Building a Future Industrial Innovation Ecosystem
2026-04-10
Shanghai Songjiang is building a new highland for 6G future industries, and Hangzhou is accelerating the construction of a commercial aerospace future industry pilot zone... For a period of time, many regions have regarded future industries as an important lever for cultivating new quality productivity and shaping new growth poles. The so-called future industries are forward-looking emerging industries driven by cutting-edge technologies, currently in the stage of incubation or early industrialization, with significant strategic, leading, disruptive, and uncertain characteristics, including future manufacturing, future information, future materials, future energy, future space, and future health. On a global scale, the future industry has formed a pattern of "leading countries leading and catching up countries accelerating". The United States maintains a leading position in fields such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and biomedicine, relying on its basic research and market advantages; The EU's future industrial development focuses on the "digital compass", "green new policy", and core planning for sustainable development models. In China, the future development of industries presents a pattern of "leading, running in parallel, and following" coexistence, emphasizing the universal application of technology and system construction. In many fields, a systematic leap from technological breakthroughs to industrial ecological prosperity is being achieved. For example, Hefei, Anhui Province, has formed an industrial chain covering quantum computing, communication, and measurement with the "Quantum Avenue" as its core. The third-generation autonomous superconducting quantum computer "Benyuan Wukong" has served multiple fields such as global healthcare and finance; The "embodied intelligent port" built in Bao'an, Shenzhen is becoming an "incubator" and "training ground" for humanoid robots, demonstrating the practical ability of "Made in China" software and hardware collaboration. According to data from the State Administration of Taxation, the sales revenue of high-tech industries will increase by 13.9% year-on-year in 2025, while high-tech manufacturing and high-tech service industries will increase by 10.1% and 16.6% respectively; Especially with the accelerated implementation of "artificial intelligence+", the manufacturing of smart consumer devices, integrated circuits, and robots has seen significant year-on-year growth. This indicates that China's innovation activities and digital demand remain active, providing "industrial soil" for future industries such as application scenarios, supply chain support, and talent capital. At present, China's future industries are entering a critical stage from technological catch-up to advanced layout, but still face challenges such as poor achievement transformation, insufficient market traction, and insufficient factor coordination. The core test lies in whether the original breakthrough from 0 to 1, the engineering scaling up from 1 to 10, and the large-scale application from 10 to 100 can form a sustainable innovation ecosystem, thereby enriching the application scenarios. Strengthen the connection between source innovation and transformation chain, and connect the "key leap" from laboratory to production line. Forward looking analysis of disruptive technological directions, encouraging universities, research institutes, enterprises and other entities to establish technology mining and screening mechanisms, and consolidating source supply. Innovative achievement transformation mode, focusing on concept validation, pilot testing, industry acceleration and other links, bridging the "Darwin's Sea" between laboratories and production lines, and completing the "last mile" of scientific and technological achievements from "bookshelf" to "shelf". Adhere to scenario driven development, create a "test field" for technological iteration, and form a positive cycle of technological breakthroughs, scenario verification, and industrial applications, driving technological maturity with real needs. For example, Daimeng Robotics is incubated at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, relying on the complete supply chain system in Shenzhen, closely connecting with university research institutions and international innovation resources, and deepening its "key capabilities". Stimulate the vitality of enterprise entities and drive ecological development through industrial organizational capabilities. Adhere to the combination of efficient market and proactive government, scientifically formulate market access rules, reduce access restrictions on business entities, not only pave the "fast lane", but also set up "traffic lights". Give full play to the leading enterprise's leading goose effect, encourage them to build open platforms, drive small and medium-sized enterprises to deeply integrate into the ecosystem, and achieve a herd of geese flying together. For example, on the 3.2-kilometer "Quantum Avenue" in Hefei, Anhui, more than 30 leading enterprises have gathered, forming a quantum industry cluster covering over a hundred enterprises, forming a pattern of leading enterprises standing tall and small and medium-sized enterprises covering the ground. We should establish an incubation mechanism for small and medium-sized enterprises, and select and cultivate specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprises with strong innovation capabilities and good growth potential, as well as gazelle and unicorn enterprises through competition selection, project solicitation, and other methods. Improve the guarantee of multiple factors and cultivate patient capital with a long-term approach. The investment cycle of future industries is long, and it is difficult to sustain innovation through short-term returns. Give full play to the guiding role of government investment funds, and attract long-term capital investment in social security, insurance, and other fields through profit sharing and risk compensation mechanisms. In December 2025, the National Venture Capital Guidance Fund and its subordinate regional funds in the Beijing Tianjin Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, and Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area will clearly focus on investing in seed stage and start-up enterprises, accompanying them with patient capital for a long run. Attract and cultivate leading talents, rely on the collaborative education of industry, academia and research, improve the ability oriented evaluation mechanism, and build a full chain ecology of "attracting, nurturing, using and retaining". Public elements such as data, computing power, standards, and security governance should be filled as soon as possible, and data openness and sharing, as well as the construction of dedicated libraries, should be accelerated to bridge the data silos and knowledge gaps that exist between different fields, providing stable infrastructure and institutional support for industrial expansion. (New Society)
Edit:Momo Responsible editor:Chen zhaozhao
Source:Economic Daily
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