Promoting the Construction of a Powerful Country with Industrial Modernization
The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a "two-step" strategic arrangement to basically realize socialist modernization by 2035, and build a prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious and beautiful socialist modernized country by the middle of this century.Throughout the development process of a world economic powerhouse, industry plays an important supporting role.Today, the proportion of the tertiary industry in these economically powerful countries has exceeded that of the secondary industry, but their industrial development level is still at the forefront of the world, which is the fundamental support for national strength.my country is the country with the largest industrial scale in the world, but there is still a certain gap compared with industrial powers.The world today is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, and a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is booming, which is changing the path of industrialization.The rapid evolution of the world's political and economic landscape and the COVID-19 pandemic have caused my country's economic development to face complex external environments and uncertain factors. Challenges and opportunities for my country's development coexist, and the task of industrial modernization is arduous and urgent.In the process of building a powerful modern socialist country, industrial modernization is in an important position. It is necessary to combine the requirements of socialist modernization in the new era, grasp the development trend, and make efforts to promote industrial modernization.
Recognize important trends in industrial modernization
At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is surging, and new-generation technologies represented by information technology, Internet, artificial intelligence, big data, etc. are constantly being upgraded and widely used, which has brought new advantages to traditional industrial production methods, value creation methods, industrial connections and layout. and so on to bring about huge changes.In a certain sense, the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation has shifted the core elements of industrial competitiveness from capital and labor elements to data elements, which will push industrial modernization to a new track.At present, platform-based enterprises and new infrastructure supporting the role of data elements are developing at an unprecedented speed, and industrial dataization will become the basic trend of industrial development.New technologies, new industries, new formats, and new models are constantly emerging, which on the one hand promotes industrial transformation and upgrading, and on the other, puts forward higher requirements for intelligence, networking, and digitization.Under the influence of new technologies, the industrial structure and industrial ecology of the industry will undergo great changes.Green, intelligent, service-oriented and networked will be the important trends of industrial modernization.
One is greening.Green is the base color of modern industry.This puts forward higher standards for the raw materials required in the industrial production process, as well as the production process, final product, environmental impact, recycling cycle, etc., and requires the popularization of green labels for the entire process and the entire industry chain.Green technology innovation not only helps to improve the energy conversion efficiency and resource utilization efficiency of high energy consumption, high pollution and resource-based industries, but also enables energy conservation and environmental protection and related service industries to gradually become new economic growth points, promote economic structure, industrial structure Shift to a greener direction.
The second is intelligence.This is an important feature of industrial modernization.The development of a new generation of information technology enables social production to develop in the direction of data-driven, real-time online, and intelligence-led intelligence.Under the empowerment of artificial intelligence technology, production equipment and products will have the capabilities of self-perception, self-learning, self-decision, self-execution and self-adaptation.Industrial intelligence will reconstruct industrial production methods, improve R&D and production efficiency, strengthen market response, improve user services, and enhance value creation capabilities.Intelligence is built on the basis of the full development of strategic emerging industries based on software, digital transmission, and integrated analysis. Some traditional industries are revived due to digital empowerment.Under the paradigm of intelligent production, the competitive advantage of the industry will shift to the direction of human capital and knowledge-intensive.
The third is service.This is an important direction of industrial modernization.Standardization and mass production are the main ways for traditional industrialization to improve efficiency. The wide application of information network technology is conducive to the direct connection of design, production and sales for industrial enterprises. Enterprises can not only produce in large quantities, but also provide personalized services at a lower cost. of customized products.Personalized customization is a new wave of demand after the end of the imitation-type wave consumption stage in my country. It is an important way to expand domestic demand and a new source of profit for enterprises.The servitization of industrial production is the result of the integrated development of industry and service industry, informatization and industrialization.From this point of view, the effectiveness of using the three industrial structure indicators to measure the level of modern industrialization will be greatly reduced. Maintaining the proportion of the manufacturing industry does not mean maintaining the traditional and backward industrial formats, but to comply with the development trend of new industrialization and create new advantages in the manufacturing industry. , develop new business forms and new models.
The fourth is networking.This is the basis of industrial modernization and an important way to realize value creation.If servitization makes the production of enterprise products more reflect the essence of serving customers, then networking makes the whole social economic activities rely on the network platform to become more specialized, and enterprises will decide whether to outsource or produce by themselves according to the cost performance. Organizations of business activities can be more flexible across geographic boundaries, and consumers have a wider range of choices.It should be pointed out that the computing power and algorithms of network platforms are closely related to fair market competition and fair trade under networked conditions. The healthy development of network-based industries also has an important impact on promoting industrial modernization.
Understand the requirements for advancing industrial modernization
Industry is the leading industry of the national economy, and industrial modernization plays an important role in the construction of a powerful modern socialist country.It is necessary to accelerate industrial modernization in light of the characteristics and requirements of socialist modernization in the new era.
One is to grasp the stage.At present, my country is still in the primary stage of socialism.After building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and achieving the first centenary goal, we embarked on a new journey to build a modern socialist country in an all-round way, marching toward the second centenary goal, and our modernization drive has entered a new historical stage.The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly stated that from 2020 to the middle of this century, it can be arranged in two stages: the first stage, from 2020 to 2035, on the basis of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, and strive for another fifteen years In the second stage, from 2035 to the middle of this century, on the basis of basically realizing modernization, we will work hard for another fifteen years to build our country into a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious and beautiful.In the future development periods, the important positioning of industry as the cornerstone of national economic development will not change. It is necessary to continuously promote industrial modernization and provide solid support for building a powerful modern socialist country.In line with the basic realization of socialist modernization, by 2035, my country's manufacturing industry as a whole should reach the middle level of the world's manufacturing power camp, the innovation capability has been greatly improved, major breakthroughs have been made in the development of key areas, the overall competitiveness has been significantly enhanced, and the advantageous industries have formed a global innovation leader. capacity to fully realize industrialization.When my country achieves its second centenary goal, it will build a world-leading technology system and industrial system, consolidate its status as a major manufacturing country, and enter the forefront of the world's manufacturing powers in terms of comprehensive strength.
The second is to adhere to the people-centered approach.In the great practice of continuously advancing the socialist modernization drive, my country has accomplished the arduous task of eliminating absolute poverty, the urban population has been continuously expanded, and the quality of the population has been significantly improved.The key to the success of my country's socialist modernization drive lies in upholding and strengthening the party's leadership, adhering to the people-centered development philosophy, and giving full play to the significant advantages of my country's socialist system.Adhering to the people-centered approach, insisting that development is for the people, development depends on the people, and the fruits of development are shared by the people, fully mobilizing the enthusiasm and creativity of the people, and promoting the all-round development of people, this is the fundamental difference between Chinese-style modernization and Western modernization.As far as industrial modernization is concerned, embodying people-centeredness means coordinating the relationship between regions and between urban and rural areas for common development, properly handling the relationship between industrial transformation and upgrading and expanding employment, and properly handling the relationship between large, medium, small and micro enterprises, and domestic and foreign capital. , develop new consumer goods industries that meet the needs of the people for a better life, and promote the coordinated development of economy, environment, society, culture and other aspects.
The third is to adhere to the path of peaceful development.China has achieved brilliant achievements in modernization in only a few decades. An important reason is that it has firmly grasped the theme of the era of peace and development, and adhered to the path of peaceful development.On the new journey, we are faced with the arduous and arduous tasks of reform, development and stability in China, as well as severe risks and challenges brought about by profound and complex changes in the external environment.To continue on the path of peaceful development, the key is to turn the world's opportunities into China's opportunities, China's opportunities into the world's opportunities, and to actively forge ahead and forge ahead in the benign interaction between China and the rest of the world, mutual benefit and win-win results.We must continue to uphold the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, jointly build the "Belt and Road" with high quality, actively participate in the reform of the global governance system, work together with other countries in the world for common development and win-win cooperation, and bring more opportunities to the world with new achievements in modernization. great contribution.We must realize that industry is the foundation of a country, an instrument of rejuvenation, the foundation of a strong country, and the source of prosperity. It has become the main force of my country's foreign trade and an important area for my country to attract foreign investment.As the world's largest manufacturing country, my country's industry is an important part of the global industrial chain.In recent years, with the deepening of the "Belt and Road" construction, Chinese industrial products have played an active role in helping more countries improve infrastructure, strengthen industrial supporting systems, and improve residents' lives.To promote industrial modernization in a complex and volatile international environment, we must adhere to peaceful development, expand opening up, and build an industrial chain and supply chain that is not only based on the domestic cycle but also deeply integrated into the global division of labor and cooperation, so as to contribute to global economic development.
Promoting industrial modernization requires multiple efforts
In the new era and new journey, in the face of great changes unseen in a century, the advancement of industrial modernization and the building of a powerful modern socialist country requires the efforts and joint advancement of multiple parties.At present, the global epidemic is still ongoing, the world economic recovery lacks momentum, commodity prices fluctuate at a high level, and the external environment becomes more complex, severe and uncertain. my country's economic development is facing triple pressures of shrinking demand, supply shocks, and weakening expectations.In accordance with the requirements and deployment of the central government, we must adhere to the principle of stability at the forefront, seek progress while maintaining stability, intensify macroeconomic policy adjustment, firmly stabilize the economy, and keep the economy operating within a reasonable range.To stabilize the macro economy, we must pay attention to the coordination of various policies such as macro policies, micro policies, structural policies, science and technology policies, reform and opening-up policies, regional policies, and social policies, and properly handle the connection between the implementation of long-term policy goals and the stable operation of the short-term economy.
The government should focus on creating conditions for stabilizing the industrial chain and supply chain, making up for the shortcomings of the industrial chain and forging the long-term industrial chain, increasing the supply of upstream energy and raw materials, stabilizing prices, opening up logistics bottlenecks, and implementing more precise support policies for small, medium and micro enterprises. .In the process of accelerating industrial digitization and digital industrialization, we must adhere to green development and ecological priority, encourage green consumption, and increase efforts to eliminate outdated production capacity.It is necessary to effectively improve the level of supervision and promote the development of digital platform enterprises.It is necessary to strengthen investment in research and development of common basic technologies and "stuck neck" technologies, seize the opportunity of "changing lanes and overtaking" brought about by the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, strengthen the construction of new infrastructure, and comprehensively reduce the number of key core technologies and the world's leading Level gap, strengthen cutting-edge scientific and technological innovation, cultivate and expand strategic emerging industries, and plan and deploy future industries in advance.
Enterprises should increase technological innovation, target advanced technology and market demand, accelerate digital transformation, promote full-process digital management, use digital means to reduce costs and increase efficiency, actively develop new operating models and new businesses, and strive to improve product and service quality.It is necessary to actively carry out inter-enterprise cooperation to form an industrial ecology with symbiotic and co-progressive enterprises headed by chain-owner enterprises.In this process, we must not only strive to develop the domestic market, realize value creation while meeting consumption upgrades and people's needs for a better life, but also stabilize the export market, enhance the international competitiveness of enterprises, and inject a steady stream of impetus to promote industrial modernization. .
(The author is a researcher at the Research Center of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and director of the Institute of Industrial Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
【Editor: Wang Yu】
