The 2024 Government Work Report explicitly calls for vigorously advancing the construction of a modern industrial system and accelerating the development of new quality productive forces. It calls for promoting the optimization and upgrading of industrial and supply chains, and driving the transformation of traditional industries toward high-end, intelligent, and green development. For traditional industries, developing new quality productive forces means creating an advanced form of productivity that conforms to the new development philosophy, and achieving greater breakthroughs, greater leaps, and greater development in productivity levels.

High-quality development is the unyielding principle of the new era and requires a new theory of productivity to guide it. Developing new quality productive forces is an objective requirement for liberating and developing productivity on the new journey of the new era, and is the inevitable choice for driving the iterative upgrading of productivity and achieving modernization.

Accelerating the Cultivation of New Quality Productive Forces

As a traditional and pillar industry, the construction industry has a large volume, involves a wide range of sectors, and employs a large workforce; its past extensive development model is no longer sustainable. Facing the new situation and the requirements of high-quality development, the construction industry needs to accelerate the cultivation of new quality productive forces, and build new industrial advantages with new technologies, new factors, and new drivers.

In the layout of new quality productive forces, if the construction industry is to confront challenges and solve difficult problems, it needs to start from multiple aspects such as technological innovation, talent cultivation, market expansion, and industry collaboration, so as to achieve sustained and healthy development.

Strengthen technological innovation and R&D, and promote the digital and intelligent development of the construction industry. Scientific and technological innovation can spawn new industries, new models, and new drivers, and is the core element in developing new quality productive forces. At present, it is necessary to achieve information-based management across the entire life cycle of buildings and improve construction efficiency and quality through the application of modern information technologies such as BIM (Building Information Modeling), the Internet of Things, and big data. At the same time, it is necessary to actively promote green buildings, prefabricated buildings, and other new construction methods, reduce energy consumption and emissions, and achieve sustainable development.

Strengthen talent cultivation and introduction, and build a high-quality construction talent team. Talent is a ** resource. Developing new quality productive forces in the construction industry requires composite talents who understand both traditional production and are proficient in digital technology, yet such talents are currently relatively scarce. Therefore, it is necessary to build a complete set of talent support systems, education systems, and training systems adapted to industry development, and improve the professional skills and quality of practitioners by strengthening vocational education and training. At the same time, it is also necessary to introduce advanced international technologies and talent to enhance the international competitiveness of China's construction industry.

Strengthen market expansion and internationalization strategy. With the in-depth advancement of the Belt and Road Initiative, we should actively participate in international competition and cooperation, expand overseas markets, and promote the international development of the construction industry.

Strengthen industry collaboration and resource integration to form synergy. The construction industry is a huge industrial chain that requires the joint efforts of all parties to create a good situation of coordinated development. We should strengthen cooperation with upstream and downstream enterprises, achieve resource sharing and complementary advantages, and jointly promote the prosperity and development of the construction industry.

"Three Transformations" Build New Competitive Advantages

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that new quality productive forces are an advanced form of productivity in which innovation plays a leading role, which breaks away from traditional modes of economic growth and paths of productivity development, features high technology, high efficiency, and high quality, and conforms to the new development philosophy. New quality productive forces not only mean promoting industrial innovation through scientific and technological innovation, but also reflect building new competitive advantages and gaining the initiative in development through industrial upgrading.

For the construction industry, the development direction of taking industrialization as the core, digitalization as the means, and greening as the goal has been clearly defined, and the path of deepening reform and innovation in the construction industry, taking the road of new-type building industrialization, and achieving high-quality development has become increasingly clear.

Industrialization is the key to improving the production efficiency and quality of the construction industry. We need to promote the standardized production and prefabricated construction of building components through standardized design, factory prefabrication, and prefabricated construction. This can greatly reduce on-site work, improve construction efficiency, and also help improve building quality.

Digitalization is an important means of achieving refined management and intelligent decision-making in the construction industry. Through the application of technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things, digital management across the entire life cycle of buildings can be achieved, including all links such as design, construction, and operation. This can not only improve management efficiency, but also achieve optimal resource allocation, reduce costs, and enhance benefits. For example, the EasyBIM graphics engine platform software independently developed by China Southwest Architectural Design and Research Institute Corp. Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "CSWADI") has solved the problem of bottleneck technologies and information security, realized intelligent design of construction drawings, and achieved intelligent drawing and modification of drawings through algorithms, minimizing the repetitive mechanical work of structural engineers.

Greening is the inevitable choice for the sustainable development of the construction industry. It is necessary to promote the concept of green buildings, adopt environmentally friendly materials and technologies, and reduce building energy consumption and emissions. At the same time, it is also necessary to strengthen the treatment and recycling of construction waste, achieve resource recycling, and promote the development of the construction industry in a green and low-carbon direction. Among them, wood and bamboo materials, as natural renewable green materials, are an important component of achieving green development in the construction industry.

If the construction industry is to take the path of innovative development integrating the "three transformations," it needs to advance simultaneously in industrialization, digitalization, and greening, and focus on innovation-driven development and talent cultivation. By strengthening industry-university-research cooperation and promoting technological innovation and the transformation of achievements, it can provide an inexhaustible driving force for the construction industry to develop new quality productive forces.

Wood and Bamboo Structures Have Outstanding Environmental Advantages

Green development is the underlying color of high-quality development, and new quality productive forces are themselves green productive forces. Under the background of "dual carbon," exploring and developing low-carbon, environmentally friendly, and sustainable new building structure and material systems has become an important task for the transformation and development of China's construction industry.

Compared with concrete structures and steel structures, wood and bamboo building materials are both carbon-negative materials, featuring natural greenness and low carbon, renewability, and assemblability, with very outstanding environmental advantages. As renewable resources, wood and bamboo materials can absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide during their growth, helping to slow global warming. Wood and bamboo structure buildings cause less damage to the environment during construction and generate less waste, meeting the requirements of green buildings. At the same time, wood and bamboo structures also have good seismic performance and durability, and can meet the modern building needs for safety and comfort. In addition, wood and bamboo materials are also widely welcomed building materials that bring many physical and mental benefits to people. They are not only natural, beautiful, and comfortable, but also emit a fragrant scent called "phytoncide," which can sterilize, soothe the nerves, and produce health benefits.

Driven by both policy support and technological progress, wood and bamboo structure buildings have made significant progress in design, construction, maintenance, and other aspects. More and more construction projects are beginning to try using wood and bamboo structures, especially in some low-carbon demonstration projects and public buildings, where the application of wood and bamboo structures has become quite common.

Of course, the development of wood and bamboo structure buildings still faces some challenges, such as cost issues and the unification of technical standards. CSWADI is one of the larger design institutes in China and is also the management group of the national standard "Code for Design of Timber Structures." After decades of effort, it has initially established China's modern wood and bamboo structure standard system. This has also promoted the completion of a large number of key wood and bamboo building projects. In response to key technical problems in engineering, CSWADI has joined forces with well-known domestic universities and research institutes such as Tongji University and Chongqing University to overcome a series of difficulties and pain points hindering the development of modern wood and bamboo structures, and has promoted the engineering application of modern wood and bamboo structures. It is believed that with the continuous progress of technology and the continuous expansion of the market, these problems will be gradually solved.

At present, China's economic and social development has entered a stage of high-quality development that accelerates greening and low-carbonization, while ecological civilization construction is still in a critical period of overlapping pressures and bearing heavy burdens. Developing green new quality productive forces not only provides a fundamental solution to ecological and environmental problems, but also injects new momentum and shapes new advantages for high-quality development.