Achievements of Central China in Pursuing High-quality Development in Past 5 Years①丨Create new engines for innovative development

Editor's note: Central China connects the east with the west and links the south to the north, whose economic output accounts for one fifth of China, and enjoys great development potential. In the past five years, by implementing the new development concept, building the new development pattern, and continuously enhancing its comprehensive strength and competitiveness, Central China has opened up a new situation for the rise of China's central region. Starting today, we, together with HICC, are launching a series bilingual coverage with the theme of "Striving to Create a New Situation in the Rise of China's Central Region - Achievements of Central China in Pursuing High-quality Development in Past 5 Years". Here is the first episode: Create new engines for innovative development.

编者按：中部地区承东启西、连南接北，六省经济总量约占全国五分之一，发展大有可为。近5年，中部地区贯彻新发展理念，构建新发展格局，不断增强综合实力和竞争力，奋力开创中部地区崛起新局面。即日起，河南国际传播中心、大河网联合推出“奋力开创中部地区崛起新局面——从五年成绩单看中部地区高质量发展新成效”系列报道。今日推出第一期：《创新发展打造新引擎》。

 

Hanging in the sky and "flying" across the city, China's first suspended aerial track train, Optics Valley Air Rail, looks futuristic. With the support of a series of preferential policies for innovation, the Optics Valley in Wuhan city of Central China's Hubei province has attracted 16 thousand optoelectronic information companies, whose optoelectronic information industry has already exceeded 500 billion yuan.

列车悬空而挂，在城市穿梭“飞行”……在湖北武汉的中国光谷，国内首条悬挂式空中轨道列车“光谷光子号”展现满满科技感。在一系列创新政策的支持下，光谷聚集1.6万家光电子信息企业，光电子信息产业整体规模超5000亿元。

China's first suspended aerial track train, Optics Valley Air Rail. [Photo/Hubei Daily]

Can you imagine that one day you can create AIGC images, applications, resumes, etc., with just voice commands? At the China Speech Valley in Hefei city of Central China's Anhui province, this "black technology" is impressive. With over 2 thousand settled companies and an annual output value of more than 200 billion yuan, the China Speech Valley has formed a new generation of information technology industrial cluster with intelligent voice and AI industry as the core.

只需语音指令，就可创作AIGC图片、应用程序、简历等产品，在安徽合肥高新区的中国声谷，“黑科技”让人眼前一亮。入驻企业超过2000户，年产值超过2000亿元，中国声谷形成以智能语音及人工智能产业为核心的新一代信息技术产业集群。

 

From the Optics Valley to the Speech Valley, in recent years, Central China has been accelerating the gathering of factors for innovation-oriented development, making its capacity for sci-tech innovation continuously enhanced.

从光谷到声谷，中部地区创新发展要素加快集聚，科技创新能力持续增强。

 

By optimizing and restructuring 40 national key laboratories, and advancing the development of 12 major national sci-tech infrastructure projects, Central China is getting stronger in generating innovation momentum for high-quality development. So far, a series of major breakthroughs have been made in core technologies such as quantum communication, autonomous security computers, industrial mother-machines, etc. And the industrialization of such achievements has been accelerated.

优化重组40个全国重点实验室，推进12个国家重大科技基础设施建设；在量子通信、自主安全计算机、工业母机等关键核心技术领域取得重大突破并加速实现产业化……中部地区高质量发展的创新动能日益强劲。

 

Volkswagen Anhui MEB factory. [Photo/Xinhua]

A fleet of large trucks is lining up to enter the Volkswagen Anhui MEB factory for transporting cargo. In the workshop, the AGV robots are working in an orderly manner, the European orders are being processed here and the finished cargo are waiting for delivery.

从空中俯瞰大众安徽MEB工厂，一辆辆大货车陆续排队进入园区，运送物料；步入车间，AGV小车有序往来，准备出口欧洲的订单正在这里抓紧生产等待交付。

 

Within just two and a half years, Volkswagen Group has built a new plant for intelligently-connected electric vehicles in Hefei, and has carried out comprehensive cooperation with a number of Chinese enterprises in electrification, automatic driving, and batteries. In 2023, the output of new energy vehicles in Anhui reached 868 thousand, an increase of 60.5 percent year on year.

短短两年半时间，大众汽车集团在合肥市建立了一个新的智能网联电动汽车中心，并与多家中国企业进行电动化、自动驾驶、电池等领域的全面合作。2023年，安徽全省新能源汽车产量达86.8万辆，同比增长60.5%。

 

Self-driving bus made by Yutong Group in Zhengzhou. [Photo/dahe.cn]

Automobile industry in Anhui, heavy industry in Hunan, electronic industry in Hubei, aviation industry in Jiangxi, etc., such influential brands have been well developed among the manufacturing industry in Central China. Now, Central China has been accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system, with the added value of its manufacturing industry jumping from 6.1 trillion yuan in 2019 to 6.8 trillion yuan in 2023, accounting for about one fifth of China.

安徽的汽车、湖南的重工、湖北的电子、江西的航空……中部地区制造业打造众多亮丽“名片”。中部地区现代化产业体系加速构建，制造业增加值由2019年的6.1万亿元增长到2023年的6.8万亿元，规模约占全国五分之一。

 

Innovation creates huge potential for high-quality development. From 2019 to 2023, Central China's GDP jumped from 21.8 trillion yuan to 27 trillion yuan. Henan, Hubei and Hunan ranked among the top 10 in China in terms of economic aggregate.

创新蓄积起澎湃的发展势能。2019年至2023年，中部地区生产总值由21.8万亿元增长到27万亿元，河南、湖北、湖南经济总量位列全国前十。

中文来源：河南日报 

记者：陈炜伟 严赋憬 王悦阳

编译：杨佳欣 

审校：李文竞 赵汉青