Wuhan City releases digital economy "new policy" to build an independent innovation integrated circuit industry base

Recently, the Wuhan Municipal People's Government issued the "Wuhan Digital Economy Development Plan (2022-2026)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan").

The "Plan" proposes that by 2035, an important domestic source of digital economy technology, a digital industry cluster, an innovative talent training base, a data element circulation hub, a governance model gathering place, and an application scenario enrichment place will be built into a comprehensive first-tier city for the digital economy and become an important node in the global digital economy industrial chain, innovation chain, and value chain.

The "Plan" identifies five key tasks, including improving digital information infrastructure, strengthening the strengths of digital industry development, deepening industrial digitalization, continuously optimizing the digitalization of social governance, and exploring ways to realize data value.

Improve digital information infrastructure

Accelerate the construction of high-quality 5G networks. Deepen the construction of "dual gigabit cities" and comprehensively build a high-quality, high-speed, wide-coverage, and large-connection 5G network. Promote the large-scale commercial use of 5G independent networking, optimize 5G coverage in industrial parks, ports and other scenarios, and promote the construction of 5G industry virtual private networks. Achieve high-quality 5G coverage in central urban areas and key areas, basically achieve the same network and speed between urban and rural areas, and the 5G private network in the industrial field has begun to take shape. Improve the service capabilities of the national top-level node (Wuhan) for industrial Internet identification resolution, optimize the layout of secondary nodes, form an industrial Internet identification resolution system that covers all key areas and is guaranteed for key industries, and realize a number of "5G+Industrial Internet" industry applications that lead the country.

Strengthening the strengths of digital industry development

Electronic information manufacturing industry. "Light" industry: enhance the core competitiveness of the optical communication industry, vigorously develop key core technologies such as high-end optoelectronic devices, special optical fibers, and high-power lasers, and promote the development of the entire optical communication industry chain. "Core" industry: develop application chips such as memory, autonomous driving, smart cockpits, infrared imaging, and Beidou navigation, promote the research and development of compound semiconductor process technology, and build an independent innovation integrated circuit industry base. "Screen" industry: give play to the agglomeration effect of industry-leading enterprises, further expand the scale of the panel industry, and build the most advanced full-size panel new display industry cluster in China. "Terminal" industry: vigorously introduce leading smart terminal companies, strengthen coordinated development with chip, display, software and other industries, and build an important national smart terminal production base. "Network" industry: accelerate the development of network equipment in the fields of new generation mobile communications and next generation Internet such as 5G and satellite Internet, and build a top domestic information network industry cluster.

In the frontier field, in the direction of flexible electronics, explore future directions such as flexible display materials, flexible sensing and intelligent technology, flexible integrated devices and wearable technology, flexible optoelectronic integration technology, and flexible printed display equipment. In the direction of photonic technology, develop photonic technology fields such as silicon photonic chips and photonic computing, and promote their application in data centers and other directions. In the direction of 6G network, strengthen frontier strategic basic research and development, advance the development of 6G communication equipment and terminals, participate in the research and formulation of international and domestic standards, plan the layout of 6G satellite-ground integrated network construction, and promote the coordinated development of 5G commercial use and 6G research layout. In the direction of metaverse, develop key technologies such as extended reality, digital twins, and engine tools, introduce and cultivate a number of pioneering projects and enterprises, promote the integration of metaverse with consumer and industry fields, and create pilot demonstrations such as tourism metaverse, entertainment metaverse, industrial metaverse, and aerospace metaverse.

Software and information technology services. Basic software and industrial software, taking the national information technology application innovation and development as the starting point, strive to break through the "bottleneck" fields such as operating systems, databases, and industrial design software, develop independent and controllable basic software products and solutions, and strengthen the city's core competitiveness in the field of information innovation. Network and information security, build a national network security talent and innovation base at a high level, and form a network and information security development trend that integrates science and technology, talents, applications, and industries. Internet information services, facing the market demand of key areas of consumer Internet and industrial Internet, encourage product and model innovation, actively deploy the next generation of Internet Web3.0, and explore the application of 3D Internet technology with metaverse characteristics. Geospatial information, support the development of data processing, processing, analysis, visualization and location service applications based on Beidou, remote sensing, and geographic information systems.

In the cutting-edge field, artificial intelligence focuses on developing key technologies such as natural language understanding, speech and image recognition, biometric recognition, machine learning, and deep learning. Blockchain focuses on the development of technical applications such as network architecture, consensus mechanism, smart contracts, cross-chain protocols, and cryptographic algorithms. Advanced computing focuses on promoting various technologies for processing massive big data, such as cloud computing, edge computing, distributed computing, memory computing, and stream computing. Quantum technology preemptively deploys major application links such as quantum communication, quantum measurement, and quantum chips.

In terms of characteristic and advantageous industries. Focus on the characteristic industries with national influence in our city, and actively lay out in sub-sectors such as Beidou, intelligent networked vehicles, and information technology application innovation. In the field of Beidou, accelerate the key core technology research based on Beidou-3, promote the research and development and industrialization of Beidou chips and key components and terminals, and focus on the development of high-precision and high-performance chips, general navigation chips, navigation terminals and timing terminals. Increase the demonstration and promotion of industry applications, and realize the integration and innovation of Beidou applications in urban governance, intelligent transportation, emergency management, mass consumption and other fields. Expand Beidou-based spatial information services, remote sensing technology, geographic information systems, and global positioning system software. Focus on building a "Beidou+" industrial ecology. In the field of intelligent networked vehicles, introduce and cultivate intelligent networked vehicle companies with core technologies in key areas, strengthen the integration and supporting technologies such as vehicle-mounted perception, autonomous driving, Internet of Vehicles, and Internet of Things, develop intelligent traffic perception systems, and form an independent autonomous driving platform technology system and product assembly capabilities. Carry out urban vehicle-road collaborative road tests, focusing on the demonstration and application of scenarios such as autonomous driving taxis, buses, shuttles, and logistics distribution. Build an intelligent networked vehicle inspection and testing platform and a simulation test platform. In the field of information technology application innovation, we will focus on key core technologies that "choke the neck", strive to research and develop software products with domestic substitution capabilities, and prepare to build a national basic software collaborative research and innovation center. We will focus on supporting the development of independent and controllable basic software products such as domestic operating systems, Internet of Things operating systems, and distributed databases, support the development and production of complete machines based on domestic software and hardware, introduce CPU and printing and scanning equipment projects, carry out information technology application innovation software and hardware adaptation projects, and carry out domestic technology research and development, adaptation verification, and talent training. Promote the expansion of the application of information technology products to finance, energy, telecommunications and other fields.

In addition, the "Plan" proposes five major key projects, namely, the digital core technology research project, the digital application scenario opening project, the digital security protection construction project, the digital innovation talent training project, and the digital regional characteristic development project.

Digital core technology research project

Carry out basic scientific research, focus on advantageous and distinctive fields such as optoelectronic science, advanced storage, and aerospace information, and support key technology research in cutting-edge fields such as high-end chips, silicon photonic chips, operating systems, and artificial intelligence algorithms. Accelerate the construction of Hubei laboratories, and build a number of national manufacturing innovation centers, industrial innovation centers, and technology innovation centers in key digital economy fields such as optical communications, integrated circuits, and new displays. Support collaborative innovation among software suppliers and smart manufacturing equipment suppliers, provide platform-based and component-based industry system solutions, and cultivate a group of local digital empowerment solution providers and a group of digital empowerment service benchmarks. Deepen the transformation of digital technology achievements and strengthen collaborative protection of intellectual property rights.