Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: In 2022, the industrial added value accounted for 33.2% of GDP, and the manufacturing scale ranked first in the world for 13 consecutive years.
CCTV News:On the afternoon of March 1st, the State Council Press Office held a series of press conferences on the theme of "Opening by Authorities", introducing the situation of "accelerating new industrialization, making it stronger and better, and expanding the real economy" and answering reporters’ questions.
Jin Zhuanglong, Minister of Industry and Information Technology, said that promoting new industrialization is an inevitable requirement for realizing Chinese modernization, a fundamental support for building a socialist modernization power in an all-round way, an urgent need for building a competitive advantage of a big country, and a strategic choice for achieving high-quality economic development.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, the pace of new industrialization in China has been significantly accelerated. Introduce from five aspects:
First, the industrial system is more sound. China has 41 industrial categories, 207 industrial categories and 666 industrial subcategories, and is the only country in the world that has all the industrial categories in the United Nations industrial classification.
Second, the industrial scale has further grown. In 2022, the total industrial added value exceeded 40 trillion yuan, accounting for 33.2% of GDP, and industry played a ballast role in the macroeconomic market. Among them, the added value of manufacturing industry accounts for 27.7% of GDP, and the scale of manufacturing industry has ranked first in the world for 13 consecutive years. 65 manufacturing enterprises were shortlisted in the list of the world’s top 500 enterprises in 2022, and the number of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises reached more than 70,000.
Third, the industrial structure continued to be optimized. High-tech manufacturing accounts for 15.5% of the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size, and equipment manufacturing accounts for 31.8% of the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size. The output of new energy vehicles and photovoltaics has remained the first in the world for many years. The transformation and upgrading of traditional industries have been accelerated, and the digital green transformation has achieved remarkable results, and 45 national advanced manufacturing clusters have been cultivated.
The fourth aspect is the accelerated development of the digital economy. China’s mobile communication has achieved the leap-forward development of 2G following, 3G breakthrough, 4G synchronization and 5G leading, and built the world’s largest and technologically advanced mobile communication network. By the end of 2022, a total of 2.31 million 5G base stations had been built and opened, achieving "5G access to counties" and "broadband access to villages". There are more than 6.5 million standard racks of data centers in use nationwide, and the total computing power ranks second in the world. The numerical control rate of key processes in key industrial enterprises has reached 58.6%, and the popularization rate of digital R&D design tools has reached 77%. In 2022, the revenue of the software industry exceeded 10 trillion yuan, the industrial Internet was fully integrated into 45 categories of national economy, and the number of influential industrial Internet platforms reached 240.
The fifth aspect is that a number of major achievements have been made in innovation in key areas. Good news has been reported frequently in manned space flight, lunar exploration, deep-sea exploration and other fields. The C919 aircraft achieved the first delivery in the world, the first domestic F-class 50 MW heavy gas turbine was successfully ignited, and the "Hualong No.1" nuclear power unit was connected to the grid.