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Chongqing Chengdu to build a world-class equipment industry cluster
Seetao 2022-01-18 11:28
  • By 2025, the main business income of the equipment manufacturing industry in Sichuan and Chongqing will exceed 1 trillion yuan
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On December 14, 2021, at the fourth meeting of the Chongqing-Sichuan Party-Government Joint Conference on Promoting the Construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Shuangcheng Economic Circle, the two places reviewed and approved a number of important documents, including the "Chengdu-Chongqing Shuangcheng Economic Circle". Implementation Plan for Jointly Building a World-Class Equipment Manufacturing Industry Cluster. The proposal of this plan sounded the clarion call for Sichuan and Chongqing to jointly build a world-class industrial cluster. According to reports, before this, Sichuan and Chongqing are jointly building a world-class trillion-dollar automobile industry cluster and a world-class trillion-dollar electronic information industry cluster. Experts pointed out that these three trillion-level industrial clusters are all advantageous industries in the region. The Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle conspires to build a number of trillion-level industries including world-class equipment manufacturing clusters, which is conducive to the development of the region. Industrial advantages, boosting the development level of China's manufacturing industry.

Sichuan is one of the three major power equipment manufacturing bases in China. Large-scale complete sets of power generation equipment, oil drilling and production equipment and nuclear power equipment are all in the leading position in China. Among them, Chongqing has unique technical advantages in offshore wind power, monorail vehicles, UHV transformers, waste incineration and other fields, and its market share ranks among the top in China. In recent years, Sichuan and Chongqing have focused on the fields of intelligent equipment, aerospace, rail transit, power generation equipment, energy conservation and environmental protection, and successfully established 6 industrial cooperation demonstration parks in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, including Deyang Economic Development Zone and Chongqing Airport Park. . At the end of the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", Sichuan's equipment manufacturing industry achieved an operating income of 732.78 billion yuan, and Sichuan's equipment manufacturing industry has developed by leaps and bounds.

As the country promotes the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, it has greatly changed the regional disadvantage of Sichuan, especially the characteristic and advantageous equipment such as power generation equipment, oil and gas drilling and production equipment, rail transit equipment, and aviation equipment have become the forefront of "going out". What is more worth looking forward to is that under the strategy of green development and "carbon neutralization and carbon peaking", Sichuan has developed a huge equipment market, and its comparative advantages in energy equipment, energy saving and environmental protection equipment have become increasingly prominent. , nuclear, biomass, hydrogen, geothermal energy equipment ushered in an unprecedented opportunity. Li Yong, dean and researcher of the Chongqing Frontier Regional Economic Research Institute, said that the Chengdu-Chongqing area has basically formed a manufacturing system dominated by electronic information and equipment manufacturing (including automobile and motorcycle), and each has its own expertise in subdivided fields. It has a high degree and strong complementarity, and has the basic conditions to achieve high-quality integrated development.

Build economic ballast

It is reported that the implementation plan for the co-construction of a world-class equipment manufacturing industry cluster in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, which was reviewed and approved at this meeting, proposes to accelerate the construction of equipment manufacturing in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle based on the foundation of the Sichuan-Chongqing equipment manufacturing industry. A new pattern of coordinated industrial development. It is planned that by 2025, the main business income of Sichuan-Chongqing equipment manufacturing industry will exceed 1 trillion yuan, and a world-class equipment manufacturing industry cluster has initially formed. In other words, Sichuan and Chongqing will work together to build the equipment manufacturing industry into a world-class, trillion-dollar industrial cluster.

The "Plan" proposed the concept of two cores and one belt for the first time. According to Zhu Jiade, director of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Economics and Information Technology, the two core areas are based on the two core areas of Chengdu Deyang area and Chongqing central city, and the G93 Chengdu-Chongqing ring high-speed industrial cooperation development demonstration belt to develop energy equipment, aerospace Equipment, rail transit equipment, intelligent manufacturing equipment and other high-end equipment manufacturing industries. In addition, in terms of clean energy equipment industry, Sichuan and Chongqing will cooperate on energy equipment manufacturing industries such as wind power, solar energy, hydropower, and geothermal energy; in the aerospace industry, they will strengthen the leading of mainframes, promote two-way support, and promote cluster development. Form an integrated industrial foundation and industrial system; in the rail transit equipment industry, a coordinated development system will be jointly built to enhance the supply capacity of equipment in major railway projects, intercity high-speed railways, and urban rail transit; in the intelligent manufacturing equipment industry On the one hand, it will focus on the missing and weak links in the intelligent manufacturing equipment industry chain in Sichuan and Chongqing, forging long plates and making up for short ones, to jointly build a leading intelligent manufacturing equipment base in the west; in the special equipment industry, it will combine the industrial structure and geographical area of Sichuan and Chongqing. characteristics, accelerate the development of modern agricultural equipment and natural disaster prevention equipment; on the basis of the innovative development of the equipment manufacturing industry, the two will gather innovative resources, continue to promote the co-construction and sharing of innovative carriers, and strengthen deep-level industrial collaboration; in the promotion of intelligent manufacturing in the equipment manufacturing industry In terms of level, based on the advantages of equipment manufacturing clusters in Sichuan and Chongqing, we will strengthen the basic common technological innovation of intelligent manufacturing; in the joint construction of a multi-level open industrial collaboration system, we will coordinate to carry out complementary investment in general aviation, industrial robots and other industries, and introduce a group of Advantageous projects with strong innovation ability, strong development potential and obvious driving effect can enhance industrial competitiveness.

Since the Sino-US economic and trade frictions in 2018, China's manufacturing industry has been large but not strong, and its basic capabilities are weak as a whole. Many links are seriously constrained by others. The shortcomings are highlighted, especially the equipment manufacturing industry. In fact, China is severely controlled by others in the field of equipment manufacturing such as high-end CNC machine tools, analytical experimental instruments, and industrial robots. Cheng Nan, director of the Planning and Research Institute of CCID Think Tank, pointed out that building a manufacturing power cannot just stop at making products in China. If you rely heavily on foreign equipment to produce high-quality products, it is not a manufacturing power in the true sense.

Developed countries such as the United States and the European Union not only have the tendency to further strengthen the export restrictions on China's high-end equipment, but also take advantage of the opportunity of the current industrial chain and supply chain reconstruction to intentionally return the production capacity of high-tech and high-value-added equipment products to their home countries. In order to change the status quo and enhance the independent and controllable capabilities of the industrial chain and supply chain, the national "14th Five-Year Plan" outline issued in March 2021 clearly stated that "promoting the advanced industrial foundation and improving the modernization level of the industrial chain". And enhancing the capability and level of China's equipment manufacturing industry is the top priority of promoting the advanced industrial base and upgrading the modernization level of the industrial chain.

According to Lan Qinghua, director of the Chongqing Economic Information Commission, thanks to its unique geographical location, rich natural resources and long history and culture, the Chengdu-Chongqing region has been an irreplaceable strategic rear and relatively safe strategic depth for China in modern history. . The Outline of the Construction Planning of the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle further clarifies that promoting the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle is a major measure to build a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles mutually promoting each other. The security and stability of the industrial chain and supply chain is an important prerequisite and foundation for building a new development pattern. Therefore, for the Chengdu-Chongqing Shuangcheng Economic Circle, to ensure the safety and stability of the supply chain and industrial chain, in addition to the continuous construction of external channels such as the China-Europe Railway Express and the New Western Land-Sea Corridor under the guidance of the joint construction of the Belt and Road, it is also to upgrade the modernization of the industrial chain. level. This is also one of the important reasons why Sichuan and Chongqing have proposed to build a world-class equipment manufacturing industry cluster based on their own industrial and location advantages.

Helping Chengdu-Chongqing region to move towards a mature urban agglomeration

At present, the conditions for building a world-class equipment manufacturing industry cluster in Sichuan and Chongqing are preliminarily met. For example, the production of automobiles, motorcycles and precision instruments in Chongqing has relatively strong competitiveness in the country. In recent years, aerospace, rail transit, industrial robots, CNC machine tools and other industries have developed rapidly, and Chengdu's aerospace, rail transit, industrial robots and other industries have obvious competitive advantages. The areas between Chengdu and Chongqing, including Deyang, Mianyang, Neijiang, Ziyang, Guang'an and other places, have a solid production base for equipment such as power generation, casting, energy conservation and environmental protection, and oil and gas drilling and production equipment.

Looking to the future, both Sichuan and Chongqing are actively planning. According to the "14th Five-Year Plan for the High-Quality Development of Chongqing's Manufacturing Industry", by 2025, in addition to expanding the scale of the equipment manufacturing industry to 300 billion, Chongqing also proposes to build nationally important medium and high-end CNC machine tools, urban rail transit Vehicle, new energy equipment industry base and the leading industrial robot and additive manufacturing equipment industry base in the west. Sichuan said that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, it will optimize and strengthen clean energy equipment, aerospace, gas turbines, and advanced rail transit equipment, cultivate and expand intelligent equipment such as CNC machine tools and industrial robots, and actively develop modern agricultural machinery and equipment, natural disaster prevention and control. technical equipment. Li Jing, vice president of Chongqing Technology and Business University, said that singing the "Tale of Two Cities" between Chengdu and Chongqing will effectively help China form a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles promoting each other. It is foreseeable that with the acceleration of the joint construction of a world-class equipment manufacturing industry cluster in Sichuan and Chongqing, the role of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle in ensuring the security and stability of the supply chain and industrial chain and accelerating the construction of a new development pattern will be more obvious.

According to the view of Shanghai Urban Innovation Economy Research Center, the core characteristics of world-class industrial clusters can be summarized into three key words: world-class, clustering, and synergy. World-class, that is, industrial clusters must have a place in the competitive landscape of global industrial development and technological innovation. Clustering, that is, world-class industrial clusters are often built on the basis of the division of labor and cooperation among urban agglomerations. Throughout the world, world-class industrial clusters are mostly clustered in economically developed world-class urban agglomerations, and the overall competitiveness is formed through the linkage development between cities. Synergy means that the industrial cluster must also have the synergy of the industrial chain, the synergy of the industrial layout and the synergy of the innovation network.

The equipment manufacturing industry is different from the general manufacturing industry and also different from the ordinary machinery manufacturing industry. It is a manufacturing industry that provides industrial mother machines for other industries, such as providing various equipment for automobiles and computers. Therefore, compared with other industrial clusters, the world-class equipment manufacturing industry cluster jointly built by Sichuan and Chongqing will have more obvious characteristics of clustering and synergy.

Therefore, driven by the construction of a world-class equipment manufacturing industry cluster, the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle will build a functional division of labor pattern, promote the coordinated development of industries, enhance the ability of collaborative innovation and development, or build a modern industrial system that supports high-quality development. , will usher in an important breakthrough. The development experience of world-class urban agglomerations shows that one of the important signs of mature urban agglomerations is that there is a clear division of labor between central cities, secondary cities, and node cities, and the innovation network structure of the entire region is increasingly close. Deng Changjin, deputy director of the Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission, said that in this sense, Sichuan and Chongqing jointly build a world-class equipment manufacturing industry cluster, which will enable the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle to seize the opportunity of a new round of technological revolution, improve innovation capabilities and industrial support capabilities, and speed up Moving towards a mature urban agglomeration and attacking a world-class urban agglomeration will play an immeasurable role.

At present, the equipment manufacturing industry in Sichuan and Chongqing still has problems such as small overall scale, insufficient core industrial technology and innovation capabilities, insufficient supporting industries, lack of leading enterprises, and industrial synergy layout has not yet been formed. However, these problems will be solved one by one in the context of Sichuan and Chongqing jointly building a world-class equipment manufacturing industry cluster. Editor/He Yuting

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