1.With 11 demonstration factories and 22 excellent scenarios selected into the annual list, Shanghai won the "Double Championship" of intelligent manufacturing.
Xinsong Robot Shanghai Headquarters was officially opened in Jinqiao, Pudong recently, aiming to make use of Shanghai's cutting-edge innovation resources and industrial cluster efficiency and concentrate on tackling key problems in science and technology. Xinsong Robot chose Shanghai, which is the embodiment of the leading advantage of Shanghai’s robot industry. Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission and other five ministries jointly announced the list of units and excellent scenarios of intelligent manufacturing demonstration factories in 2023. In the city basis, Shanghai was shortlisted for 11 demonstration factories and 22 excellent scenarios, and won the "Double Championship".
Shanghai factories that were shortlisted for the 2023 Intelligent Manufacturing Demonstration Factories include Waigaoqiao High Value-added Ship Intelligent Manufacturing Demonstration Factory, Shanghai Michelin Tire Intelligent Manufacturing Demonstration Factory, Shanghai Chlor-Alkali Chemical Intelligent Manufacturing Demonstration Factory, Haier Washing Machine, Junshi Bio, Zidan Food Packaging and more, totaling 11. Among the excellent scenarios, there are 22 flexible production line configuration of Hesai Technology, intelligent storage of Yanfeng Seats, and digital supplier management and intelligent workshop scheduling of Tesla (Shanghai).
According to the Intelligent Manufacturing Promotion Department of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informationization, from 2023 to 2025, Shanghai will build another 20 municipal benchmark intelligent factories and 200 municipal intelligent factories.
2.In the first 11 months, Shanghai's total foreign trade value reached a record high, with a year-on-year increase of 1.2%. The integrated circuit field showed a booming trend.
According to the statistics of Shanghai Customs, in the first 11 months of this year, the total import and export value of Shanghai reached 3.86 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.2% and a record high. Among them, the export was 1.59 trillion yuan, an increase of 1.7%; Imports reached 2.27 trillion yuan, an increase of 0.8%.
Since the beginning of this year, the import and export of bonded logistics in Shanghai has grown well. In the first 11 months, the growth rate was 11% higher than that of the whole, with an increase of 12.2%, and the import and export volume reached 1.01 trillion yuan. However, general trade still dominates, accounting for 59.3% of the total import and export value in the same period, while processing trade accounts for 13.8%.
In the same period, the import and export of foreign-funded enterprises in Shanghai was 2.27 trillion yuan, down 2.6%, but the monthly decline narrowed. In contrast, the import and export growth rate and proportion of domestic-funded enterprises have increased, with the growth rate reaching 6.8% and the import and export volume reaching 1.58 trillion yuan, accounting for 40.9% of Shanghai's total import and export value in the same period.
In the first 11 months, Shanghai's import and export to Australia, Switzerland, Singapore and other countries performed well, increasing by 19.6%, 13.5% and 11.9% respectively. In the same period, Shanghai's import and export to the EU, its largest trading partner, reached 773.67 billion yuan, an increase of 2.7%.
Shanghai's integrated circuit field shows a booming trend of import and export. In the first 11 months of this year, Shanghai imported 35.36 billion yuan of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, an increase of 26.4%. In the same period, the export of integrated circuits reached 167.33 billion yuan, an increase of 12.6%. In addition, Shanghai's foreign trade exports maintained a large growth rate of ships, electric manned vehicles and lithium batteries, with exports of 36.77 billion yuan, 115.09 billion yuan and 35.82 billion yuan respectively, with growth rates of 47.7%, 45.3% and 56.5% respectively.
