Building an Industrial Ecosystem to Accelerate the Development of the Robotics Industry
Commentator from Tangshan Labor Daily
Yesterday, the Beijing-Hebei Robotics Industry Shared Intelligent Manufacturing Matching Conference was held. This event is not only a concrete measure to deeply implement the major national strategy of coordinated development in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, strengthen collaborative innovation and industrial cooperation, and solidly promote the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, but also an important opportunity for Beijing and Hebei to build a scientific collaborative division of labor system around the robotics industry and release comparative advantages. It is of great significance for promoting the “acceleration” of the development of our city’s robotics industry.
The coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei is a major national strategy personally planned, deployed, and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping. The robotics industry, as the core engine of regional industrial upgrading, is a key area for deepening this national strategy. In recent years, our city has fully leveraged Beijing’s intellectual resources and played the leading role of leading enterprises, resulting in a good development trend in the robotics industry. In particular, the high-tech zone has now become the main carrier for the development of the robotics industry chain in the “six chains and five clusters” of the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. It can be said that the robotics industry in Tangshan City and the high-tech zone has great potential and opportunities.
First, the industrial division of labor is clear, and a collaborative development trend has formed. Currently, the Tangshan High-tech Zone has initially formed five major industrial clusters led by robotics: intelligent manufacturing, digital industry, safety and emergency, medical health, and energy conservation and environmental protection. There are over 236 robotics companies, accounting for more than 60% of Hebei Province. Secondly, the advantageous location and transportation make it “not the same city but better than the same city”. It takes only half an hour by high-speed train to reach Beijing, and Tangshan Airport connects to more than 20 hot cities in China. Thirdly, a fully open scene provides a practical platform for innovative achievements. Tangshan has the world’s largest steel industry cluster and is the birthplace of China’s rail transit equipment. Relying on a strong industrial foundation, Tangshan has mature application scenarios for robotics, with the demand for “machine substitution” in the steel industry alone exceeding 10 billion. There are also rich scene demands in fields such as petrochemicals, building materials, and equipment manufacturing. The city has sorted out 110 mature application scenario plans and regularly publishes them, while actively carrying out activities to encourage enterprises, especially Beijing robotics companies, to conduct innovative research and development based on market demand. Finally, enhancing service capabilities, a development ecosystem for “achievement transformation” is actively being constructed. Focusing on integration, strengthening the connection between industry, academia, research, and application, serving the needs of Beijing’s higher education institutions and research institutes, achieving industrial integration and innovative development; focusing on win-win cooperation, creating a “dual-directional enclave”, the high-tech zone’s entrepreneurship center has been a national Class A incubator for nine consecutive years, providing convenience for local enterprises to connect with Beijing’s scientific and technological resources through the “Science and Technology Innovation Enclave” established in Beijing; focusing on mutual promotion, conducting regular connections, actively integrating into Beijing, connecting with Beijing, and serving Beijing, accelerating the formation of a development trend of complementary advantages and mutual promotion of industries.
Beijing’s innovation advantages and Tangshan’s manufacturing advantages release a synergy effect of 1+1>2, gathering strong momentum in the collaborative division of labor in the robotics industry. By optimizing manufacturing division through shared factories, deepening application collaboration through scene co-construction, facilitating innovation connection through dual-directional enclaves, and ensuring the implementation of division of labor through policy discussions, a regional industrial chain can be formed, creating an industrial ecosystem that will surely promote the “acceleration” of the development of Tangshan’s robotics industry, achieving complementary advantages, collaborative efforts, shared benefits, and win-win cooperation, contributing to the high-quality development of the regional industry and the construction of a strong manufacturing nation.
Source: Tangshan Labor DailyEditor: Mu Junli