Continuously exerting efforts to unleash collaborative innovation effects
2026-07-28
Innovation is an important force driving development. The 2025 Central Economic Work Conference proposed to adhere to innovation driven development and accelerate the cultivation and growth of new driving forces. This year's Government Work Report has made arrangements to accelerate the cultivation and growth of new driving forces, proposing to optimize and enhance traditional industries, cultivate and grow emerging and future industries, expand and improve service industries, and create new forms of intelligent economy. On the new journey, to cultivate and strengthen new driving forces, we must work together in areas such as technological innovation, industrial innovation, business innovation, and management innovation, fully unleash the synergistic effects of innovation, and provide solid support for high-quality development.
Strategic choices for shaping new competitive advantages
Cultivating and strengthening new driving forces through collaborative innovation in various aspects is not only an inherent requirement for grasping development laws, solving development problems, and cultivating development advantages, but also a strategic choice to enhance the overall efficiency of the innovation system and shape new competitive advantages for the country.
The practical need to consolidate the positive trend of economic recovery and enhance development resilience. Whether it is expanding effective investment or creating effective demand, it is necessary to cultivate new growth points, create new consumption scenarios, and broaden new employment opportunities. By relying on collaborative innovation, we can break down barriers to factor circulation, promote efficient combination of technology, capital, talent, data and other factors, and accelerate the emergence of new products, services and scenarios. The integration of artificial intelligence and manufacturing requires not only breakthroughs in algorithm models, but also the joint adaptation of industrial data, production processes, industry knowledge, and application scenarios. The more comprehensive the collaboration, the smoother the economic cycle, and the faster the speed of creating high-quality new supply with new technologies.
It is an inevitable requirement to promote the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure and improve the quality of development. China has the most complete industrial system in the world, with prominent systemic advantages in manufacturing. However, some industries still face structural problems such as low technological content, low added value, and prominent homogeneous competition. Strengthening collaborative innovation is conducive to promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, promoting upstream and downstream enterprise cooperation, integration of industry, academia, research and application, and the development of large, medium and small enterprises. It also promotes industrial development from scale expansion to quality improvement, from factor driven to innovation driven, and lays a solid industrial foundation for high-quality development.
An important path to seize the commanding heights of future development and shape new advantages in international competition. Currently, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, and competition among major powers is increasingly reflected in the comprehensive competition of technological strength, industrial capability, and regulatory standards. Whether China can quickly promote the industrialization of technological innovation achievements and form sustainable advantages in fields such as artificial intelligence, biomanufacturing, and quantum technology is related to whether China can take the initiative in the reconstruction of industrial and supply chains and the adjustment of global value chain division of labor. By relying on collaborative innovation, breakthroughs in key core technologies, enhancement of advanced manufacturing capabilities, traction in application scenarios, and supply of institutional rules can be integrated, accelerating the formation of new competitive advantages.
A powerful lever to optimize the innovation ecosystem and enhance governance efficiency. New technologies, industries, and business models often have cross disciplinary, cross industry, and cross regional characteristics, requiring both bold exploration by business entities and timely follow-up and adaptation of institutional supply. Strengthening collaborative innovation can integrate more effective rules and open platforms, reduce the cost of trial and error in enterprise innovation, improve resource allocation efficiency, and fully mobilize the innovation enthusiasm of various entities.
Focus on key areas and make precise efforts
To cultivate and strengthen new driving forces in collaborative innovation, it is necessary to focus on key areas and key links, and continue to make efforts in the following aspects.
Coordinate technological innovation and achievement transformation. Technological innovation emphasizes the formation of original and leading achievements, injecting vitality into new driving forces; The key to transforming achievements lies in opening up channels from creativity to products, from laboratories to production lines, so that innovative achievements can truly serve economic and social development. In reality, many achievements are stuck in stages such as concept validation, pilot testing, inspection and testing, and standard certification, which affects the speed of industrialization. By supporting leading technology enterprises to take the lead in forming innovation consortia, promoting collaborative research and development among universities, upstream and downstream enterprises, and scene parties, we can more closely link scientific research topics with industry needs and application scenarios, accelerating technology from the laboratory to industrial applications.
Coordinate industrial innovation and structural upgrading. Industrial innovation provides space for the growth of new driving forces, and the adjustment and upgrading of industrial structure is an important measure to build a modern industrial system and enhance the core competitiveness of industries. We must promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, the cultivation and growth of emerging industries, and the coordinated development of forward-looking industrial layouts in the future. We must promote the integrated development of key areas such as manufacturing, green and low-carbon, and artificial intelligence, strengthen the supporting and collaborative innovation capabilities of the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, promote the entire industrial system to rise to the mid to high end, and enhance China's industrial competitiveness.
Coordinate business innovation and scenario application. New technologies and new products such as artificial intelligence big models and industrial Internet can only be improved, cost reduced and scale formed through repeated verification in the real environment. Scene applications are not only a testing ground for mature technology, but also a discoverer of market demand. It is necessary to closely integrate business innovation with scenario applications, focusing not only on technology and industry itself, but also on strengthening application mode design, optimizing service processes, guiding market demand, promoting the accelerated growth of new industries and business formats, and enhancing the ability to create value throughout the entire chain.
Integrated management innovation and collaborative optimization. The cultivation and growth of new driving forces is not an isolated breakthrough of a single enterprise, technology, or link, but a systematic process involving multiple entities and links such as research and development, production, financing, services, applications, and promotion. Management innovation focuses on optimizing organizational methods, improving operational efficiency, and efficiently connecting technological breakthroughs, industrial upgrading, and business transformation; Organizational collaborative optimization focuses on promoting cross link, cross subject, and cross scenario linkage, enabling technology, industry, finance, talent, scenarios, and other elements to form a synergy. Only by promoting the mutual adaptation of management methods, operational mechanisms, and institutional environments can innovation entities become more active, resources flow more smoothly, and innovation chains become more efficient, providing strong guarantees for the sustained growth and accumulation of new momentum.
Transforming innovative advantages into development momentum
On the new journey, we must adhere to systematic planning, scientific policy implementation, and long-term efforts to promote the transformation of innovative advantages into development advantages.
Strengthen technological innovation and smooth the chain of achievement transformation. Placing originality and disruptive technological innovation in an important position, connecting technology supply with industry demand and application scenarios. Focus on key areas such as artificial intelligence, biomanufacturing, and high-end equipment, and strengthen basic research and key core technology breakthroughs. Strengthen the dominant position of enterprises in technological innovation, support leading technology enterprises to take the lead in forming innovation consortia, and promote collaborative research and development among universities, institutions, upstream and downstream enterprises. Improve the service system for transforming achievements such as concept verification, pilot testing, inspection and testing, and standard certification, establish a scientific research evaluation mechanism guided by market application effectiveness and industrial contribution, and promote more scientific and technological achievements from laboratories to production lines and large markets.
Promote industrial innovation and enhance the carrying capacity of new driving forces. The more complete the modern industrial system, the broader the space for the absorption, transformation, and diffusion of new technologies. We must adhere to the focus of economic development on the real economy, and help traditional industries expand new development space through equipment updates, process upgrades, digital empowerment, and green transformation. Enhance independent innovation capabilities and industrial chain resilience, and promote the cluster development of emerging industries such as new generation information technology, new energy, and new materials. Strengthen technological reserves and industrial cultivation around future energy, embodied intelligence and other fields, and develop future industries according to local conditions. Give full play to the empowering role of technology services, modern logistics, industrial design, etc. in upgrading the manufacturing industry, and promote the expansion and quality improvement of the modern service industry.
Deepen business innovation and enhance the efficiency of scene implementation. Accelerate the construction of digital infrastructure and data element market system, and promote industrial Internet, public computing, data space and other platforms to better serve enterprise innovation. Deepen the "Artificial Intelligence+" initiative, promote the commercial and large-scale application of artificial intelligence in agriculture, transportation, healthcare, education, and other fields, and cultivate new business models such as intelligent manufacturing, smart energy, and smart transportation. Orderly opening up application scenarios, driving supply with demand, driving innovation with scenarios, and promoting diffusion with applications. Improve the mechanisms for data element ownership, circulation, trading, and security governance, and guide long-term and patient capital to support early-stage technology enterprises.
Emphasize management innovation and improve collaborative operation mechanisms. Coordinate organizational change and mechanism innovation, promote the transformation of organizational structure towards platformization and networking, and use digital technology to optimize decision-making processes and execution chains. Improve the linkage system with enterprises as the main body and the deep integration of government, industry, academia, research, finance, and human resources, and promote efficient integration of technology, industry, finance, talent, and other resources across regions and industries. At the same time, we will adhere to the principle of adapting measures to local conditions and providing classified guidance to prevent a herd mentality that deviates from reality. We will guide localities to choose development tracks based on resource endowments, industrial foundations, scientific research conditions, and market demand, achieving differentiated development and complementary advantages. (Outlook New Era)
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