Source of article reprint: The Way of the Metaverse Author: The Paper Special Commentator Zhu Changjun Source: The Paper
Grab new tracks and cultivate new kinetic energy. Shanghai has recently introduced three action plans for cultivating a new track “Metaverse”, promoting the development of green and low-carbon industries, and promoting the high-quality development of the smart terminal industry.
Among them, the most eye-catching is the new track of the Metaverse. According to relevant goals, by 2025, the scale of Shanghai Metaverse’s industry will reach 350 billion yuan, and it will strive to cultivate more than 10 innovative leading enterprises and “chain master enterprises” with international competitiveness, and create more than 100 enterprises that master core technologies, High-level and high-growth “specialized, special and new” enterprises have launched “50+” demonstration scenarios and “100+” benchmarking products and services.
In fact, before the release of the action plan, various levels of Shanghai have repeatedly released positive signals for the development and cultivation of a new track in the Metaverse.
As clearly mentioned in the report of the recent Shanghai Party Congress, it is necessary to strengthen the leading function of high-end industries, actively deploy new tracks for future development, and promote the accumulation of emerging industries and the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries.
In addition, the “14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Shanghai Electronic Information Manufacturing Industry” previously issued by the Shanghai Economic and Information Commission also proposed to strengthen the forward-looking research and development of the underlying core technology and basic capabilities of Metaverse, and promote the development and systematization of new terminals that deepen perception and interaction. virtual content construction, and explore industry applications.
This is also the first time that Metaverse has been written into the local “14th Five-Year Plan” industrial plan.
The release of the action plan for cultivating the new track of the Metaverse marks that Shanghai has taken the lead in the action level.
From concept hype to industrial planning, many places are vying to deploy the Metaverse
Although the conceptual boundaries of the metaverse are still ambiguous, it has been increasingly recognized as an important part of the digital economy, and even the concept of the “next-generation Internet”.
For example, a group of global technology companies that we know, including some large Chinese companies, are almost all entering this track. In addition, South Korea, Japan, the United States and other countries have also clearly proposed to enter the metaverse.
In China, the metaverse has been hotly hyped from the past concept, and has gradually entered the level of industrial planning, and the goal of developing the metaverse has been clarified in many places. For example, in the government work reports of Wuhan, Chengdu, Hefei and other places this year, the “Metaverse” was mentioned; Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places have issued relevant policy plans for the development of the Metaverse.
At the beginning of this year, the press conference held by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also pointed out that it will guide and support small and medium-sized enterprises to accelerate the process of digital industrialization and industrial digitalization, and cultivate a group of enterprises that enter emerging fields such as metaverse, blockchain, and artificial intelligence. Innovative SMEs.
The latest news shows that at the upcoming 2022 China International Fair for Trade in Services in September this year, the telecommunications, computer and information services exhibition will set up a Metaverse theme pavilion for the first time.
These plans and actions show that the development of the Metaverse and related industries has entered the gestation period before the outbreak, and has become a new outlet for regional and even international technological and industrial competition.
Shanghai’s action plan for cultivating a new track of “Metaverse” is the first Metaverse development action plan launched by a provincial-level administrative region in China. It not only pushes the development process of Shanghai Metaverse a step forward, but also has a vane significance and is expected to drive the development of Shanghai Metaverse. More regions in China will join the new track of the Metaverse.
What are the advantages of Shanghai in cultivating and developing the metaverse?
Why Shanghai? What are the advantages of Shanghai? This question can be viewed in several ways.
First of all, the new track represented by the Metaverse is mainly about technological innovation capabilities.
In this regard, Shanghai, as one of the important sources of innovation in the country and the world, undoubtedly has obvious advantages.
In addition, Shanghai Zhangjiang Comprehensive National Science Center is one of the four comprehensive national science centers in the country. And it is quite “coincidence” that one of the two characteristic parks in the Shanghai Metaverse field is Zhangjiang Digital Chain.
In fact, it is precisely because of its advantages in scientific and technological innovation that, from the perspective of industrial transformation in the past few decades, whether it is the traditional automobile industry, electronic information, biomedicine, or new energy vehicles, Shanghai is actually every time. is playing the role of a leader. Whether it is in terms of industrial scale or the “smell” of industrial transformation, Shanghai is in a leading position in China.
Therefore, in the face of Metaverse, a new outlet for industrial change, Shanghai will also not be absent, and it will act quickly.
Second, industry and market foundations.
The main body of modern innovation is the market. As the largest city with the most complete industrial categories in the country, Shanghai not only has a prosperous market ecology that has laid a foundation for innovation and power for the development of Metaverse, but also provides a wealth of application scenarios for all walks of life.
For example, according to the plan, by 2025, Shanghai will strive to cultivate more than 10 innovative leading enterprises and “chain-owner enterprises” with international competitiveness, and create more than 100 “specialized specialties” mastering core technologies, high-level and high-growth new” enterprise.
Shanghai is the earliest proposer and practitioner of the concept of “specialization, specialization and innovation”. As early as 2011, it took the lead in launching the implementation of the “specialized, specialized and innovative” small and medium-sized enterprise cultivation project. At present, the number of “specialized, refined, and new” enterprises in Shanghai ranks first in the country.
One of the main directions for the development of the Metaverse is the integration with other industries. In this regard, the richness of application scenarios is very important. In this regard, Shanghai also has advantages. For example, COMAC in Shanghai provides industrial Internet + metaverse scenarios, Zhongshan Hospital and Ruijin Hospital provide medical + metaverse scenarios, and so on.
Third, infrastructure advantages.
The development of new track industries such as Metaverse is inseparable from the support of new infrastructure characterized by a new generation of network infrastructure and high-performance computing facilities.
recentlyChina Mobile、China Telecom、China UnicomAt the joint investor exchange event, Yang Jie, executive director and chairman of China Mobile, said that without information infrastructure, Metaverse would not be possible.
Shanghai’s network infrastructure level is at the leading level in China.
In 2020, Shanghai took the lead in releasing a new infrastructure action plan nationwide. After nearly three years of full-scale promotion, it has made good progress in stages in terms of 5G network and computing power facilities.
As of the end of May this year, Shanghai had built 52,400 5G outdoor base stations, more than 9.24 million 5G mobile phone users, and 361,000 standard racks of Internet data centers, with a shelf rate of 65%, ranking among the top in the country. At the same time, as one of the national computing power hub nodes, Shanghai is also actively piloting demonstration applications such as “East Digital and Western Computing” and regional computing power scheduling.
The advance layout and good foundation of these network infrastructures not only provide strong basic support for Shanghai to cultivate the metaverse, but also win the time window.
Furthermore, as the “five centers”, Shanghai’s comprehensive advantages in finance, information, transportation, and opening to the outside world are also an indispensable “big ecosystem” system for Shanghai to be at the forefront of Metaverse development.
For example, Shanghai has relatively convenient access to dynamic information on industrial development at home and abroad, and has inherent advantages in terms of going global and bringing in technologies and enterprises.
For another example, in order to promote the development of the Metaverse industry, Shanghai will initiate the establishment of a 10-billion-level Metaverse Industry Fund to support the listing of innovative companies. Behind this, Shanghai’s status as an international financial center will undoubtedly bring great blessings. At the same time, Shanghai is also home to the Science and Technology Innovation Board.
These financial hardware and software factors are the outstanding comparative advantages of Shanghai Development Metaverse.
What does it mean to cultivate and develop the metaverse?
The reason why the metaverse is valued worldwide is that it is not only an emerging industry, but also closely related to the transformation of other industries. It can even be said that it may determine the speed and quality of the upgrading of traditional industries, or it will completely rewrite and subvert the traditional industrial form.
According to the “14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Shanghai’s Advanced Manufacturing Industry”, the goal of building a “3+6” new industrial system is proposed. In the future, Shanghai will focus on the development of three leading industries of integrated circuits, biomedicine and artificial intelligence, and enhance the development of electronics. Six new key industries of information, life and health, automobiles, high-end equipment, advanced materials, and fashion consumer goods will create high-end industrial clusters.
Many industries here are actually expected to achieve new upgrades with the help of the Metaverse. Therefore, at the level of industrial transformation, the layout of the new Metaverse track can also be understood as sowing new seeds for the updating and upgrading of Shanghai’s industrial system, finding new levers, and accumulating new kinetic energy.
Furthermore, Shanghai’s active layout in the Metaverse, to a certain extent, also represents the country’s struggle for the right to speak in the global industrial chain on the world stage in the new era of industrial revolution.
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