The Central Economic Work Conference pointed out the need to "vigorously promote new industrialization", "widely apply digital and green technologies, and accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries." So, what achievements have been made in the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing and other industries in 2023? What specific measures will be taken in 2024 to better empower economic development with digital technology and accelerate the process of new industrialization? Let's listen to the authoritative interpretation of the relevant officials of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and experts in the field of information and communication in the series of reports "Economic Observation at the Beginning of the Year".
In the just passed year of 2023, "new industrialization" has become a high-frequency buzzword in the field of China's economic development. From the central to local levels, efforts have been made to strengthen technological innovation and promote industrial digitization, focusing on the high technological content and low resource consumption of new industrialization. A series of important progress has been made.
From January to November of last year (2023), the popularization rate of digital R&D and design tools was 79%, and the CNC rate of key processes had reached 60.9%. There were 58 "Digital Navigation" enterprises, and nearly 10000 digital workshops and intelligent factories were built, demonstrating the role of improving quality, reducing costs, and increasing efficiency.
Digitization, intelligence, and greenization are distinctive features of new industrialization and important directions for the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industry. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated that in 2024, it will strengthen policy guidance, consolidate basic support, and improve service systems in deepening the integration of digital technology and the real economy, and promote new industrialization through digital transformation.
Promote the introduction of relevant policies for the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry, leading enterprises in technological progress, management change, and model innovation. Cultivate system solutions and service providers for industrial scenarios and enterprise needs, strengthen supply and demand docking, and build a collaborative and win-win digital transformation ecosystem.
The Central Economic Work Conference pointed out that "we should vigorously promote new industrialization, develop the digital economy, and accelerate the development of artificial intelligence.". So, in terms of developing the digital economy, what new measures will the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology take next?
Deepen the coordinated development of "dual gigabit", accelerate the deployment and application of 5G on a large scale, accelerate the layout of intelligent computing facilities, and promote the interconnection of multiple computing forces. Strengthen the research and development of key core technologies, and improve the supply level of key software, core electronic components, and key basic materials.
In 2023, artificial intelligence big models are developing rapidly. Not long ago, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology listed "continuous leap in AI big model capabilities" as one of the "Top 10 Trends in the Information and Communications Industry in 2024". Wang Zhiqin, Vice President of the Institute of Information and Communications Technology, believes that the application of AI big models in manufacturing and other fields still needs to improve data quality and big model training capabilities.
In the fields of physical and industrial applications, the AI big model actually requires a lot of integration with relevant data. These data may still require relatively accurate or well done classification, which results in high-quality data for training large models and generating them.
According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as of November 2023, the total number of 5G base stations in China has reached 3.282 million, and there are over 340 industrial internet platforms with certain influence. Experts from the Institute of Information and Communications Technology stated that in 2024
