China News Service, Beijing, April 9 (Reporter Cha Zhiyuan, Intern Jia Shengyi) From April 7 to 8, the National Service Industry Conference was held in Beijing. The conference proposed to promote the development of the service industry in a layered and categorized manner, continuously cultivate new growth points in the service industry, and enhance the level of digital intelligence, standardization, integration, and internationalization in the service industry. It clearly pointed out the need to focus on innovation-driven development, vigorously develop technology services, strengthen digital intelligence services, and promote the integrated development of manufacturing and service industries.
Why does the country emphasize &#34;integration of the two industries&#34; when shifting its strategic focus to the service industry?
Integration of the Two Industries Becomes a Must-Answer Question
Lü Shupeng, Director of the Department of Public Policy and Management at Xi'an Jiaotong University, stated in an interview with China News Service that &#34;integration of the two industries&#34; is not merely a simple addition of industrial forms, but an inevitable choice for China's manufacturing industry to shift from scale development to innovation development. Essentially, it seeks higher-dimensional intelligent development paths and value growth paths for manufacturing. At the same time, the service industry is no longer a passive support for manufacturing but a transformative engine driving Chinese manufacturing towards the mid-to-high end of the global value chain.
Some viewpoints suggest that in the modern industrial system, productive service industries represented by software information services, technology research and development, financial services, and modern logistics are not only important growth poles for their own GDP but also fertile ground for cultivating new productive forces, providing strong support for the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing, which is the foundation of the nation and the basis for becoming a strong country.
Huang Qifan, Executive Vice Chairman of the Academic Committee of the China National Innovation and Development Strategy Research Association, pointed out that the profit margin of China's manufacturing output is only about 7%, far below the average level of 10% to 12% in Europe and the United States, with a low contribution rate of total factor productivity, still relying on a large amount of factor input.
Productive service industries run through the entire industrial chain of manufacturing, including upstream, midstream, and downstream processes. To solve the existing dilemmas in manufacturing and further promote the improvement of total factor productivity in the Chinese economy, it is necessary to rely on knowledge-intensive, capital-intensive, and talent-intensive productive service industries to enhance added value.
Taking the computing power service industry as an example, Professor Li Jin from the School of Management at Xi'an Jiaotong University told China News Service that the computing power service industry acts as a foundation supporting the digital transformation and empowerment of manufacturing and other service industries.
From research and development design, software systems to supply chain management and brand marketing, these productive services are key to the manufacturing industry climbing from the bottom of the &#34;smile curve&#34; to both ends. Without a developed productive service industry, it is difficult for manufacturing to achieve high-quality development.
What is the current progress of the integration of the two industries?
The connotation of the integration of the two industries is to promote the integrated development of advanced manufacturing and modern service industries, with the carrier being the productive service industries related to manufacturing.
In response to the conference's proposal to &#34;enhance the level of digital intelligence, standardization, integration, and internationalization in the service industry,&#34; technology empowerment and computing power and data governance support for integration are needed. Li Jin stated that first, it is necessary to optimize computing power scheduling, enhance the stability and energy efficiency of cloud computing services through intelligent scheduling of data centers, and support the intelligent transformation of manufacturing; second, innovate data governance, focusing on the safe and compliant cross-border flow of data to provide decision-making support for the digital economy. He also emphasized the need to make computing power services more inclusive and lower the threshold for small and medium-sized enterprises to use computing. Currently, there are explorations such as computing power vouchers and cloud-edge collaboration to help small and medium-sized enterprises reduce initial costs
From the progress, the added value of China's service industry has reached 57.7% of GDP, with the proportion of productive services rising to 30.5%, and the scale of added value reaching 41.1 trillion yuan.
Reporters noted that some provinces have already taken the lead. For example, Guangdong issued &#34;Several Measures to Promote the Deep Integration of Manufacturing and Productive Services&#34; in 2025, proposing to cultivate 100 service-oriented manufacturing demonstration enterprises and 100 productive service industry clusters by 2027, and to build 20 pilot projects of &#34;industrial clusters + cross-border e-commerce.&#34; Guangdong Industrial Design City has innovatively launched the &#34;service design + industry going abroad&#34; model, driving the home furnishing industry from single product exports to system integration services.
Lv Shupeng pointed out that the integration of the two industries encourages enterprises to shift from merely providing &#34;products&#34; to offering &#34;products + services + system solutions,&#34; enhancing product added value and market competitiveness. At the same time, the productive service industry plays a lubricating role in cross-industry embedding and empowerment. In the process of industrial upgrading, the technology service industry can accurately match innovative resources, reducing the resistance to productivity transformation. The digital transformation of production processes breaks down information silos, with full-process services penetrating to achieve cost reduction and efficiency enhancement.
At the same time, China's unique national conditions provide favorable development conditions for the productive service industry. According to Li Jin, China's advantages lie in the large market size of the service industry, rich application scenarios, and rapid industrial iteration. Once many productive services form mature solutions, they can achieve faster large-scale applications, thereby diluting R&amp;D and deployment costs, allowing more small and medium-sized enterprises to share in the technological dividends. From domestic practice, computing power services have already shown significant cost reduction and efficiency enhancement effects in multiple fields. For example, in the retail sector, inventory costs can be reduced through demand forecasting and intelligent replenishment, while in the logistics sector, empty driving rates and delivery costs can be lowered through route optimization and scheduling.
Finding the Balance Between &#34;Release&#34; and &#34;Management&#34;
The meeting emphasized the need to promote work with reform and innovation ideas, deeply grasp the trends of industrial evolution, adhere to both &#34;active release&#34; and &#34;effective management,&#34; actively expand openness, and further enhance the targeted effectiveness of policy support to create a favorable environment for the development of the service industry.
Lv Shupeng believes that the key to breaking the dilemma of the service industry, where &#34;release leads to chaos and management leads to stagnation,&#34; lies in the transformation of governance logic from &#34;access management&#34; to &#34;process governance.&#34; The balance between &#34;release&#34; and &#34;management&#34; itself is not important; what matters is a dynamic response mechanism behind it.
To establish a dynamic response mechanism, Lv Shupeng suggests starting from the following aspects. &#34;First, construct a hierarchical and categorized regulatory framework, with high standards and strict supervision for public safety, and provide observation periods and error tolerance for emerging business formats. Second, promote data-driven intelligent regulation and credit constraints, using big data to build a full-process credit evaluation system. In addition, establish a collaborative governance system with multiple participants, introducing industry associations and professional evaluation agencies to allow market mechanisms to spontaneously adjust low-end violations.&#34;
It is worth noting that the conference also called for &#34;expanding institutional openness in the service industry.&#34; Guangdong Province, relying on major platforms such as Hengqin, Qianhai, Nansha, and He Tao, is working with Hong Kong and Macau to build a highland for productive services
Li Jinye pointed out that the cross-border flow of data is crucial for promoting cross-border trade and the development of the digital economy, and that data should be allowed to &#34;move and circulate&#34; under the premise of security and compliance. (End)

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The National Service Industry Conference proposed to promote the integrated development of the service industry and manufacturing, emphasizing the importance of innovation-driven and technology services. Experts pointed out that this integration is not just a simple addition of industrial forms, but an inevitable choice for the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, aimed at enhancing the global competitiveness of Chinese manufacturing. Productive services are seen as key to promoting the added value of manufacturing, covering various aspects of the entire industrial chain

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