To "quality" to the far-reaching -- the Yangtze River Delta to develop new quality productivity first to explore the way

With 9 trillion GDP cities, gathering about 30% of the country's high-tech enterprises, 25 enterprises are among the world's top 500 enterprises, and a group of invisible champions stand out from the subdivision industry track......

Since the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta has become a national strategy, the "New Coordinates of the Yangtze River Delta" has become more eye-catching in the global economic geography.

In the first quarter, China's GDP grew by 5.3 year-on-year! As one of the regions with the most active economic development, the highest degree of openness, and the strongest innovation capabilities in China, the stronger the development momentum of the Yangtze River Delta, the more powerful the "engine" for China to move towards high-quality development.

"Enhance innovation ability, industrial competitiveness, and development level"-in accordance with the requirements of the Party Central Committee, the Yangtze River Delta firmly grasps the primary task of high-quality development, cultivates and develops new quality productivity according to local conditions, and strides towards the goal of world-class urban agglomeration. Write a new chapter in the Yangtze River Delta of Chinese-style modernization.

 　　Innovation makes productivity: "Synergy" is the accelerator

Large cruise, known as the shipbuilding industry, "the most dazzling pearl in the crown".

Welding flower splash, machine roar... Into the "Ida Mordor" cruise sheet intelligent production workshop, the second domestic large cruise ship is stepping up construction, will be docked to start continuous carrying.

"Ada Mordor" docked at Shanghai Wusongkou International Cruise Port (photographed on January 1, 2024, drone photo). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ding Ting

Cruise is a trillion-level industry with a long chain. The developed shipbuilding industry in the Yangtze River Delta region has promoted the innovation ability of ship supporting, design, maintenance and other industries.

Zhou Qi, deputy general manager of Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., said: "In the domestic procurement of parts, suppliers from the Yangtze River Delta accounted for more than 60%. We also jointly with a university in Jiangsu, successfully developed a large-scale sheet leveling electromagnetic leveling equipment."

The Yangtze River Delta, formed by the combination of Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, is connected to the Yangtze River and the sea, and all prefecture-level cities in the land area are accessible by bullet trains. Travel convenience, so that the city is more and more "close", more and more smooth cooperation.

The comprehensive national science center is the concentrated embodiment of national science and technology competitiveness and innovation ability, half of which are distributed in the Yangtze River Delta region.

Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center and Shanghai Zhangjiang Comprehensive National Science Center insist on promoting "two hearts and one mind" and are creating a "joint force" for innovation ". "Shanghai Light Source" and "Hefei Light Source" have joined forces to jointly build the fourth-generation scientific installation "Hefei Advanced Light Source" and explore the construction of a scientific and technological innovation community. "Two beams of light" is reflected in the light of innovation.

"hefei advanced light source" renderings (information pictures). Xinhua News Agency (Photo courtesy of the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China)

Collaborative enhancement of innovation capabilities, the Yangtze River Delta set its sights on the world.

In April, the Silicon Valley of HKUST is getting stronger in spring. For the first time, the Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center focused on promoting major scientific and technological innovation achievements, and 20 recent transformable achievements were unveiled one by one, sending a signal of "hand in hand" cooperation to the world.

The 2023 Yangtze River Delta Regional Collaborative Innovation Index shows that the total index of collaborative innovation in the Yangtze River Delta region has increased to 262.48 points, with an average annual growth rate of 11.17 after 2018.

Enterprise "problem", the government "topic", the market "answer"... Open the "Yangtze River Delta integration of science and technology cloud platform", a series of "unveil the success" of the joint research needs to be seen.

"Finding your own technology is like looking for a needle in a haystack, connecting with the' circle of friends' in the Yangtze River Delta efficiently and accurately, and jointly tackling key problems to help us solve technical problems." Fu Hong Hanlin Global Innovation Center General Manager Shan Yongqiang said.

New quality productivity is characterized by innovation, the key is quality, and the essence is advanced productivity.

From the original innovation of the laboratory, to accelerating the transformation of achievements, promoting "uncovering the list and leading the leader", incubating and supporting entrepreneurship... Collaborative innovation, let the elements flow freely in the Yangtze River Delta, and the "output" of innovation activities forms "geometric effect".

Today, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, and regional innovation capabilities are among the top ten in the country, and the "Yangtze River Delta Model" of collaborative innovation has emerged.

 　　Competitiveness transition: "industrial cluster" is the key word

"Steam" pie! Walking into the new energy automobile industrial park in Feixi County, Hefei City, the site of the Jianghuai Huawei project, which is under construction, has sprung up workshops for welding, painting, and final assembly, and a "smart factory" is about to emerge.

"It is expected that the whole vehicle will be offline in the fourth quarter of this year, which will not only produce high-end new energy vehicles, but also realize personalized customization of the whole vehicle." Feixi new energy vehicle intelligent industrial park project leader Yang Wei said.

New Energy Vehicle Industrial Park under construction in Feixi County, Anhui Province (photographed on January 24, 2024, drone photo). Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Chen Jiale)

Nearly a hundred new energy automobile industry chain enterprises, dozens of series, nearly a thousand varieties of supporting products, high-end vehicle leadership, parts supporting leading enterprises gathering, back-end service market with world-class testing capabilities......

From the "inconspicuous" small county to the bright new energy automobile industry cluster, Feixi's "transformation" is amazing.

Through the coordinated development of industrial clusters, the new energy vehicle factory in the Yangtze River Delta can solve the required supply of supporting parts within a 4-hour drive, forming a unique "4-hour industrial circle", which is a microcosm of the construction of a modern industrial system in the Yangtze River Delta.

The industrial structure is accelerating towards the middle and high end, and the "new color" is becoming more and more distinct.

The industrial scale of integrated circuits, biomedicine and artificial intelligence in the Yangtze River Delta has accounted for about 3/5, 1/3 and 1/3 of the country's total respectively; there are more than 270 listed enterprises on the board, accounting for 48% of the country's total.

In the spring season, I walked into the Suzhou Industrial Park, where more than 2000 biomedical and large health companies have gathered, focusing on new drug research and development and industrialization. The fields of high-end medical devices, biotechnology and new therapies are accelerating.

"Innovative drugs are made in China! In order to make high quality biological drugs affordable to the masses, we need to accelerate the transformation of medical resources' potential energy 'into industrial development momentum." Cinda biological founder Yu Dechao said.

A modern industrial system that meets the requirements of the development of new quality productivity is inseparable from the all-round upgrading of traditional industries.

Food, clothing, shelter, clothing first.

Puyuan Town, Tongxiang City, Zhejiang Province, was famous for "Sunrise Ten Thousand Silk" during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. After more than 40 years of development, it has formed a complete industrial chain of spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing, and machinery manufacturing, and has become a famous national wool Knitted garment production base.

In the digital workshop of Tiwei Fashion Co., Ltd. in Puyuan Town, Tongxiang City, Zhejiang Province, a computerized flat knitting machine is producing new sweaters (photographed on April 9, 2024). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Yu

Entering the local Tivi Fashion Co., Ltd., dozens of computerized flat knitting machines in the factory are operating automatically, and only a few workers are patrolling the maintenance. Using the "first-line ready-to-wear" technology, these machines "eat" wool, and pieces of knitted ready-to-wear clothes are "3D printed. Digital transformation allows the company to save 2 millions or 3 millions yuan a year in labor costs.

"The superficial efforts cannot create new momentum for economic growth. The development of new quality productivity is not overnight, but a long-term effort. Accelerating the cultivation of world-class high-end industrial clusters is of great significance to the construction of a modern industrial system." Suzhou executive vice mayor Gu Haidong said.

 　　Climbing the development level: "future industry" is the starting point

With less than 4% of the land area, it has created nearly 1/4 of China's total economic output. Yangtze River Delta, why release such explosive force?

One second, 1.8 billion billion calculations!

In the "Wuzhen Light" Supercomputing Center, a blue cube building called "Silicon Cube", 3440 liquid-cooled blade servers are arranged layer by layer to form a "supercomputer" for many inside and outside Zhejiang Province Scientific research institutes, universities, enterprises, etc. provide computing services.

As a region rich in scientific and educational resources and strong in scientific and technological innovation, how can the Yangtze River Delta further improve its development level? The answer lies in the future industries that are being nurtured and growing.

In Hefei High-tech Zone, the future of quantum information industry technology park is stepping up construction, will be completed in July 2026. It has been selected into the first batch of national pilot list for the construction of future industrial science and technology parks. At the same time, a series of projects such as speeding up the physical operation of the Quantum Science and Technology Industry Research Institute and the construction of the "Hefei excess Fusion Computing Center" are also in full swing.

The smart driving minibus runs on the smart highway that can generate electricity and recharge, with photovoltaic power generation facilities on the roof, roads and street lights, and low-speed wind turbines in the green belt ...... Walking into the regional energy Internet demonstration zone located in Tongli Town, Wujiang District, Suzhou City, more than a dozen innovative energy applications are immersive to experience the future.

Suzhou, one of the prefecture-level cities with the largest electricity consumption in the country, has a growing demand for electricity, so it is urgent to explore the application of new energy technologies and alleviate "electricity anxiety.

A green energy Internet is expanding from a demonstration area of only 0.035 square kilometers to a whole area of Tongli Town of 176 square kilometers. All kinds of new energy applications help the protection of ancient towns and the development of local industries.

From building an "infrastructure" that provides computing support for industrial development, to exploring new energy technologies and building a "test field" for new power systems, the Yangtze River Delta has accelerated the opening of new trails.

Three provinces and one city have issued relevant guidance or action plans to cultivate and develop future industries, Anhui quantum information, Shanghai artificial intelligence model, Zhejiang brain intelligence, Jiangsu future network and other fields gradually formed a number of global innovation leading results.

In the workshop of Ideal Automobile Changzhou Base, the mechanical arm is performing welding operations (photographed on January 10, 2024). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ji Chunpeng

"The Yangtze River Delta is not only an economic growth pole, but also the main battlefield and frontier of the future industry. We need to get more innovative achievements out of the 'lab' and towards the 'production line '." Ming Wenbiao, executive director of the New Economic Development Research Center of Zhejiang Tsinghua Yangtze River Delta Research Institute, said.

Promoting the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta is a big article, three provinces and one city are speeding up, and the grand concerto of high-quality development is playing. People expect new miracles here.