Today's 16th issue of Qiushi magazine published an article signed by Zhou Yuxian, Secretary of the Party committee and chairman of China building materials group, "adhere to innovation driven building a material power". The full text is shared as follows:
Adhere to Innovation-driven Building Material Power
Zhou Yuxian
The material industry occupies a fundamental position in the modern industrial system. The development of new materials is an inevitable requirement for China to transform from a manufacturing power to a manufacturing power, and a fundamental measure for China to get rid of the "stuck neck" dilemma of key materials and technologies. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the new material industry is a strategic and basic industry, and it is also a key area of high-tech competition. We must catch up and catch up. This important exposition provides a fundamental follow for us to grasp the historical opportunity and win the new material industry track, and points out the way forward.
Long way to go to 1. the development of China's new materials industry
"The new material industry is a strategic and basic industry". The foundation is reflected in that the new material industry has penetrated into all fields of national economy and social life. It is the upstream raw material product industry that supports the development of important industries such as aerospace, new energy, electronic information, and biomedicine. It is the foundation for innovation in various fields and links such as new technology and new equipment and new projects. Strategically reflected in the fact that the new material industry is an important field to seize the commanding heights of future technological and economic development. Behind the rapid growth of the global new material industry and the increasing emergence of high-end material technical barriers, it is the world including the United States, Germany, Japan, etc. The result of the manufacturing powers taking it as a strategic industry to give policy support.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, my country's new material industry has been catching up with developed countries and has made great progress in industrial scale, system construction, cluster effect, and technological innovation. With the continuous expansion of the industrial scale, it has formed the most complete and largest material industry system and production capacity in the world. Since the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", the total output value of the new materials industry has grown rapidly, from 0.65 trillion yuan in 2010 to more than 7 trillion yuan in 2021. It is expected that the total output value will reach 10 trillion yuan in 2025. The innovation system has been continuously improved, and the dominant position and leading role of enterprises in innovation have been significantly enhanced. Relying on the advantages of regional resources, new material industrial clusters have been formed around the Bohai Sea, the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, the central and western regions, and the northeast region. Continuous breakthroughs in key materials, the research and development of second-generation technology and equipment for new dry-process cement and the research and development of second-generation technology and equipment for float glass in China have promoted the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries such as cement and glass. The new materials independently developed in China provide an indispensable foundation and guarantee for the implementation of major national projects such as aerospace and engineering construction in China. For example, the low-heat cement material used to build the "seamless dam" of Baihetan Hydropower Station is used to protect the advanced composite structural parts of the "Shenzhou series" manned spacecraft, the "Tianwen No. 1" probe, and the "Tianhe" core module of the Chinese space station.
China Building Materials Group has a total annual production capacity of 19660 MW of wind power blades, covering 1.0 MW to 15.0 MW series, with more than 100 models and developing 112 m offshore wind power blades. The picture shows the wind turbine blade Funing production base of China National Building Materials Group.
At the same time, the development of China's new material industry is also facing many challenges. At present, my country's new material industry is still in the transitional stage from self-sufficiency in low-end products to independent research and development and import substitution of high-end products. It is located in the second echelon of the global new material industry and has a certain gap with the United States and Japan. On the whole, my country's material field is still dominated by traditional materials, the key technologies of the new material industry are relatively insufficient, the domestic supply of high-end new materials is limited, and the problem of short-board constraints is still prominent. An important reason is that the transformation system of scientific research achievements in the new material industry is not sound enough, the upstream R & D design of new materials is out of touch with the downstream production and application, and there are problems in the transformation of achievements and the connection between production and use, which seriously restricts the high-quality and sustainable development of the industry.
Enterprises are the main force in the innovation and development of my country's new material industry. State-owned enterprises shoulder the trust of the country and the people. They must consciously continue to make efforts in industrial development, basic research, R & D investment, institutional mechanisms, talent education, cooperation and integration, etc. The leading and supporting role of strategic and leading industries drives China's new material industry to overtake in corners. As the national team in the field of inorganic non-metallic new materials in China, China Building Materials Group has developed the first concrete admixture, the first quartz glass, the first alkali-free glass fiber, the first artificial crystal and other products in China, it has formed a complete set of technology and equipment clusters of new material products that have reached world-class standards, including high-end cementitious materials, gypsum board, new glass materials, high-performance glass fibers, high-performance carbon fibers, megawatt-level wind blades, thin-film solar cells, etc., in order to break foreign countries. Monopoly has contributed to ensuring the security of the national industrial chain supply chain. Embarking on a new journey, China National Building Materials Group must take the creation of "national materials" as its own responsibility, adhere to innovation-driven, and strive to promote my country's new material industry to achieve new and greater development.
2. to Improve the Core Competitiveness of "National Great Materials" through Scientific and Technological Innovation
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The direction of China's scientific and technological development is innovation, innovation and re-innovation." China National Building Materials Group strengthens the consciousness of enterprise innovation subject, in accordance with the "four aspects" requirements put forward by the General Secretary, constantly strengthens the combination of innovation chain and industrial chain, and is committed to promoting the development of new materials to overtake.
Facing the forefront of world science and technology, through scientific and technological innovation to achieve self-reliance.In recent years, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation in the world is in the ascendant, with a wide variety of new materials, a wide range of applications, high complexity and difficulty of scientific and technological innovation, showing a development trend of interdisciplinary and multi-technology integration. In this context, it is increasingly important to strengthen the strategic research and judgment of the new development pattern, focus on new materials that are urgently needed and long-term needs of the country, solve the original problem from "0 to 1", and ensure that it is in the "stuck neck" field and weak links that are controlled by others. It is becoming more and more important to achieve independent supply of key materials. As the only central enterprise in the field of building materials, China National Building Materials Group, with the mission of striving to lead the industry to continuously make scientific and technological progress, has developed five key components, such as the front-stage optical fiber cone, microporous positioning plate, rear-stage optical fiber cone, microporous plate and diffraction plate, successfully serving and ensuring the high-energy cosmic radiation detection facility project, which has provided important assistance for achieving historic breakthroughs in high-resolution and high-precision detection, reading and transmission of cosmic rays, it has promoted the leapfrog development of China's space high-energy cosmic radiation detection technology. In addition, new materials such as quartz glass, large composite structural parts, high-performance ablation-resistant resin, high-strength glass fiber yarn, and special coatings developed by China National Building Materials Group are used in manned spaceflight, China's space station, Mars exploration, and lunar exploration projects. The smooth implementation of major projects has played a supporting role.
Facing the main economic battlefield, promote industrial upgrading through scientific and technological innovation.With the high-quality development of China's economy and the acceleration of industrial transformation and upgrading, the demand for new materials in the upstream of strategic emerging industries, represented by new infrastructure and new energy, has increased on a large scale. It is expected that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, my country's new material industry will usher in an important period of strategic opportunities for industrial base reengineering and industrial chain upgrading. China National Building Materials Group insists on promoting the industrialization of new materials facing the main battlefield of the national economy. On the basis of accelerating the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, it builds a complete industrial chain and promotes the development of the industry in the direction of high-end, mass production, and globalization, so that more new materials "Fly into the homes of ordinary people". The most common glass is a kind of silicate amorphous inorganic non-metallic material, which has good plasticity and permeability. It is not only used as a daily building material, but also widely used in the manufacture of display elements, photovoltaic power generation equipment and other glass materials. For example, each smart phone includes high-strength cover glass, ultra-thin touch glass, and two-layer thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) glass substrate with internal injection display liquid crystal, which has three types of 4-layer display glass, which has a high technology content. By strengthening R & D and integrated innovation, China National Building Materials Group has achieved key core technological breakthroughs and industrial mass production such as 0.12mm global ultra-thin touch glass, 0.03mm flexible foldable glass, and 8.5 generation TFT-LCD glass substrates, which has greatly promoted the development of related manufacturing fields. Localization process. The self-developed copper indium gallium selenium and cadmium telluride photovoltaic glass are used for building power generation, and the world's largest single-scale 120000-square-meter thin-film photovoltaic integrated building has been built, with a total installed capacity of 10 MW.
Facing the country's major needs, through scientific and technological innovation to serve the country's heavy weapon.The development of high-performance carbon fibers is a typical example. This is a new type of fiber material with a carbon content of more than 90%. Its strength is 7 to 10 times that of steel, and its density is 1/4 of that of steel. It has high strength, light weight, high temperature resistance, fatigue resistance, corrosion resistance, and softness. It enjoys the reputation of "king of new materials. It has obvious advantages in reducing the weight of the aircraft, reducing fuel consumption, reducing maintenance costs and extending the service life of the aircraft. However, the carbon fiber preparation process is difficult, the production process variables are many, the fixed asset investment cost and technical barriers are high, China's carbon fiber industry has long-term problems of few high-end products and difficult application development. China Building Materials Group has been rooted in the field of carbon fiber for decades. In September 2021, it invested in Xining, Qinghai, to build the largest 10,000-ton high-performance carbon fiber production base in China. It is the first in China to realize the independent control of high-end carbon fiber complete sets of technology and break the long-term technology blockade of developed countries. And market monopoly, to ensure the application demand of aerospace, key models and equipment, and accelerate the localization of carbon fiber in my country's high-end application market. The layout of the implementation of large aircraft composite materials major special projects, joint China Commercial Aircraft Group to further promote the aviation-grade T800-grade carbon fiber and its pre-immersion localization, primary and secondary bearing structure and other domestic large aircraft with key materials research and development, to become a domestic wide-body large aircraft 3 fuselage section suppliers.
China National Building Materials Group to promote China's glass new materials industry science and technology self-reliance. The picture shows the 0.03mm flexible foldable glass independently developed by Kaisheng Technology, a subsidiary of China Building Materials Group, which is mainly used in the field of electronic display. It is a key technological innovation achievement of my country in the field of new glass materials.
Facing people's life and health, green development is realized through scientific and technological innovation.With the in-depth development of my country's economy, facing the strong constraints of resources and energy, ecological environment, and the hard task of carbon peak and carbon neutral planning goals, the task of accelerating the green transformation and development of the new material industry is more urgent. In the science and technology system planning and innovation system layout, China National Building Materials Group highlights the concept of green, low-carbon and ecological environmental protection, and strives to solve major key common problems such as slow development of green building materials, heavy environmental load, low energy efficiency, and resource bottleneck constraints. The research and development of green technology are closely integrated with market demand, and strive to achieve "two transformations and two substitutions", that is, product low-carbon conversion and process green conversion, production to improve the proportion of new materials and new energy substitution. In terms of low-carbon products, more than 10 projects involving green and low-carbon industries, such as the complete set of technologies and engineering applications of thin-film solar cells and the development of large-size offshore wind power blades, have been carried out to strengthen the research and development and application of low-carbon building materials products such as new cementitious materials and low-carbon concrete, accelerate the certification and application promotion of green building materials products, and lead the building materials industry to accelerate green transformation. In terms of process greening, 72 state-level green factories and 45 green mines have been built, cement kilns have been upgraded, industrial solid waste, medical waste and domestic waste have been disposed of by high-temperature function, and 47 disposal lines have been built in 36 cities across the country to protect urban ecology and residents' health as standard. We will explore the implementation path of "double carbon" in the building materials industry, formulate the timetable and roadmap of "carbon reduction", "carbon fixation" and "carbon tube", and jointly build the first "double carbon" public service platform for the national raw material industry.
3. the Construction of the Innovation Ecology of "the Great Material of the Country"
The characteristics of new materials are first reflected in the "new", and the development of new materials industry should be promoted closely around innovation. It is necessary to strengthen the concept of the system, strengthen forward-looking thinking, overall planning, strategic layout, industrial chain coordination, and overall promotion, be industrialization-oriented, build advantageous industrial clusters, cultivate leading enterprises with original core technological competitiveness, and give full play to Synergy effects to form a good innovation ecology. China National Building Materials Group has always adhered to innovation-driven creation of "national materials", actively promoting institutional mechanisms, management, and open innovation, and providing leading support for the leap-forward development of my country's new material industry.
To stimulate the vitality of the system and mechanism innovation.In the final analysis, scientific and technological innovation is a matter of talents. China National Building Materials Group has deepened reform and innovation in terms of employment system, incentive mechanism, talent training, and talent reserve, and provided strong support for creating an innovation ecology with first-class talents, first-class teams, and first-class policies. The research and development cost of the new material industry is high, the industrialization is difficult, and the return on investment cycle is long. It needs to rely on the reform of the system and mechanism to resolve resistance and stimulate vitality. It is necessary to speed up the pilot reform, improve the talent mechanism of market-oriented operation, promote a series of system and mechanism innovation suitable for the characteristics of the material industry and enterprises, and stimulate the innovation enthusiasm of scientific research personnel, cadres and employees. We will further promote the three-year reform of state-owned enterprises, continuously deepen the reform of the three systems, and innovate the mechanism for introducing talents. Starting from the actual situation, the scientific and technological achievements independently developed are divided into three categories: A, B and C, namely, Class A achievements formed by serving the national strategy, Class B achievements formed around the main business of the group, and Class C achievements that can be transformed to the outside world. A multi-level and systematic positive incentive system is established according to the types of achievements, medium-and long-term incentive and restraint guidance and seven supporting guidelines. Select some science and technology enterprises to pilot science and technology elements to participate in the distribution of incentives. Promote the transformation of scientific research institutes, high-tech enterprises, and listed companies to carry out incentive measures such as equity incentives, market-oriented salaries, rewards for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, key employee stock ownership and follow-up investment, and promote the group's key core technology research projects to "unveil the list and lead the leader". Provide an innovation arena for scientific and technological talents, so that innovative talents and enterprises share market risks and development results, so that scientific and scientific and scientific and scientific and scientific and scientific and scientific and scientific and scientific and technical personnel can reflect value in the transformation, inject lasting vitality into scientific and technological innovation.
Strengthen cohesion with management innovation.Scientific and technological innovation does not exist in isolation, and requires excellent management to open a bridge and create a good environment. Material innovation is a high-risk undertaking. Innovation investment should not only be consistent with the general direction of enterprise strategy, but also take into account market benefits; it should not only pay attention to output efficiency and economic benefits, but also respect the laws of long-term continuous investment and high risk. Carrying forward the entrepreneurial spirit and clearing the obstacles for entrepreneurs to innovate management is the key to innovation and development. It is necessary to benchmark the standards of good cadres in state-owned enterprises that are "loyal to the party, brave to innovate, well-run enterprises, prosperous enterprises, and honest and clean", and focus on China's leading and world-class goals, and give full play to the leading role of new material innovation addicts. They build a platform, build a ladder, send care, encourage innovation, tolerate mistakes, and create a growth environment for entrepreneurs to focus on their careers. Effectively strengthen the innovative concepts of personnel at all levels, form a cultural atmosphere of linkage between the upper and lower levels and focus on innovation, and attract and train a group of outstanding entrepreneurs. Carry out benchmarking and world-class management improvement actions, promote lean management, lean organization, and refined management "three fine management" to create conditions and environment conducive to technological innovation.
Increase influence with open innovation.The development of the new material industry is restricted by upstream original technologies and downstream application scenarios. It is rare that scientific research and innovation results are quickly put into large-scale applications. Enterprises need to continuously expand the application market, carry out technical exchanges, and adopt scientific and technological cooperation, technology transfer, and joint development and utilization of resources., Participate in the formulation of international standards and other ways to expand the global influence and voice of my country's new material technology innovation. Focusing on the national strategy and the high-quality development needs of China Building Materials Group, adhere to open sharing and collaborative integration and innovation, give full play to the scale advantages of the application scenarios of super-large manufacturing enterprises within the group, among central enterprises and between production and research, promote the combination of production, teaching and research, the connection between upstream, middle and downstream, and the coordination of large, medium and small enterprises, and promote the construction of a national "double carbon" public service platform for raw materials "public service, composite industry, actively organize the new materials industry technology innovation alliance, to create a joint innovation body of science and technology.
