Manufacturing PMI expansion accelerated in May 2018
In May 2018, the manufacturing PMI was 51.9%, which was 0.5 and 0.7 percentage points higher than the previous month and the same period last year respectively. It was the highest point since October 2017. This indicates that the pace of expansion of the manufacturing industry is accelerating and the development momentum is further strengthened. .
Zhao Qinghe, a senior statistician at the Service Industry Survey Center of the National Bureau of Statistics, analyzed that in May, the supply and demand sides of the manufacturing industry worked together, and market activity increased. The production index and new order index were 54.1% and 53.8%, respectively higher than 1.0% from the previous month. and 0.9 percentage points, rising to the high point during the year. From a structural perspective, in May, the equipment manufacturing and high-tech manufacturing PMIs were 53.0% and 54.8%, up 1.3 and 1.0 percentage points respectively from the previous month, and both continued to be higher than the overall level of the manufacturing industry. The consumer goods manufacturing PMI was 52.7%, basically the same as last month, and the trend was stable. This shows that the pace of transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry is accelerating, and the supporting role of new driving forces continues to strengthen. “The prosperity of traditional industries has rebounded, and corporate production and operations have improved.” Zhao Qinghe said that in May, the PMI of the high-energy-consuming manufacturing industry was 50.5%, returning to the expansion range, among which the PMI of the ferrous metal smelting and rolling processing industry rose to a recent high. “Major indices such as supply and demand have increased, significantly higher than the same period last year. On the whole, the endogenous power of the economy has increased, quality continues to improve, resilience against short-term fluctuations has increased, and the overall operating situation is stable.” said Chen Zhongtao, an expert at the China Logistics Information Center . It is worth noting that due to factors such as the rebound in market demand and the increase in international commodity prices, the manufacturing price index has increased significantly. In May, the purchase price index and ex-factory price index of main raw materials were 56.7% and 53.2%, up 3.7 and 3.0 percentage points respectively from the previous month and 7.2 and 5.6 percentage points higher than the same period last year. In addition, the survey results also showed that the proportion of manufacturing companies reporting financial constraints in May was 40.1%, rising for three consecutive months. The support of financial services to the real economy still needs to be further strengthened. At the same time, the proportion of companies reporting high raw material costs and labor costs continues to exceed 40%, and high cost pressure remains one of the main problems in corporate production and operations.
National Development and Reform Commission: Accelerate breakthroughs in big data core technologies
Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission held the third meeting of the inter-ministerial joint meeting to promote the development of big data and the fourth meeting of the leading group for the implementation of integration and sharing of government information systems. The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to accelerate the breakthrough of big data core technology and accurately grasp the development direction of the digital economy.
The meeting summarized the integration and sharing work of big data and government information systems in 2017, studied and deployed key tasks for 2018, and reviewed and approved in principle the “Work Points for Promoting the Development of Big Data in 2018”, “Implementation Plan for Action Tasks to Relieve Hundreds of Blockpoints in Mass Service” and “National Big Data”. Data Expert Advisory Committee Working Mechanism and Work Points in 2018″ and other documents.
The meeting believed that through the joint efforts of various departments and regions, my country has achieved a series of important results in implementing the big data strategy and promoting the integration of government information systems. The top-level design has been initially completed, systems and mechanisms have been gradually improved, data sharing has been accelerated, pilot demonstrations have begun to show results, innovative applications have emerged rapidly, and the digital transformation of various industries has continued to accelerate, becoming an important driving force for the development of the digital economy.
The meeting pointed out that the achievements that have been made should be fully affirmed, and at the same time, the existing problems should also be clearly recognized. In the next step, we must focus on the construction of digital infrastructure; do a good job in public data services and promote “data connectivity”; do a good job in “Internet government services” and deepen “business connectivity”; and do a good job in the deep integration of big data and the real economy. ; Ensure network and data security.
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Domestic chips have significantly enhanced their ability to support key areas
On April 21, 2018, Diao Shijing, Director of the Electronic Information Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said in an interview that after years of innovative research, the domestic chip segment has achieved major breakthroughs and its ability to support key areas has been significantly enhanced. In 2017, the scale of the integrated circuit industry, including chips, reached 541.1 billion yuan.
Diao Shijing said that in the segmented fields, domestic chips support the significant improvement in the competitiveness of downstream application industries. Taking mobile smart terminal chips as an example, mobile processing chips developed by HiSilicon, Unisoc, etc. account for more than 20% of the global market, which strongly supports my country’s mobile communication terminals to move towards mid-to-high-end.
At the same time, the ability of domestic chips to support key areas has been significantly enhanced. The “Sunway TaihuLight” supercomputer, which all uses safe and reliable CPUs, has ranked first among the world’s top 500 supercomputers for four consecutive times. Hangzhou Zhongtian Microelectronics has shipped approximately 600 million embedded CPUs. As of 2017, the cumulative shipments of standard financial IC card chips based on the SM series national cryptographic algorithms have exceeded 370 million. A relatively complete Beidou navigation chip technology system has been formed in China.
In the design link at the high end of the industrial chain, industrial capabilities are constantly improving. The scale of the domestic design industry increased from 104.7 billion yuan in 2014 to 198 billion yuan in 2017, ranking second in the world, and the quality of design continues to improve.
In addition, our country continues to accelerate the construction of advanced process production lines, effectively driving the development of supporting industries such as domestic equipment and materials. At present, my country’s complete reliance on imported materials for high-end integrated circuit production has been reversed.
Diao Shijing said that the development of my country’s chip industry has institutional advantages, institutional advantages and market advantages. It is necessary to make full use of institutional advantages to focus on breakthroughs in key links of the industry, use market advantages to deploy systematically, strengthen basic R&D and innovation capabilities, cultivate and introduce high-end talents, strengthen international cooperation, and provide follow-up impetus for industrial development.Keywords: Ethernet