Yangcheng Evening News reporter Li Gang and Wang Danyang
The 1.7-meter-tall humanoid robot "originating in Guangdong" walked steadily among the new energy vehicle assembly lines, flexibly inspecting door locks and light covers with "hands", and also affixed the car logo with extremely smooth movements;
On the sea in spring, a manned drone slowly took off. In just 20 minutes, it could fly "passengers" simulating a family trip from the cruise home port of Shenzhen Shekou to the Jiuzhou Port Terminal in Zhuhai. The one-way ground drive of 2.5 to 3 hours was completed. "Flying in the air" shortened...
This sci-fi-like scene has now become a reality in the innovation hotspot of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
"New quality productivity" is a "C-hot word" in the economic field recently, but new concepts and new theories all originate from practice.
In recent years, new productive forces have been formed in practice and have demonstrated strong impetus and support for high-quality development.
Taking the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as an example, overlooking the land of southern Guangdong, the four core cities of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and Macau are "connected in series to form a pearl", forming the main engine of innovation-driven development, connecting the Pearl River Delta region, and radiating and driving eastern Guangdong and western Guangdong. In northern Guangdong, the "source of new productivity" is flourishing in the new "scientific spring":
——For seven consecutive years, Guangdong’s regional comprehensive innovation capabilities have ranked first in the country; the “Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou Science and Technology Cluster” has ranked second in the Global Innovation Index released by the World Intellectual Property Organization for four consecutive years;
——Develop large models of artificial intelligence, master implantable brain-computer interface technology, and build digital twin systems... In 2023, Guangdong’s science and technology research and development expenditure will be approximately 460 billion yuan, accounting for 3.39% of the regional GDP;
——As an important base for the world's manufacturing industry, Guangdong has now formed eight trillion-yuan industries such as new generation electronic information, green petrochemicals, smart home appliances, advanced materials, and automobiles; Guangdong has both high-tech enterprises and small and medium-sized technology enterprises in the database. More than 70,000.
Only innovators advance, only innovators are strong, only innovators win.
Is the economic report card impressive?
Why is the development of “other people’s industries” growing rapidly and gaining momentum?
This new "answer sheet" for the development of new productive forces will reveal itself.
How science and technology “light up” new productivity
Brain-computer interface, AI large models, intelligent driving, low-altitude economy...future industries are in the ascendant.
With its huge scale, Guangdong needs to accelerate the formation of new productive forces on more new tracks to be able to support the overall economic growth.
In February 2019, the "Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" was released, clearly proposing to "build an international science and technology innovation center."
Today, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has more than 60,000 national high-tech enterprises, many of the world's top 50 universities, 9 major national science and technology infrastructures and 50 national key laboratories.
The continuous enhancement of technological innovation capabilities has enabled the Greater Bay Area to spawn a steady stream of new industries, new models, and new kinetic energy, forming the core driving force for the development of new quality productivity.
Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory is one of the first four provincial laboratories to start construction in Guangdong. Since its establishment more than 5 years ago, it is based in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and promotes the development of new materials-related industries. It has become a major player in scientific and technological innovation and achievement transformation in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. , an important position for talent collaboration.
Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory explores the formation of the "Songshan Lake Model" for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements: the "price-based shareholding" achievement transfer model, technology equity participation model, corporate research and development, and the industry agglomeration model that relies on "key core materials + innovation platform resources" to build an innovative ecosystem. , erecting a chain bridge across the "Valley of Death" and opening up the "last mile" of transformation of scientific and technological achievements.
"Chinese companies have already occupied a place in the humanoid robot industry." Zhou Jian, chairman of UBTECH Technology Co., Ltd., said resonantly.
Zhou Jian’s confidence comes from his own technological innovation capabilities, but also from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, a fertile ground for technological innovation and complete industrial development supporting facilities.
UBTECH continues to explore the cutting-edge technological fields of humanoid robots, breaking through and accumulating full-stack humanoid robot technology.
It is the first in the world to complete the mass production of servo drives from small torque to large torque (torque from 0.2 Newton meters to 200 Newton meters), meeting the needs of independent innovation and development of robots for core key components of servo drives.
Relying on core technology innovation and actively deploying intellectual property rights, UBTECH has ranked first in the world in terms of the number of valid patent reserves for humanoid robots based on the number of valid patents held by applicants.
What does "new productivity" look like in traditional industries?
Is new productivity simply equivalent to emerging industries?
The answer is not so.
In the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, an important manufacturing base in the world, traditional industries have already been given the wings of “new productivity”.
China is the country with the most "lighthouse factories" representing the highest level of global intelligent manufacturing and digitalization in the world. In the Pearl River Delta region alone, there are 8 "lighthouse factories" located in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, and Zhongshan.
Guangdong’s output of 5G mobile phones, air conditioners, refrigerators, rice cookers, microwave ovens, etc. all ranks first in the world.
In Foshan, home appliance leader Midea has incorporated “black technology” into traditional dishwashers.
As one of the world's largest dishwasher factories, Midea's Shunde dishwasher factory has an annual output of 6 million units.
With the help of digital and intelligent transformation, the factory's revenue increased by 61% within three years, unit production costs dropped by 24%, and delivery time was shortened by 41%.
In Guangzhou, Hutai (Panyu) Textile Printing and Dyeing Co., Ltd. is a leading textile enterprise whose main business is knitting, dyeing and finishing fabrics.
In the past ten years or so, through cooperation with scientific research institutions, we have firmly followed the path of digital upgrading and transformation.
In the past ten years, Hutai Textile's production efficiency has increased by more than 10%, production costs have been reduced by more than 5%, and the comprehensive cost of wastewater treatment alone can save more than 10 million yuan per year.
Guangdong is continuously promoting the digital transformation and intelligent transformation of traditional manufacturing industries to achieve changes in production organization models and improve efficiency.
Leading the construction of a modern industrial system with technological innovation and opening up new fields and new tracks for development are the general trend and an urgent requirement for high-quality development.
The 20 strategic industrial clusters, more than 860,000 manufacturing companies, and strong comprehensive manufacturing advantages that account for more than 40% of Guangdong's GDP are also important sources of new technologies, new industries, and new business formats.
How is the innovation matrix of Guangdong enterprises formed?
As the main body of the market, enterprises are also the main participants in economic activities and the main promoters of technological progress.
How to make "big companies stand tall and small companies overwhelming"?
How to form the enterprise innovation matrix gravitational field?
New energy vehicles, rooted in Guangdong for 30 years, BYD has grown into the leader of new energy vehicles in the global industry.
In 2023, BYD's new energy vehicle sales exceeded 3 million units, a year-on-year increase of more than 60%, ranking first in global new energy vehicle sales and creating a miracle in the development of the world's automobile industry.
GAC Aian not only has the world's only "lighthouse factory" in the new energy vehicle industry, but it is also the first factory benchmark to achieve zero carbon emissions in the manufacturing process.
Aiming to solve world-class technological problems, Yizumi Co., Ltd., a benchmark enterprise in China's equipment technology field founded in Foshan, broke the industry monopoly and independently developed "high-performance servo valves" and "real-time fully closed-loop control systems" by connecting with European technology. With two key core technologies, its products are at the leading level in the world.
Relying on high-quality enterprises such as "chain masters" and individual champions, Guangdong has built 5 national and 40 provincial manufacturing innovation centers, more than 1,600 provincial enterprise technology centers, and cultivated more than 40,000 innovative small and medium-sized enterprises to serve the industry. Innovation and development have laid a solid foundation.
In Guangdong, a major economic province, past practice has verified the "explosive power" of new productivity.
However, the transformation and upgrading of Guangdong and even China’s economy still has a long way to go. What should be done next?
Increasing the number of “technological innovations” and playing a good role in “technological innovation + industry” is one of the ideas for solving the problem.
In particular, we must give full play to the role of enterprises as the main force in the research and development and application of new production tools, vigorously promote the aggregation of various innovation elements into enterprises, strive to open up the channels from strong science and technology to strong enterprises, strong industries, strong economies, and strong countries, and accelerate the development of scientific and technological achievements. Real productivity transformation.
In this regard, Duan Huigao, Dean of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Innovation Research Institute of Hunan University, proposed that we should continue to explore the in-depth integration model of industry, academia and research, give full play to the advantages of tripartite co-construction, proactively connect with leading enterprises, and actively explore the establishment of efficient incubation for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Mechanism, focusing on promoting the laying of eggs along the way and local transformation of scientific and technological achievements.
The convening of Guangdong's "First Meeting of the New Year" in 2024 - the High-Quality Development Conference shows to the outside world that Guangdong will promote industrial technological innovation and develop new productive forces as a strategic move and long-term policy, and create industrial technological innovation with global influence. center.
As Huang Kunming, Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, said at the "First Meeting of the New Year": "Guangdong enterprises dare to innovate and persevere. Huawei, Midea, BYD, etc. have grown into world-class innovative enterprises in the long-term market baptism, and a series of professional Jingte's new enterprises are growing like mushrooms after a rain, which is our solid foundation and strong confidence to promote industrial technological innovation."
In the new "Spring of Science", as the core elements for the development of new productive forces, new industries, new models, and new kinetic energy spawned by scientific and technological innovation are helping the Greater Bay Area to become majestic and move toward "new"; innovation chains, industries The chain, talent chain and education chain are "connected by roots and branches" in the Bay Area, becoming the "new engine" supporting the overall economic jump.
What remains unchanged is that in this hot land of reform and opening up, the spirit of innovation has always been the bright background of economic development.