Benchmark High Quality and Strength “Made in China”

Recently, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu and many other places have successively introduced new measures to promote the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry, continuously activating the development momentum of the manufacturing industry. The essence of the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry is a new stage of industrial evolution in the era of new industrialisation. At present, China’s manufacturing industry has shown a series of new qualities and is moving towards a new height of striving to achieve high-quality development goals.

Initially, in order to ensure supply and form effective demand as soon as possible, China’s manufacturing industry opened up market space with “cheap” alternatives. Then, through gradual technical advances in the industrial division of labour, constantly pursue the goal of “high quality and high price”. The scale advantage of “cheap and good quality” has become the outstanding competitiveness of China’s manufacturing industry and then developed into a complete industrial division system. With the continuous extension and expansion of the industrial chain and supply chain, a large-scale cluster domain industrial supporting pattern has been formed, laying a solid foundation for the global positioning of “made in China” and “world factory”.

The scale of the manufacturing industry is the largest in the world, which means the dependence on energy consumption and the emission of a large amount of carbon gas, which puts great pressure on the environment and climate change. Therefore, China has become the country with the largest carbon peaking, and carbon neutrality is an urgent need for the development of China’s manufacturing industry. To promote the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry, we must not only solve our own carbon reduction and emission reduction problems but also provide technical means and solutions for carbon emission reduction in other fields. This is an all-round high-tech innovation.

In the new era, the technological pattern of global manufacturing development has undergone fundamental changes. At present, the level of technology in more and more areas of China’s manufacturing industry has approached the level of developed countries; some can be comparable to developed countries, and even make some developed countries regard it as a “risk” field, to set technical barriers to China and build the so-called “small courtyard high wall”. Therefore, the game relationship of international technology competition has changed on a large scale. The high-quality development of China’s manufacturing industry must rely more on independent research and development and original technology, and “localisation” has also taken on a new meaning. In particular, the breakthrough of some cutting-edge technologies has been close to the research field of basic science, and new scientific research achievements need to be introduced. In other words, manufacturing frontier technology has the nature of scientific exploration. In short, the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry is increasingly demanding for scientific and technological content, which means greater reliance on and desire for scientific research teams and high-quality talents.

Science and technology are global in nature and the common wealth of mankind. The history of the development of the world’s manufacturing industry shows that almost no complex technology manufactured goods can be produced by a single enterprise under closed conditions but by many enterprises, and even multinational enterprises participate in cooperation to form an effective industrial chain supply chain. In this way, the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry not only requires the implantation of high-tech but also requires the extensive penetration of high-tech and the international flow of scientific and technological talents. For example, information technology, digital technology, artificial intelligence technology, etc., is not just a “solo fight” of individual enterprises. The high-quality development of the manufacturing industry is ultimately the collective effect of high technology.

Everything has a side that cannot be ignored. The level of technology has multiple levels, and the meaning of high-quality development of the manufacturing industry itself contains the social adaptability requirements for quality. The quality that most meets the realistic needs and market demand is the most effective quality. The cost and price competitiveness of the manufacturing industry are also quality characteristics of a high-quality manufacturing industry, which is itself the performance of manufacturing efficiency and technical satisfaction. To reach the level of mass consumption (affordable) and consumer-friendly (well-used), it can not only reflect the economic efficiency of high-quality development of the manufacturing industry and form effective demand but also the social scale of high-quality development of the manufacturing industry, that is, to meet the public welfare expectations. The quality does not go up, and the price does not come down. Are these shortcomings and difficulties to be solved by the quality strategy of the manufacturing industry?

Of course, there are also products with extreme technical requirements in the manufacturing industry, which belong to “niche products” and “cutting-edge technology” and are often indicative of high-quality levels. The technology distribution of such products largely determines the “tournament” pattern of the global manufacturing industry. The winners lead the high-tech first and may become a “stunt” to “stunk the neck” of competitions, and technology needs to be kept secret. For such technologies, countries often take special measures to implement technological breakthroughs or technological protection. China has the national physical advantage of concentrating its forces on major tasks and can carry out technological breakthroughs in selected directions.

A deeper understanding of the high-quality development of manufacturing is essentially the improvement of the overall vegetarian diet of the national economy. In the final analysis, the industrial manufacturing process is dominated or influenced by the industrial culture accumulated by people’s ideas and behaviours. In this regard, the high-quality development of manufacturing is not only a production technology process but also an industrial cultural phenomenon. High-quality industrial culture is the gene and soul of high-quality development of the manufacturing industry. Therefore, the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry and the formation of high-quality industrial culture have the characteristics of two sides of the same coin and are represented by the synchronisation of system evolution. Only a nation committed to the development of high-quality manufacturing values can achieve a strong industrialised country with high-quality manufacturing development and become the world’s leading advanced manufacturing industry.