(Source: "Economic Daily" 2025-01-14)

In the era of digital economy, the development of future industries has become an important symbol of measuring a country's technological innovation and comprehensive strength. Vigorously developing future industries is a strategic choice to lead scientific and technological progress, promote industrial upgrading, and cultivate new productive forces. In recent years, national-level economic and technological development zones have seized the opportunities of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, actively laid out future industrial tracks, and opened up new space and new ideas for industrial development.

Future industries lead the development direction of emerging industries and inject new vitality and new momentum into accelerating the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. Cultivating and developing future industries and actively using digital technology to promote the intelligent and green development of the manufacturing industry are inevitable requirements for promoting the deep integration of informatization and industrialization. It is also an important way to accelerate industrial transformation and upgrading and enhance the international competitiveness of the manufacturing industry. In the context of increasing uncertainty in the world economy, my country's economic development is facing severe challenges. Opening a new channel for economic growth by cultivating and developing future industries is not only a strategic deployment to seize the opportunities of a new round of technological and industrial changes and actively participate in global competition, but also an inevitable choice to accelerate the construction of a technological, manufacturing, and network power.

Cultivating and developing future industries requires breaking away from inertial thinking, changing development ideas, innovating development models, and achieving coordination and unity of development speed, quality, and efficiency. For national-level economic development zones, competing for the future industrial track requires systematic efforts in industrial technology policies, industrial organization policies, and industrial supporting policies.

In terms of industrial technology policy, support the basic innovation and application of cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, computing algorithms, 6G, deep sea and space, synthetic materials, and low-carbon environmental protection, vigorously promote the construction of public innovation platforms such as the Future Industry Research Institute and the National Industrial Innovation Center, provide high-quality software and hardware support for various innovation entities, especially innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, and provide a carrier for technological innovation. Fully explore the needs of cutting-edge industry development, consumption upgrades, and refined urban governance, provide application scenarios for innovation and entrepreneurship in future industrial fields, and promote the transformation and implementation of technology research and development results through the integration of industry, academia, and research.

In terms of industrial organization policies, we should vigorously promote the development of future industrial clusters, make full use of the advantages of national economic development zones and various functional zones, and build future industrial clusters according to local conditions. Reasonably lay out the production R&D network and factor supply network, promote the collaboration of large and medium-sized enterprises in the industrial chain, supply chain, and innovation chain, accelerate the formation of an integrated research mechanism from basic research to product development, shorten the innovation cycle, and improve the efficiency of transformation of innovation results.

In terms of supporting industrial policies, we will create a good business environment for future industrial development, attract domestic and foreign R&D resources, and provide convenient conditions for high-level innovative talents to live and work. Encourage fiscal funds and financial capital to tilt toward future industries, establish future industry venture capital funds, provide more financing channels for innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, and reduce financing costs.

(The author is a professor at the Institute of International w88 Rules, w88 casino)

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