Intelligent technology is the core driving force of the fourth industrial revolution, which has an important impact on the high-quality economic development. First, the productivity effect, scale effect and resource allocation effect of intelligent manufacturing can significantly improve the energy efficiency of total factor, and the conclusion is still established after endogenous treatment and robustness test. Second, the results of the action mechanism show that labor price distortion and carbon emission trading policy are important mechanisms for intelligent manufacturing to improve total factor energy efficiency.智能技术是第四次工业革命的核心驱动力,对经济高质量发展产生重要影响。智能制造的生产力效应、规模效应和资源配置效应能够显着提高全要素能源效率,经过内生处理和稳健性检验后结论仍然成立。作用机制结果表明,劳动力价格扭曲和碳排放交易政策是智能制造提高全要素能源效率的重要机制。
(1) The productivity effect, scale effect and resource allocation effect produced by IM technology can significantly improve the TFEE, and the conclusion is still valid after the robustness test and dealing with endogenous problems.
(2) LPD and CEPT are important mechanisms for IM to improve TFEE. On the one hand, IM helps to eliminate workers’ information search costs and search process, promote labor factors in a broader market configuration, more efficiently match labor supply and job demanders, and ease labor price distortion, and corrected LPD can strengthen the enterprise research and development and innovation and crack regional industrial structure low-end locking, ultimately improving the TFEE. On the other hand, CEPT, by imposing cost pressure on enterprises and supplemented by policy guidance and interest incentive, can strengthen enterprises’ willingness to develop green technology research and development, optimize the process, and replace backward equipment, so as to positively regulate IM and improve TFEE.
Policy Enlightenment
In order to give full play to the driving role of intelligent manufacturing in improving TFEE as much as possible, combined with the research perspective and conclusion of this paper, the following policy suggestions are put forward:。(1) Government departments should deepen the reform of IM systems and continuously improve the business environment of the digital economy. First, scholars will give full play to the role of the government in the top-level design and deepen the reform of the government management system. Starting from the perspective of industrial integration systems, scholars will expand the coverage space of intelligent manufacturing policy support, plan intelligent manufacturing production, equipment, technology, management, and other fields, and improve the policy system of intelligent manufacturing. At the same time, the government’s policy preference for intelligent manufacturing should be based on the principle of “market leading, government guidance”, give full play to the decisive role of the market in the allocation of intelligent manufacturing resources, and promote the rapid development of intelligent manufacturing industry. Second, scholars should increase the financial support for the development of intelligent manufacturing and deepen the reform of the financial system. scholars should implement the particular policy of preferential tax treatment for intelligent manufacturing enterprises, including the R&D expenditure of intelligent manufacturing technology in the list of VAT deductions to encourage intelligent manufacturing enterprises to strengthen independent innovation and carry out deep cooperation with the government in capital and technology, so that enterprises can reasonably enjoy the policy dividend. Third, scholars will optimize the talent supply and training structure, deepen the reform of the talent system, and alleviate the mismatch between labor industries and regions. On the basis of improving the supporting policies for talent introduction, the government builds a training platform for intelligent manufacturing talents and attracts foreign high-tech talents to reflux by improving economic treatment, politics, treatment, family treatment, and other forms. At the same time, scholars will support institutions of higher learning and vocational colleges to set up intelligent-manufacturing-related majors or practical courses, promote the construction of this discipline at different levels, and reserve sufficient professional talents for intelligent manufacturing enterprises and scientific research institutes. Fourth, scholars will promote the construction of a digital government to release the information dividend. With the implementation of e-government and the construction of a smart city as the starting point, scholars must integrate digital government into the digital transformation of the whole city, jointly promote the construction of a digital government and an innovative city, digital community, and digital countryside, and build the construction of a coordinated linkage represented by “three integration and five spans.” Using digital intelligence to drive the system remodeling, scholars must actively explore data governance and government function reform, restore the “business flow” with departmental “data flow,” promote the integration of government service links and process optimization of government services, realizing the “one network” of government services and leading the digital development with the construction of digital government. Fifth, scholars should accelerate the establishment of a multi-functional and integrated national carbon trading market data-sharing platform. The scholars will continue to pilot carbon trading in parallel with the national carbon market and give full play to the positive regulatory role of carbon emission trading policies. It is necessary to make full use of intelligent manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain advanced information technology, and optimize and integrate Guangdong carbon trading, China carbon city, Shenyang Carbon trading, and other local carbon trading user terminal information platforms, building a national-integrated, multi-functional carbon trading user terminal and data analysis platform and striving to eliminate information barriers.
(2) Governments must make breakthroughs in the core technologies of intelligent manufacturing and strengthen the strategic layout. First, they must strengthen basic industrial research to seize the advantages of intelligent manufacturing technology. With the industrial and supply chains as the main lines, scholars will make significant breakthroughs in the “five new types of infrastructure” engineering, industrial production, and application in essential fields such as intelligent equipment and new materials and constantly improve the essential capacity of intelligent manufacturing. scholars must strengthen the construction of industrial Internet infrastructure in public places and intelligent manufacturing industrial agglomeration parks, strengthen information security control, and promote the integration and interaction of manufacturing technology and information technology in all links of industrial manufacturing. Second, scholars will strengthen our strategic layout and give full play to its exemplary and leading role. Administrative departments can build regions and industrial parks with a good foundation of intelligent manufacturing into intelligent manufacturing demonstration bases and adopt the “reveal the list and take the lead” approach to concentrate high-end national resources, taking the lead in breaking through the key core technologies that restrict the development of intelligent manufacturing, to give full play to the positive leading role of pilot demonstration projects. At the same time, the leading enterprises of intelligent manufacturing should accelerate the cooperation of domestic and foreign universities and scientific research institutions, build an industrial innovation platform, and drive the upstream and downstream linkage and cooperation of the industrial chain and innovation chain. Third, scholars must learn lessons from advanced foreign experience to develop intelligent manufacturing essential software. For the weak link of the intelligent manufacturing essential software industry in China, a software development-related support policy encourages industrial enterprises and software development park building technology demand communication platform, real-time tracking enterprise demand to jointly develop intelligent manufacturing basic software and operating system, solve the problem of software system development lags behind the intellectual level of China.
(3) Enterprise must build “intelligent” employees in the digital era and build a community of interests. First, scholars must reshape the corporate culture of the digital age through thinking. Intelligent manufacturing enterprises should give up the traditional top-down, inside-out planning and control mechanism, break the status quo of hierarchical decision-making, and change the enterprise development from “controlling employees” to “trusting employees.” At the same time, all levels embed the thinking mode of risk-taking and innovative development to cultivate a corporate culture with digital vision and genes. Second, scholars should carry out “online + offline” digital training and create a scientific training evaluation system. Intelligent manufacturing enterprises should drive data-driven enterprise learning and set up personalized and specific training courses. At the same time, using various management software and data analysis functions, these enterprises should establish a scientific training evaluation system, link the training content with employee performance, and fully mobilize employees’ enthusiasm to integrate into the digital age. Third, scholars should pay attention to individual value and realize the symbiosis of enterprise and employee value. Intelligent manufacturing enterprises should pay attention to organizational performance goals and consider the value of employees in the organization. Enterprises should establish a value platform shared by employees and organizations, constantly strengthen the communication between employees and other high-tech enterprises, improve the cognitive level of employees, and achieve the goal of matching the development speed of enterprises and employees.
(4) Considering the role of carbon emission trading in promoting TFEE, it is necessary to continue to speed up the construction of the carbon emissions trading market in pilot areas and improve the national unified carbon trading market system. When the government provides a good platform for trading subjects, it should also handle the relationship between the government and the market. Based on emphasizing fairness, scholars should give play to the role of the market mechanism, not interfere with the implementation of the carbon emission trading system, give play to the dominant position of enterprises in the market, use the market mechanism to guide the rational allocation of factors, save energy and improve energy utilization efficiency. To implement a carbon emission trading system, scholars should not only fully consider each region’s historical cumulative carbon emissions but also fully measure each region’s natural endowment and economic development to improve TFEE effectively. A differentiation strategy can be implemented.