Chongqing: Digital Economy Leading Innovation and Development Intelligence | Intelligence | Digital Economy
The picture shows the Chongqing United Microelectronics 8-inch characteristic process pilot line, with R&D personnel operating the equipment.
The digital industry cluster is flourishing, traditional manufacturing is undergoing intelligent transformation, and digital technology application scenarios are becoming more diverse... Since the beginning of this year, Chongqing has solidly promoted the construction of "Digital Chongqing", vigorously developed the digital economy, continuously promoted the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, accelerated the construction of a modern industrial system led by the digital economy, and continuously accelerated the pace of digital industrialization and industrial digitization, injecting new momentum into high-quality economic and social development.
Empowering traditional manufacturing
More than 1000 robots work together, laser welding operates at high speed, and every 3 minutes a new energy vehicle is assembled and taken off the production line... This is the intelligent production scenario of the Selis Smart Factory located in Liangjiang New Area, Chongqing. "The application of technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and cloud computing has enabled factories to achieve 100% automation of critical processes." Zhang Xinghai, Chairman of Selis Group, said that intelligent transformation has saved manufacturing costs for enterprises, shortened manufacturing cycles, and improved manufacturing accuracy.
Similarly, in the Qingshan Industrial Digital Workshop in Bishan District, Chongqing, robots assemble products in an orderly manner, and every 35 seconds, a car gearbox is produced. "After using technologies such as 5G and big data to digitize factories, production efficiency has increased by more than 30% and operating costs have decreased by more than 10%," said Ye Wanhua, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Qingshan Industry.
Chongqing is a manufacturing hub, gathering a group of leading enterprises in industries such as automobiles, electronic information, and equipment manufacturing. Since the beginning of this year, Chongqing has vigorously implemented the digital transformation action in the manufacturing industry, led by digital transformation, with the integration of new generation information technology and manufacturing as the main line, intelligent manufacturing as the main direction of attack, and digital means to empower the high-end, intelligent, and green development of the manufacturing industry, shaping a new business card of "digital manufacturing and smart industry" in Chongqing.
Focus on enterprises and promote intelligent production processes. Chongqing encourages and supports enterprises to deepen the integration and application of digital equipment and information systems, and implement intelligent transformation with "production lines, workshops, and factories" as the basic unit gradient, gradually achieving full element, full process, and full ecological digital transformation.
As a major industrial region in Chongqing, Fuling District's GDP grew by 6.4% in the first half of the year, ranking first among districts and counties in Chongqing. At the same time, a total of 80 intelligent factories and digital workshops have been built in the local area, ranking among the top in Chongqing in total. "Digitization is the key path to modernize the industrial system." Wang Zhijie, Secretary of the Fuling District Party Committee, said that currently, Fuling District is continuously empowering the high-end, intelligent, and green development of manufacturing with industrial science and technology innovation and digitization, promoting the transformation of traditional industrial strong areas into advanced manufacturing and industrial science and technology innovation highlands.
"As of now, Chongqing has implemented a total of 6080 intelligent transformation projects, established 144 intelligent factories and 958 digital workshops. The average production efficiency of demonstration projects has increased by 56.8%, and the average operating cost has decreased by 22.1%. The contribution rate of large-scale enterprises implementing intelligent transformation to the growth of the city's industrial output value has exceeded 70%." Yang Zhenghua, Deputy Director of the Chongqing Municipal Economic Information Commission, said that Chongqing will vigorously implement eight special actions, including intelligent manufacturing diagnosis evaluation and leading backbone enterprise demonstration, to solidly promote industrial digitization.
The goal of Chongqing is: by 2027, manufacturing enterprises above designated size will basically enter the stage of digital popularization, with a popularization rate of 87% for digital research and development design tools and a CNC rate of 65% for key processes; Promote the digital transformation of 4000 small and medium-sized enterprises, and promote a total of 150000 enterprises to go online.
Strengthening industrial clusters
Focusing on the core industries of the digital economy, such as integrated circuits, new displays, intelligent terminals, core devices, intelligent connected vehicles, software industry, and network security, Chongqing is making efforts to strengthen, supplement, and extend the supply chain, and is fully committed to building a digital industry cluster with international competitiveness.
Chongqing is deeply promoting the "Full Sky Star" action plan for the software and information service industry. Entering the Guosheng Digital Creative Industry Park located in Huixing Street, Yubei District, Chongqing, 15 industrial buildings are nestled in green trees and clear water. This is the first batch of software and information service industry "Mantianxing" demonstration buildings in Chongqing, gathering over 500 digital economy enterprises. "The industrial ecology is good, and many products can be found in application scenarios without leaving the park," said Li Lekang, General Manager of Chongqing Yiyue Technology Co., Ltd. In the more than a year since settling in Guosheng Digital Creative Industry Park, the company has developed and launched more than 20 network security software, serving more than 80 enterprises, with an annual output value of over 35 million yuan.
Peng Mingliang, Deputy Director of the Economic Information Committee of Yubei District, told reporters that according to the idea of focusing on both professional parks and existing buildings, Yubei District is making every effort to build a software industry cluster worth billions of yuan. The number of software enterprises in the entire district has exceeded 3300, of which 25 enterprises have entered the list of key software enterprises in Chongqing, accounting for 15% of the city. In the first half of this year, Yubei District added 376 new software enterprises and generated a new software business revenue of 3.45 billion yuan.
Chongqing is also focusing on building a world-class intelligent connected new energy vehicle industry cluster, continuously promoting the acceleration of new energy, intelligence, networking, high-end, and green development in the automotive industry. In the Liangjiang New Area, multiple new energy vehicle companies such as Chang'an, Sailis, and Ruilan have gathered, forming multiple new energy vehicle brand series such as Shenlan, AITO Wenjie, and Avita. "In the first half of this year, the production of new energy vehicles in the directly managed area of Liangjiang New Area reached 113000 units, a year-on-year increase of 63%, accounting for 74.2% of the city's total." said Fan Yu, Director of the Industry Promotion Bureau of Liangjiang New Area.
Tongliang District is developing power batteries, electric steering, electric braking and other assemblies, Jiangjin District is laying out electric drive, electric steering, intelligent cockpit and other assemblies, Hechuan District is accelerating the layout of electric drive, electric braking, vehicle road network and other assemblies, Tongnan District is developing power batteries, intelligent vehicle control, interior and exterior decoration and other assemblies... In the western region of Chongqing, the development momentum of the intelligent connected new energy vehicle parts industry is strong.
This year, Chongqing has issued the "Action Plan for Doubling the Development of Intelligent Connected New Energy Vehicle Parts Industry in Yuxi Region" and the "Yuxi Leap Forward Plan for the Development of Advanced Manufacturing Industry in Chongqing", focusing on key core component sub sectors and laying out a cluster of intelligent connected new energy vehicle parts industry in Yuxi region. According to the plan, by 2027, the scale of the intelligent connected new energy vehicle parts industry in the western region of Chongqing will double, and a world-class intelligent connected new energy vehicle parts industry base will be preliminarily established.
Optimizing the digital ecosystem
Recently, when the reporter interviewed the Industrial Internet Industrial Ecological Park in Beibei District, Chongqing, he saw that the park not only gathered more than 20 leading industrial Internet enterprises such as Zongshen Humi and Nanwei Software, but also built three national platforms, namely, the Chongqing Branch of the National Industrial Internet Big Data Center, the National Industrial Internet Platform Application Innovation Experience Center, and the National Industrial Big Data Manufacturing Innovation Center.
Relying on the Industrial Internet Industrial Ecological Park, Beibei has built 17 industrial Internet and big data platforms, including the public open platform for industrial big data and the big data platform for industrial application and decision-making, and has promoted nearly 10000 enterprises to "go to the cloud". "With the empowerment of the industrial Internet platform, the overall production cost of the enterprise has been reduced by 10% and the production efficiency has been improved by more than 15%," said Yang Hongju, director of the production department of Chongqing Nenzheng Machinery Co., Ltd.
Optimize the digital ecosystem and stimulate economic vitality. Since the beginning of this year, Chongqing has been continuously improving and optimizing the development ecology of digital enterprises, unleashing new momentum for economic development, by consolidating digital infrastructure, cultivating and strengthening digital economy enterprises, building high-energy innovation platforms, and strengthening research and development of key digital technologies.
The construction of data storage and development application projects, China Telecom Science City Digital Industry Base and other projects has started, and the main supporting facilities of Banan Tenglong 5G Park project have all been completed. In order to strengthen the digital base, Chongqing is accelerating the construction of digital infrastructure projects. From January to July this year, a total of 5.09 billion yuan in project investment was completed, with an investment progress of 90.9%.
A group of high-energy innovation platforms are emerging in Chongqing, becoming an important support for Chongqing to build a digital technology innovation highland. Deng Song, deputy director of the Science and Technology Innovation Bureau of Chongqing Hi tech Zone, said that 28 colleges and universities, 6 State Key Laboratory, and more than 300 municipal and above research and development institutions, such as the National Intelligent Connected Vehicle Quality Inspection Center and Huawei Kunpeng Computing Industry Ecological Chongqing Center, have gathered in the region, and the ability to tackle key digital technologies has been constantly improved.
