In 2020, China will march into the ranks of manufacturing powers

“The manufacturing industry should be placed in a more important position, strive to achieve industrialization basically by 2020, build an upgraded version of China's manufacturing, enter the ranks of the world's manufacturing powers, and provide strategic support for building a well-off society in an all-round way.” Dean of China Academy of Engineering, China Mechanical Engineering Academician Academician Zhou Ji emphasized that.

At the annual meeting of the China Mechanical Engineering Society held recently, he said that as the main body of the real economy, the manufacturing industry is the main battlefield of “innovation-driven, transformation and upgrading”. In the next 20 years, it will be a period of great opportunities for China's manufacturing industry to become a strong manufacturing country.

"We need to draw lessons from the experience of Germany's 'Industry 4.0' and actively guide domestic companies and research institutions in their actions. Through organized innovation, integrated innovation, and collaborative innovation, we will promote China to become a truly manufacturing power, with a prosperous and powerful manufacturing industry. China has realized the dream of a great rejuvenation," said Zhou Ji.

I have been squeezed by both sides to face a double challenge in my manufacturing industry. Zhou Ji said that recently American scholars have published a number of articles. First, they emphasized the imminent arrival of the new industrial revolution. Their core technology is the digitization of manufacturing. Second, they believe that the United States should vigorously develop and Widely use advanced manufacturing technologies with digital and intelligent as the core to realize the revolutionary changes in the manufacturing industry. Third, it is pointedly pointed out that the emergence of new technologies is likely to lead to the emergence of Chinese manufacturing industry over the next 20 years in the United States over the past 20 years. The dilemma experienced.

"Thanks to these American gentlemen, thank them for their warnings and thank them for their warnings. We really should have a strong sense of urgency." He emphasized that since the international financial crisis, the world economic competition has undergone profound changes and China has also faced profound changes. New challenges.

The strategic significance of the real economy has once again been highlighted. The world’s major developed countries, such as the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan, have implemented the “reindustrialization” strategy that revitalizes manufacturing as the core; secondly, developed countries use information network technology and digital manufacturing technology. Application is the focus, trying to rely on scientific and technological innovation to seize the commanding heights of international industry competition and seek the initiative for future development.

"The development of China's manufacturing industry is facing the two-pronged squeeze and the double challenges of the predominance of developed countries and the catch-up competition of emerging economies." Zhou Ji reminded.

As a new round of scientific and technological revolutions and industrial changes based on the digitalization of manufacturing and established on the Internet of Things and service (service) networked information physical systems, it is the deep integration of information technology and manufacturing that will drive the upgrading of the entire manufacturing industry. Replacement.

In his view, the new round of scientific and technological revolutions and industrial reforms have formed a historic convergence with China’s accelerated transformation of economic development methods, providing us with a rare opportunity for implementing innovation-driven development strategies and building a strong manufacturing nation.

“Once the opportunity is fleeting, we must increase our sense of urgency, seize and make good use of the opportunities for a new round of scientific and technological revolutions and industrial changes, and we must not wait, wait and see, and not slack off.” Zhou Ji stressed.

It is not to be missed in the 20-year opportunity period. China is in the middle and late stage of industrialization. Economic growth mainly depends on the real economy and depends on the development of the manufacturing industry, and it has the foundation and advantages for building a manufacturing power.

"In the course of global industrialization over the past 200 years, China and the previous two industrial revolutions have missed one another." Zhou Ji said that in the next 20 years, it will be an excellent development opportunity for China's manufacturing industry to become a strong manufacturing country. We must persist in developing the manufacturing industry, and we must take the initiative and make a difference.

In January of this year, the Chinese Academy of Engineering initiated and launched a major consulting project on the Strategic Research on Manufacturing Powerful Countries. "This 'manufacturing powerhouse' has two meanings. On the one hand, China has made China prosperous and strong through the development of manufacturing; on the other hand, China has become a manufacturing power from a big manufacturing country," he said.

After more than 50 academicians and more than 100 experts surveyed and researched in the past year, the project clarified China's staged goal of becoming a manufacturing power and various indicators, and proposed guidelines and priority actions for entering the ranks of manufacturing powers in 2020.

According to Zhou Ji, the above project studies believe that manufacturing industries in all countries have experienced a weak to strong process that is consistent with the industrialization process. The process of manufacturing power in our country can be divided into three stages:

The first phase: By 2020, China's manufacturing index is expected to reach Germany's level of industrialization in the late 1960s and the late 1980s, and enter the ranks of manufacturing powers.

In the second phase, by 2035, the comprehensive index of China's manufacturing industry will surpass that of Germany and Japan in 2012 and become a veritable manufacturing power.

In the third stage, by 2050, China's manufacturing industry composite index is expected to reach the current levels of Germany and Japan and become a manufacturing powerhouse with global influence.

"From now to 2020, it is a crucial period for China to build a well-off society in an all-round way, enter the ranks of a powerful nation, and basically realize industrialization," said Zhou Ji.

The above research project believes that in order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to organize the formulation and implementation of “Made in China 2020”. The goal is to basically achieve industrialization, enter the ranks of manufacturing powers, and build an upgraded version of China's manufacturing.

Specifically, the added value of manufacturing ranks first in the world; the level of product quality in major industries reaches or approaches the international advanced level, forming a group of internationally renowned brands with independent intellectual property rights; a batch of advantageous industries have taken the lead in achieving breakthroughs and achieving Big and strong; some strategic industries have mastered core technologies and are close to the international advanced level.

Innovation Drives Active Implementation of "Made in China 2020"

Zhou Ji introduced that “Made in China 2020” is guided by “Innovation-Driven, Quality-First, Green Development, and Structural Optimization” and includes eight priority actions: promoting digitalized, networked, intelligent manufacturing; and improving product design capabilities; Improve the manufacturing technology innovation system; strengthen the manufacturing base; improve product quality; cultivate globally competitive enterprise groups and advantageous industries; develop modern manufacturing service industries, etc.

Innovation is an important engine for manufacturing development and must be at the heart of the overall development of manufacturing. "The reason why we put scientific and technological innovation in such a prominent position is because it is a fundamental measure to speed up the transformation of economic development methods, solve deep-seated contradictions and problems in economic development, and enhance the dynamism and vitality of economic development." He said. To develop manufacturing industry, we must unleash the potential of technological innovation, rely on factors that depend on building factories, buying equipment, expanding production scales, and consuming excessive resources, and drive innovations that rely on innovations in product technology, production models, and management models. change.

At the same time, for a long time, China’s manufacturing industry has relied on low resource prices and low labor costs to obtain low-price product competitive advantages, and product quality and corporate operating efficiency have been neglected. This unsustainable competitive advantage must end, and must The competitive advantage of cost and price changes to the competitive advantage of quality and efficiency.

Green development is the only way to realize the sustainable development of manufacturing industry. Structural optimization is the main line for the scientific development of manufacturing, and the main way to improve the overall quality of the national economy and build an upgraded version of China's economy. Zhou Ji emphasized that while focusing on the development of high-end manufacturing and advanced manufacturing industries, we must pay particular attention to improving and improving the efficiency and quality of labor-intensive industries, nurturing globally competitive enterprise groups and advantageous industries, and promoting the development of modern manufacturing service industries. And interaction with the manufacturing industry, improve the quality of the industry, optimize the industrial structure.

The modern manufacturing service industry adopts information technology as the main means to demonstrate two fundamental industrial model changes: First, it changes from a large-scale assembly line production mode to a customized scale production; Second, it fundamentally improves traditional manufacturing and engineering. The industrial process of material, material use, supply chain and life cycle management, to achieve the transformation of the industrial form from production-oriented manufacturing to service-oriented manufacturing.

“In the global value chain, most of China’s manufacturing products are at the manufacturing-processing-assembly link with low added value. A product is considered from the whole life cycle, and the manufacturing process takes only days or dozens of days, but it uses The process lasted for several years or even decades.” Zhou Ji believes that the urgent task currently facing is to change the company’s development strategy, vigorously develop the entire life cycle of manufacturing, such as R&D, design, sales, e-commerce, and logistics, and extend manufacturing innovation. Chain and industry chain, from providing users with physical products to provide services to users, from selling products to selling services, and to promote the expansion of services from local to global, from offline to online, from passive to active.