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From 2018 till now, CASIC has handed over a report card with brilliant data and outstanding performance:
In 2018, CASIC, as the leading organization, won the special prize in the National Science and Technology Progress Award for the fifth time and one China Patent Gold Award, provided a series of pioneering missile weapons and equipment that fill in the gaps and meet emergency requirements in national defense equipment construction, and made a strategic breakthrough from delivery of equipment to delivery of system and capability.
In 2018, CASIC was reported again with good news in commercial launch. KZ-1A successfully completed its second commercial launch, setting a new record for the orbit injection accuracy of solid launch vehicle in China. The successful launch and in-orbit test of the satellite for imaging technique testing of the Hongyun Project marks an important step of China from scratch in the construction of low-orbit broadband communication satellite system.
In 2018, CASIC realized more than 10% growth in total profit and made its new economic income account for more than 40% new economic income, ranking the 346th among the top 500 enterprises of the world, 398th among the top 500 world brands, 79th among the top 500 enterprises of China, 26th among the top 100 manufacturing enterprises of China, 45th among top 500 most valuable brands of China, and 13rd among the most influential innovative enterprises of China.
In 2018, CASIC formulated the world's first international standard for intelligent manufacturing service platform. As the only industrial Internet platform in China that provides public services in intelligent, collaborative and cloud manufacturing, CASICloud has become a national-level cross-industry and cross-discipline industrial Internet platform. At present, dozens of practice cases about collaborative manufacturing and intelligent transformation applications for flexible production have been demonstrated on the platform.
In 2019, the 500t commercial thrust solid launch vehicle (one-stage, reduced charge) independently developed by CASIC has been proved a success in the ground test, marking a major breakthrough in key technology of China's solid launch vehicle with high thrust and high mass ratio.
This report card is the concentrate embodiment of CASIC's implementation of the new development philosophy, and also a vivid practice from "Is there enough?" to "Is it good enough?". Following the major decisions and plans on promoting high-quality development made by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, CASIC, as a central military state-owned enterprise playing a crucial role in the national security and the lifeline of national economy, always adheres to innovation-driven high-quality development and strives to be the main force for high-quality development of the aerospace industry and the pillar for the construction of China into a manufacturing power, to make outstanding contributions to forging the national defense foundation, building China into an aerospace power and serving national economy and the people's livelihood.
Casting a New Sword: Pillars of a Major Power --- Forging the Security Foundation of High-quality Development
President Xi Jinping pointed out that weapons and equipment are a key mark of a modernized army and important support for national security and national rejuvenation.
Based on more than 60 years of experience accumulation in China's aerospace industry and through nearly 20 years of practice, CASIC, as a central military state-owned enterprise undertaking the task of making the military strong, has always regarded the core value of "placing national interest above everything else" as its lofty political responsibility and glorious historical mission, always prioritized the successful completion of aerospace defense equipment construction, and aimed at the innovation goal of "reducing the cost by more than 50% without any performance change and improving the performance by more than 50% at constant cost". Meanwhile, CASIC also attaches great importance to the innovation in "five new generations" (new generation weapon and equipment technology and application, new generation aerospace launch technology and application, new generation automatic and controllable information technology and application, new generation intelligent manufacturing technology and application, new generation materials and process technology and application) and "four basic supporting technologies" (microsystem technology, automatic and controllable information security technology, intelligent manufacturing technology and intelligent industry technology), strives to promote the development mainly featuring "integration of structure and function, integration of systems and subsystems, and mutual penetration of software and hardware", vigorously carries out basic, forward-looking and disruptive technology development and product R&D, and marches forward to a stronger scientific research and production capacity, continuously emerging new missile weapons, and a more complete scientific research and production system of equipment.
In 2018, all equipment developed and manufactured by CASIC performed well in military exercises and training as well as international military competitions. CASIC has successfully completed a series of scientific research tasks of great innovative significance, developed a new batch of core key technologies and original achievements with independent intellectual property rights, and provided a series of pioneering missile weapons and equipment that fill in the gaps and meet emergency requirements in national defense equipment construction.
"Dongfeng", "Hongqi", "Yingji" and "Changjian" missiles has strongly supported the formation of organizational and systematic operational capability and safeguard capability of high-tech national defense equipment, forging a solid security foundation and providing a strategic deterrent force for strengthening China's national defense strength, safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and promoting high-quality development.
With the updating and upgrading of model equipment, China has continuously enhanced its core capability in R&D of missile weapon system and CASIC has initially realized a dramatic transformation from single missile weapon model R&D to systematization, serialization and practice. At the 2018 Zhuhai Airshow, CASIC gave its historical largest exhibition of the new generation universal offensive and defensive equipment system. The upgraded simulation demonstration system for defense confrontation system on display vividly simulated the confrontation between systems and between "spear" and "shield" in a virtual battlefield, and the competition between offensive and defensive information warfare, demonstrating the strategic breakthrough of CASIC from delivery of equipment to delivery of system and capability.
Behind the development of national defense equipment from scratch and from weak to strong is the accumulation of technology and the bold practice of innovation. In 2018, CASIC won the special prize in the National Science and Technology Progress Award for the fifth time and one China Patent Gold Award. By the end of December 2018, CASIC had obtained over 23,000 valid patents, including 14,000 invention patents, and 2 international standards formulated under the lead and participation of CASIC.
Investing more than 10% of its operating income in technological innovation, CASIC is currently on the way of carrying out thousands of scientific and technological projects to tackle key problems and focusing on strengthening the development of the world's emerging strategic science and technology fields, new national defense equipment and cutting-edge technologies. Meanwhile, CASIC also vigorously builds its information-based manufacturing capacity and promotes the transformation of key links such as product design, production and test to be digital, network-based, intelligent and cloud-based ones, and strives to build a new generation weapons and equipment development framework that meets the requirements of joint operation and features high system contribution, strong operational effectiveness and controllable cost, to march forward to a new stage of system-led and operation-led development.
As stated by Gao Hongwei, Secretary of the Party Leading Group and President of CASIC, CASIC will fully implement the thought of President Xi Jinping on strengthening the military, focus on building the ability to fight and win battles, further improve the systemaltization, intelligentization, practical operational capability and quality reliability of equipment, and spare no effort to make important contributions to the realization of the Party's goal of building a strong military in the new era.
Fostering New Drivers: Commercial Aerospace --- Injecting Strong Impetus into High-quality Development
The report made at the 19th National Congress of CPC makes a strategic plan of "building China into an aerospace power". General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed in his meeting with representatives of aerospace workers in early 2019 that aerospace workers should keep on boosting the development of the world's aerospace industry.
In face of the booming development of global commercial aerospace, Gao Hongwei said: "At present, China has reached a critical stage in realizing extensive commercial application of aerospace technology, released relevant national support policies and basically formed a political and economic environment qualified for the development of commercial aerospace." He has also repeatedly stressed on more than one occasion that we should accelerate the development of commercial aerospace, to put into practice the requirements of General Secretary Xi Jinping, develop the aerospace industry and construct China into an aerospace power. CASIC should have the courage to shoulder this responsibility.
As one of the main forces in China's aerospace industry, CASIC has taken the initiative to make contributions to the construction of China into an aerospace power, fully completed its national aerospace engineering-related missions, and has also had the courage to lead and conduct innovative development of the commercial aerospace industry. Upholding the development concept of "information exchange, resource sharing, coordinated efforts, opening up and cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win progress", CASIC works together with all involved to march forward to a new level of commercial aerospace development and leads the development of China's commercial aerospace industry.
In the less than 2 years since the release of the "Five Clouds + One Train" (Feiyun (F-Cloud), Kuaiyun (K-Cloud), Xingyun (X-Cloud), Hongyun (H-Cloud), Tengyun (T-Cloud) and T-Flight (Supersonic Train System)), CASIC has made efforts to develop the commercial aerospace industry with disruptive and alternative technological innovations, achieving a series of pioneering achievements.
In 2019, the 500t commercial thrust solid launch vehicle (one-stage, reduced charge) independently developed by CASIC has been proved a success in the ground test, marking a major breakthrough in key technology of China's solid launch vehicle with high thrust and high mass ratio.
In September 2018, KZ-1A successfully completed its second commercial launch of accurately sending the CentiSpace-1 test satellite into the pre-selected orbit, setting a new record for the orbit injection accuracy of solid launch vehicle in China.
At the end of 2018, the satellite for imaging technique testing of the Hongyun Project was successfully launched and subject to in-orbit test, marking an important step of China from scratch in the construction of low-orbit broadband communication satellite system.
The "Kuaizhou" launch vehicles setting a record for 100% commercial launch success rate has become a new name card for China's commercial launches, and innovation is the primary driver for the rapid development of "Kuaizhou" launch vehicles.
According to relevant experts, CASIC has applied the design ideas of "mobile test docking, mobile launch and mobile surveying and operation control, realizing development from liquid launch vehicles to solid ones, from launch with fixed tower to vehicular mobile launch, and from normal launch to emergency launch, as well as transfer and transformation of more than 50% of the key technological achievements of products.
While carrying out technological innovation, CASIC has innovated its business model, and on this basis, created three "national firsts" in the field of commercial aerospace (i.e. the first in China to set up a specialized launch vehicle company to carry out R&D and application in a commercial model; the first national commercial space industry base approved for construction; the first one owning commercial small solid launch vehicles with low cost and fast integration), establishing a "Kuaizhou mode" of "quality management of aerospace enterprises + flexible operation of private enterprises".
According to relevant experts, the application of the "Kuaizhou mode" has improved the efficiency of resource allocation, reduced the production cost of products, improved the efficiency of R&D organization, shortened the production cycle of products by 70% and reduced the comprehensive cost by 50%.
Cultivating New Forms: Industrial Internet --- Building a Basis for High-quality Development of Manufacturing Industry
Globally, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, while the manufacturing industry is in a critical period when group technological breakthrough and fundamental institutional innovation are interwoven with each other. The leap of information civilization is on the horizon. As stated by Gao Hongwei, to promote the fusion of new generation information technology and manufacturing industry through industrial Internet will remarkably empower the manufacturing industry to realize high-quality development.
As early as 2009, Academician Li Bohu of CASIC put forward the concept of "cloud manufacturing" in the international community. On June 15, 2015, CASIC officially launched its industrial Internet platform --- CASICloud.
Regarding the development path of CASICloud, Gao Hongwei pointed out that under the precondition that most enterprises lack the intelligent manufacturing capability and have not yet completed the information-based transformation of their respective operation process, and are impossible to complete intelligent transformation and information-based transformation in a short period of time, we should start from the reform of the mode of cloud manufacturing to adjust and reform the enterprise system in the process of gradually implementing intelligent transformation of manufacturing capability and information-based transformation of operation process of enterprises. In this way, we will finally realize the transformation from cloud manufacturing to collaborative manufacturing and from collaborative manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing. This is a development path of "gradually deepening from top to bottom" for the industrial Internet with Chinese characteristics.
In 2018, CASICloud established the core framework of Industrial Internet Space + Cloud Manufacturing Support System (INDICS + CMSS) through continuous innovation and iteration to provide customers with services through the operation interface of "one brain, one cockpit, two studios, two stations and one data mining subsystem", playing its due role in the new round of production mode reform and the promotion of high-quality development of China's manufacturing industry.
In 2018, CASICloud, as the only industrial Internet platform in China that provides public services in intelligent, collaborative and cloud manufacturing, became a national-level cross-industry and cross-discipline industrial Internet platform, and the international cloud platform of CASICloud went online in 7 foreign languages, providing free services and personalized value-added services for enterprises and users in most countries and regions around the world. In addition, CASICloud has also played a role in promoting the ecosystem building of cloud manufacturing industry clusters in "nine cities of seven regions" in China.
At present, dozens of practice cases about collaborative manufacturing and intelligent transformation applications for flexible production have been demonstrated on the platform, promoting social integration and sharing, optimal allocation and business collaboration of industrial services, industrial equipment and industrial products.
Among them, the "Changzhou mode" has been proven a successful practice in the construction of industrial Internet ecosystem. Changzhou has vigorously promoted the application of industrial Internet. With CASICloud, more than 84.9% of manufacturing enterprises in the city have realized cloud manufacturing and are integrated to receive external orders, effectively improving production efficiency and promoting balanced utilization of equipment. Meanwhile, a large number of enterprises have gathered around the industrial Internet, such as on-line and off-line service providers, cooperative operators, solution providers and industrial APP providers, forming an industrial Internet ecosystem with Changzhou characteristics. In addition, CASIC has also taken the lead in formulating the first international standard for intelligent manufacturing service platform.
In these successful application cases, many are latest results of international cooperation. CASIC and Siemens AG have reached strategic cooperation in the field of industrial Internet and intelligent manufacturing. In 2018, CASICloud and Siemens (China) concluded a cooperation agreement on intelligent manufacturing projects to jointly serve the intelligent manufacturing market. In just one year, CASIC and Siemens AG jointly built the prototype room of electric coupler intelligent factory. The intelligent manufacturing prototype room is equipped with a set of collaborative manufacturing system of a whole value chain. It effectively integrates the software and systems of downstream and upstream enterprises on the value chain, forms a longitudinal link that covers research and development, design, resource planning, manufacturing and operation, and other parts of the value chain, and realizes data-driven multi-variety small-batch flexible production with mixed production lines.
Meanwhile, CASIC has also made a case of INDICS-based demonstrative production lines of Siemens' digital enterprises on the cloud. This case is based on advanced technologies like finite-capacity optimization and scheduling technology and production line digital twin technology in the intelligent manufacturing field. It covers all links of the whole industrial chain including operation analysis, equipment and quality analysis, resource allocation and optimization, production control, and marketing, and embodies the cloud manufacturing ecosystem integration and other scenarios in a centralized manner. It can be used widely in a variety of manufacturing enterprises.
With the improvement of platform architecture and increase of users, CASICloud has entered the stage of market-oriented development in which practical application is the main traction force and users' experience is the main criteria for testing work efficiency. Both the supply-side and demand-side consistent innovation is which CASICloud is channeling its efforts to.
As stated by Gao Hongwei, CASICloud will strengthen the functional development and application of user-level cloud application systems such as "one brain, one cockpit, two studios, two stations and one data mining subsystem" in the future, and build a win-win ecosystem of application providers, users and operators, to provide stable and reliable comprehensive solutions for digital enterprise transformation and cloud-based industrial transformation, and construct and maintain the ecosystem for cloud manufacturing industry clusters based on the industrial Internet. (Written by Ke Xuan)
