Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 19. Topic: Stabilize the Industrial Chain and Strengthen Digital Support – Current Observations on my country’s Manufacturing Industry
Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Xinxin
Since the beginning of this year, the international environment has become more complex and severe, domestic epidemics have frequently spread, and some unexpected factors have exceeded expectations, all of which have brought challenges to the smooth operation of the manufacturing industry. Do everything possible to stabilize production and maintain the chain, take multiple measures to help companies bail out, and continuously strengthen digital support… From the central to local governments, a series of measures are aimed at stabilizing the industrial economy.
The National Bureau of Statistics announced that since May, the industrial economy has gradually stabilized and rebounded. Industrial production in May and June increased by 0.7% and 3.9% year-on-year respectively, and the growth rate accelerated for two consecutive months.
Stabilizing the chain: promoting the smooth operation of the industrial economy
In an industrial park in Yaohai District, Hefei City, Anhui Province, workers are operating a wire drawing machine to stretch the diameter of copper wires to the micron level, which has become an important material for integrated circuit packaging.
“Recently, it is obvious that the number of orders has increased, and customer demand has gradually picked up.” Cheng Ping, a senior engineer at Anhui Huajing Microelectronics Material Technology Co., Ltd., said.
Although many places in the Yangtze River Delta were hit by the epidemic in the first half of the year, with the gradual control of the epidemic in various places and the development of stable growth policies, enterprises have gradually stabilized and reached production, and the operation of the industrial chain is recovering.
Tian Yulong, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that in the past few months, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has held relevant meetings for many times, clearly focusing on maintaining the chain and stabilizing the chain, and making greater efforts to implement a package of policy measures to achieve results. Across the country, policies to help industries ensure stable supply and production have been encrypted.
“Although there was a significant decline in April due to short-term shocks, positive growth was quickly restored in May, and the industrial economy stabilized and rebounded.” Tian Yulong said.
According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, from January to June, the added value of industries above designated size increased by 3.4% year-on-year, and manufacturing investment increased by 10.4% year-on-year. At present, industrial enterprises above designated size in the country have basically achieved stable production, and the integrated circuit field has maintained a high capacity utilization rate of more than 90%.
It should also be noted that the foundation for the stable growth of the industrial economy is not yet solid, and efforts must continue to be made. Tian Yulong said that it is necessary to promote policies and measures to advance and strengthen them appropriately, and make every effort to ensure the stability and smoothness of the industrial chain and supply chain.
Helping enterprises: reducing burden and stimulating vitality
When an enterprise is in operation, the industry can be dynamic. While launching a package of measures to reduce costs and reduce burdens, policy encryption has been introduced in response to the specific difficulties and most urgent needs of the operation of enterprises.
Small and medium-sized enterprises are the strong support of the industrial chain. Tian Yulong said that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in conjunction with relevant departments, has issued a series of measures to strengthen assistance to accelerate the implementation of the combined tax and fee reduction policy. In the first half of the year, small and medium-sized enterprises enjoyed nearly 1.8 trillion yuan in new tax cuts and fee reductions and tax rebates and tax deferrals.
Take multiple measures to solve urgent needs, and find ways to promote stability and long-term progress. Policies and measures have been introduced one after another, ranging from improving factor guarantees, strengthening supply and demand alignment to increasing innovation support. From January to June, the added value of small and medium-sized industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 3.7% year-on-year, and the growth rate was higher than that of the overall industry.
Large enterprises are related to the development of industrial ecology. In Shenzhen, the Lenovo Southern Intelligent Manufacturing Base with an investment of more than 2 billion yuan is expected to be fully operational in October. “While serving as Lenovo’s global ‘mother base’, the intelligent manufacturing base also plays the role of an intelligent product incubator.” said Guan Wei, senior vice president of Lenovo’s global supply chain, and will rely on manufacturing advantages and industrial chain resources to empower SMEs able to achieve collaborative development.
At the beginning of 2022, SDIC invested strategically in Shengu Group, and Shengu Group completed the mixed-ownership reform. The injection of equity investment has relieved a certain amount of capital pressure. The relevant person in charge of Shengu Group said that in the second half of the year, it plans to launch major research and development such as technical research on key components of the ethylene “three machines” and industrialization demonstration applications.
“We insist on cultivating and expanding new industries and new kinetic energy as an important means to enhance industrial resilience.” Tian Yulong said that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will help enterprises stabilize and improve through measures such as policy assistance, supervision and inspection, and cultivating new talents.
Empowerment: Strengthen digital support
To boost the industrial economy, it is important to grasp the keyword of digitalization. Accelerating “cloud” and “on-chain” through the industrial Internet not only helps enterprises to break through production blockages, but also promotes production efficiency improvement and supply and demand synergy.
According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, there are more than 3,100 “5G + Industrial Internet” construction projects, including 700 new projects in the second quarter, and the construction of 5G fully connected factories has been further accelerated. The industrial Internet has been integrated into 45 major categories of the national economy, and the industrial scale has passed the trillion yuan mark. Cloud procurement, cloud warehousing, cloud scheduling… The digital applications in the manufacturing industry continue to expand.
The installation of 8,000 square meters of distributed photovoltaic projects is expected to save 140,000 yuan in energy costs per year… The person in charge of Chuanyuan (China) Machinery Co., Ltd. said that through the networking of industrial equipment and energy consumption big data, State Grid Zhejiang Pinghu Power Supply Co., Ltd. Provide enterprises with personalized solutions to reduce electricity costs. At present, 6 series of product lines including fans and water pumps are in full production.
“The next step will be to comprehensively upgrade and optimize the technical system, industrial system, network system, application system, and ecosystem of ‘5G + Industrial Internet’, and cultivate more typical scenarios that are applied to the core links of production.” The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said.
The reporter learned from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will accelerate the widespread implementation of the Industrial Internet and play an important role in green and low-carbon fields.
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