Modern industrial system is an important part of modern economic system, and building a modern industrial system is an inevitable requirement for building a new development pattern and promoting high-quality development. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader attaches great importance to the construction of modern industrial system, and clearly requires "building a modern industrial system that is self-controllable, safe, reliable and competitive". The first meeting of the 20th Central Financial and Economic Committee put forward that "accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system supported by the real economy is related to our strategic initiative in future development and international competition" and "promoting industrial intelligence, greening and integration, and building a modern industrial system with integrity, advancement and safety". In the new era and new journey, we must profoundly study and understand the relevant important expositions of the Supreme Leader General Secretary, actively promote the construction of a modern industrial system, and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese modernization.
Modern industrial system is an industrial system composed of various modern industries including modern agriculture, modern industry and modern service industry, and it is a modern industrial system that meets the needs of Chinese modernization. To build a modern industrial system, we should not only follow the general law of modern industrial development, vigorously develop modern agriculture, modern industry and modern service industry, cultivate modern industrial chains and industrial clusters, and continuously promote industrial upgrading and structural optimization along the direction of intelligence, greening and integration, but also meet the essential requirements of Chinese modernization. To build a modern industrial system, we need to fully understand the basic characteristics that a modern industrial system should have, and promote effective construction practice on the basis of scientific understanding, which can be grasped from five aspects: integrity, advancement, security, coordination and inclusiveness.
integrity
The integrity of modern industrial system refers to the basic characteristics of complete categories of various industries, complete industrial chain, rich and complete product varieties and strong matching ability of parts. After the founding of New China, an independent and relatively complete industrial system and national economic system were established, which laid a material foundation for modernization. Since the reform and opening-up, China has spent decades completing the industrialization process that western developed countries have gone through for hundreds of years, creating a miracle of rapid economic development and long-term social stability, and forming the most complete and largest industrial system in the world. China has 41 industrial categories, 207 industrial categories and 666 industrial subcategories, making it the only country in the world with all the industrial categories in the United Nations industrial classification, and its manufacturing scale ranks first in the world for 13 consecutive years.
Large-scale industry, complete system and strong supporting capacity are conducive to the formation of economies of scale, agglomeration and scope, which is a great advantage of China’s industrial system and reflects the resilience and vitality of China’s economy. Building a modern industrial system with integrity is conducive to enhancing the security and initiative of development. At the same time, the modern industrial system with integrity is also an open system. To speed up the construction of a modern industrial system supported by the real economy, we must adhere to open cooperation and not build a car behind closed doors, which is not only in line with China’s basic national policy of opening to the outside world, but also an inevitable requirement for building an open industrial system. It is necessary to build a complete modern industrial system in the process of mutual promotion of domestic and international double circulation and high-level opening to the outside world. At present, around the construction of a modern industrial system with integrity, efforts should be made in the following aspects.
The first is to speed up the short board. Integrity is to maintain and enhance the advantages of complete industrial system and strong supporting ability. At present, there are still some shortcomings in some high-tech sub-industries, and there is still a gap between China and the international advanced industrial level in core basic parts and components, advanced basic technology and key basic materials. Some key links in the industrial chain supply chain are still subject to people. While consolidating traditional advantages, we should speed up the completion of these shortcomings and continuously improve the integrity of the industrial system.
Second, relying on the advantages of China’s super-large-scale market, we will deepen international cooperation in the industrial chain and supply chain. The low-cost comparative advantage of China’s labor force has gradually weakened, and some enterprises have begun to move to Southeast Asia and other regions, which has risks such as the relocation of industrial chain and the damage of supporting capacity of manufacturing industry. Enterprises should be encouraged to "go global", and at the same time, modern core factories should be built in China, leaving their core manufacturing capabilities at home.
The third is to further optimize the development environment of manufacturing industry, adhere to the real economy as the priority and build a modern industrial system supported by the real economy. Under the impact of digitalization and intellectualization, some traditional industries are facing great pressure of transformation and upgrading, and some places simply eliminate traditional industries as low-end industries through the "one size fits all" policy, which affects the completeness of China’s industrial system to some extent. While consolidating traditional advantageous fields, we should actively promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries through modern technological transformation, and we should not simply equate traditional industries with low-end industries and backward industries and ask them to withdraw.
Fourth, further improve the modern infrastructure, especially pay attention to the construction of industrial parks and industrial clusters. Constantly improve the development environment of industrial parks and industrial clusters, strengthen the technical and economic ties of various enterprises, improve the supporting capacity of industrial cooperation, and consolidate and strengthen the completeness of China’s industrial system.
advancement
The advanced nature of modern industrial system refers to the basic characteristics that the technical level of various industries in the industrial system is at the forefront, which requires the industry to adopt a large number of advanced technologies, processes, equipment and management methods, conforms to the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation trend, and generally presents the characteristics of high-end, digital, intelligent and green modern emerging technologies. To build a modern industrial system, it is necessary to continuously improve the technological advancement of the industry and ensure that the industry maintains a leading position in technology and market. We must insist that science and technology are the primary productive forces, talents are the primary resources and innovation is the primary driving force, and that innovation is the core position in the overall situation of China’s modernization. Realize high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, become the world’s major scientific center and technological innovation highland, and let innovation take root in the soil of industrial development. Focus on building a number of new growth engines and constantly shaping new development momentum and new advantages. Accelerate the construction of manufacturing power, quality power, aerospace power, transportation power, network power and digital China.
Since the new era, China’s scientific and technological innovation capability and the technological advanced level of industrial system have been continuously improved, basic research and original innovation have been continuously strengthened, some key core technologies have been broken through, strategic emerging industries have been continuously developed and expanded, and great achievements have been made in manned spaceflight, lunar exploration, deep-sea exploration, supercomputers, satellite navigation, quantum information, nuclear power technology, large aircraft manufacturing, artificial intelligence and biomedicine, and they have entered the ranks of innovative countries.
We should also see that the advanced nature of China’s overall technical level needs to be improved. From the perspective of innovation investment, although R&D investment has increased substantially in recent years, compared with developed countries, China’s cumulative R&D investment scale is still insufficient, among which basic research investment accounts for a relatively low proportion. From the perspective of R&D output, there is still a big gap in the number of patents, the coverage of technical direction and the balance in the field. Some key core technologies are subject to people and have a high degree of external dependence. On the whole, China’s original innovation ability and underlying technology development ability are still lacking, and some enterprises are in the formation stage of imitation innovation and forward design ability. Compared with the requirements of new industrialization, there is still a certain gap between the quality and efficiency of China’s manufacturing industry and the world’s manufacturing powers, and the innovation efficiency still needs to be improved. We should vigorously promote the optimization and upgrading of manufacturing industry, and constantly promote the upgrading of industrial base and the modernization of industrial chain. At present, around the construction of advanced modern industrial system, efforts should be made from the following aspects.
The first is to deepen the reform of the scientific research system. Constantly increase the investment in R&D funds in China, strengthen the dominant position of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation, vigorously promote entrepreneurship, comprehensively enhance the innovation ability of enterprises, cultivate more world-class enterprises with excellent products, outstanding brands, leading innovation and modern governance, and continuously expand the group of specialized and innovative enterprises. Give full play to the advantages of the new national system, strengthen basic research, increase investment in basic research, strengthen the supply of high-level independent technical elements, promote the deep integration of innovation chain’s industrial chain capital chain talent chain, strengthen demand and scene traction, build a number of national manufacturing innovation centers and pilot and application verification platforms with high quality, and build an open, collaborative and efficient common technology research and development platform. Enhance the innovation ability of key core technologies, promote key core technology research projects in the fields of new generation information technology, biotechnology, new energy and new materials, break through key common technologies and cutting-edge leading technologies, and plan brain-like intelligence, quantum information, genetic technology, future network, deep-sea aerospace development, hydrogen energy and energy storage in a forward-looking way.
The second is to actively explore effective investment mechanisms. Appropriately increase investment in new infrastructure construction such as information infrastructure, integration infrastructure and innovation infrastructure, especially promote the construction of major scientific and technological infrastructure, science and education infrastructure and industrial technology innovation infrastructure, and build a major scientific and technological infrastructure system with complete layout, advanced technology, efficient operation and strong support as soon as possible.
The third is to establish and improve the evaluation system of industrial basic capacity. Accelerate the implementation of industrial base reengineering projects for core basic components and components, advanced basic technologies and key basic materials. Focusing on the fields of large aircraft, aero-engines, gas turbines, electric energy equipment, marine and offshore equipment, industrial machinery, high-end medical equipment and modern agricultural machinery equipment, we will actively promote key technical equipment research projects and strive to break through a number of innovative and iconic equipment in key areas.
Fourth, vigorously develop digital technology and digital economy. Empower the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries through digital technology, take intelligent manufacturing as the main direction, and promote industrial digitalization. Through digital technology, new industries, new formats and new models will be born, and the healthy development of platform economy and sharing economy will be promoted, and digital industrialization will be promoted. In-depth implementation of intelligent manufacturing projects and special actions for digital empowerment of small and medium-sized enterprises, promoting the innovative application of artificial intelligence, accelerating the large-scale application of industrial Internet, improving network security capabilities, and building a number of internationally competitive digital industrial clusters.
The fifth is to accelerate the green transformation of development mode. Taking promoting carbon neutrality in peak carbon dioxide emissions as the starting point, we will build a resource-saving and environment-friendly green industrialization system. Build a green manufacturing system and service system, and increase the proportion of green and low-carbon industries in the total economic output. We will make great efforts to promote the optimization and upgrading of traditional industries such as steel, nonferrous metals, petrochemicals, chemicals and building materials, and accelerate the innovation and digital transformation of low-carbon processes in the industrial field. Cooperate to promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, greening and growth, and promote ecological priority, economical and intensive, green and low-carbon development. Pay close attention to tackling key problems of green and low-carbon technologies, develop green and low-carbon industries, and build a modern green and low-carbon energy system with new energy as the main body and a modern industrial system with green manufacturing as the main body with the energy revolution and green manufacturing as the breakthrough.
security
The security of modern industrial system is the basic characteristic of ensuring the independent control, safety and reliability of industrial system under the premise of coordinating industrial development and industrial safety, coordinating open development and economic security. To build a safe modern industrial system, we should strengthen our sense of hardship, adhere to the bottom line thinking, and achieve the goal of "controllability" and "industrial safety" through "autonomy". From the perspective of industrial chain, the independent control of industrial system means that it has strong control over the key links of industrial chain supply chain, and has control and influence over all links, subjects and elements in the chain to ensure the smooth operation of industrial chain supply chain and ensure basic security in special periods. This involves not only the supply of physical assets such as raw materials, spare parts, production equipment and mechanical equipment, but also the supply of intangible assets such as technology, software and intellectual property rights.
In the past few decades, the global layout of the industrial chain has been based on the basic logic of improving efficiency and reducing costs, looking for the best production plan all over the world. At present, the world’s great changes in the past century have accelerated its evolution, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation has developed in depth, international forces have been profoundly adjusted, anti-globalization trends have risen, unilateralism and protectionism have risen markedly, world economic recovery has been weak, local conflicts have continued to ferment, global problems have intensified, and the world has entered a new period of turmoil and change. In the future, the supply chain pattern of global manufacturing industry and industrial chain will be adjusted and reshaped in the direction of regionalization, localization and digitalization. The rising industrial safety risk has become an important issue, and all countries have begun to seek to establish an independent, safe and controllable industrial system.
In this context, China is faced with the great challenge of how to ensure industrial safety and enhance the initiative of development. Building a modern industrial system requires coordinating development and safety, and actively exploring effective ways to effectively improve the national industrial safety level and improve the toughness of the industrial chain supply chain under the open economic system.
On the one hand, it is necessary to promote high-level opening to the outside world and steadily expand institutional opening such as rules, regulations, management and standards. Benchmark the international high-standard economic and trade rules such as the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement, oppose protectionism, adhere to the combination of "going out" and "bringing in", and form a strong attraction to global factor resources, a strong competitiveness in fierce international competition and a strong driving force in global resource allocation through domestic circulation, and cultivate more world-class enterprises with outstanding products, outstanding brands, leading innovation and modern governance.
On the other hand, we must adhere to the bottom line thinking and extreme thinking, identify the weak links of key core technologies and parts, and carry out in-depth industrial base reconstruction projects and major technical equipment research projects. Efforts will be made to tackle key core technologies in the fields of next-generation information technology, biotechnology and artificial intelligence, to achieve the first breakthrough in core technologies such as high-end chips, operating systems, new materials and major equipment, to comprehensively upgrade the industrial base and modernize the industrial chain, and to effectively promote strong chain reinforcement and chain stabilization. Actively carry out industrial competitiveness survey and industrial safety assessment in key areas, improve the industrial safety management system, especially establish an industrial chain supply chain safety management system with clear rights and responsibilities and close cooperation among multiple departments. Strengthen the guidance and coordination of industrial safety policies on the formulation and implementation of economic policies such as China’s manufacturing development planning, major science and technology projects, and anti-monopoly.
harmony
The industrial system itself is a complex economic system. This system is composed of technology, capital, labor, natural resources and other elements, and under the interaction of spatial combination and time connection, it develops into an ecological system with complex structure. The coordination of modern industrial system refers to the operating state characteristics of industrial system in the process of industrial structure evolution, such as organic combination of various production factors, high cooperation of various enterprises, effective cooperation among industries, orderly transfer of all links in industrial chain, and rational regional layout. To build a modern industrial system, we must build an institutional mechanism of efficient allocation of factors and organic coordination of industries, and then promote a high degree of collaborative coupling among industrial categories, regions, upstream and downstream links, large and medium-sized enterprises, and capital, technology and labor, so as to realize the coordinated development of the real economy, scientific and technological innovation, modern finance and human resources, and make the industrial structure show a trend of advanced and rational evolution.
Improving the coordination of industrial system is an important means to solve the imbalance between regional and industrial development, and it is also an important content to build a new development pattern. Without a coordinated industrial system, all links of production, distribution, circulation and consumption cannot be connected in an orderly manner, supply and demand cannot be efficiently and dynamically balanced, the domestic grand cycle cannot be unimpeded, and the domestic and international double cycles cannot effectively promote each other. Since the new era, China has promoted the simultaneous development of new industrialization, informationization, urbanization and agricultural modernization, which shows that China’s industrial structure is constantly developing to an advanced and rational level, no matter from the relationship between the output value of the three industries and the proportion of employment, the upgrading and transformation of traditional industries and the rapid development of strategic emerging industries, or from the perspective of regional coordinated development and enterprise growth process.
What needs to be seen is that there are still some problems in the coordination of China’s industrial system: the market-oriented docking and integration mechanism and service system of innovation chain and the industrial chain are still not perfect, and the elements and achievements of scientific and technological innovation can not serve the development of the real economy well; The supporting role of the real economy in the modern industrial system is not strong enough. The development of the real economy industry and the virtual economy industry is unbalanced, and there is a trend that the economy is "divorced from reality". The financial industry is not strong enough to serve the real economy, and there are blocking points and silting points in the capital circulation between the financial industry and the real economy industry. The construction of a unified domestic market needs to be promoted, and the problems of high trade cost and high factor flow cost are obvious. The pattern of industrial division of labor based on the functional orientation and comparative advantages of regional subjects needs to be improved, and the gap between urban and rural regional economic development is still significant. The level of industrial integration needs to be improved, the deep integration of digital technology and real economy is not enough, and the integration of modern service industry with advanced manufacturing industry and modern agriculture needs to be deepened. In order to solve these problems, it is necessary to promote the coordinated development of real economy, scientific and technological innovation, modern finance and human resources, promote the virtuous circle of science and technology, industry and finance, and improve the coordination of modern industrial system.
First, deepen the reform of science and technology and industrial innovation system, and constantly strengthen and improve the construction of science and technology innovation system. Innovate the transformation mechanism of scientific and technological achievements, form a complete innovation system from basic research to applied research, strive to repair the chain between technology research and industrialization, and improve the transformation rate of scientific and technological achievements.
The second is to deepen the reform of the education system and attach importance to cultivating knowledge-based, skilled and innovative industrial workers. Intensify efforts to cultivate compound talents in the fields of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and form an institutional mechanism for the real economy to attract these high-quality talents.
The third is to focus on the real economy and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system supported by the real economy. Deepen the structural reform of the financial supply side, improve the financial support innovation system, smooth the cycle of finance and the real economy, improve the institutional arrangement of medium and long-term capital supply in the real economy, innovate financial products and services that go directly to the real economy, and enhance the financing function of multi-level capital markets.
The fourth is to promote the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy, cultivate and expand emerging digital industries such as artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, cloud computing and network security, and build a number of advanced manufacturing clusters with international competitiveness. Further grasp the direction of digitalization, networking and intelligence, use digital technology to carry out all-round, multi-angle and full-chain transformation of manufacturing, service and agriculture, vigorously explore the scene of digital transformation, and constantly cultivate and develop new industries, new formats and new models.
Fifth, vigorously promote the effective coordination of future industries, strategic emerging industries, pillar industries and traditional industries, and vigorously develop modern service industries. Promote the producer service industry to extend to specialization and high-end value chain, and strive to promote the deep integration of modern service industry with advanced manufacturing industry and modern agriculture.
Sixth, accelerate the construction of a unified domestic market and promote the effective flow and allocation of various industrial factors. Optimize the layout of major productive forces based on the orientation of main functional areas, promote regional coordinated development, and constantly improve the functions and layout of high-tech parks and industrial parks.
inclusiveness
The inclusiveness of modern industrial system means that the achievements of modern industrial development within the industrial system benefit all the people more fairly.
Technological innovation not only promotes industrial modernization, economic growth and the improvement of per capita income level, but also affects the income distribution pattern. Since 1980s, with the development of digitalization and economic globalization, the income gap in most developed countries has been widening year by year. The development of digital economy abroad has shown that the wide application of digital technology will bring impact on employment and income distribution: star enterprises occupy most of profits, data and market share; The share of labor income relative to capital factors continues to decline; The substitution of digital technology for operational skilled workers leads to the polarization trend of income distribution. In the construction of China’s modern industrial system, we should vigorously promote digital industrialization and industrial digitalization. Promote the upgrading of industrial base and the modernization of industrial chain, and promote industrial intelligence, greening and integration. Guide scientific and technological personnel to carry out responsible research and innovation and promote shared development. Specifically, we should more actively eliminate the digital divide between urban and rural areas and between different social groups, more actively promote the application of digital technology in different industries, different regions and different groups, establish a vocational skills training model suitable for new employment forms, improve the digital skills of workers, and make the digital economy dividend better benefit the public. At the same time, we must constantly improve the distribution system, adhere to the principle of distribution according to work and coexistence of various distribution methods, build a coordinated system of primary distribution, redistribution and third distribution, improve the inclusiveness of the modern industrial system through the improvement of the distribution system, and realize the modernization of common prosperity for all people.
(This article Source: Economic Daily Author: Huang Qunhui Ni Hongfu Author is a special researcher at the New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center, the supreme leader of China Academy of Social Sciences)
