Promoting digital transformation is the general trend of industry development and an inevitable path for enterprise development. To be specific, digital transformation requires both foresight thinking that understands the essence and practical tools that are solidly implemented. Recently, China Digital Architecture Conference 2024 was held in Guangzhou. The conference brought together well-known think tank experts, academicians and scholars, heads of industry authorities, and entrepreneurs. From different perspectives and dimensions, they discussed issues such as AI, new quality productivity, systematic digitalization, and digital construction sites in the construction industry, and conducted ideological collisions and in-depth discussions. The conference also released many new research results and practical and targeted digital products and solutions.
Former mayor and researcher of Chongqing City Huang Qifan
At the meeting, Huang Qifan, former mayor and researcher of Chongqing, said that how to understand the implementation path of new quality productivity and how the construction industry can use new quality productivity to promote the high-quality development of the construction industry are two topics that need to be discussed.
Three implementation paths for new quality productivity
New quality productivity is the technological path and technological revolution that every era has introduced, mainly reflected in the five major sectors of new materials, new energy, new digital technology, new biomedicine and new high-end equipment manufacturing in each era. For thousands of years, whether in China or the world, every new era has been brought about by disruptive innovations in these five sectors. In the outline of my country's "14th Five-Year Plan" and the 2035 vision goals, nine strategic emerging industries and six future industries are emphasized, which are important areas where new quality productivity can be applied.
New quality productivity is bound to be a revolutionary innovation in science and technology, mainly reflected in five aspects. In terms of theoretical innovation, such as the subversive innovative concept from 0 to 1 of the theory of relativity, which plays an important guiding role in the historical progress of human beings; in terms of technological innovation, there are specific technological innovations in the process of transformation of theory into productivity; in terms of process innovation, whether it is petrochemical or steel smelting, any large-scale continuous manufacturing industry should have process design; in terms of tool innovation, every era of innovation and the development of large-scale new quality productivity are related to new tools, and various tools must be used to enhance human development capabilities; in terms of factor innovation, new factors that appear in the production process will help form new quality productivity, such as data elements.
Productive service industry is a macro phenomenon and landmark phenomenon of technological progress, and it is the ecology, soil and environment for the development of new quality productivity. The more developed the productive service industry is, the higher the total factor productivity will be and the greater the contribution it will to drive economic growth. Therefore, to develop new quality productivity, we must develop productive services. The so-called productive service industry refers to research and development directly related to the manufacturing industry chain. It not only needs to study products, but also needs to study every part, semi-finished product, and even the entire industrial chain and production line of the product, making large-scale manufacturing possible. Specifically, it includes logistics distribution in the industrial chain, green, low-carbon, ecological, environmental protection services, empowerment of various digital technologies such as big data and cloud computing, and procurement of various parts and raw materials.
How to promote high-quality development of the construction industry with new quality productivity
To promote high-quality development of the construction industry with new quality productivity, it is necessary to carry out three aspects.
First, the longevity, recycling of building materials, green and low-carbonization of building energy, energy conservation and emission reduction.
The longevity and recycling of building materials. Taking steel structures as an example, the life of steel structure houses can be as long as more than 100 years. raising the standards for building steel and promoting the use of steel structures can not only make full use of my country's existing steel production capacity, but also greatly improve the quality of houses and extend the life of houses. In addition, green and low-carbonization of building energy and energy conservation and emission reduction, such as how to save electricity and optimize its configuration. Broadcom’s complete set of solutions for energy control of smart buildings has made these goals a reality.
Second, use artificial intelligence to empower the development of the construction industry in all aspects. With the rapid development of technology, artificial intelligence has become the hottest topic in today's society and will affect the development of the construction industry in 9 aspects. Including design innovation and optimization, construction automation and robotics technology, project management and collaboration, quality control and safety supervision, energy management and sustainable development, 3D printing construction field applications, virtual reality and augmented reality, etc., it will promote the development of the construction industry toward more intelligent, automated and sustainable directions.
Third, vigorously develop productive services related to the construction industry and make full use of Internet technology to promote the formation of industrial Internet in the construction industry.
The Internet now generally refers to five links: big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and mobile Internet. The underlying technologies in these five links are constantly innovating. The digital technology innovation in each link is essentially the disruptive innovation of the digital sector in the large sector of new quality productivity.
Another type of Internet is to grasp the characteristics of the popular trends of large enterprises in product manufacturing, research and development, industrial chain cluster matching, logistics distribution, market sales and market. The production process of these six links forms a combination of industrial chains, which is called industrial Internet and industrial Internet. Small and medium-sized enterprises need to use third-party consumer Internet to connect and combine these six links to form an industrial Internet and achieve Internet transformation.
Similarly, through the Internet, the market demand and other aspects of the construction industry are fed back to design, manufacturing and other links, and artificial intelligence can serve these links. Therefore, to promote the high-quality development of the construction industry, it is necessary to build an Internet in the construction industry. Broadband is in the industry leading position in the development of artificial intelligence applications and hopes to continue to work hard in this direction to help the high-quality development of the construction industry.
