Guangdong has formed a robot industry cluster represented by Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan, etc., and breakthroughs have been made in the control system technology of humanoid robots, key technology groups such as "machine body" and "robot limb".
InZhuhai XiangzhouGree Electric Co., Ltd. has a smart factory that includes intelligent equipment companies, equipment power institutes, big data centers, Lianyun Technology and other research institutions. As early as nearly ten years ago, Gree Electric Appliances has been approved as a "State Key Laboratory" and built a platform for the whole technological innovation chain. "From the consumer field to the industrial field, Gree Electric Appliances can achieve independent technical support, and my deepest experience is that the core technology should be in their own hands, and we should firmly innovate independently. Dong Mingzhu, chairman and president of Zhuhai Gree Electric Appliance Co., Ltd., said. It is reported that at present, Gree has nearly 160,000 R&D personnel and more than 30,000 skilled workers; It has academician workstations, 15 research institutes, 126 research institutes and 1045 laboratories; A total of 87,532 patents have been applied for, and 33 "internationally leading" technologies have been obtained.
"Build a circle and strengthen the chain".Develop new momentum"Big and strong" and "small and specialized" go hand in handFocusing on overcoming technical difficulties and coordinating the upstream and downstream integration and development of the industrial chain is the responsibility of leading enterprises to promote the high-quality development of the industry. In December 2022, the "Administrative Measures for the Selection of "Chain Master" Enterprises in Key Industrial Chains of Strategic Industrial Clusters in Guangdong Province was promulgated, according to which 20 strategic industrial clusters will be centered, and each industrial cluster will determine a number of key industrial chains according to the actual industrial development, and each key industrial chain will select 2-3 "chain master" enterprises to build a system of "20 strategic industrial clusters + N key industrial chains + multi-chain masters".
UAVs "fly" out of an industrial chain in Shenzhen. According to the statistics of Shenzhen UAV Industry Association, there are 1,730 UAV and industrial chain enterprises actually operating in Shenzhen, with an annual output value of 96 billion yuan. The Nanshan District, where DJI is located, is a veritable drone manufacturing highland, and there is a saying in the industry, "You can build a drone without leaving Nanshan District". Here, DJI has increasingly become the "chain master" of the industrial chain and innovation chain. From the perspective of the whole industry chain and innovation chain, the battery power servo has BAK batteries, the imaging technology providers include Obi Zhongguang, Weisen, Anfa and other companies, and there are many control system solution providers.
In the industrial chain, more and more small and medium-sized enterprises have emerged, using the "unique skills" of subdivided fields to become an indispensable and important force to enhance the resilience of the industrial chain. Guangzhou Radio Group is the main unit of the two industrial chains of artificial intelligence, software and information innovation in GuangzhouIt has a large number of high-tech enterprises. It established the Guangzhou Artificial Intelligence Public Computing Center (hereinafter referred to as the "Computing Center") to provide 99P inclusive computing services for small and medium-sized enterprises, effectively helping digital upgrading and greatly improving enterprise efficiency. Guangzhou Yuntong Lianda Financial Service Technology Co., Ltd. hereinafter referred to asYuntong LinkJustIt is an enterprise relying on the computing power center. In 2023, Yuntong Chain will release its self-developed AI large-scale model middleware InterGPT. "It is also known as 'Chainda Brain', which is also the industry's first large-scale model middleware. Zou Jun, CEO of Yuntong Chain, told Nandu reporters, "It provides a low-cost and low-tech threshold solution for the privatization deployment of large models for enterprises, and we have cooperated with Guangqi Honda, radio and television metering, SMIC and other companies." He also said that Yuntong Lianda is also exploring and promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and actively seeks cooperation with scientific research institutions, such as cooperation with Guangzhou University in blockchain, digital humans, and large models.
Guangdong's science and technology innovation industry has gradually built a modern industrial pattern with outstanding "chain" dancing and splendid, showing a good ecology of "chain master" enterprises leading the flight and small and medium-sized enterprises flying together. Wang Yueqin, director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology, said that Guangdong will cultivate more innovative enterprises with independent intellectual property rights and core competitiveness, and give full play to the leading and supporting role of science and technology backbone enterprises.
The future of science and technology innovation is eager to tryIntelligent productivity empowers strategic industriesFacing 20 strategic industrial clusters, Guangdong has actively built an innovation support system from source innovation, technological research to industrial application. In 2023, 20 strategic industrial clusters will achieve an added value of 549 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 52%, the growth rate is higher than the GDP in the same period. Wang Yueqin said that a number of breakthroughs have been made in the fields of new energy vehicles, new generation communications, new materials, industrial software, high-end medical devices, and biomedicine. While the manufacturing industry is rejuvenated, Guangdong is also actively opening up new industrial tracks, and a new generation of artificial intelligence and new energy storage industries are poised to take off.
In order to attach importance to grasping and making good use of artificial intelligence, the "Implementation Opinions of the People of Guangdong Province on Accelerating the Construction of a Leading Place for Innovation in the General Artificial Intelligence Industry" and the "Implementation Plan of Guangdong Province on Vigorously Developing the General Artificial Intelligence Industry to Empower Thousands of Industries" have been promulgated one after another, expanding the application scenarios of thousands of industries and building a leading place for innovation in the artificial intelligence industry; In addition, it is necessary to accelerate the embedding of artificial intelligence in all fields and links of the manufacturing industry, so that artificial intelligence can become an important engine to drive new industrialization. At the same time, the "Guangdong Province New Energy Storage Technology Innovation Roadmap" is depicted, and the breakthrough is accelerated in the new generation of information technology, new energy storage and new energy and other strategic emerging industries, China Southern Power Grid took the lead in establishing the country's only national and local joint construction of a new energy storage innovation center, with 100 new energy storage projects under construction and a total investment of 229 billion yuan, and Guangdong has become the most complete area for the energy storage battery industry in the country.
In order to comprehensively enhance the advantages of the manufacturing industry and further promote the growth of new quality productivity in Guangdong's manufacturing industry, in the absence of the national superior law, it took the lead in promulgating special legislation to accelerate the promotion of new industrialization and build a strong manufacturing province. In January this year, the "Regulations on the Promotion of High-quality Development of Manufacturing Industry in Guangdong Province" was passed and will come into force on March 1. Among them, manufacturing enterprises are clearly encouraged to build shared factories around the common manufacturing links of industrial clusters; On the other hand, it is stipulated that major scientific research infrastructure and large-scale scientific research instruments should be promoted to be open and shared with manufacturing enterprises, scientific research institutions, universities and manufacturing enterprises should be supported to carry out cooperative research and development, and explore practical problems such as large investment in scientific and technological innovation, long project research and development cycle, and high risk from the regulatory level. In the view of many of the interviewed enterprises, the regulation responds to the call of industrial enterprises.
According to the data, the province has laid out and built 3 national technology innovation centers, 23 national engineering technology research centers, 5 national manufacturing innovation centers, 67 national enterprise technology centers, and 27 national industrial technology basic public service platforms; 40 manufacturing innovation centers above the provincial level and 7,589 provincial engineering technology research centers; There are 277 new R&D institutions in the province.
In addition, in terms of forward-looking layout of future industries with both disruptive functions and extensive market demand, Guangdong Province has studied and revised the "1+20" strategic industrial cluster document and planned to introduce five future industry action plans. Guangdong proposes to pay close attention to the implementation of the action plan for five future industrial clusters, including future electronic information, future intelligent equipment, future life and health, future materials, and future green and low-carbon, and adopt the method of parallel exploration of multi-technology routes in the fields of 6G, artificial intelligence, low-altitude economy, quantum technology, and life sciences to seize the commanding heights of technology, play a good first move, and create a new engine for Guangdong's industry.
Producer: Nandu Big Data Research Institute.
Producer: Rong Mingchang, Liu Jiangtao.
Planner: Wang Weiguo, Zou Ying.
Co-ordinator: Zhang Chun, Zhang Yuting.
Written by: Nandu reporter Xiong Runmiao.
Design: Li Yiran.
Data**: Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Guangdong Provincial Party Committee Financial Office, and surveyed enterprises provide data, public reports, etc.