Focus on high-quality development in Foshan City
In the first week of the New Year in the Year of the Dragon, Foshan, the third largest economic and manufacturing city in Guangdong, not only held a city-wide high-quality development conference, but also promoted the concentrated start of a number of projects in the first quarter, demonstrating the good weather of "people are diligent and spring is early" .
Last year, Foshan's total industrial output value exceeded 3 trillion yuan, and the high-quality development of urban industries achieved new results.
Standing at a new starting point, Foshan proposes to use seven years (to 2030) to promote the city's total industrial output value to jump from three to four to 4 trillion yuan.
It is worth mentioning that Foshan, which has reaped the joy of "three trillion", is also facing new worries.
At present, there are endless doubts about Foshan's "manufacturing industry is large but not strong", "it may become the next old industrial base" and "the manufacturing industry is not innovative enough". How to avoid industrial "puffiness" and promote new productivity to gradually dominate , has become a problem that Foshan, a famous manufacturing city, needs to think about and solve.
Against this background, the Foshan City-wide High-Quality Development Conference held on the 18th faced the reality gap and tried to find a new way out for the high-quality development of the urban economy.
Looking for the "Foshan Gap" behind a conference
Last year, Foshan once again used its "hard power" to defend its glory as a major manufacturing city.
In January this year, Foshan held the 7th Plenary Session of the 13th Municipal Party Committee and the Economic Work Conference of the Municipal Party Committee. At the meeting, it was officially announced that Foshan's total industrial output value exceeded the 3 trillion yuan mark, successfully "reaching the third level".
"Running Three" is a significant event for Foshan.
At present, looking at domestic urban agglomerations, it can be said that there are very few industrial "family assets" that can reach this level.
Today, only three cities in China, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Suzhou, have a total industrial output value exceeding 3 trillion yuan.
With the success of "crossing the line" of 3 trillion, Foshan has also officially become the fourth member of the "Three Trillion Club" in China and the second in Guangdong with a total industrial output value above designated size, with outstanding results.
It is worth noting that Foshan dares to challenge first-tier cities in terms of industrial indicators. Behind Foshan's "three-level" achievement is the city's strong manufacturing "family background".
It is reported that in Foshan, the local manufacturing industry has a saying of "three to five clusters, nine out of ten", which refers to the fact that Foshan has eight "over 100 billion" industrial clusters, covering three emerging industries and five traditional industries. industries, and Foshan has all categories of manufacturing industry, 80% of which products can be sold into thousands of households, and 90% of the industries can realize self-supporting.
Generally speaking, Foshan has strong manufacturing capabilities and standards.
Although Foshan has a strong manufacturing "family background", it is not without hidden worries.
In recent years, the topic of the "midlife crisis" in Foshan's manufacturing industry has become a source of social concern.
Questions such as "Foshan's manufacturing industry is large but not strong", "Will Foshan become the next old industrial base" and "Why is Foshan still a large 'OEM' for low-end industrial products" are heard endlessly.
As innovative manufacturing technologies continue to explode and competition among cities intensifies, these "voices" will be further amplified, making people worried about this "manufacturing city" in Guangdong.
The manufacturing industry's "not cutting-edge and low innovation" may become one of the core factors that will lead to insufficient power for urban development in the future, and it has also become a source of concern for Foshan.
At present, when looking at the list of China’s GDP “trillion cities”, Foshan is increasingly being pursued by large industrial cities such as Fuzhou and Quanzhou in Fujian, Jinan in Shandong, and Hefei, Anhui, the “number one venture capital city in China”. Demonstrated pursuit.
Among these "chasing" cities, some have the resource siphon advantage of "strong provincial capital cities", while others have the "backward force" bursting out from the conversion of new and old industrial driving forces.
Not only that, with the arrival of a new economic cycle, market, foreign trade, consumption and other factors are showing a fluctuating trend. Therefore, among many "uncertain factors", how Foshan can "defend" in the current "trillion city club" has doubled its challenges. .
Against this background, Foshan’s “First Meeting of the New Year” city-wide high-quality development conference is not only a “start again” mobilization meeting standing at a new starting point of “three trillion”, but also a “Foshan gap” that faces the Pragmatism will”.
Aiming at technological innovation and hoping to “overtake” again
When the wind of the times blows, how can a city ride on the "east wind" and "wind thousands of miles"?
It depends on the determination and courage to leap forward.
Foshan Manufacturing, who is "over 40 years old", is moving towards "reaching the third level", which also relies on the hard work and pioneering of the past.
In fact, over the past few decades, a large number of township and village enterprises in Foshan have been "accurate and courageous". By seizing the opportunity of "three come and one supplement", they have pioneered the reform of the property rights system and created a path for modern industrial innovation. road to development.
It is these actions that dared to "embrace change" that allowed Foshan to quickly transform into a strong industrial city in just a few decades, achieve a "gorgeous turn" in industrialization, and accumulate a substantial "three trillion" "family fortune" ".
"The past has changed, the present is changing, and it will change in the future." Zheng Ke, vice chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and secretary of the Foshan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, said that at present, Foshan is facing greater challenges. "The more this happens, the more we need to look back. Regardless of the road we have passed, the things we have encountered, and the obstacles we have overcome, we must maintain the vision and courage to accurately recognize changes, respond scientifically, and proactively seek change, and be a striver and entrepreneur."
How can Foshan, a city worth three trillion yuan, "start again"? How can Foshan's manufacturing achieve "no confusion at forty" and stay young forever?
From the Foshan High-Quality Development Conference, we can see that Foshan is "fighting hard" for future development, and this time it is determined to "bet" on technological innovation.
In order to stand firmly on the "technology wave", Foshan also proposed the next goal of the city becoming "manufacturing master", saying that it will take seven years to 2030 to increase Foshan's total industrial output value from the current 3 trillion. yuan jumped to 4 trillion yuan.
How to do it?
This "jump goal" should be achieved by promoting the integration of industry and science and technology, developing new qualitative productivity, achieving effective improvement in quality and reasonable growth in quantity.
In fact, Foshan has already tasted the "sweet fruits" brought by technological innovation for the first time.
For example, in recent years, Foshan has vigorously promoted the city's industrial technological transformation to enhance the power transformation and structural optimization of traditional industries. In addition, nearly 60% of the city's regular industries have achieved digital transformation, significantly improving production efficiency, allowing traditional industries to "grow new branches from old trees."
Not only that, a number of innovative achievements by Buddhist enterprises are also being put into the market at an accelerated pace. For example, industrial robot servo motors and reducers are moving towards large-scale industrialization. Industrial machines such as laser CNC machine tools have broken through traditional technical routes and led the development of modern industry.
There are also a number of manufacturing companies that are becoming the "hidden champions" of the industry, giving "Made in Foshan" a new look.
The power of scientific and technological innovation is powerful, and Foshan aspires to achieve the goal of industrial leap forward through scientific and technological innovation.
"Foshan's emerging industries started relatively late, but lateness also has its advantages. Especially now that many emerging industries are experiencing a disorderly development stage and are in a period of oscillation, adjustment, and iteration. Starting late is conducive to seeing things more accurately." Zheng Ke explain.
Talent is the key element of scientific and technological innovation
How will Foshan use technology to transform existing productivity and generate more new productivity in the future?
The core element is scientific and technological talent.
In fact, Foshan has also seen this.
How can scientific and technological talents empower a city?
As a scientific and technological talent of "Guangfo Science and Technology Innovation Migratory Bird", Yu Jiangmiao, Chairman of Huayuntongda, appeared to talk about the "power of science and technology".
Yu Jiangmiao said that thanks to the open and flexible entrepreneurial policies of South China University of Technology and Foshan, the team established Huayuntongda with a price of more than 35 million yuan using patented technology in 2018.
Relying on the support of Foshan City's "Scientist Team" and other projects, a young and powerful R&D and management team with competitive advantages has been assembled, with scientific and technological personnel accounting for nearly 80%.
It is reported that the "high-tenacity ultra-thin asphalt wearing layer" independently developed by the team over the years has successfully subverted the existing international asphalt field with its "world's thinnest" technological breakthrough and excellent road performance and durability. It has achieved technological innovation and leadership in materials and processes, and has used "Foshan Technology" in many major domestic projects such as the artificial island channel of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and the guarantee road for the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Yu Jiangmiao is the epitome of Foshan's technological talents, but Foshan's lack of ability to cultivate more such technological talents has also become one of the city's "pain points."
Despite its developed industries, Foshan has always been known as the city with the “most shortage of universities” in China. How to promote the construction of high-level universities and comprehensively improve the development level of higher education has been a question that this city has been thinking about.
Likewise, Foshan does not shy away from this issue.
At the conference, the person in charge of the Foshan Municipal Education Bureau said that this year the bureau will be determined to promote the high-level development of higher education. First, it will support the Foshan Academy of Sciences to build a high-level science and engineering university and the Foshan Vocational College to create a provincial high-level vocational school. Shun Vocational College's "Double High Plan" and the construction of undergraduate-level vocational and technical universities will make Foshan's colleges and universities "doorstep" stronger; second, build and make good use of the Guangdong University Scientific and Technological Achievements Transformation Center to promote the high-level transformation of scientific and technological achievements and realize the school's Enterprises "hold hands" to cooperate.
"At any time, Foshan will regard talents as treasures, use the greatest sincerity and greatest efforts to effectively handle the affairs of talents and make them easy to handle, and strive to create a talent development environment that brings joy to people from near and far." Zheng Ke said .
Text/Guangzhou Daily All-Media Reporter Huang Zining