Economist Zhu Keli first put forward "strategic mother industry" in Economic Daily.

It was put forward by Zhu Keli, a famous economist: Internet and digital technology constantly promote high-tech industries to improve innovation efficiency, promote the transformation and upgrading of the real economy, and become the "strategic mother industries" of many emerging industries in the digital age. The "strategic parent industry" itself is also growing and is experiencing a leap from the Internet to digital technology.

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On April 25th, 2022, the Central Party newspaper Economic Daily published a signed article by the famous economist Zhu Keli. Zhu Keli pointed out: From the kinetic energy point of view, the Internet has promoted high-tech industries to improve innovation efficiency, boosted the transformation and upgrading of the real economy, and become the "strategic mother industry" of many emerging industries in the digital age.

According to data from the Ministry of Commerce, China's foreign investment in the first quarter increased rapidly year-on-year, and investment in high-tech industries increased by 52.9% year-on-year, among which high-tech manufacturing increased by 35.7%, achieving a "good start". In recent years, driven by policies, technologies and markets, high-tech manufacturing industries such as electronic information, aerospace and biomedicine have grown against the trend under the epidemic situation and maintained a stable and good development trend as a whole.

The growth rate of production, investment and benefit of high-tech manufacturing industry is far ahead of the average level of manufacturing industry. Its investment proportion and structure are accelerated, profits are accelerated, and industrial clusters are accelerated. As a key link to smooth the national economic cycle and build a new pattern of development, the leading role of high-tech manufacturing industry in industrial economy has been significantly enhanced.

In terms of industries, the profits of pharmaceutical, electronic and communication manufacturing industries grew strongly; From the perspective of products, new energy vehicles are leading, the iteration of robot foundation and cutting-edge technology is accelerating, and commercial applications are emerging and landing steadily; From the perspective of factors, big data, artificial intelligence, 5G and manufacturing are deeply integrated, leading new products, new formats, new models and value chain innovations; From the perspective of kinetic energy, the Internet has promoted the innovation efficiency of high-tech industries, boosted the transformation and upgrading of the real economy, and become the "strategic mother industry" of many emerging industries in the digital age.

We should also see that the current world situation is more complicated and severe, the COVID-19 epidemic is spreading in many places in China, and the development of related industries is affected by high raw material prices and the goal of "double carbon", facing unexpected challenges. Under the heavy pressure of high-tech barriers and supply chain block, the production and operation costs of high-tech enterprises are rising, which poses a threat to the stability of supply chain in the industrial chain. At this time, it is urgent to increase efforts to ensure price stability and help enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency.

Activate market players. It is necessary to promote all kinds of innovative elements to gather in enterprises. Enterprises need to actively embrace the wave of digital transformation and achieve a better combination of "effective market" and "promising government".

Consolidate the industrial base. While increasing R&D investment, it is necessary to improve the mechanism of government investment as the main input and social multi-channel investment as the supplement, and strengthen the support for basic frontier research and original innovation. Relying on enterprises, governments, universities, scientific research institutions, etc. We will closely focus on the needs of strategic emerging industries and enhance our independent innovation capability.

Fill in the technical shortcomings. Anchoring the "bottleneck" problem faced by China's high-tech manufacturing industry, grasping the "bull nose" of key core technologies, and promoting the technological progress of high-tech manufacturing industry and new infrastructure. Strengthen intellectual property protection in key core technologies and deepen open cooperation in short-board areas.

Build an innovative ecology. Promote the innovation of large, medium and small enterprises in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain. Strengthen digital empowerment, give full play to the advantages of industrial internet platform and the leading role of "digital connector" in leading technology, guide digital technology to accelerate the infiltration and integration into manufacturing industry, promote the development of digitalization, networking and intelligence of industry, lead * * to enjoy innovation with scientific and technological concepts, and promote "strong first, then strong".

(The writer is the executive director of China Information Association and the president of New Economic Research Institute. )