
Promoting the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China is based on the real economy, the key lies in scientific and technological innovation, and the direction is industrial upgrading.
"New" is becoming the key word of Shenyang, an old industrial base, running on the high-quality development track.
The city is seeking new changes, and emerging industries are breaking the waves. By 2025, the output value of Shenyang robot industry will strive to exceed 20 billion yuan, and the innovative element generate will flow in;
The city is self-renewing, focusing on the future track, focusing on unmanned driving, artificial intelligence and other fields, and a number of industry-leading enterprises such as Neusoft Ruichi and American Bank Technology have emerged to promote power change by "changing lanes and overtaking";

In Hunnan District of Shenyang City, the L4-class self-driving vehicle developed by Neusoft Ruichi Automotive Technology (Shenyang) Co., Ltd. was tested on a closed road (photo taken on July 9, 2021). Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Qing photo
This city takes innovation as its path, builds a platform, gives policies, and accelerates the construction of a technological innovation system with enterprises as the main body, market as the guide and Industry-University-Research as the combination, so as to develop the soil for opening up a new track and planting industries. Since the beginning of this year, Shenyang has built 1,510 science and technology innovation platforms at all levels, and the "flower of scientific research" is gradually bearing the "fruit of industry".
Accumulating "new" strength: developing and expanding emerging industries
In a closed vacuum container, the rotor made of aerospace grade alloy steel whirls at a supersonic speed of up to 41,000 revolutions per minute, realizing efficient conversion of kinetic energy and electric energy & HELIP; … Thanks to the magnetic suspension flywheel energy storage technology, the strong and weak wind and light with uncertain brightness in nature can all be turned into "green electricity" with stable output.
It is Shenyang Micro-control New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. located in Tiexi District, Shenyang that achieved this technological breakthrough. Into the company’s production workshop, products with similar container shapes are arranged neatly, waiting for shipment. Through introduction, digestion, absorption and innovation, this young enterprise has built an independent and controllable scientific and technological innovation system and intellectual property system.

Rotor made of aerospace grade alloy steel, photographed in the workshop of Shenyang Micro-control New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (photo taken on November 29, 2023). Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Qing photo
"We have an order of 1 billion yuan this year and are producing at full capacity." Zhang Qingyuan, chairman of the company, said that the company can quickly emerge and even lead in the new energy storage track, relying on continuous innovation.
Driven by innovation, win the future. The continuous development of emerging industries is providing a strong impetus for Shenyang to accelerate the formation of new quality productivity.

In Shenyang Micro-control New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., workers work in the workshop (photo taken on November 29, 2023). Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Qing photo
"As one of the cities with the most complete industrial system, Shenyang is promoting the rise of emerging industries with the help of the industrial Internet." Wang Guozhong, director of the Industrial Internet Service Committee of China Small and Medium Enterprises Association, said.
Located in the production line of Yanfeng (Shenyang) Seat System Co., Ltd., Dadong District, Shenyang, with the sensor of the mechanical arm constantly flashing, the small parts needed for the seat are automatically put in and out of the warehouse.
"The workshop can achieve more than 50% of the production instructions automatically to digital equipment, which greatly improves the efficiency." Li Zhe, general manager of the company said.
This is a production scene where the industrial Internet is widely used. The reporter visited in Shenyang and found that the industrial Internet has played a great role in petrochemical industry, auto parts, construction machinery and other fields, running through R&D, design, processing and manufacturing, logistics and sales.
At present, Shenyang’s 5G base station has achieved full coverage of key areas and key places; The number of secondary nodes for identification resolution has reached 13, ranking first in Northeast China. It has 9 national industrial internet platforms and 21 provincial industrial internet platforms, covering many fields such as energy, power transmission and distribution, food and so on.

Participants visited the 2023 Global Industrial Internet Conference (photo taken on October 18, 2023). Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Weishe
Ma Enlin, deputy director of Shenyang Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, said that as the permanent venue and organizer of the Global Industrial Internet Conference, Shenyang will take the Global Industrial Internet Conference as an important platform and carrier, give full play to its supporting role in emerging industries, and promote the manufacturing and digital industries to "go in both directions".
Storing "new" energy: planning the future industry in a forward-looking way
There are pedestrians in front, and vehicles automatically avoid; Need to turn left, the vehicle automatically turns; When many heavy trucks are encountered during driving, the vehicles automatically change lanes smoothly … … Recently, the reporter experienced a magical autopilot in the autopilot demonstration road in Dadong District, Shenyang.
"Dadong District has built a 22-kilometer L2-level automobile city bus line and a 17.5-kilometer L4-level road. There are different scenes such as institutions, universities, enterprises and factories along the road, and intelligent networked road facilities such as camera perception system, radar perception system and signal light perception system have been deployed." Zhao Hui, executive deputy general manager of Shenyang Chewang Technology Development Co., Ltd. said.
Once upon a time, "heavy, big and heavy, lacking a sense of the future" was the traditional impression of many people on Shenyang’s manufacturing industry. Today’s Shenyang, the industrial structure is quietly changing.
In recent years, in combination with local reality and industrial advantages, Shenyang has aimed at key directions such as unmanned driving and humanoid robots, laid out a number of cutting-edge future industries, continued to store "new" energy, and built future industrial innovation sources and development highlands. In the first half of this year, the added value of new energy vehicles, integrated circuits and aviation industries in the city increased by 59.5%, 18% and 34% respectively.
"Have you noticed, how the Yellow River’s waters move out of heaven, entering the ocean, never to return … …” A bionic robot of Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, is reciting poems, with some body movements from time to time and rich facial expressions, attracting a large number of viewers to stop and watch. In the EX Future Science and Technology Museum in Dadong District of Shenyang, a sense of "the future has come" makes people feel like they are in a science fiction movie.
"Compared with emerging industries, the future industry has a long cultivation cycle and great growth uncertainty. For Shenyang, which is catching up, it is a forward-looking decision to focus on the existing industrial base, plan related future industries, support future industries with existing industries, extend the industrial chain with future industries and increase added value. " EX robot R&D engineer Silly said.
"Today’s seedlings may be the towering trees of the future". Decision makers in Shenyang believe that the development of future industries is not a matter of "whether or not", but a matter of "speed and slowness". In the fierce regional competition, whoever starts early can win the initiative.
The future has come, and wisdom makes the future.
Shenyang is accelerating the creation of a high-energy science and technology platform. At present, the computing power of Shenyang Artificial Intelligence Computing Center has been expanded to 300P, which has been included in the national artificial intelligence computing strategy system and entered the first echelon in the country; Since the beginning of this year, Shenyang has added 9 national key laboratories, 15 national science and technology innovation platforms, and built 1,510 science and technology innovation platforms at all levels … … Tamping the foundation and building a nest to attract phoenix, the increasing "sense of gain" of enterprises is transforming into the "sense of the future" of urban industries.
Storing "new" potential: thick planting industry to develop soil
In July this year, the International Robotics Conference held in Shenyang was particularly lively: coffee robots pulled flowers on the spot, walking robots assisted the elderly and helped the disabled, and more than 300 teenagers controlled the mecha competitive robot competition, which earned enough popularity online and offline.

This is the production workshop of Shenyang Xinsong Robot Automation Co., Ltd. (photo taken on April 28, 2022). Xinhua News Agency reporter Pan Xiaolong photo
At present, the robot industry chain represented by Xinsong in Shenyang has basically taken shape, with more than 500 upstream and downstream supporting enterprises, which can provide nearly 100 kinds of robot products in five categories: industry, cooperation, mobility, specialty and service, and has built a leading domestic product line.
This series of achievements can not be separated from the sustained efforts of policies and the technical support of scientific research institutes. A few days ago, Shenyang also formulated the latest development plan for the robot industry, proposing that by 2025, the annual output of the whole robot machine in the city will reach 15,000 sets, the output value of the robot industry will strive to exceed 20 billion yuan, and the number of robot enterprises above designated size will exceed 50.
Shenyang is rich in innovative resources, with Shenyang Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences and other national professional technical platforms such as State Key Laboratory of Full-face Roadheader and State Key Laboratory of Robotics, which provide strong support for the development of the industry.
According to the relevant person in charge of Shenyang Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, on the basis of the existing six academician teams, Shenyang will train more than 500 highly educated talents in the field of robotics every year, and actively promote colleges and universities to combine scientific and technological innovation with talent training to cultivate talents with "future thinking".
Seize the opportunity to speed up the layout of the new track, and Shenyang uses digital technology to promote industrial transformation: Tiexi District, an important industrial town, has created a "digital world" and promoted the "digital intelligence" transformation through the Industrial Internet Innovation Base of Sino-German Park; "Spark Chain Network" super node (Shenyang) has become the largest network communication hub node in Northeast China.
In the first half of this year, Shenyang issued the "Detailed Rules for the Management of Digital Pilot Demonstration Projects in Supporting Industries in Shenyang (for Trial Implementation)", which increased support from the policy and actively cultivated excellent digital application scenarios and intelligent upgrading projects.
"We should promote industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation, speed up the construction of a modern industrial system with Shenyang characteristics and advantages, and build a regional scientific and technological innovation center with national influence … …” On November 8, the Sixth Plenary Session of the 14th Shenyang Municipal Committee made specific arrangements for cultivating future industries and accelerating the formation of new quality productive forces.
Li Kai, deputy dean of China Northeast Revitalization Research Institute of Northeastern University, said that accelerating the formation of new quality productivity is the only way for the rebirth of the Northeast. As the "Equipment Department of the Republic", Shenyang can only return to the commanding heights of China industry by seeking new changes and competing for the future.
Text reporters: Xu Yang, Yu Yitong, Ding Feibai
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