China News Service, January 19 (China News reporter Xie Yiguan) The overall scale of the manufacturing industry has ranked first in the world for 14 consecutive years, 5G mobile phone users have reached 805 million, and vehicle exports are expected to rank first in the world for the first time...

  On January 19, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on the development of industry and information technology in 2023. The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology introduced the development situation of industry and information technology in 2023.

  The picture shows the press conference scene.

The overall scale of manufacturing industry ranks first in the world for 14 consecutive years

  "In 2023, the 'combination punch' of stabilizing growth policies is powerful and effective. The added value of industries above designated size will increase by 4.6% year-on-year, an increase of 1 percentage point from 2022. Among them, the added value of manufacturing industries above designated size will increase by 5.0% year-on-year." Industry and Information Technology Xin Guobin, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Finance, said at the meeting.

  He pointed out that the industrial economy will show a stable and upward trend throughout 2023.

The growth areas of provinces and industries have "double expanded", and the "stabilizers" of the growth of the ten key industries and the ten major industrial provinces have become prominent.

The overall scale of the manufacturing industry has ranked first in the world for 14 consecutive years.

The driving role of the "Three New Things" has been further strengthened, product exports have exceeded RMB 1 trillion for the first time, and the shipbuilding market share has ranked first in the world for 14 consecutive years.

  "In 2024, the internal and external environment facing the industrial economy will still be severe and complex. However, our country has the advantages of a complete industrial system, a huge market scale and a complete information infrastructure. Especially after the National New Industrialization Promotion Conference was held, various parties gathered together China has strong momentum to support industrial development, and the long-term positive trend of the industrial economy will not change," Xin Guobin said.

  The picture shows the domestic new energy vehicles on display attracting visitors.

Photo by China News Network reporter Luo Yunfei

Exports of complete automobiles are expected to rank first in the world for the first time

  "Last September, the World New Energy Vehicle Conference was held in Munich, Germany. At the exhibition, some professional and technical personnel lay under the car and studied for a long time. They came out to tell us that these innovative products from China are indeed moving faster. It's relatively good, the level of intelligence is relatively high, and the quality is relatively good, so I gave a very positive evaluation."

  Xin Guobin pointed out that the automobile industry is an important pillar industry in my country, and its development in recent years has attracted attention at home and abroad.

Last year, China exported 4.91 million complete vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 57.9%, and is expected to rank first in the world for the first time.

Among them, 1.203 million new energy vehicles were exported, a year-on-year increase of 77.6%.

  "The production and sales of my country's automobile industry can achieve stable growth in 2024, and new energy vehicles will continue to maintain a good development momentum." Regarding the future, Xin Guobin said that the industry association predicts that the production and sales of the automobile industry can reach 31 million vehicles in 2024, a slight increase of about 3% year-on-year. .

The production and sales of new energy vehicles will also reach about 11.5 million units, with an increase of about 20%.

  In the next step, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will support enterprises to carry out joint innovation and increase technological research on automotive chips, all-solid-state batteries, and high-level autonomous driving to further enhance product market competitiveness.

Organize and carry out pilot projects for intelligent connected vehicle access and "vehicle-road-cloud integration" applications, accelerate the construction of roadside sensing, network-connected cloud control and other infrastructure, further improve the vehicle-side, road-side, and network-side standard systems, and further promote intelligent network Commercial application of connected cars.

  File photo taken by China News Service reporter Chen Jimin

5G mobile phone users reach 805 million

  In 2023, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will solidly promote the innovative development of 5G in my country and achieve positive results.

  Zhao Zhiguo, spokesman and chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that as of the end of last year, 5G mobile phone users reached 805 million, and 5G network access traffic accounted for 47%. According to calculations by research institutions, 5G is expected to directly drive the economy in 2023 The total output is 1.86 trillion yuan, an increase of 29% compared with 2022.

  He said that in the next step, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will strengthen the construction of the 5G integrated application standard system and continue to promote technological evolution and product research and development such as 5G-A and 5G lightweight.

Accelerate 6G technology research, carry out technical trials, strengthen technical reserves, and deepen exchanges and cooperation.

Intercepted nearly 5 billion fraudulent calls and text messages

  Information and communication services involve thousands of households and are closely related to people's lives.

In 2023, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will promote the improvement and upgrading of information and communication services to continue to empower economic and social development and improve people's livelihood.

  According to Zhao Zhiguo, telecom business facilitation has been greatly improved, with online business processing accounting for more than 80%, and video customer service users exceeding 20 million people; the digital aging-friendly experience has been continuously optimized, and 2,577 websites and APPs have completed aging-friendly and barrier-free transformation , "One-click manual customer service" has served more than 300 million elderly users; it has carried out in-depth unsolicited electronic information management, dealt with 4212 illegal SMS port numbers, and the number of users of the "Do Not Disturb" anti-harassment service has reached 620 million; continued to promote telecommunications In the prevention and management of online fraud, nearly 5 billion phone calls and text messages involving fraud were intercepted, and more than 200 million high-risk Internet accounts involved in fraud were verified and dealt with.

  "Building an integrated information and communication service system that benefits the people is the unremitting pursuit of the entire industry and is also an important people's livelihood project." He said that in the next step, we will deepen digital benefits and benefit the people and carry out the digital technology aging 2.0 upgrade action , launched a batch of new functions for the elderly and disabled; released a series of standards and specifications such as personal information protection to guide enterprises to protect user rights and interests throughout the entire process and every link of production and operation; increased efforts to prevent and manage telecommunications network fraud, and strengthened basic management such as the real-name system , continue to deepen the anti-fraud technology defense system.

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