On November 15, Yin Hejun, Minister of Science and Technology, emphasized in the article "Strengthening the Fundamental Support of Scientific and Technological Innovation for High-quality Development" published in the People's Daily that China is increasing its efforts to overcome key core technologies, especially in key areas such as integrated circuits, industrial machine tools, advanced materials, basic software and core provenance, in order to solve the technical problems of "stuck neck". The article proposes to accelerate the promotion of major national science and technology projects of strategic significance, and continue to implement major national science and technology projects, so as to achieve overall breakthroughs in cutting-edge science and technology fields such as artificial intelligence, quantum technology, cutting-edge semiconductors, life and health, and new energy, and lead the new direction of technological change.
The article also points out that scientific and technological innovation provides new advantages for China's high-quality development. In the context of unprecedented global scientific and technological innovation, China has continuously made breakthroughs in basic frontier fields, and disruptive innovations have emerged, providing new development opportunities for China. We must adhere to the strategic leading position of scientific and technological innovation, seize the opportunity in the global scientific and technological competition, and win the initiative in emerging industries and future industries. China's scientific and technological strength and innovation capabilities continue to improve, and the ranking of the Global Innovation Index has risen from 34th in 2012 to 11th in 2024. The R&D investment of the whole society will increase from 1.03 trillion yuan in 2012 to 3.3 trillion yuan in 2023. He has made a number of major original achievements with international influence in frontier fields such as quantum information, stem cells, brain science, and brain-like chips. The deployment of national strategic scientific and technological forces has been accelerated, national laboratories have been established and operated, the scientific research capabilities of national scientific research institutions and high-level research universities have been continuously improved, and leading scientific and technological enterprises have continued to grow in some key industries. Beijing, Shanghai, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Nanjing are among the top 10 global science and technology innovation clusters.
The integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation is becoming increasingly close. From 2013 to 2023, the added value of China's high-tech manufacturing industry above designated size grew at an average annual rate of 10.3%. In 2023, the added value of the "three new" economy will account for 17.73% of GDP, an increase of 2.4 percentage points over 2016. High-performance equipment, intelligent robots, additive manufacturing, laser manufacturing and other technologies have strongly promoted the development of "Made in China" to a higher level. The C919 large aircraft has achieved commercial flight, 5G has taken the lead in large-scale application, and the "new three" of foreign trade such as new energy vehicles, lithium batteries, and photovoltaic products have emerged in the global market. Recently, China's Zhuhai Airshow (the 15th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition) has attracted global attention. In the air show, in addition to a series of national heavy equipment, the chips used in the products have also attracted market attention. Active phased array radar in air shows, also known as phase-controlled array radar or electronically scanned array radar, is a high-tech radar capable of changing the direction of beam scanning by flexibly adjusting how the beams on the antenna array are combined. The T/R chip is the key upstream core component of phased array radar, which is integrated in the T/R component, which is responsible for the transmission and reception of signals, and controls the amplitude and phase of signals to realize the beamforming and beam scanning of radar. The main suppliers of T/R chips include China Electronics Technology 13 Institute, China Electronics Technology 55 Institute, Chengchang Technology, Guobo Electronics, etc. The military radar industry has a high technical threshold, and the global market is highly concentrated.
In addition, Xuanyu Space Company exhibited four newly developed processors and microsystem representative chips of the company at the exhibition. Since its establishment in 2011, the company has established a high-performance and high-reliability processor chip design and verification platform and a high-reliability microsystem chip packaging design and simulation verification platform, and currently designs a total of 40 products, forming six series of chip products; Xi'an Aibang Electromagnetic Technology Co., Ltd. also introduced a series of new products such as A3 28V lightning suppression chip, A3 high-speed signal lightning suppression chip and A4 RS422 signal lightning suppression chip independently developed by the company at the exhibition site.
