China News Service, Beijing, March 9 (Liu Liang, Xia Bin, Zhu Ying) From the central to local governments, China is accelerating the layout of future industries.
During this year’s National Two Sessions, another clear signal came.
Future industries have become a major focus of global development.
China has included "forward-looking planning for future industries" in its 14th Five-Year Plan, and the United States, the European Union, Japan, etc. have also formulated relevant development strategies.
At the beginning of this year, Chinese officials issued a document clearly focusing on promoting six major directions: future manufacturing, future information, future materials, future energy, future space, and future health.
The 2024 Government Work Report further proposed to formulate future industrial development plans, open up new tracks such as quantum technology and life sciences, and create a number of future industry pilot areas.
On March 9, the second session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference held its third plenary session at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Photo by China News Service reporter Zhang Yu
According to Xu Kun, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and president of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation are accelerating, and developing future industries is a strategic choice for China to accelerate the cultivation of new productive forces and enhance new advantages in global competition.
"Although future industries are in their infancy, they can play an important leading role in economic and social development." Zhao Yuliang, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that it is urgent to lay out future industries.
This urgency is evident from the intensive layout of future industries across China.
Many local governments have listed this as a key task, and some have also put forward specific goals.
For example, Shanghai has proposed that the future industrial output value will exceed 500 billion yuan by 2030; Henan has proposed that by 2025, the future industrial added value will account for more than 15% of strategic emerging industries.
According to Zhang Qiao, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and deputy mayor of Suzhou, developing future industries is not a "loft in the sky" and cannot be "made out of nothing." It requires determined exploration and a solid foundation, including major technologies, especially disruptive technologies. Breakthroughs, complete industrial categories and manufacturing capabilities, open application scenarios, and scientific and technological talents to achieve technological breakthroughs.
China has demonstrated great development potential and strong competitiveness in many fields.
For example, in areas such as advanced communications, intelligent connected cars, and photovoltaics, China has formed a complete industrial chain and market advantages.
In the fields of cutting-edge technologies such as quantum technology, China is also constantly narrowing the gap with leaders.
Zhang Qiao pointed out that the potential and competitiveness of these fields stem from China's outstanding advantages, including the advantages of institutional mechanisms for concentrating its efforts on big things, the technological source advantages of the scientific and technological innovation system of a major country, the advantages of transforming results into ultra-large-scale market applications, and the most complete The industrial supporting advantages of the industrial system reflect China's important position in the global industrial chain, supply chain and value chain.
This government work report specifically mentions quantum technology.
Guo Guoping, deputy to the National People's Congress and deputy director of the Key Laboratory of Quantum Information of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, believes that the next ten years will be an important stage for the advancement of quantum computing technology, improvement of commercial level, and further improvement of the industrial cooperation pattern. The top priority for Chinese scientific research institutions and enterprises is to accelerate exploration and develop quantum computing technology and applications, and strive to promote the industrialization of quantum computing technology.
Future industries focus on the future, which also means that this is a long-term process that requires not only advance layout, but also systematic planning.
Zhang Yi, deputy to the National People's Congress and director of the Institute of Social Development Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, emphasized that in developing future industries, we must avoid rushing in and establish corresponding systems and mechanisms for scientific decision-making and layout to ensure that measures are adapted to local conditions and the times.
At the same time, a corresponding evaluation mechanism must be established, and local governments and departments must be responsible for decision-making to prevent money-making from future industrial construction.
Min Weidong, a representative of the National People's Congress and dean of the Metaverse Research Institute of Nanchang University, suggested that the state coordinate efforts to promote the construction of national platforms for future industries in underdeveloped areas, thereby solving the bottlenecks faced by the future industrial development of these areas such as the lack of high-end platforms, core technologies, and outstanding talents. , support the characteristic and advantageous future industries of underdeveloped areas to develop by leaps and bounds on different tracks.
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