Science, technology and innovation and industrial innovation are essential pathways to the development of new qualitative productivity. In 2025, we relied on innovation to enable high-quality development, technology and industry to integrate in depth, and china's economy moved forward, moving towards new and better, and building modern industrial systems continued。
In 2026, how can sti lead industrial innovation? How can the multiplier effect of the deeper integration of the two be magnified? How does industry take advantage of the opportunity and re-specify the new story? Let's hear the voices of corporate r&d leaders。
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Director-general zhou rai, as 700 project, special aviation industries
The new ship will fly even further
I'm from the special vehicle institute of the chinese aerospace industries group. When i graduated, many of my classmates went to such popular projects as a big plane, and i chose to join the special flight facility because of the word “special”. On entry into service, the word “special” implies that the cold door — the focus of the surface vehicle, the floating vehicle, etc. — has no mature experience to follow, and the technological path is entirely autonomous. However, the innovation-inclusion culture of the special flights has enabled me to take root quickly and to cultivate the various types of design, research and development。
Ten years ago, i was bound up with the jeong yun as 700, which accompanied it through the entire design, trial, test flight, forensics until it was applied. Today, i am proud to state that as 700 is the first short-range/vertical manned launcher in our country that has been developed in accordance with seaworthiness norms and has full autonomous intellectual property rights。
Recall that in february 2025, we successfully completed the first flight of the electric-type as700d scientific research; in september, as7000 flew over the “first high bridge of the world” canyon bridge in guizhou to verify the environmental suitability of the craft in the plateau; and in december, as7000 obtained the country's first permit for the production of a manned craft。
In the eyes of some, the ship may still be “a product of the last century”, but as new technologies and new scenes accelerate over time, new types of boat are opening up opportunities for development. In the subdivision of the low-altitude economy, the advantages of high safety, low-altitude slow speed, long-staying, green environment and so on will be found。
All the way, with the scientific resilience of a “ten years of cold sitting on the bench”, we pushed as 700 to complete the leap from technical validation to market applications, formally opening up the big curtain of shipbuilding。
As 700 obtained several first-time technical advances, such as the first domestication of the main materials of the craft, the first breakthrough in the design of the light low-cost capsule structure, the first mastery of the vessel's thrust vector to synchronise key control technologies, and the first equipping of the national craft's dedicated integrated air power system. We have managed to overcome this challenge by building on the institutional advantages of a new nation-wide system, with cross-cutting teams from universities and scientific institutes. It can be said that each takeoff from this “massive cloud” is not alone, but a group of people, one heart, moving towards the same goal。
From the “laboratories” to the “large market”, as 700 has already been “flowered” and 42 have now been signed, with applications in many places such as guizhou, zhejiang shao xing, jiang sutakura and guangxi yangsaku。
In the new year, may the "omnibus" fly higher and farther. We will focus on “pay orders, validate models” and promote the accelerated landing of as 700 in low-altitude tourism, emergency relief, etc., so that “air services” can benefit ordinary lives, assist villages, and enable high-quality development of low-altitude economies with hard nuclear innovation。
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Chief engineer, china iron and steel group, jia lanhui
Write the drawings and codes on the site
The yangtze river is entering the sea and construction is under way to build a new tunnel from shanghai to nanjing to fattao zhao。
The zonta yangtze tunnel, which is the key control project of the “two-fold” project along the high iron chain of the river, is the first one designed to be 350 km/h, and is responsible for the excavation of the world's largest diameter high-wire shield, the “leading craft”。
In 2025, the lead crossed several crossing points: it succeeded in crossing the deepest depths of the yangtze, 89 metres from the river, achieving “zero disturbance” of the yangtze ecology; it went through the 10,000-metre pass, updating the world record of the 15-metre shield。
As the construction of the zonta yangtze tunnel moves towards “the last kilometre”, and in order to ensure the high-quality and efficient construction of the project, we have introduced new equipment: the global max。
Why do we have to develop the enlightenment? This is a pain in the works at the project site. The zonta yangtze tunnel is divided into water and land areas. The surface and surface segments are very different in geology and require different skills for shields. As a result, upon completion of the construction of the water segment, it was necessary to open a rig to repair the equipment and to bring the engineers to the top of the main mainframe of the “leading” for repair and maintenance。
The traditional wells are generally “manual + semi-mechanical” and the construction staff are required to access the base pits and face imminent safety risks, such as landslides and surges, not only because of the high risk of construction but also because of longer construction periods。
Based on this realistic need, the forward-looking research and development of a well-drilling machine has been initiated since 2019. From detaching the technical difficulties of mechanized construction of wells, raising equipment needs to dismantling research and development tasks, to closing critical core components on a case-by-case basis, iron and chinese equipment starts with small diameters, and contributes to the gradual maturity of well-drilling products。
It is thanks to six years of technology reserves and close collaboration with the bureau of iron tunnels, an industrial chain customer, that we have completed the development of the enlightenment in just one year. The enlightenment digs 24 metres in diameter, with a maximum depth of 150 metres, and achieves an efficient excavation of “manned, unmanned”。
It is planned that in january 2026, the enlightenment will be issued. This completely new research and development will translate into real productivity, a threefold increase in the efficiency of assistive rig operations and a three-quarter reduction in the number of personnel, thus circumventing the various safety hazards of underground operations at their root。
Looking ahead to 2026, we will insist on demand-driven innovation, promote deeper linkages between r & d centres and industrial scenes, and put drawings and codes on the site, not only to help power firms to achieve better development, but also to address the pains and congestions of the downstream industry, and to keep wiping the gold card “china built.”。
In the coming period, chinese and chinese iron equipment will focus on the intellectual, green and integrated development of the shield industry. Supporting the autonomous decision-making process through the construction of a large vertical field model, enabling the development of shield units; achieving green construction through technological innovation and upgrading of equipment; and facilitating the expansion of shield units from the field of transport to the fields of mines, water, electricity and water by developing multi-purpose scenarios to provide the country with equipment to fully develop underground space。
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Wang shi-woo, deputy general manager, dalian reserve energy technology development co. Ltd
A new kind of storage can boost the long voyage
One stacked container above and two electrolyte containers below, folded together, are the aqueous liquid battery storage systems that we produce, each group of products capable of storing 3,000 kilowatt-hours of electric power, equivalent to about one year of electricity consumption per household。
Fluorine current batteries are a type of technological route for new types of energy, with a useful life of more than 20 years, a storage capacity of more than four hours long and resistant to high and low temperatures. Previously, there was a distance from large-scale applications due to limitations on raw materials, costs, etc. In the past two years, the r & d team has been able to nationalize the electrode materials of the hydrolytic battery and has developed high-efficiency additives for the electrolytic fluid, which accelerates the movement of the hydromechanical battery to the market。
The electrode is the core material of the battery, and the thinner the cell energy density, the lower the material cost. In the past, the importation of electrode materials from foreign enterprises took three to six months in advance, and significant purchases were required under long-term agreements. Through ongoing research and development, we have developed electrodes that optimize from 6 mm to 2 mm thickness, achieve better performance with fewer materials and significantly increase performance。
Moreover, an additive developed by the r & d team on its own can increase the stability and reliability of the electrolyte and significantly reduce the frequency of customer stoppages, thereby increasing the full life-cycle benefits of the product. At present, we have established the world's largest production base for electrolyte, which accounts for about 60 per cent of the global market。
The achievements of enterprises have benefited both from their own increased capacity to innovate and from cooperative production studies. For example, we have worked in depth with scientific research institutes such as the dalian institute of chemical physics of the chinese academy of sciences to use our respective resources and technological advantages to develop cutting-edge products and technologies on the market to accelerate the translation of scientific and technological innovations into real productivity; we have also formed an interdisciplinary professional research and development team covering the development of high-performance aluminum materials, core components of electric reactors and battery systems, based on continuous high-intensity research and development inputs, to systematically advance forward-looking technology layouts, product iteratives and process optimization。
The new national storage capacity has now exceeded 100 million kilowatts, representing more than 40 per cent of the global share. As new sources of energy become fully marketed, generation firms are forced to improve their competitiveness by generating and generating electricity. New types of reserves can be an important instrument of regulation and prospects for future development are to be expected。
Next, we hope to further increase the power density of the reactors and reduce the efficiency of their energy efficiency through technological reinforcement, structural upgrades, scale production, etc., with a view to driving the cost of electricity down to about one third of its current level over the years. At the same time, the links between r & d in science and technology and the construction of applied scenarios have been strengthened to integrate innovation, and more sti results have been applied to industrial chains, to industrial parks, computing facilities, telecommunications bases, etc., and to expand the subdivision of markets。
The deep integration of science and technology with industry requires both market-driven and policy-led approaches. Over the years, there has been considerable support for resources, platforms, etc. From the relevant ministries and the local authorities, and we look forward to further strengthening the forward-looking configuration and policy support for long-term storage capacity, with a view to moving china's leading energy storage technology to the world。
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Zhang xiaobin, founder and ceo of whale intelligence
It's a service blind spot for growth
North american market sales increased by 48 per cent and european market receipts by 67 per cent each year. In the “black friday” shopping season of 2025, the whale smart scanning robot presented a brilliant report card。
The ground sweep robot can change from a “new species” to a “hot-to-hand product” behind innovation. As early as three years ago, the whale smart development team, which had been studied and tested hundreds of times, found that the living water belt structure was more efficient and user experience better than the traditional roller structure. From “self-washed tugs” to “self-washed up and down like a washing machine”, to “real-time cleaning of tugs with hot and live water on the side of the ground”, our products are constantly being produced and sold to more than 50 countries and territories。
After more than 40 years of development, my country's electricity sector has entered a phase of incremental expansion and stock upgrading. In order to find new growth points, we ask for answers to innovation and try to find market increments in differentiation。
On the one hand, efforts are being made to attack core technologies. Over the years, cloud whales ' intelligence has relied on autonomous research and development to construct core technology maps such as binary vision technology and large artificial intelligence models, cumulatively applying for over 1,400 patent results. In 2025, specialized smart teams were formed, with over 40 per cent of research and development personnel. On the other hand, supply chain management is optimized. Currently, the company's core metaware is fully domesticated。
At present, our engineers are doing their best to develop a home-based smart product that not only cleans up along established routes, but also reaches out to the mechanical arm and sorts out loose items。
The more the chinese economy moves towards quality, the higher the demand for innovation. In 2026, we will sustain deep-farming of robotics, driven by two-wheel drives of technological innovation and intelligent manufacturing, to continuously improve market competitiveness and help drive chinese manufacturing to higher levels。
Today's china, with its super-large market and full industrial system advantages, is a solid foundation for our response to challenges and challenges and provides the best ground for accelerating the growth of new and qualitative productivity and innovative development. It is our firm belief that the ongoing fight against technological difficulties and the constant elimination of service failures will turn the current market pains into the bright spots of future growth, bringing together a powerful feeder for accelerating the building of powerful nations。
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Wong wei, founder and chief executive officer of yun chiu
It's better to make big models better
At the moment, artificial intelligence technologies are accelerating their deep integration with the real economy. By way of example, when the attending physician completes the examination at the hepatitis clinic of the sunken hospital of the beijing friendship hospital, the “smart body” of the medical clinic automatically produces an electronic medical record, which is complete with complaints, current medical history, past history, examination recommendations, etc. Doctors just need a little mouse and the system is filed directly。
This set of "smarts" is our company's integration project based on the big model. 2025 is the year of leapfrogging of large models from usable to good, from universal to specialized. In the past, large models, with their extensive literacy skills, often “respond to questions” in areas of high professional thresholds such as medical, political and manufacturing. Over the past year, we have been able to “understand” the big model through the injection of professional data in a million-class industry. To date, the big mountain model has been applied in a variety of settings, including medical, transport and government services, and in 400 hospitals the medical solutions have been applied。
The old chinese entrepreneurs have solved the question of whether there are any, and our generation of technology entrepreneurs, who have responded to the question of whether they are strong or not, dared to be “specialists” deep into the industry's acreage – large in size, but able to get close, deep and deep in critical links。
Innovation is the only way to create a long-accumulated “hard work” in vertical areas. To date, our r & d inputs have accounted for over 35 per cent of the revenue generated and over 1,300 invention patents have been applied, more than 90 per cent of which are focused on bottom technologies。
The “fifty five” planning proposal proposes “to promote the deeper integration of sti and industrial innovation” “to strengthen the ownership of sti in enterprises”. This brings me to a deeper understanding of the need to strengthen the original innovation and key core technology barriers, to produce more landmark original results and to accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological results into concrete application scenarios, making the big model a real service industry。
Over the next three years, artificial intelligence will move further from tools to intelligent bodies, showing a trend towards perception, thinking, implementation and self-evolution. It will focus on new tracks such as energy, finance and high-end intellectual engineering, and will continue to build functional industrial intelligence with universal artificial intelligence technology to enable industrial development。
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