Comments from Singapore Lianhe Zaobao

The comments of the Singapore Joint Morning Post on China's irrational economic and industrial structure have been raised for a long time, but the question is, how can we change it? I think that China will face three non-short-term problems to change its current economic and industrial structure: a low-quality population, and a low level of technology, 3. Lack of innovation consciousness the so-called unreasonable economic industrial structure is nothing more than a large proportion of labor-intensive industries and a small proportion of technology-and knowledge-intensive industries. To solve the problem of employment of a large number of low-quality people, we must rely only on labor-intensive industries, because you want him to do high-tech jobs, he cannot do it. Technology-and knowledge-intensive industries actually sell idea. Using design innovation brings high value-added products. But your design innovation must have a high starting point to be internationally competitive. Innovation at a very low starting point, although innovative, has no value or significance. Therefore, the development of technology and knowledge-intensive industries requires two foundations: one is the high-level industrial technology level, and the other is the external environment that can continuously stimulate innovation consciousness. At present, although our country's industrial technology level has been greatly improved, there is still a big gap between us, Japan, and Europe, making up for this gap cannot be completed overnight. In terms of innovation, our system and culture do not encourage innovation, and our intellectual property protection cannot protect innovation. In this regard, our policy is very embarrassing, emphasizing the protection of intellectual property rights, it is not good for our country to "introduce" or steal foreign technologies. However, mitigating intellectual property protection is also detrimental to stimulating the national consciousness of innovation. If internal protection and external protection are weakened, this is economic protectionism. Therefore, I think that China does not have a hard environment and a soft environment for rapid technological and knowledge-intensive industries, so we can only adopt a gradual approach. In view of China's national conditions, this gradual transformation may take at least 10 years of unremitting efforts. Of course, it is unknown whether Guangdong thinks it is different from China's national conditions. I think Guangdong and the Central Government do not have any advantages. In fact, China's long-term focus on labor-intensive industries is determined by China's labor base. The prominent problem is that the environment and energy consumption of this industry are serious. Guangdong's local leaders blindly pursue the so-called advanced productivity, it is better to set the goal to develop an energy-saving labor-intensive industry that is "friendly to the ecological environment", to achieve energy-saving and environmental protection transformation of existing labor-intensive industries, and to "energy-saving, environmental protection, and employment promotion, as a new slogan.