Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 9, Title: "Such interaction will help make Chinese manufacturing smarter" - a dialogue between National People's Congress deputies and staff of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

Xinhua News Agency reporters Hu Hao and Liu Fangzhou

On the morning of the 9th, Li Donglin, Party Secretary and Chairman of CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Research Institute Co., Ltd., welcomed a guest at the residence - Wang Zheng, Director of the Science and Technology Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

As a National People's Congress representative from the equipment manufacturing industry, Li Donglin pays great attention to the high-end, intelligent and green development of manufacturing. During his tenure, he conducted in-depth investigations at the grassroots level many times, learned a wide range of relevant situations, and put forward relevant suggestions on empowering the manufacturing industry with artificial intelligence.

"We have paid attention to your opinions and suggestions, which are very representative and targeted. Today I want to communicate with you in person, listen to your ideas further, and also introduce you to our policy measures in this regard and our next plan and deployment." Wang Zheng made the right point and expressed his purpose.

Technological innovation is the endogenous driving force of industrial innovation, and industrial innovation is the realization of the value of scientific and technological innovation.

"The era of informatization and intelligence is approaching, and we must actively embrace it. Artificial intelligence is deeply integrated into all aspects of the manufacturing industry, improves total factor productivity, reshapes the industrial technology system, production model, and industrial form, and promotes the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry." Representative Li Donglin told Wang Zheng that his CRRC Zhuzhou Institute has established an intelligent technology team of 400 people in recent years to build intelligent bodies for all business links of the enterprise and empower corporate innovation.

"Although my country has made remarkable achievements in the field of artificial intelligence, its application effect in the manufacturing industry still needs to be further improved, and it faces problems such as imbalance in R&D resources and lack of relevant qualification certification. In addition, how to ensure data security and improve the corresponding responsibility system also needs to attract attention." Representative Li Donglin expressed his views.

Reform and innovation of the system and mechanism are the cornerstone of promoting the seamless connection between the innovation chain and the industrial chain.

Wang Zheng said that in response to some of the current problems, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology focuses on supply on one side, consolidates the technical foundation, strengthens the supply of smart products, and promotes "intelligent industrialization"; empowers on the other side, promotes the deep integration of artificial intelligence and manufacturing, and promotes "industrial intelligence"; focus on ecology in the middle, improves standards, open source, finance and other support, and creates a good development environment.

Wang Zheng also introduced to representative Li Donglin the specific measures and achievements of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in consolidating the industrial foundation, strengthening the industrial ecology, cultivating intelligent products, promoting empowerment applications, and deepening international cooperation.

"In the next step, we will continue to make efforts in strengthening the foundation, improving products, expanding applications, and cultivating the ecology. Many of the issues you are concerned about are included." Wang Zheng said, "I hope you can continue to pay attention to the empowerment of artificial intelligence in manufacturing and give us more valuable opinions and suggestions."

More than an hour of communication, efficient and pragmatic, and full of practical information.

Original records, timely sorting and transferring, frank communication, and fully absorbing and transforming... During this year's National People's Congress, the General Office of the State Council and relevant departments of the State Council continued to send staff to attend the Two Sessions, and carefully listened to the opinions and suggestions of representatives and deputies by setting up a 24-hour hotline and other means, and built a bridge for the government to listen to public opinion and gather people's wisdom.

Representative Li Donglin's view was that he was recorded by the State Council staff attending the National Two Sessions and the Chinese People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference were transferred to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

The State Council departments have fully absorbed the wisdom of representatives and deputies and transformed them into practical and hard-working measures to promote high-quality development. This has become an effective way for the government to improve its performance of duties in recent years. In 2024, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology adopted suggestions from representatives and deputies on promoting the development of the artificial intelligence industry, and issued 115 policies and measures.

"The representative has suggestions and the department has responded. This gives me more confidence in my performance of my duties and more confidence in the government's work." Representative Li Donglin said, "I believe that such interaction will help make Chinese manufacturing smarter."