China’s manufacturing sector is undergoing a transformative shift towards new technologies and green practices, driving high-quality economic growth. The emergence of lighthouse factories, future factories, and green factories has accelerated the pace of industrial modernization and propelled the ongoing transformation of the manufacturing sector, fueling China’s high-quality economic development.
Green Development as a Core Driver
Green development has become a core driver of high-quality growth, with the green transformation of the manufacturing sector being of paramount importance. Efforts are underway to build a number of green factories, low-carbon factories, and zero-carbon parks.
In Hainan, the first onshore zero-carbon demonstration wellsite at the Fushan exploration area of the China Petroleum Southern Oilfield has achieved a complete clean replacement of all production energy through new technologies, with an electrification rate and green electricity proportion of 100%. In Kunming, Yunnan, the Yunnan Petrochemical Refining Project has adopted a clean full-hydrogenation process route, transforming the black oil industry into a green one. The industrial park where the company is located is one of the first zero-carbon parks in Yunnan, with a clean energy usage rate of 90.94%. In Xiaogan, Hubei, a packaging factory has replaced oil-based inks with water-based inks and utilized the photo-oxidation catalytic system for purification, reducing organic waste emissions by 45% on average each year. At the same time, wastewater is recycled and reused through a filtration + ultrafiltration + reverse osmosis membrane process.
Industrial Growth and Green Transformation
According to National Bureau of Statistics data, industrial value added of enterprises above designated size increased by 5.9% from January to July of this year. Relevant officials stated that the overall production of enterprises above designated size in the country remains stable, with growth in most industries, regions, and products. Equipment manufacturing and high-tech manufacturing sectors have provided strong support, with continuous optimization of the industrial structure and the continuous cultivation and growth of new kinetic energy. The growth rate of industrial product exports has accelerated, and the overall operation of industrial production remains stable. The process of manufacturing upgrading towards high-end, intelligent, and green continues to advance.
Digitalization and Green Manufacturing
In recent years, the green industry has continued to develop and grow, with regions accelerating the development of green and low-carbon industries such as hydrogen energy, new energy storage, environmental protection equipment, and green intelligent computing. The level of green manufacturing in various industries has continuously improved. To date, numerous digital workshops and intelligent factories have been established across the country, and 5G+industrial internet has formed typical application scenarios in 10 key industries such as steel and mining.
Experts’ Views
Green development is the foundation of high-quality development, and new-quality productivity itself is green productivity, said an industry expert. As the green manufacturing concept is further deepened, the innovative capabilities of enterprises continue to improve, and the potential for industrial transformation and upgrading will be released faster.
In recent years, regions have actively promoted the construction of smart factories to provide digital wings for high-quality green development. In Hangzhou, Zhejiang, a future factory has首创 an fully automatic server motherboard assembly line, reducing the number of workers by 60% and increasing the per capita output of a single machine by 5 times, with an automation rate of 88%. In Changsha, Hunan, the first world-class lighthouse factory in the province has achieved interconnection among machines, with a robot interconnection rate exceeding 80%. More than 60 production lines have achieved interconnection, with only 2 people required to operate 36 processes and 39 workstations, reducing quality loss by 30%.
Industry experts suggest that data elements should be activated, dynamic, and used, and artificial intelligence+ should be widely applied to promote industrial digitalization and digital industrialization, opening up new industrial tracks for the region. They emphasize the need to cultivate and develop new-quality productivity as a guide, systematically promote implementation, accelerate the shortening of weaknesses, and proceed with the industrial digital transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry in accordance with local conditions to provide strong momentum for high-quality development of the manufacturing industry.
Moving forward, it is crucial to continuously improve effective demand, cultivate and expand new-quality productivity, promote high-level opening-up, and drive the quality-effective improvement and reasonable growth of the industrial economy.
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