Guangdong releases action plan to cultivate future industries, targeting seven key areas including future networks, low-carbon energy, and quantum technology

Source: Southcn.com

Future industries are a new track for countries around the world to compete. After China made a series of strategic deployments for the development of future industries, Guangdong quickly took action.

On September 30, the official website of the People's Government of Guangdong Province officially released the "Action Plan for Accelerating the Cultivation and Development of Future Industries" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), proposing to target seven key areas and build a future industry development system in Guangdong.

Forming several world-leading future industry clusters

Future industries are an important part of new quality productivity. The "Plan" points out that future industries are driven by cutting-edge technological innovation, are currently in the embryonic stage or early stage of industrialization, have great development potential to grow into leading and pillar industries, and are forward-looking emerging industries that have a significant leading and transformative role in future economic and social development.

Based on the current development status and pattern of future industries, and combined with its own actual situation, Guangdong proposed to target seven key areas: future networks, general intelligence, life and health, low-carbon energy, advanced materials, future space and quantum technology.

The overall idea of Guangdong to cultivate and develop future industries is: facing the global frontier of science and technology and industry, grasping the trend of scientific and technological innovation and industrial development, building on Guangdong's existing foundation, targeting key areas, building a Guangdong future industry cultivation system, and creating an industrial ecology with prominent focus, distinctive characteristics, mutual promotion and coordinated development.

Taking into account the uncertainty of frontier technology and future industrial development direction, the "Plan" also proposes to dynamically adjust relevant fields and directions in combination with the actual situation of frontier technology development.

The "Plan" also makes clear plans for future industrial development goals, proposing that by 2027, a number of key core technologies in key areas will be broken through, a number of high-level innovation platform carriers for future industries will be built, a number of future industry scene demonstrations will be created, and a number of leading enterprises and innovative enterprises with international influence will be cultivated. The trend of future industry agglomeration development will be basically formed, and the competitiveness of future industries will be greatly improved.

The long-term goal is: by 2035, the innovation chain of the whole process of future industries will be basically complete, and a number of benchmark products and services for future industries that lead the frontier of science and technology will be formed. In the fields of future networks, general intelligence, life and health, a number of world-leading future industry clusters will be formed, becoming the global future industry innovation source centre and development highland.

"Guangdong's layout reflects foresight and strategic nature. This move will not only help Guangdong seize the commanding heights of future competition, but will also promote the optimization of its economic structure and the improvement of its competitiveness." Zhu Keli, founding dean of the National Research Institute of New Economy and dean of the Bay Area New Economy Research Institute, said.

Constructing a "two-core, two-corridor, and multi-pole" development space layout

In order to accelerate the construction of a future industrial development system, Guangdong has carefully formulated a "construction plan" for cultivating and developing future industries: focusing on the implementation of seven major projects to create a global future industrial development highland. These seven major projects are the "source" project for industrial innovation, the "foundation" project for infrastructure, the "incubation" project for innovative achievements, the "pilot" project for scenario demonstration, the "empowerment" project for science and technology finance, the "introduction and training" project for elite talents, and the "hand in hand" project for open cooperation.

Enterprises are the main body of innovation. The "source" project for industrial innovation proposes the implementation of the "enterprise echelon cultivation action" and the implementation of the gradient cultivation plan for high-quality enterprises in future industries, encouraging leading science and technology enterprises to bravely break into the "no man's land" at the forefront of science and technology, challenge scientific and technological problems, and achieve revolutionary breakthroughs in theory, methods, tools, and systems. Focus on key areas of future industries and cultivate a group of backbone enterprises with outstanding innovation capabilities, strong core competitiveness and great industry influence.

Guangdong has a solid industrial foundation, which is the basic foundation and fertile soil for nurturing future industries. Relying on the existing industrial layout, the "Plan" proposes to focus on "two cores and two corridors" to optimize the spatial layout of Guangdong's future industries.

The specific deployment at the spatial level is: Guangzhou and Shenzhen give full play to the role of core engines, keep a close eye on the forefront of global science and technology and industrial development, comprehensively cultivate and develop future industries, and accelerate technological innovation and industrial cultivation by building a pilot zone for future industries, striving to become the leader of global future industrial development. The province has formed a spatial layout of "two cores, two corridors and multiple poles" for the development of future industries with Guangzhou and Shenzhen as the core, Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong and Guangzhou-Zhuhai-Macao as the main axis, and the other local characteristic developments.

In Zhu Keli's view, Guangdong has a solid foundation and obvious advantages in cultivating and developing future industries. "First, Guangdong has a complete industrial supporting system and a complete supply chain industry chain, which provide comprehensive support for future industrial development. Second, Guangdong has a super-large-scale market and rich application scenarios, which will help the rapid iteration and growth of future industries. At the same time, it also has strong manufacturing capabilities and scientific and technological innovation capabilities, which makes Guangdong occupy a leading position in the future industrial layout and is expected to accelerate the formation of several world-leading future industrial clusters."

Disclaimer: This article has been translated into English.  If there is any inconsistency or ambiguity between the English version and the Chinese version, the Chinese version shall prevail. The full text of the measures, in Chinese, can be found below: https://www.gd.gov.cn/zwgk/zcjd/mtjd/content/post_4503491.html

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