The main functions of the High-tech Department mainly include:

Organizing the formulation of development and industrialization plans and policies for high-tech fields, organizing the analysis of technological development needs in related fields, proposing major tasks and supervising their implementation, and promoting the攻关 of major key technologies.

Which fields are included in future industries?

In January this year, seven departments including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting the Innovative Development of Future Industries", with the core being the development of "future industries". It mainly includes future manufacturing, future information, future materials, future energy, future space, and future health.

These six new tracks truly represent the direction of the times and the future direction of industries.

Furthermore, the document also clearly points out which are the innovative symbolic products of future industries, totaling 10:

Humanoid robots

Quantum computers

New displays

Brain-computer interfaces6G Network Equipment

Ultra-large-scale New-type Intelligent Computing Centers

Third-generation Internet

High-end Cultural and Tourism Equipment

Advanced and Efficient Aviation Equipment

Deep Resource Exploration and Development Equipment

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See? These are already detailed down to the product level, with key points highlighted! If your industry, company, or your own expertise falls within these areas, then you can smile secretly, as you have truly stepped into the forefront of the times. In the future, these industries may all give birth to heavyweight products.

If you don't know what the concept of "new quality productivity" is, looking at these will clarify it for you.Why are future industries so important?

The most important reason is that vigorously developing future industries is a strategic choice for leading scientific and technological progress, driving industrial upgrading, and fostering new quality productive forces.

Recently, many people have noticed the "unicorn question":

Why has the number of new unicorn companies in China declined?

In fact, looking at the number presented in the Hurun Global Unicorn List, the growth of Chinese unicorn companies in 2021 and 2022 did indeed slow down significantly. However, there was a noticeable rebound in 2023.

In that year, China added 56 new unicorn companies, second only to the United States with 70. Globally, China remains the "number two player" after the United States.

There are very complex socio-economic reasons behind the emergence of unicorn companies, such as the impact of the pandemic and the risk-aversion orientation of international funds, but one key factor is that China is still a striving follower in the development of future industries.

This is because future industries are the fields most likely to "massively" give birth to unicorn companies.

Take the field of artificial intelligence as an example.In 2023, AI has replaced e-commerce as one of the top three main tracks for global unicorns. San Francisco, home to Silicon Valley, boasts 190 unicorns, maintaining its title as the "Global Unicorn Capital" and being the fastest-growing city in terms of unicorn numbers.

OpenAI's ranking has improved by 14 positions over the past year, becoming the best-performing and fastest-growing unicorn globally, with a valuation of 710 billion, ranking in the top three worldwide.

In every field corresponding to future industries, there will be fierce competition, with great power games everywhere.

For example, in the future space industry, focusing on aerospace, deep sea, and deep earth, developing high-end equipment such as manned spaceflight, lunar and Mars exploration, and satellite navigation, major scientific research and攻关 plans have already shown a tense, neck-and-neck situation.

According to the latest announced manned lunar landing plan, China will achieve manned lunar scientific exploration before 2030, with only five and a half years left at most! In this process, China needs to continue to develop new generations of rockets, spacecraft, lunar landers, lunar landing suits, and other equipment.

At that time, China will launch two "interstellar express" missions, sending carrier rockets carrying spacecraft and lunar landers to the moon.

On the surface of the moon, there will be footprints of Chinese people.

In response, the United States is obviously unwilling to give up its glory, and its launched "Artemis 3" manned lunar landing plan, although delayed again and again, still locks September 2026 as the lunar landing time.

These future-oriented explorations, whether from China, the United States, or other countries, will drive many industries to break through bottlenecks and embrace new opportunities together.

The development of future industries is already racing against time, as it may determine the new pattern of urban competition in the next 30 years.The most proactive regions are Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and other provinces and cities. Among them, Beijing is the most comprehensive, after all, it has the richest scientific and technological innovation finance and higher education resources in the country. Beijing has proposed to focus on six major areas of future information, future health, future manufacturing, future energy, future materials, and future space to create a highland for the origin of future industries. This positioning can be said to be high-level and strategic.

Shanghai also has a global perspective and has set a high goal. By 2030, Shanghai aims to emerge with a batch of hard-core achievements, innovative enterprises, and leading talents with global influence in five major areas of future health, future intelligence, future energy, future space, and future materials. It is evident that both Beijing and Shanghai are taking a proactive stance. In terms of specific industrial focuses, the two major cities have different considerations. Among them, Beijing proposes to focus on the development of commercial space and satellite networks in the field of future space, while Shanghai emphasizes accelerating the commercialization of advanced nuclear energy technology in the field of future energy.

Other provinces and cities are targeting unique niche tracks and sprinting forward. For example, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, relying on their relatively mature manufacturing advantages, focus more on concentrating efforts on specific industrial tracks. Jiangsu's proposed "10+X" future industry system, which prioritizes the development of ten growth-oriented future industries such as the third-generation semiconductors, future networks, hydrogen energy, and new types of energy storage, and also lays out a forward-looking plan for a batch of cutting-edge future industries such as quantum technology, deep-sea and deep-space aerospace, and humanoid robots.

Zhejiang, on the other hand, chooses to prioritize the development of nine industries including future networks, metaverse, aerospace information, and bionic robots, and explores the development of six industries such as quantum information, neuroscience and brain-like intelligence, deep earth and deep sea, controlled nuclear fusion and nuclear technology applications.

Guangdong, the largest economic province in China, has also formulated a very detailed action plan.Guangdong will develop five major future industrial clusters, including future information technology, future intelligent equipment, future life and health, future materials, and future green and low-carbon industries, to lead high-quality economic development.

Shenzhen has chosen its own track, which is more specific in combination with reality, totaling 8 major future industries: synthetic biology, blockchain, cell and gene, aerospace technology, brain science and brain-like intelligence, deep earth and deep sea, visible light communication and optical computing, and quantum information.

These future-oriented industries are likely to determine the new pattern of competition among Chinese cities. Whoever can take the lead and seize the opportunity may achieve a leap in hierarchy.

Each popular future industry track has the potential to give birth to a large number of related technological innovation companies, bringing a huge influx of wealth.

The trend-setters of the times must not miss such opportunities.