Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 15th Title: Xinhua News Agency Economic Essay: When fireworks are on drones

Xinhua News Agency reporters Dai Xiaohe and Bai Tiantian

A river of poetry and paintings all over the city of fireworks. Liuyang, Hunan, the fireworks show every Saturday night has become a romantic appointment between this "fireworks capital" and Chinese and foreign tourists.

The dark sky, nearly a thousand drones penetrated straight into the sky, and the fireworks carried were like meteors, pouring down from the "time shuttle" and slowly falling to the world, as if opening the door to the sky...

Behind the Liuyang Fireworks Show that has "fired out of the circle" recently is a visual feast painted by fireworks and drones. It has brought popularity in New Year's Eve, electronic music festivals, corporate annual meetings and other activities in various places, and has expanded to many new consumption scenarios, further driving consumption, and opening up new space for related industries.

Not just in China, from the National Day fireworks show in Paris, France, daytime fireworks in Los Angeles, the United States, to the New Year's Eve event in Abu Dhabi, UAE, China's "fireworks + drones" have "flying" abroad, and some popular products are in short supply. Some foreign netizens lamented, "China has proved the existence of magic."

Fireworks and drones, two seemingly far apart industries meet and integrate and collaborate innovate, promote the transformation of the millennium fireworks industry, unlock new scenarios for the application of drones, and also reveal the development path of mutual dependence and complementation between traditional industries and emerging industries.

Integration and development through mutual development is a must-have meaning in the question.

my country's traditional industries account for more than 80% of the manufacturing industry, which is closely related to people's lives and is of great significance to the national economy.

In recent years, some places have regarded traditional industries as "burden", especially in the process of cultivating new quality productivity, and are confused about where traditional industries will go.

In this regard, the Party Central Committee has made clear that it is necessary to insist on promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and cannot simply withdraw as a "low-end industry".

This requires correct handling of the relationship between traditional industries and emerging industries, and thinking about industrial development with a dialectical perspective of "preservation" and "creation".

Take Liuyang as an example, compared with the emerging industries such as electronic information, biomedicine, and intelligent equipment that have been accelerated in the local area, the fireworks industry with a history of more than 1,400 years seems to be "new" intent, especially due to the impact of bans and epidemics, the industrial development once faced difficulties.

Faced with the new situation, the local government vigorously promoted the innovative development of traditional industries, and specially set up a firecracker and fireworks industry development center to encourage enterprises to move towards the high end of the value chain through the new "fireworks +" development model.

Now, Liuyang's fireworks and firecrackers industry accounts for half of the domestic market with a total output value of 50 to 60 billion yuan per year, contributing 60% of the country's export share, and also driving the growth of local related emerging industries.

This tells us that the stable development of traditional industries provides solid support for the rise of emerging industries, and the development of emerging industries can also bring new vitality to traditional industries.

To promote the quality and upgrading of the industry, we need to do a good job of promoting each other around "supply" and "demand".

Attacking the new demands of the cultural and tourism market, the continuously innovative fireworks show has built a broad stage for the transformation and development of the fireworks industry.

"Gate of the Sky", "New Wish of Stars"... Behind the stunning fireworks performances, new elements in the fields of art design, cultural tourism, digital technology, etc. are constantly gathering to better meet the new needs of cultural connotation and emotional value, and are promoting the reshaping of the fireworks industry chain.

To promote the better development of new and old industries, we must also make precise efforts in the commonality of "sameness" and "different".

To develop new quality productivity, we must grasp the general laws and adhere to local conditions. Whether it is transforming and upgrading traditional industries, cultivating and expanding emerging industries, or laying out future industries, industrial development must meet local characteristics and overall needs.

Liuyang's "fireworks + drone" relies on the foundation of the fireworks industry and uses "black technology" to empower the industry. This is a vivid example of based on resource endowment, following the laws of industrial development, and scientific layout.

From a more macro perspective, the Central Economic Work Conference held in December 2024 proposed "comprehensive rectification of 'involved' competition." We must implement it well. On the one hand, we must guide local governments and enterprises to carry out differentiated industrial layout to avoid "rushing up" and inefficient repetition; on the other hand, we must give full play to the comparative advantages of various regions, find their respective positionings, and expand new space and create new momentum in serving the overall economic and social development.

In today's era, reform and innovation are surging, and tradition and emerging are constantly changing dynamic concepts. The current tradition was once the emergence of the past; the emergence of today may also become the tradition of the future.

There is no sunset industry, only sunset thinking. We must not only look at the future and actively cultivate new momentum; we must also base ourselves on reality and continue to update old momentum. The coordinated efforts of the two will form a greater synergy to drive economic growth.