Economist Lang Xianping once admitted that "only manufacturing is the only thing in China."

If you want to ask which cities the Internet has brought fire to in the past ten years, Hangzhou must be the one that deserves the most attention.

However, the industry has been criticized by the outside world. Some analysts said that as the "first city of digital economy", one of Hangzhou's outstanding shortcomings is the low proportion of manufacturing industry, "the top of the tower is not thick" and the development of the real economy lacks strong support. How to fill the shortcomings of manufacturing industry has become a practical problem in front of Hangzhou.

Recently, the "Implementation Opinions of the General Office of Hangzhou Municipal People's Government on Promoting the High-quality Development of Integrated Circuit Industry" (hereinafter referred to as the "Implementation Opinions") was officially issued, aiming at building a core city of integrated circuits in the Yangtze River Delta. It is worth mentioning that the integrated circuit industry has been clearly defined as one of the "nine symbolic industrial chains of manufacturing industry" that Hangzhou will focus on in the future.

This time, can Hangzhou pursue by "electricity"?

"The spire is not thick at the bottom"

Manufacturing is the foundation of the real economy and an important engine of China's economic growth.

In recent years, many provincial capital cities are vigorously developing the tertiary industry, so the proportion of service industry is getting higher and higher.

Including Guangzhou, the secondary industry, especially the industrial scale, has gradually been overtaken by cities such as Shenzhen, Suzhou and Dongguan.

Therefore, this has also caused the worry of premature "de-industrialization", and Hangzhou is no exception.

Jiangnan Intellectual Property Bureau (ID: changsj001) noted that in 2021, Hangzhou's GDP was 1,810.9 billion yuan, accounting for 30.3% of the secondary production, which was only higher than Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou among the top ten cities in GDP. Its secondary production added value is 548.9 billion yuan, which is also the lowest among the top ten cities, less than half of that of Shanghai and Shenzhen.

In 2009, the proportion of the secondary industry in Hangzhou was as high as 50%. Twelve years later, the proportion of the secondary output value now only accounts for 30.31%, a decrease of nearly 20%, which is very rare in China's trillion cities.

As a online celebrity city known for its digital economy, does Hangzhou need to vigorously develop its manufacturing industry? This argument has never stopped.