Jiangsu’s Scientific Action on the Track of High-quality Development

  Wuxi National Supercomputing Center makes the climate measurable; Nanjing Zijinshan Laboratory, creating a world record for real-time transmission of terahertz wireless communication; ZTE’s 5G intelligent manufacturing base has a 17-meter-high three-dimensional warehouse with more than 100,000 containers and suspended conveyor belts, which automatically transport the sorted material containers to various workshops according to production instructions … … These scenes are being staged in Jiangsu.

  In line with the general trend of industrial and technological changes, Jiangsu has strengthened frontier exploration and forward-looking layout, and new technologies, new materials, new products and new industries have emerged. Today, more than 20% of high-tech products in China are made in Jiangsu. The surging vitality everywhere allows Jiangsu to make scientific progress and forge ahead courageously on the track of high-quality development.

  During the two sessions of the National People’s Congress this year, when attending the deliberation of the Jiangsu delegation, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed that he hoped that Jiangsu would continue to work hard and forge ahead, continue to be at the forefront in high-quality development, achieve a good start in writing a new chapter in Jiangsu’s modernization drive, and make new and greater contributions to the overall situation of the country.

  He who does not seek the overall situation does not seek a domain. As an important wing of the integration of the Yangtze River Delta, the broad masses of cadres and people in Jiangsu keep in mind the entrustment of the General Secretary, promote industrial scientific and technological innovation, and strive to continue to be at the forefront in high-quality development.

  Create an industrial science and technology innovation center with global influence

  Sitting in the office, you can accurately control the shearer at a depth of 240 meters underground with your fingers, and realize remote "one-click coal mining"; Being 300 kilometers away, you can remotely control the surgical robot to complete difficult operations with a delay of less than 6 milliseconds … … Entering Zijinshan Lab, the typical application scenarios of network technology in the future are amazing.

  "The future network will come for manufacturing." According to the person in charge of Zijinshan Laboratory, the laboratory was established in August 2018 and is a major scientific and technological innovation platform built by Jiangsu. "The most striking thing at the moment is the innovation of 6G technology, which is equivalent to downloading 5 high-definition movies in one second, which is dozens of times faster than 5 G."

  In the overall situation of China’s modernization, innovation is at the core. To open up new fields, new tracks, new kinetic energy and new advantages, we still have to rely on scientific and technological innovation.

  Jiangsu has seized innovation, which affects the overall economic and social development, accelerated the implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy, made great efforts to build an industrial science and technology innovation center with global influence, and promoted quality change with efficiency change and power change.

  Formulate a three-year action plan for basic research; Layout and construction of a number of major innovation platforms such as Suzhou Laboratory and Taihu Laboratory; Since 2022, he has taken the lead in implementing two national key science and technology projects and 15 major basic research projects, and organized the implementation of 115 key core technology research and development projects … … In 2022, the R&D investment intensity of Jiangsu society reached 3%, reaching the middle level of innovative countries and regions, and contributing more than 12% to the whole country; The number of invention patents per 10,000 people is 50.4, which keeps in the forefront of the country.

  Enterprises are the main body of innovation, and only by constantly stimulating the vitality of business entities can innovation be inexhaustible.

  Established in 1966, Yangli Group is a metal forming machine tool manufacturer. Walking into the workshop, a 3250-ton large-scale intelligent multi-station closed press with eccentric load is being assembled and will be delivered to customers soon.

  According to reports, this press is the first set of products in China, which can realize one-time stamping forming of large automobile panels, which not only improves production efficiency, but also improves manufacturing accuracy, and is a high-end product in the field of automobile manufacturing.

  "The key core technologies can’t be bought or not. The market forces enterprises to innovate constantly. If they are a little slower, they will fall behind." Zhang Jun, vice president of Yangli Group, said that with the support of relevant policies of the state and Jiangsu Province, the company has built eight research institutes and an intelligent manufacturing center, with an annual R&D investment of 100 million yuan.

  At present, more than 85% of R&D investment in Jiangsu is completed by enterprises, 80% of science and technology platforms and high-level innovative and entrepreneurial talents are gathered in enterprises, and 70% of effective invention patents are created by enterprises.

  We will speed up the establishment of an enterprise-oriented and market-oriented technological innovation system. Jiangsu will focus on building an ecological system such as science, technology, finance and open innovation, and strengthen the whole chain innovation such as basic research, technical research and achievement transformation, so as to promote the integration of innovation chain’s industrial chain capital chain talent chain in Industry-University-Research’s in-depth cooperation. There are 44,000 high-tech enterprises and more than 80,000 small and medium-sized science and technology enterprises.

  Promote the industrial structure and accelerate to the middle and high end.

  During this period, Jingjiang shipbuilding industry frequently heard good news: the first 24,000 TEU super-large container ship built by Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group was named and delivered; Jiangsu New Times Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. invested 1.75 billion yuan to build a high-end ship intelligent segmented manufacturing project. The first phase of the project was completed and entered full-scale trial production, and the shipbuilding efficiency of the enterprise was continuously improved … …

  In recent years, Jingjiang City, Taizhou has actively guided shipbuilding enterprises to learn from world-class enterprises, and taken "changing from intelligence to number" as the main direction to promote industrial transformation and upgrading, increased automation and intelligent transformation, and made every effort to build a modern shipbuilding base and transform it into a world-class shipbuilding industry base.

  Shipbuilding industry is a traditional advantage industry in Jiangsu. Only the shipbuilding enterprises in Jingjiang account for 10.7% of the world’s hand-held orders in 2022, and the order production plan is scheduled for 2026.

  In order to further enhance the industrial concentration, the modernization level of the whole industrial chain and the competitiveness of advantageous enterprises, in July 2022, Jiangsu issued the Notice on Several Policies and Measures to Further Enhance the Competitiveness of the Shipbuilding and Offshore Equipment Industry in Jiangsu Province, which contained 18 policies and measures in six parts, the first part of which was "accelerating the construction of world-class advanced manufacturing clusters".

  Jiangsu is good at the real economy, and the manufacturing scale has remained the first in the country for many years. Jiangsu’s manufacturing industry covers all 31 categories, of which 18 are among the top three in the country.

  In recent years, Jiangsu has constantly stimulated the advantages of complete industrial system and strong supporting capacity, improved the toughness and safety level of industrial chain supply chain, accelerated the industrial structure to the middle and high end, and strived to build a modern industrial system with integrity, advancement and safety around building an advanced manufacturing base with international competitiveness.

  The industry moves towards the middle and high end, and the development achieves high quality. Make up the shortcomings in one hand, promote traditional industries such as machinery and petrochemical, and accelerate the upgrading of industrial base and the modernization of industrial chain; Forging a long board with one hand, focusing on cultivating a number of strategic emerging industrial clusters with international competitiveness, such as artificial intelligence, biomedicine and new materials, and accelerating the optimization and upgrading of the industrial chain supply chain.

  In Suzhou, Suzhou Biomedical Industrial Park, located in Suzhou Industrial Park, has gathered more than 620 biomedical innovation enterprises and laid out three key industrial clusters: innovative drug research and development, high-end medical devices and biotechnology.

  In Changzhou, around the new energy industrial chain, innovative industrial clusters are gathering. The industrial chain is long and covers all fields, and the output value has exceeded 500 billion yuan, bringing together more than 3,400 midstream enterprises in the new energy automobile industrial chain.

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  Gather chains in groups and build a "plateau" for high-quality development in Jiangsu. At present, there are 10 national advanced manufacturing clusters and 16 provincial advanced manufacturing clusters in Jiangsu. Driven by cluster construction, the added value of Jiangsu’s manufacturing industry accounts for 37.3% of the regional GDP in 2022, ranking first in the country.

  Strive to realize the benign interaction between high-quality development and high-level protection

  Pukou District, Nanjing, the first stop after the Yangtze River entered Jiangsu. Standing on the Donglong Mountain not far from the north bank of the Yangtze River, there are endless streams of ships on the wide river. On the banks of the winding river, tall and straight trees sway with the wind.

  "In the past, factories and sheds stood on the banks of the Yangtze River, machines roared, and shipyards cut, rolled steel, painted and rusted, which not only polluted the air, but also seriously polluted the Yangtze River." Zhang Fang, a villager from Zhouying Village, Qiaolin Street, recalled.

  Since 2018, Pukou District has made every effort to rectify the coastline of the Yangtze River and restore the ecological coastline for about 11 kilometers. In the past, the "Shili Shipbuilding Belt" with factories and sheds has now become a butterfly-shaped riverside ecological scenery belt.

  The change of the coastline of the Yangtze River in Pukou District is a microcosm of Jiangsu’s resolute implementation of the requirements of "jointly protecting and not developing".

  In recent years, Jiangsu has vigorously rectified the ecology along the Yangtze River, shutting down 3,876 chemical enterprises, vacating the production coastline of the Yangtze River by 81 kilometers, and the proportion of ecological coastline has increased to 64.1%. The water quality of Jiangsu section of the main stream of the Yangtze River has remained Grade II for five consecutive years.

  The change of ecological environment reflects the change of Jiangsu’s concept of promoting high-quality development.

  How to jointly promote high-quality economic development in the high-level protection of ecological environment has become a necessary question for Jiangsu.

  In April this year, an auto parts project with a total investment of more than 1 billion yuan was intended to settle in Jiangning High-tech Zone. Because the production process involved electroplating process, it had a great impact on the environment, so it was refused to enter the park. Since 2023, "Ten Measures for High-quality Development of Eco-environmental System Services in the Province" and "Several Measures for Supporting High-level Protection of Eco-environment and Promoting High-quality Development of Economy" have been released one after another, and a series of targeted measures have been launched to serve the green development of local and enterprises, support policy measures for high-level protection of eco-environment, and jointly promote high-level protection of eco-environment and high-quality development of economy.

  "Only by paving the background color of green development will there be sustainable development in the future." Yin Rongyao, deputy director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, said that in the face of special provincial conditions, Jiangsu is committed to seeking the "greatest common denominator" of environmental, economic and social benefits, insisting on the coordinated promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, greening and growth, and striving to achieve a benign interaction between high-quality development and high-level protection.

  In 2022, Jiangsu’s GDP exceeded 12 trillion yuan, spanning 4 trillion yuan in five years. At the same time, the energy consumption and carbon emission intensity per unit of GDP decreased by 48.3% and 43.4% respectively compared with 10 years ago, thus achieving effective "decoupling" between economic growth and pollution emissions.

  Jiangsu’s eco-environmental quality index has been the best since the monitoring record was recorded. The finless porpoise reappears in the Jiangsu section of the Yangtze River, the peach jellyfish reappears in Taihu Lake, the blue sky and white clouds become the norm, and the green mountains and green mountains are within reach … … Green has become the bright background of Jiangsu’s high-quality development, and a good ecological environment has become the most happy public product for Jiangsu people. The wonderful picture of high-quality development is slowly spreading in Jiangsu.

  (Our reporter Bai Guangdi participated in the writing)