Roundtable | Applications and demands give rise to innovative momentum. How does new quality productivity lead high-quality development?
2024-08-18
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How does new quality productivity lead high-quality development?
On August 15, the 2024 New Quality Productivity Conference hosted by The Paper's New Engine Weekly was held in Shanghai, with the theme of "New Reform, New Momentum: Crossing the Cycle". At the conference, Wu Shijun, Director, Deputy General Manager and Secretary of the Board of Directors of Aier Eye Hospital, Xie Jia, Director and Senior Vice President of Fengfei Aviation Technology Group, and Dong Jinyi, Product Director of the National and Local Co-construction Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, held a roundtable discussion on the application of new quality productivity in the three industry fields of medical care, low-altitude economy and humanoid robots.
The Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, which concluded not long ago, proposed to improve the system and mechanism for developing new quality productivity in accordance with local conditions, promote revolutionary technological breakthroughs, innovative allocation of production factors, and deep transformation and upgrading of industries, promote the optimization and combination of workers, labor materials, and labor objects, and give birth to new industries, new models, and new momentum, and develop productivity characterized by high technology, high efficiency, and high quality.
"The world's first cross-city and cross-sea flight of electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft above ton level carried out by Fengfei in Shenzhen and Zhuhai this year is the practice of new productivity." Xie Jia believes that new productivity is to use new means of production and production factors in new fields to create new economic opportunities in the future. At present, the opening of low-altitude resources is a very new production factor, and it has spawned a new economic form of low-altitude economy.
"Humanoid robots are a complex system. Whether it is the research and development of hardware components, software algorithm development, or mass production manufacturing capabilities, the people currently engaged in the field are all top technical talents. The current humanoids are embodied intelligent robots, and the technical path is completely different from that of early humanoids. This is the biggest technical challenge as well as an opportunity." Dong Jinyi said that the challenge not only gave rise to new quality productivity, but also aroused the fighting spirit of a new generation of talents and innovative companies to meet the challenge. The entire industry, from manufacturing to downstream health care and medical industries, as well as all potential application scenario industries for humanoid robots, are willing to accept the challenge and join the ecosystem to do something new.
"As new quality productivity is the focus of the whole society's attention, enterprises need to make long-term plans based on their own industry and business conditions, rather than blindly following the trend," said Wu Shijun in the roundtable discussion.
Application scenarios and demands generate innovative momentum, and many companies accelerate breakthroughs in technology research and development
As an important subject of scientific and technological innovation, enterprises play a key role in the formation of new quality productive forces.
Fengfei Aviation has been committed to achieving technological breakthroughs in the low-altitude field. Compared with traditional aircraft, the electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft currently developed by Fengfei Aviation has achieved pure electrification, large payload and long range, and the technology is becoming more mature.
In addition to emerging technology industries, traditional industries are also accelerating their pace of innovation driven by new productivity. Wu Shijun emphasized that although Aier Eye Hospital belongs to the traditional medical industry, it is also accelerating its layout to embrace new technologies, continue to innovate and increase R&D investment.
It is understood that by the end of 2023, Aier Eye Hospital will have a total of 881 branded hospitals, ophthalmology centers and clinics worldwide, covering China, Europe, Southeast Asia, etc. Among them, there are 750 in mainland China.
"Perhaps due to the long-tail effect of R&D, Aier Eye Hospital has maintained a steady increase in net profit for 15 years since it went public in 2009." Wu Shijun said that the medical industry has the characteristics of long cycles and high risks, so continuous R&D investment is required. Aier Eye Hospital has invested heavily in R&D since 2010, established a number of affiliated hospitals, scientific research workstations and academician workstations, and formed a complete talent training system from specialists to postdoctoral students. In addition, Aier Eye Hospital conducts scientific research in conjunction with the world's most advanced institutions, develops faculty reserves with the national team and the Academy of Engineering, makes forward-looking R&D investments and reserves high-quality talents.
The three executives all agree that the driving force for innovation comes from applications and demand.
"The driving force of original innovation comes from scenario needs, and these needs are jointly explored by enterprises, governments, and the public. Fengfei Aviation's multiple test flights of innovative application scenarios are to meet the society's needs to improve efficiency." Xie Jia specifically mentioned the help that the low-altitude economy can bring to the society. "If air transportation forms such as electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft are established between the Shanghai regional center and the city center, the journey can be basically shortened to less than 10 minutes, the overall operating efficiency will be greatly improved, and more value will be created together. This is a case of improving the efficiency of production tools to change productivity."
In the medical industry, the demand is more oriented to society. "There are many emerging industries, but most are still traditional industries. How we innovate and do better to improve people's lives is the driving force for us to increase R&D investment," said Wu Shijun.
Dong Jinyi said that although the business model of humanoid robots is still under further exploration, the product value, market acceptance and economic benefits remain to be verified, but the establishment of the ecosystem is mainly due to the desire for new quality productivity and the determination to challenge common goals. The industry has formed a common goal, which is to use new technologies and new products to bring some changes to the industry.
Dong Jinyi introduced that humanoid robots have gradually made people feel that after abandoning repetitive and complicated work, everyone can become an employer. In the future, you only need to buy a car or even a very low price to own a robot. Humans are freed from the burden of labor and can enjoy more emotional interactions and interpersonal relationships, turning from complex work to innovative work.
How does new quality productivity lead high-quality development?
Many executives also pointed out that the government, together with enterprises, plays an indispensable role in the development of new quality productivity.
"Between industry regulation and the needs of rapid development, policy coordination and balance are needed to help the industry develop steadily under the premise of safety first, so as to achieve commercialization and create opportunities for economic development." Xie Jia believes that the interaction between the government and enterprises is crucial. At present, the government maintains a high degree of supervision over high-tech industries such as aircraft and humanoid robots, which is very correct.
At the same time, enterprises need to continuously deepen the R&D system and talent integration innovation. Xie Jia mentioned that in the first half of the year, Fengfei Airlines completed many innovative scene applications with the support of regulatory agencies. "From flying from Shenzhen to Zhuhai, completing chartered flights at Pudong Airport, and flying over the Yangtze River in Nanjing, Fengfei Airlines has been exploring air travel, transportation hub connections, and aerial tourism and sightseeing. These attempts were completed under the strong safety guarantee brought by innovations in various aspects such as quality systems and design systems."
From the perspective of low-altitude economy, companies hope that through government support and guarantees, they can open pilot projects in some cities, just like autonomous driving, open up more application scenarios, thereby promoting the early normalization of future air traffic scenarios, accelerating the realization of the industry's commercial value, and achieving the goal of significantly improving social circulation efficiency.
"We can implement it in different scenarios because there is a process of trial and error, and trial and error also has costs. We can have a stable mentality to bravely try and make mistakes. This is the greatest support from the government." Dong Jinyi said that the implementation scenarios of industrialization should be broken down one by one according to industry needs. For example, the medical industry focuses on safe interaction, and the manufacturing industry has high-precision and high-beat requirements. Use products to incubate the downstream of the industry, use demand to lead the development of new quality productivity technology of humanoid robots, and let new technologies come from practice and from scene applications.
Regarding the future development of enterprises, Wu Shijun also said that the development of new quality productivity must not be achieved overnight, and it requires calmness and progress step by step. "The government should create a stable, transparent and predictable environment for enterprises, so that innovative enterprises can be more relaxed and make long-term R&D investment and preliminary preparations, and gradually expand to the grassroots level, so that new quality productivity can continuously support the long-term development of enterprises."
People are still the core subject of developing new quality productivity, so the acquisition and retention of talents is also a key point that every enterprise needs to pay attention to.
Regarding the issue of internal talent incentives, Wu Shijun said that Aier Eye Hospital has implemented talent mechanism innovation, namely the Partner Program, since 2014. It has stimulated the enthusiasm of employees by establishing a relatively complete bonus and assessment system and implementing equity incentive plans. "The Partner Program has been implemented for more than ten years, and the innovation of the mechanism has played a huge role in stimulating the vitality of the company."
In the technology industry, the talents needed already cover multiple fields, and technology integration will be the general direction of the future. As an international city, Shanghai has obvious advantages in attracting talents, and the above-mentioned executives all mentioned the support of Shanghai policies.
Dong Jinyi also pointed out that Shanghai has a high-quality talent base, including policies for attracting talent, guiding high-end talents to return to China to innovate and start businesses, and supporting talent training, all of which are helping companies to further innovate and develop.
"The Shanghai Municipal Government needs to cooperate with enterprises to introduce more incentive policies and measures on how to overcome the high cost of living and housing, so as to truly retain talents." Xie Jia further stated. Innovative enterprises such as Fengfei Aviation will interact more with the government to achieve partial commercialization of the industry, and expand their business to all parts of the country and even the world, starting from Shanghai, an international metropolis.
The Paper reporter Shao Bingyan and interns Guo Yichen and Li Yijun
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