Technology Innovation | Industrial Gold
Editor's note: Strategic emerging industries and future industries are the main battlefields for forming new productive forces. my country's "14th Five-Year Plan" proposes to organize and implement future industry incubation and acceleration plans in the fields of cutting-edge science and technology and industrial transformation such as brain-like intelligence, quantum information, genetic technology, future networks, deep sea and aerospace development, hydrogen energy and energy storage. , planning and laying out a number of future industries. "AI Current Affairs Illustrated" launches a series of planning to gain insights into new productivity from future industries.
Study every day. A bicycle frame made of carbon fiber weighs only about 600 grams, equivalent to 3 apples. A bundle of T1000-grade carbon fiber that is 1 meter long and as thick as a finger can pull two civil airliners. A carbon fiber product can remain safe and sound at a high temperature of 3000 degrees Celsius... As thin as a hair, light as a feather, and stronger than steel, carbon fiber, known as the "industrial black gold", has now been localized in my country for multiple series and levels.
At present, new materials represented by carbon fiber have become an important material basis for supporting new industrialization. The new materials industry is one of my country's seven strategic emerging industries and an important industry for promoting high-quality development.
General Secretary Xi Jinping once gave earnest advice to the industry, "The new materials industry is a strategic and basic industry, and also a key area of high-tech competition. We must strive to catch up and surpass them."
The strategic nature lies in the fact that the new materials industry is an important field that is related to national security and the overall development and is crucial to seizing the commanding heights of future scientific and technological and economic development. my country cannot break through the "bottleneck" problems of some key core technologies without the support of new materials.
The basic nature of the new materials industry lies in the fact that it is an upstream raw material products industry that promotes the development of emerging industries such as aerospace, new energy, electronic information, and biomedicine. It is the foundation for supporting innovation in various fields and links such as new technologies, new equipment, and new projects.
Improving the “innovation content” of science and technology will bring about the “gold content” of development.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has visited high-tech parks and technology companies many times to provide guidance for the development of the new materials industry.
At Shanxi Taigang Stainless Steel Precision Strip Co., Ltd., the General Secretary walked into the production workshop, inspected the company's transformation and upgrading product display, and learned about the company's operation. In front of the bright unit, he watched with interest the stainless steel foil "hand-torn steel" product with a thickness of only 0.02 mm, emphasizing that products and technology are the foundation of the company's survival.
At the Anhui Innovation Hall, the General Secretary carefully inspected Anhui's representative "smart" achievements in emerging industries such as ceramic aluminum new materials, artificial intelligence, energy conservation and environmental protection. He earnestly urged: "We must further consolidate the foundation of innovation, accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, accelerate the cultivation of emerging industries, and persevere in our efforts."
From field visits to meetings, from top-level design to policy support, General Secretary Xi Jinping has paid close attention to the development of the new materials industry. Under his active promotion, relevant departments have successively issued a series of policy measures in recent years, including the "Guidelines for the Development of the New Materials Industry", "National New Materials Production and Application Demonstration Platform Construction Plan", "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Raw Materials Industry", and "Work Plan for the Digital Transformation of the Raw Materials Industry", to promote the continuous innovation and development of the new materials industry.
Compared with developed countries, my country's new materials industry has been catching up in recent years and has made great progress in industrial scale, cluster effect, and technological innovation.
In 2023, the total output value of my country's new materials industry will reach 7.9 trillion yuan, and it is expected to exceed 10 trillion yuan in 2025. As of October 2023, my country has established 7 national manufacturing innovation centers in the field of new materials, and has built 35 key new materials platforms. There are more than 20,000 new materials enterprises, 1,972 specialized "little giants" enterprises, and 248 single champions in the manufacturing industry.
Today, the third-generation aluminum-lithium alloy materials have been successfully applied to the C919 large passenger aircraft. The second-generation high-temperature superconducting materials have supported the online operation of the world's first 35 kV kilometer-level high-temperature superconducting cable demonstration project. Low-heat cement materials have made the Baihetan Hydropower Station a "seamless dam". Advanced composite materials have helped the "Shenzhou" series of manned spacecraft, the "Tianwen-1" probe, and the Tianhe core module of the Chinese space station to be successfully launched...
Each generation of materials determines the next generation of technology, and each generation of technology leads the next generation of industry. On the road of accelerating the formation of new quality productivity, only when new "materials" emerge in large numbers can we "forge" a strong future.
