Yu Xubo: How to build a world first class high-end machine tool equipment group?
Yu Xubo
Representative of the National People's Congress, Chairman of General Technology Group, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group
2021 is the first year of the "14th Five-Year Plan", and also a crucial year for the three-year reform of state-owned enterprises. As the “pillar of the major powers” and the “ballast of the national economy”, the reform and development of central enterprises has always attracted attention. Recently, Yu Xubo, a representative of the National People's Congress, Chairman of General Technology Group, and Party Secretary, served as a guest at the People's Internet Power Forum to communicate with netizens on how General Technology Group builds a world-class high-end machine tool equipment group and a medical and healthcare industry group.
Technology represents the most distinctive feature of General Technology Group
As the “pillar of a major country’s heavyweight”, General Technology Group takes technology as the foundation of enterprise development. General Technology Group was established in 1998. Although it has only 23 years of history, it is an enterprise with profound historical background and important historical contributions. Most of the main subsidiaries of the group have a long history of 70 years, and have been practicing their original aspirations and missions around the word "technology" for 70 years. Technology represents the most distinctive feature of General Technology Group. On the one hand, it serves the country’s development, technology import and technology export; on the other hand, it is deeply engaged in technology research as well as development and manufacturing in the field of advanced manufacturing.
"From the day the company was established, its original intention and its positioning were very clear, that is, to serve our country's industrialization and modernization through technology." Yu Xubo said that the general technology group covers a wide range of fields. Not only the equipment manufacturing industry and the new fiber material industry, but now it also covers the field of medical and medical services. And in response to the national "One Belt, One Road" initiative, General Technology Group drives Chinese equipment, Chinese technology, and Chinese standards to the world.
2021 is the first year of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the "critical year" for the three-year reform of state-owned enterprises. What are the main tasks of General Technology Group in deepening reform at this time?
Yu Xubo said that implementing the three-year action plan for the reform of state-owned enterprises, giving full play to the role of central enterprises, and truly ensuring that 70% of the overall requirements of the three-year action task for the reform of state-owned enterprises will be completed by 2021. Specifically, it is necessary to carry out the reform of state-owned capital investment companies. We will promote the improvement of corporate governance structure at all levels of the group, improve the governance mechanism, strengthen the standardization of the board of directors, orderly advance authorization and decentralization, deepen the reform of the three systems, and fully stimulate the vitality of micro-subjects.
Regarding the goal of the company’s future reforms, Yu Xubo said, “We need to further implement the system of “revealing the list and taking command” so that talents who really want to work, can work, and do things can stand out and be able to truly take the key in the forefront of technological innovation. Task to create more scientific and technological achievements and transformation results."
Yu Xubo said, “Our company is born out of technology, and our future development must be based on technology. From advanced manufacturing and technical services to medical and health care, to our trade and engineering services, we can’t do anything well without technology."
Build a world-class machine tool equipment group in ten years
During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, China's industrial added value increased from 23.5 trillion yuan to 31.3 trillion yuan, making it the world's largest manufacturing country for 11 consecutive years. Speaking of the development of the manufacturing industry, Yu Xubo said that General Technology Group, as the leader of the machine tool equipment manufacturing industry, shoulders a huge mission and task.
"Our important goal during the '14th Five-Year Plan' period is to build a world-class high-end machine tool equipment group in the field of machine tools." Yu Xubo believes that strong manufacturing requires strong equipment; strong equipment requires strong machine tools. As the "industrial mother machine", machine tools are related to the country's industrial development and industrial revitalization, as well as national destiny and national rejuvenation.
How to build a world-class high-end machine tool equipment group? Yu Xubo believes that General Technology Group is ready to "grind a sword in ten years." The first phalanx of the machine tool industry is some old-brand machine tool companies represented by Germany, the United States and Japan. Although some of their companies are small in scale, they have been investing in science and technology for a long time. Several generations of a family have been doing one thing, forming a unique core competitiveness in the field of "professional, refined, and special". To learn from these companies, General Technology Group must first comprehensively improve its technological innovation capabilities. In 2020, General Technology Group established the Machine Tool Engineering Research Institute, and in the future will build it into a national science and technology research and development center for my country's machine tool industry. Second, the revitalization of my country's machine tool manufacturing industry requires the concerted efforts of all parties. General Technology Group will unite other machine tool companies in the industry, unite upstream functional component suppliers and downstream key users, unite relevant universities and research institutes and other scientific research institutions to truly establish a sound collaborative innovation mechanism and open up the entire industrial chain and innovation chain , Promote the whole industry to become stronger and better.
"In this way, we need at least ten years to truly keep up with the requirements of digitalization, networking, and intelligence in our scientific and technological research and development, production and manufacturing, operating capabilities, and management capabilities, especially our customer service capabilities. World-class phalanx."
Yu Xubo also suggested that the new nationwide system should be better used to promote the high-quality development of the machine tool industry. General Technology Group must play its leading role in the industry, truly promote the healthy development of the industry in terms of industrial chain, supply chain, and value chain, and establish a development system that integrates General Technology Group + central enterprises + the entire social resources to make this industry a success.
Innovate state-owned enterprises to run doctors and expand the health industry
Without the health of the whole people, there will be no comprehensive well-off. The public health system is an important part of ensuring the health of the whole people and an indispensable part of building a healthy China. During the two sessions, national health has also become a hot topic of concern to netizens.
As one of the three state-owned enterprises approved by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission to focus on medical and health care, General Technology Group has a huge advantage in state-owned enterprises to run medical services, and medical services are also one of the core businesses of General Technology Group. Yu Xubo said that as one of the national teams of public medical institutions, centrally-owned hospitals are an important force in public health and also an important force in our national public hospital system.
Yu Xubo said that at present, General Technology Group, as a central state-owned enterprise focusing on medicine, healthcare, and A world-class medical and healthcare industry group. At present, there are 154 medical institutions affiliated to General Technology Group, covering 21 provinces and cities across the country. The number of hospital beds has reached 32,000, the number of outpatient and emergency consultations has reached 16 million, and it has served nearly 5 million employees of central enterprises and the general public. A medical group with distinctive characteristics of medical institutions and obvious characteristics of the entire industry chain.
"Health is the common pursuit of the broad masses of the people, and it is also an important symbol of our country's prosperity and national prosperity." Yu Xubo said that on the existing basis, our main goal is to play a major role in the cause of public health. Play a leading role in serving the "Healthy China" strategy, and play a more leading and leading role in improving the quality of supply and satisfying the people's pursuit of a better life.