Thecover.cn:

Industrial revitalization serves as a prerequisite for the revitalization of Liaoning province. However, traditional heavy industries rely highly on resources and cause significant environmental damage. How will Liaoning province build a modern industrial system with its own distinctive advantages to revitalize the old industrial base? Thank you.

Li Lecheng:

Thank you for your question, and I'll provide an answer. It's widely acknowledged that the industrial sector serves as the backbone of Liaoning's economy. Therefore, revitalizing the industrial sector is a top priority for the overall revitalization of the province. In 2023, Liaoning ramped up its efforts in industrial restructuring, transformation, and upgrading, successfully achieving higher-quality growth with appropriate expansion of output. This year, the province aims to establish a modern industrial system with distinctive competitiveness, supporting its full revitalization in the new era through high-quality and new-type industrialization. We will enhance efforts in the following aspects:

We will focus on industrial restructuring. Greater efforts will be made to cultivate key industrial clusters and establish four trillion-yuan-level industrial bases. Additionally, we will advance large-scale equipment renewals and technological transformation, intensifying efforts to upgrade the equipment manufacturing industry to a more advanced and innovative level, expand downstream operations in the petrochemical and fine chemical industries, ensure cutting-edge innovations in the new metallurgical materials industry, and enable the consumer goods industry to produce more high-quality and specialized products. Meanwhile, we will develop emerging industries such as integrated circuit equipment and biomedicine while nurturing future-oriented industries such as artificial intelligence and cell therapy. Moving forward, we will advance technological innovation, making efforts to push forward industrial upgrading through innovation. We will carry out industrial foundation reengineering projects and research projects on major technologies and equipment. We will also implement the high-quality development action plan for key industrial chains in the manufacturing industry, focusing on the development of major fields, such as high-performance membranes and the titanium industry. This year, we will establish four provincial-level manufacturing innovation centers and intensify research efforts to achieve breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields, facilitating their industrialization and enhancing the resilience and competitiveness of industrial and supply chains. Additionally, we will prioritize industrial transformation and upgrading. Efforts will be made to accelerate the use of intelligent technologies to promote development. This year, we anticipate the establishment of more than 20 5G factories and over 10 "5G+industrial internet" integrated application pilot zones, along with the creation of over 100 provincial-level industrial internet platforms. We will ramp up efforts to hold a successful Global Industrial Internet Conference this year and will execute the special action plan to empower the development of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through digitalization, promoting their digital and intelligent transformation and network-based connectivity. In addition, we will strive for green development. Efforts will be made to promote the development of the industrial sector in a green, low-carbon and circular manner. We will implement measures to peak carbon dioxide emissions in the industrial sector and facilitate the green and low-carbon transformation of key industries such as petrochemicals, steel and iron, and building materials. These efforts will help improve industrial energy efficiency and facilitate the comprehensive use of resources. We will enhance the green manufacturing system with the goal of reaching 650 provincial-level green manufacturing enterprises by the end of this year. We will intensify efforts to support enterprise development, including boosting major industrial companies' development and improving public service systems for SMEs. This year, we will promote the integrated development of small-, medium- and large-sized enterprises, aiming to establish 1,000 new innovative SMEs, 300 SMEs that use special and sophisticated technologies to produce novel and unique products, and 50 provincial-level single-product champion enterprises in the manufacturing sector. 

That's all for my introduction. Thank you.