CCTV News (News Network): During this year's National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation are the basic paths to develop new quality productivity. It is emphasized that to focus on industrial innovation, we must firmly adhere to the foundation of the real economy, and insist on promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and opening up strategic emerging industries and new future industrial tracks.

Since this year, all regions have seized the opportunities of industrial development, actively deployed high-end, and promoted the comprehensive improvement of manufacturing. In the accelerated transformation of new and old kinetic energy, a new engine for high-quality economic development is activated.

In the past few days, China's machinery industry has ushered in a new wave of overseas orders. Compared with foreign brands, these Chinese-made products are at higher prices, but still in short supply. The reason is that under the same operating conditions, the product energy consumption and life cycle maintenance costs have been reduced by nearly 10%.

At the same time, many industries have also ushered in a boom in foreign investment, and Airbus will further upgrade and expand its production line in Tianjin.

One "out" and "in" is a microcosm of the continuous improvement and upgrading of my country's manufacturing industry. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has attached great importance to the high-quality development of manufacturing, and has repeatedly pointed out that it is necessary to strengthen the reconstruction of industrial base and the research on major technical equipment, and continue to expand and strengthen the advanced manufacturing industry.

This year, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Liaoning, an old industrial base in Northeast China, and went deep into the production workshop. The General Secretary once again emphasized that the manufacturing industry should adhere to the direction of high-end, intelligent and green, and continuously improve the technological content and added value of the products. It is pointed out that cultivating and strengthening strategic emerging industries focuses on strengthening the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and developing new quality productivity according to local conditions. This also guides the economic and industrial development throughout the year.

At present, various places are working hard to promote the quality and upgrading of manufacturing industries based on their respective industrial characteristics. In Guangdong, we will promote the first trial and use of no less than 100 new technologies and new products around advantageous emerging industry clusters such as new energy vehicles and low-altitude economy; in Shanxi, a major energy province, the key tasks of "carbon reduction" have been reviewed, from deep processing of coal to accelerating the construction of a dual-control system for carbon emissions, green transformation of manufacturing has become the top priority.

This year, traditional industries are accelerating renewal and upgrading. The reporter came to steel companies everywhere and found that more and more special products were produced. This steel plate with only 0.9 mm can help cars reduce weight by more than 10%; the world's widest thick steel plate has just been successfully rolled on this world's first 5,600 mm rolling mill, which will be used on "national heavy equipment" such as nuclear power plants and large ships.

Based on the upgrade and transformation towards high-end, intelligent and green, new quality productivity in my country's traditional industries is accelerating its formation. In 2024, my country's investment in manufacturing technology transformation increased by 8% over the previous year. Up to now, more than 30,000 basic-level smart factories, more than 1,200 advanced-level smart factories, and more than 230 outstanding smart factories have been built nationwide.

This year's government work report proposes to deepen the pilot project of the integrated development of advanced manufacturing and modern service industries and accelerate the development of service-oriented manufacturing. In Fujian, the world's largest ground test platform for offshore wind turbines was officially put into operation not long ago, which can provide a variety of simulated test environments for 25-megawatt wind turbines, greatly reducing the R&D costs and trial and error risks of enterprises; in Jiangsu, relying on more than 200 provincial industrial design centers, high-end manufacturing integrated design services, enterprise innovation is not only in factory workshops, but also ingenious ideas of product appearance and materials can be transformed into new markets.

This year, my country will launch a new round of work to stabilize growth in the top ten key industries, further expand the scope of the construction of the national manufacturing innovation center, promote the manufacturing industry to continuously forge its strengths, make up for its shortcomings, and improve its advantages, and continue to move towards the high end of the industrial chain value chain, and build a strong material and technological foundation for Chinese-style modernization.