Promoting the upgrading of traditional industries through equipment renewal

Driving large-scale equipment renewal of traditional industries is conducive to expanding effective investment and supporting industrial economic growth. Equipment renewal is new in high-end and advanced, and new in green and low-carbon. While promoting the renewal of hardware equipment, we should pay attention to the iterative upgrade and innovative application of software systems.

At the "Promoting High-quality Development" series of thematic press conferences held by the State Council Information Office recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology revealed that it will aim at high-end, intelligent, green and integrated directions, implement major technological transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry and large-scale equipment renewal projects, and make traditional industries an important carrier for the formation of new quality productivity. This means that with the help of a new round of industrial equipment renewal, traditional industries will usher in a new opportunity period for transformation and upgrading.

For large-scale equipment renewal, traditional industries are the main battlefield. my country is a manufacturing power. In 2023, the added value of manufacturing will account for 26.2% of GDP and about 30% of the global share. Traditional industries mainly include petrochemicals, steel, nonferrous metals, building materials, machinery, light industry, textiles, etc. The added value, operating income, profits, employment and other major indicators of these industries account for about 80% of the total manufacturing industry, which is the basic plate for the development of the manufacturing industry. With the deepening of new industrialization, the demand for advanced equipment in the manufacturing field continues to grow. Among them, traditional industries have a long development time and a large scale, and are accelerating towards high-end, intelligent, green and integrated development, which is the key area of large-scale equipment renewal.

Promoting large-scale equipment renewal in traditional industries is conducive to expanding effective investment and supporting industrial economic growth. At present, my country's economic development faces problems such as insufficient effective demand. Replacing old equipment with new equipment that is more technologically advanced and economically reasonable will release a positive investment signal, which will encourage enterprises to increase investment and drive social investment. At the same time, equipment renewal is an important starting point for enterprise technological transformation, which can improve production efficiency and technical level, increase the proportion of advanced production capacity, and release new momentum for industrial economic growth. The latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics shows that large-scale equipment renewal will become an important factor in driving the improvement of industrial enterprise profitability.

Equipment renewal, new in high-end and advanced. High-end is the only way for a manufacturing power to become a manufacturing power, and it is also the foundation for the survival and development of enterprises. In industries where the overall production equipment is at a medium-low level, it is necessary to accelerate the elimination of backward and inefficient equipment and old equipment that has exceeded its service life; in industries where the overall production equipment is at a medium-high level, enterprises should be encouraged to configure advanced equipment with high technology, high efficiency and high reliability; in key industries, updating a batch of advanced equipment around design verification, test verification, process verification and other links will help improve engineering and industrialization capabilities and promote the high-end development of the manufacturing industry.

Equipment update, new in green and low carbon. Equipment update is not a new term or a new thing, but this large-scale equipment update is in the transition of China's economy from a high-speed growth stage to a high-quality development stage, and it must adapt to the inherent requirements of green and low carbon. There are many energy-consuming enterprises in my country's traditional industries, covering a wide range, and there is huge room for energy conservation and efficiency improvement. Through equipment update, transformation and recycling, we should guide traditional industries to accelerate energy conservation and carbon reduction, transformation and upgrading. We should solidly promote energy-saving and carbon reduction transformation in key industries, accelerate the replacement of key energy-consuming equipment such as motors and boilers, expand the application of solid waste treatment and water-saving equipment, build a batch of green factories, and actively develop green and low-carbon industries.

Equipment update is not just hardware update. At present, the integrated development of new-generation information technology and manufacturing has entered an accelerated development period of innovative breakthroughs, deep penetration, and diffusion of applications. Traditional industries should actively adapt to and lead the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation. While promoting the update of hardware equipment, they should focus on iterative upgrades and innovative applications of software systems. It is necessary to promote the application of intelligent equipment such as industrial robots and intelligent logistics, and accelerate the deep integration of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and 5G with traditional industries, seek technological breakthroughs, process innovations, and lean management, and realize the integrated update of hardware and software.

Update equipment and seize the opportunity of update. It is estimated that large-scale equipment updates will leverage a market of more than 5 trillion yuan. Traditional industries are not low-end industries. If they can seize the opportunity of equipment update, actively transform and upgrade, and let "old trees sprout new buds", they can form new quality productivity, reshape new advantages, and release new momentum.