Shen Jianguang: Restructuring the global industrial chain and supply chain China needs to accelerate industrial digital transformation

　　Editor's note:

　　The reconstruction of the global industrial chain and supply chain is accelerating, and the China New Observation column of Chinanews.com launched a series of reports on "Great Powers and Strong Chains" to gather wisdom from all parties for supply chain reform and industrial security development.

　[Great country and strong chain] Shen Jianguang: Restructuring the global industrial chain and supply chain China needs to accelerate industrial digital transformation

　　China News Service, December 6 (China News Finance reporter Wu Tao) "Strengthening to improve the resilience and security level of the industrial chain and supply chain is an important part of high-quality development. Safety is extremely important.”

　　Recently, Shen Jianguang, Chief Economist of JD Group and Dean of JD Economic Development Research Institute, said in an exclusive interview with the China New Observation column of Chinanews.com that China has the dual advantages of a complete range of industries and a huge domestic market, but there is a risk of chain breaking in the world. At the same time, we must be prepared for danger in times of peace, and accelerate the improvement of the resilience and security level of the "double chain".

To improve the resilience and security of the "double chain", it is necessary to accelerate the digital transformation of the industry

　　At the time of the reconstruction of the global industrial chain and supply chain, Shen Jianguang believes that "the current development of my country's platform economy and digital economy already has certain comparative advantages, further solve the problem of 'stuck neck' in digital technology, accelerate the digital transformation of industries, and improve the platform economy and digital economy. The level of governance is an important way for our country to overtake other cars in a corner in the wave of digitalization and seize a favorable position in the restructuring of the global industrial chain and supply chain."

　　He pointed out that in terms of digital industrialization, according to the national "14th Five-Year Plan", guide platform companies and technology companies to actively promote artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, cloud computing, Internet of Things, industrial Internet, virtual reality and augmented reality R&D, application and promotion of digital technologies such as China, and actively promote the industrialization of these technologies by taking advantage of the advantages of China's comprehensive industry categories, large market scale, and diversified scenarios.

　　In terms of industrial digitalization, according to the national digital economy "14th Five-Year Plan", leading by major projects, actively promote smart agriculture and water conservancy, industrial digitalization and smart manufacturing, new development of industrial Internet, business digitalization, smart logistics, financial digitalization, energy Digital transformation of the industry, actively promote the construction of digital industrial parks and digital industrial clusters, and comprehensively improve the operational efficiency and competitiveness of traditional industries.

　　In terms of digital governance, we must learn the lessons of the EU's "punitive" regulation that hinders the innovation and development of the digital economy, and strike a balance between maintaining security and promoting innovation.

On the one hand, actively improve the policies and regulations related to the development of the digital economy and anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition, and delineate the rigid bottom line for the development of the platform economy and digital economy; To respond to the challenges of digitalization, open the flexible boundary of the development of the platform economy and digital economy, and fully release the power of digitalization.

　　"For enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, the difficulty of digital transformation is how to solve the trilemma of 'high cost expenditure, uncertain income, and little talent accumulation'." Shen Jianguang believes that, specifically, the first is that the digital input cost is large. But the benefits are uncertain. Second, the digital investment cycle is long but the life cycle of SMEs is short. Third, the requirements for digital transformation talents are high but SMEs lack talents.

Promote the integration and development of different industrial chains, and extend the chain into a network

　　In Shen Jianguang's view, improving the efficiency and resilience of the industrial chain supply chain and improving the digitalization, intelligence and high-end level of major industries is an inevitable requirement for accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system, and it will also help promote the integration and development of major industries and give full play to my country's Advantages of hyperscale markets.

　　"We need to smooth the connection between the upstream and downstream of the supply chain and improve the efficiency of the supply chain. By effectively organizing and connecting the upstream and downstream of the supply chain of the industrial chain, we will continuously optimize the efficient connection of production, circulation, and consumption links, and guide upstream enterprises to more flexibly produce on demand and accurately Customization, wider synergistic integration."

　　"Therefore, it is necessary to promote the integrated development of different industrial chains and extend the chains into a network." Shen Jianguang said that the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to "promote the deep integration of modern service industries with advanced manufacturing and modern agriculture."

Behind it is to deepen the business connection, chain extension, and technology penetration between different industries, and improve the resilience and efficiency of the industrial chain and supply chain.

　　"Among them, with the rapid development of the digital economy, some new entity enterprises have become the 'chain leaders' of many industrial chain supply chains. We should seize the nose of new entity enterprises and create a multi-industry chain supply that connects users, enterprises and other parties. Chain ecology, effectively promoting the efficient connection of production, distribution, circulation, and consumption in various industries."

　　He suggested that the leading role of large enterprises should be brought into play to promote the integrated development of large and small enterprises.

From the perspective of the main body, the short board of the industrial chain supply chain lies in the vast number of small, medium and micro enterprises.

　　According to data from the State Administration for Market Regulation, as of the end of August 2022, there were 163 million registered market entities across the country, of which there were more than 51 million enterprises, the vast majority of which were small and medium-sized enterprises, and as many as 109 million individual industrial and commercial households.

　　In his view, many large enterprises and platform enterprises have formed a "development community" with the majority of small, medium and micro enterprises through business docking, technology empowerment, and financial services. In the future, the rescue development policy of small, medium and micro enterprises should pay more attention to stimulating The leading role of large-scale enterprises promotes the integrated development of large and medium-sized enterprises.

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