Original title: How does the smart economy shape China’s new development advantages?
A large domestic model is released, and developers around the world compete to use it; on urban roads, smart cars gallop forward; in smart workshops, robotic arms fly up and down; deep in mines, unmanned mining trucks shuttle back and forth… Artificial intelligence is affecting economic and social development at an unprecedented speed, breadth and depth, accelerating the transformation from “technical variables” to “economic increments”. A series of economic activities formed around the production, circulation, and application of intelligence are accelerating to shape a new form of smart economy with artificial intelligence as the core driving force.
Smart economy is a strategic variable that seizes the initiative in future development
From the perspective of global competition, developing the smart economy is an urgent need to seize the commanding heights of global artificial intelligence development. “Those who observe the situation are wise, and those who control the situation win.” Throughout the world’s modern history, every industrial revolution will give birth to new economic forms and profoundly affect the rise and fall of great countries. At present, artificial intelligence technology is accelerating its iteration, which has profoundly affected the adjustment of international power. Major economies have intensively made strategic arrangements and increased technology research and development and capital investment. Global competition in artificial intelligence has entered a fierce stage. Whoever takes the lead in cultivating a new form of smart economy that represents the future direction will be able to take more strategic initiative in the fierce competition.
Judging from domestic practice, the development of smart economy is an urgent need to promote high-quality development. Shifting to the stage of high-quality development, the supporting conditions and basic trends of China’s long-term economic growth have not changed. At the same time, it is facing multiple challenges such as economic transformation, demographic changes, and increasing employment pressure. The marginal benefits of the traditional development model continue to diminish, and there is an urgent need to seize the historic opportunities brought by the development of artificial intelligence. The smart economy optimizes and improves total factor productivity through a combination of data, computing power, and algorithms, and profoundly changes the way factors are allocated. It can not only help transform and upgrade traditional industries, improve quality and efficiency, but also open up new tracks for industrial development. Developing a smart economy is not only a “winning move” to deal with current challenges, but also a “first move” to create long-term advantages.
The smart economy is becoming an important engine for reshaping new development advantages in all aspects
In recent years, the scale of my country’s smart economy has expanded rapidly, its quality has jumped significantly, and its structure has continued to be optimized. The smart economy is connected to smart industrialization on one end, through the supply of artificial intelligence technology and industrial transformation, forming a growing core artificial intelligence industry; on the other hand, it is connected to industrial intelligence, through the application of “artificial intelligence +”, empowering the transformation and upgrading of the real economy.
Intelligent industrialization builds a solid technical foundation for the steady and long-term development of emerging industries. The smart economy is the building, and algorithms, computing power, data, energy, etc. are the foundation. Only when the foundation of artificial intelligence is firmly laid can the smart economy building stand firm. Domestic large-scale model technologies and products are chasing each other. The independently developed basic models are at the forefront of the world, leading the construction of the global artificial intelligence open source ecosystem. The number of downloads of domestic open source models ranks first in the world; the total scale of my country’s intelligent computing ranks second in the world, and the 10,000-ka level intelligent computing cluster is accelerating the large-scale implementation; the data resources are comprehensive The system continues to improve, and 120,000 high-quality data sets have been built; the energy infrastructure is fully supplied, and power generation accounts for 1/3 of the world’s total. The world’s largest and fastest-growing renewable energy system has been built. Computing and electricity collaboration is further promoted, and a steady stream of green power has become an important advantage for the development of my country’s artificial intelligence. The scale of the artificial intelligence industry has maintained a rapid growth of more than 20% for many years, forming a complete industrial system covering the basic layer of elements, the technical model layer, and the industry application layer.
Industrial intelligence reshapes the complete competitive advantage of the traditional industrial system. The value of the smart economy lies not only in “creating the new” but also in “renovating the old”. While artificial intelligence is taking the lead in popularizing the Internet and other fields, it is accelerating its full integration into important production scenarios in traditional industries. Intelligent transformation has given a large number of “sleeping” production capacities the ability to undertake overseas customized needs on a large scale and with high efficiency; artificial intelligence has shortened power grid dispatching from hours to minutes, helping to solve the problem of consumption of new energy after large-scale grid integration; “unmanned terminals” allow 10,000-ton giant ships to operate as soon as they dock and goods to flow as soon as they arrive at the port, carving “Chinese efficiency” into key global shipping hubs. The enabling effect benefits not only from the accessibility and affordability of new technologies, but also from the feedback effect of application scenarios. On the one hand, smart products and services are accelerating in an inclusive and accessible way, allowing all industries, old and new, and companies, big and small, to enjoy the dividends of artificial intelligence development in the “use, affordability, and good use”; on the other hand, extensive and deep empowering applications are driving continued breakthroughs in key core technologies such as artificial intelligence, forming a virtuous cycle in which innovation drives application and application promotes innovation.
my country’s smart economy has huge potential for development
The history of technological evolution shows that every leap in technological capabilities will open up new incremental space.
From the perspective of the potential of intelligent industrialization, intelligent agents are accelerating from “generating content” to “performing tasks”, and humanoid robots are accelerating from “being able to dance” to “being able to work”. The huge market demand of China’s economy combined with rich application scenarios, strong production capacity, and diversified business models will spawn more industrial applications and cultivate more world-class enterprises. By the end of the “15th Five-Year Plan”, the scale of artificial intelligence-related industries is expected to reach more than 10 trillion yuan.
From the perspective of industrial intelligence potential, intelligent upgrading contains room for several times growth. The overall scale of my country’s manufacturing industry has remained the first in the world for 16 consecutive years. Every percentage point increase in the penetration rate of artificial intelligence applications in the manufacturing industry means that thousands of enterprises above designated size have entered the ranks of intelligence, and smart cars, smart homes, etc. will release new growth space. According to the State Council’s “Opinions on Deepening the Implementation of the “Artificial Intelligence +” Action”, by 2030, my country’s artificial intelligence will fully empower high-quality development, and the penetration rate of new-generation smart terminals, smart bodies and other applications will exceed 90%, and the smart economy will become an important growth pole for my country’s economic development.
The development of smart economy during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period requires a good grasp of key directions
The “15th Five-Year Plan” outline deploys the comprehensive implementation of the “artificial intelligence +” action, requiring “seizing the commanding heights of artificial intelligence industry application and empowering thousands of industries in an all-round way.” During the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, to develop the smart economy, we should adhere to the integration of points, lines, and areas, strengthen the construction of technology, elements, and scenarios in an integrated manner, and continue to make the smart economy stronger, better, and bigger.
Make precise efforts on specific points, focus on technical key points, give full play to the advantages of the new national system, and tackle key core technologies. Aiming at the world’s technological frontier to strengthen system layout, accelerate breakthroughs in basic theories and core technologies of artificial intelligence, develop high-performance artificial intelligence chips and high-availability basic software stacks, accelerate exploration and innovation of model infrastructure, deepen research on key algorithms such as interpretability and decision-making, and promote the production of more iconic original achievements. Focus on important strategic areas and weak links in the industrial and supply chains, take extraordinary measures, and promote the entire chain to achieve decisive breakthroughs in key core technologies in key areas.
The online series is smooth, focusing on factor collaboration, and establishing and improving a factor system that is adapted to the smart economy. Coordinate and promote the construction of computing facilities, the development of model algorithms and the supply of high-quality data resources. Accelerate the construction of national hub computing power facility clusters, support qualified regions to appropriately develop computing power according to the needs of low-latency scenarios, and strengthen the supply of high-performance and high-quality intelligent computing resources. Strengthen the collaborative innovation of “core digital cloud application”, encourage technological innovations such as multi-modal, intelligent, embodied intelligence, and swarm intelligence, and promote the simultaneous development of general large models and industry-specific models. Build a national data resource system, promote the development and openness of enterprise data and industry data, accelerate the construction of artificial intelligence corpora, and build high-quality data sets for energy, transportation, manufacturing and other fields.
Implement applications on the market, focus on ubiquitous scenarios, and deepen the advantages of ultra-large-scale markets to promote scenario empowerment. Focusing on science and technology, industrial development, consumption improvement, people’s livelihood and well-being, governance capabilities, global cooperation and other fields, we will deepen and expand the “artificial intelligence +” action. Build a national artificial intelligence application pilot base, promote the intelligent development of all factors of industry, accelerate the digital transformation and upgrading of agriculture, innovate new models for the development of the service industry, and promote the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy. Give full play to the role of digital intelligence technology and data elements in enriching people’s lives and improving people’s livelihood and well-being, and expand integrated applications in education, medical care, elderly care, cultural tourism and other fields.
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