China News Service, Shanghai, March 7th: Why has new productivity become the “source driving force” of Shanghai’s economic development?
Reporter Fan Zhonghua
Along the Huangpu River in Shanghai, the coal ash silo of the Yangshupu Power Plant, once the "No. 1 power plant in the Far East", now stands proudly with solar photovoltaic panels "overhead", providing endless green power to surrounding public facilities through an integrated light storage and charging system; in Changning District, "smart industrial chains" have "departed" since then, extending to the country and even Southeast Asia. Shanghai Black Lake Technology has helped more than 25,000 companies achieve "intelligent manufacturing transformation" by connecting upstream and downstream data in the industrial chain.
In the century-old Yuyuan Garden, digital people turned to Sinan to start the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival in the Year of the Dragon. Visitors experienced the splendid "Classic of Mountains and Seas" wonders through AR through AR. In just a few days, digital technology drove more than 4 million tourists in the Yuyuan Garden business district. Drive tens of millions of yuan in consumption.
This is just the "tip of the iceberg" in Shanghai's efforts to activate new productive forces through the integration of data and reality.
Official data shows that in 2023, the total output value of Shanghai's industrial strategic emerging industries will account for 43.9% of the total industrial output value above designated size. The scale of the three leading industries of integrated circuits, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence will reach 1.6 trillion yuan. The software and information services industry The scale increased by 17.2%.
"New productive forces" have become a well-deserved "powerful engine" to stimulate Shanghai's economic growth.
In September 2023, the space capsule built by the Oriental Pearl Tower and Shanghai Aerospace was the country's first "aerospace + metaverse" offline immersive experience venue.
Photo courtesy of Oriental Pearl Tower
Deep integration of data and reality releases “new quality and potential energy”
In recent years, Shanghai has accelerated the research and development of cutting-edge technologies on one end, and built a gradient and continuous industrial development path on the other, continuously releasing the powerful potential of new productivity under the deep integration of digital and real.
"Shanghai has very obvious advantages in new productivity and is also in a leading position in the country," said Ding Guojie, senior vice president of Shanghai Zhongchuang Industrial Innovation Research Institute, analyzing that Shanghai has now formed a "(2+2)+(3+ 6)+(4+5)” modern industrial system, the three leading industries are at the forefront of the country in terms of completeness of the industrial chain, concentration of leading enterprises, and output of innovative results; future industries have been divided into 16 subdivisions A number of major projects have been arranged in the field, forming a number of shining "stars of the future".
This means that the new productivity that integrates data and reality has firmly taken root in Shanghai’s industrial development route and is gradually becoming more and more prosperous.
In the manufacturing field, Shanghai has built a total of 3 national benchmark smart factories, 19 demonstration factories, 111 excellent scenarios, cultivated 25 "work chain owners", and 34 industrial Internet platforms.
The scale of the intelligent manufacturing equipment industry exceeded 100 billion yuan.
In established smart factories, production efficiency has increased by an average of 50%, operating costs have been reduced by an average of 30%, and energy consumption per unit of added value has been reduced by a cumulative 13.8%.
In the field of information consumption, from 2019 to the first half of 2023, retail sales of information services in Shanghai basically maintained double-digit growth, except for the impact of the epidemic in 2022.
It occupies 33% of the country’s online game market, 40% of the online mid-length video market, 60% of the financial information service market, 70% of the O2O life service market, and 90% of the online literature market.
The strong momentum of new productive forces gives future industries that are “oriented to tomorrow” full of development confidence.
In Pudong New Area alone, the future industry is targeted to reach about 300 billion yuan in size by 2030, forming a number of future industry clusters with international competitiveness.
Robots exhibited at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference.
Photo by reporter Tang Yanjun
Policy supplies focus on “hard-core leadership”
In 2023, as the domestically produced large aircraft C919 soared into the sky and the domestically produced large-scale cruise ship "Aida·Modu" set sail on its voyage, Shanghai once again became the focus of global attention because of its "hard-core manufacturing".
In fact, guiding cutting-edge science and technology from virtual reality to reality and continuously moving towards "hard-core" industries has always been the "keyword" for Shanghai's development in recent years.
For every field, link and stage of scientific and technological development and industrial layout, Shanghai has provided positive guidance through policies at the first time to help ensure the healthy implementation of the industry.
For example, in April 2020, Shanghai took the lead in releasing a three-year action plan to promote the development of the online new economy. In the following three years, it successively released the "Shanghai Online New Economic Development White Paper" and an industrial map to guide and standardize the healthy development of the industry.
The "Several Policies and Measures of Shanghai to Promote the Healthy Development of the New Online Economy" implemented in January this year are aimed at the current pain and difficulties, and under the new goal of developing "new quality productivity", it will cultivate digital economy business entities from a gradient and agglomerate and stimulate industries. Six aspects including dynamic innovative elements once again "refreshed" the connotation of the online new economy and "upgraded" policy guidance.
In recent years, Shanghai has used policies to "escort" the development of strategic emerging industries and future industries. It has successively introduced and implemented innovative development support policies in the fields of automotive chips, synthetic biology, AI large models, shipbuilding and marine engineering equipment, and commercial aerospace, and implemented four major New tracks and five future industry action plans, formulating and implementing special action plans for innovation and development such as metaverse, blockchain, computational biology, intelligent robots, gene therapy, high-temperature superconductivity, etc., to fully "accumulate" new productivity.
According to Liao Yunfa, President of the East China Branch of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, under the surging wave of digital technology, Shanghai can pay close attention and quickly come up with an "action plan", which is of great significance to promoting the integration of digital and real and using data to strengthen reality. AI large model breakthroughs have continued throughout the year. Shanghai has established the country's first large model ecological community 'Model Speed Space', which has attracted nearly 60 high-quality large model start-ups in less than half a year, playing a good catalytic role in the growth and development of the industry. "
The "hard core" orientation has also given many technology companies a clearer development direction.
Zhu Ran, CMO of PlayDream Technology, said that rooted in the fertile innovation soil of Shanghai, the company has grown into one of the few full-stack self-developed spatial computing equipment companies in the country. It is currently continuing to promote the three-dimensional information technology revolution and is committed to future intelligence and future development. contribution to the space field.
The industrial metaverse displayed in the Shanghai Urban Digital Transformation Experience Hall.
Photo by reporter Fan Zhonghua
Scenarios first breed “full-chain innovation”
At present, the rapid development of science and technology continues to put forward higher requirements for scenario applications. New technologies urgently need scenarios to verify their capabilities, and a large number of scenario values also urgently need to be activated by technology empowerment.
Sheng Xuefeng, president of the Shanghai Smart City Development Research Institute, pointed out that Shanghai has provided more space for innovative applications and demonstration pilots for artificial intelligence, metaverse, etc. through scene creation in recent years, bringing continuous exploration, trial and error, improvement, and development to industrial development. The positive traction has also formed a new spiral paradigm for the coordinated development of industries and applications.
After years of forward-looking layout and systematic development, the connection between digital technology and thousands of scenarios has made Shanghai's digital economy show obvious "chain development" characteristics.
This is particularly evident in industrial manufacturing.
For example, around the R&D, manufacturing and delivery of the world's first C919 large passenger aircraft, COMAC has formed digital solutions such as a borderless digital system and a wireless folding factory, and built the world's first 5G industrial park in the industry and the country's first 5G fully connected factory, the country’s first industrial metaverse park.
The industrial chain built by large aircraft has led to the birth of more emerging technology products and triggered more application scenarios.
Jiang Jun, co-founder and CMO of Time Technology, once said that with the help of Shanghai Commercial Aircraft C919 large aircraft's huge and complete supply chain, the manufacturing and safety of its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft are more reliable, and the complete innovation chain has become a "low-altitude "Economy" is the cornerstone of the economy.
In more fields, the "Shanghai Innovation Chain" has been extended overseas, radiating and empowering.
The products and solutions of China's precision medicine company Silidi Diagnostics have been used in more than 70 countries and regions around the world, and have registered more than 100 items through international agencies such as FDA and CE; Xijing Technology's driverless new energy heavy trucks shuttle through Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Khalifa Port Terminal; AI algorithm company Hehe Information’s fiscal and taxation robot helps a century-old German company achieve digital full-process management of invoices and orders...
In recent years, Shanghai has also continued to establish "chain master" companies in the industry and continue to expand the driving effect of the wild goose array.
Officials say that by 2025, Shanghai will form 10 pilot demonstration parks, 200 demonstration smart factories, 30 industrial Internet platforms, 40 "work chain owners", 50 super scenarios and other manufacturing digital transformation to lead all-round development pattern, and create a leading development highland for the deep integration of new generation information technology and manufacturing in China.
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