In the face of great changes unseen in a century, the times put forward higher requirements for high-quality development, and innovation has become the key to achieving high-quality development.
To focus on innovation is to focus on development, and to seek innovation is to seek the future. As one of the top three industrial provinces in the country in terms of economic volume, the word “innovation” shows a great responsibility for Shandong.
Innovation is a key indicator to measure the level of economic and social development of a region. The level of innovation directly determines the level of productivity and competitiveness, and affects the trend of high-quality development in the region. As the third city in the north, Qingdao is a dazzling “star” city in Shandong and must shoulder the burden of leading the construction of an innovative province.
Qingdao is becoming a broad platform for various innovative elements to exert the aggregation effect, and the surging kinetic energy of innovation is increasingly bursting out. With Shandong entering the “two sessions” time, the future of this economic center city in the province is worth looking forward to.
Key breakthroughs, this is a new idea for Qingdao to enhance innovation
On October 27, 2021, the Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Statistics announced the “Economic Operation of Qingdao in the First Three Quarters of 2021”. In the first three quarters, the city’s GDP was 1,031.036 billion yuan. This is the first time that Qingdao’s GDP has exceeded one trillion yuan in the first three quarters. .
Such achievement is not something that can be easily achieved by following the old rules.
The trend of the times is innovation, and the key to improving the quality of economic and social development is to enhance innovation. And how to improve innovation has become a problem that needs to be considered urgently.
As the development of high-tech industries has become a common pursuit, various provinces and cities have carried out the introduction and independent training of high-tech industries, and further promoted the conversion project of new and old kinetic energy. Therefore, identifying the direction of industrial development is a key part of enhancing innovation.
Although the topic of developing high-tech industries is macroscopic, it has profound implications. The key to insisting on the development of high-tech industries is how to start from its own characteristics, grasp the pulse of the times, and make forward-looking layouts for emerging and future industries, so as to make key breakthroughs.
Taking Qingdao West Coast New Area as an example, last year, after in-depth consideration, Qingdao West Coast New Area set up Qingdao International Marine Industry Capital Allocation Center based on its own development characteristics, launched a comprehensive international marine industry capital allocation action, and promoted technology, talent, industry and capital in the marine field. Deep integration. At the same time, the new area focuses on the development of nine key industrial chains such as the new generation of semiconductors and the new economy, and precisely develops the two hundred-billion industrial chains of marine engineering and marine biomedicine.
Since 2021, Qingdao has launched the “Project Landing Year” in an all-round way, focusing on key areas, highlighting the strong foundation of the industry, expanding and strengthening five first-class industrial clusters such as marine economy and new-generation information technology, and three emerging industrial clusters such as aerospace. In the first three quarters of 2021, the total number of “four new” economic projects exceeded 3,600, and investment increased by 14.2% year-on-year; investment in strategic emerging industries, high-tech industries, and technological transformation of manufacturing industries increased by 14.4%, 19.4%, and 30%, respectively.
From the data point of view, Qingdao’s idea of making key breakthroughs to enhance innovation has achieved remarkable results.
Firmly innovate and strive to be at the forefront
There is a saying in “The Book of the Lord of Shang”: “The soldier of the king wins without arrogance, and loses without resentment.”
“Shangshu Dayumo” also said: “Full of losses, modest benefits”.
Innovation is never-ending, and achieving results at a certain stage does not mean that it can be done once and for all. At present, the development of Shandong Province is at a critical juncture of transformation and upgrading, and so is Qingdao. Only by continuous innovation can we firmly grasp the initiative of competition and development in our own hands.
In order to strive to lead the way in enhancing the innovation power of economic and social development, we must adhere to the core position of innovation in the overall situation of modernization, and let innovation run through all aspects of economic and social development; we must vigorously create a good innovation environment and stimulate innovation in an all-round way. Create vitality.
As mentioned earlier, Qingdao has achieved quite good results in its forward-looking layout of emerging and future industries, focusing on breakthroughs, but it does not mean that Qingdao has neglected other aspects of development.
Of course, people are not perfect, and the same is true for cities. Enhancing the innovation of social and economic development is not only innovation in a certain aspect or field, but a comprehensive innovation covering technology, system, management, culture, etc. This is a higher development goal and a higher development requirement.
At present, Shandong has entered the time of the “two sessions”. For Qingdao, whether it can strengthen its innovative thinking on the future development path is related to whether Qingdao can go further.
Make full use of Qingdao Pilot Free Trade Zone, Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone and other high-level platforms that are integrated into the national development strategy, and insist on going national and global. At the same time, create a good political ecology, industrial ecology, market ecology, social ecology, and natural ecology, carry out in-depth chain-strengthening actions, and create a high-quality talent gathering high…
This series of measures ultimately falls on the word “persistence”.
The tide of innovation is rushing forward, and the brave one wins. At the end of the year, looking forward to the future, Qingdao, which has built an “innovative city”, is worth looking forward to.