Two full-automatic production lines with a length of more than 100 meters are running at a high speed, and two sewing machine casings are offline here every minute – this is the scene that the reporter saw in the intelligent workshop of Jack Sewing Equipment Full Industry Chain Park in Taizhou Bay Circular Economy Industry Cluster.
“At the beginning of this year, the first phase of the park project, Jack High end Sewing Equipment Manufacturing Base, took the lead in putting into production. At present, we are preparing to build the second phase of the project, introducing 20 domestic and foreign supporting enterprises that produce core functional parts through targeted investment promotion, to complement and strengthen the industrial chain.” Ruan Fude, director of Jack Holding Group, introduced.
Jack Holding has made great progress on the road of the whole industrial chain, which is a microcosm of “Made in Taizhou” striving forward with ambition. The main person in charge of Taizhou Municipal Party Committee proposed that in the construction of “important windows” in our province, Taizhou’s foothold is “three pillars” – establishing a city with private economy, establishing a business as a manufacturing city, and cultivating the spirit of cultivating wasteland. The high-quality development of “Made in Taizhou” must be placed under the overall situation of the construction of Zhejiang’s global advanced manufacturing base, making contributions to Zhejiang’s demonstration of China’s manufacturing strength, daring to launch a charge to the goal of “Global Advanced”, and courageously becoming the leader of high-end and international manufacturing industry.
“Big Brother Strong” drives “Brother Strong”
“Let leading enterprises attract investment!”
The “business” in this idea is not an ordinary customer, but an important supporting enterprise in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain. Taizhou has established a list of industrial chain supporting enterprises for this purpose. According to the number of new local supporting enterprises and the scale of products purchased by leading enterprises such as Geely Automobile and Jack Holding, awards will be given every year. For projects that have made key breakthroughs in the global industrial chain, precise incentives will be provided in the way of “one thing, one discussion”. Set up a global vision and a global perspective, place local enterprises in the big system of global industrial chain, innovation chain and value chain for benchmarking, seek deep and practical high-quality development path with the goal of “global advanced”, build a number of key demonstration industrial chains, and enhance Taizhou’s position in the global industrial chain and value chain. Taizhou municipal government takes out “real gold and silver” to cultivate and build demonstration industrial chains. Each year, no more than 10 demonstration industrial chains are selected through competitive distribution, and each one is awarded with special funds.
Yinlun, located on the roof, is a leading enterprise in the field of automotive heat exchangers in China, with more than 60 upstream suppliers. Recently, the relevant employees of this enterprise went around and visited each upstream enterprise one by one, aiming to build a digital sharing platform in the field of auto parts as soon as possible. With this platform, Silver Wheel, as the “big brother”, can drive many “brother” enterprises to promote digital intelligent production and accelerate the process of digital empowerment of the whole industrial chain.
Bao Zongren, the director of Taizhou Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, is extremely optimistic about the prospect of “Taizhou Manufacturing” to strengthen the chain. “Through the integration of the whole industrial chain, upstream and downstream enterprises will be integrated into a close market community. Through the digital transformation of the whole production process of enterprises, supporting some financial chains and supply chains, Taizhou enterprises in the entire industrial chain will be able to do better.”
“World class” leads “High energy”
The idea is the real determinant of the outcome of the competition. The idea of “Made in Taizhou” is a fertile soil for industrial development. It combs industrial levels and is committed to building several world-class industrial clusters. As far as the automobile and pharmaceutical industries are concerned, Taizhou already has world-class leading enterprises and the whole industrial chain, and has enough confidence to move forward to world-class industrial clusters.
Last year, the output value of Taizhou’s automobile industry has exceeded 100 billion yuan. A number of well-known automobile enterprises, such as Geely, and models with high reputation, such as Volvo, Lynk&Co, and Emgrand, have emerged. Auto coolant, brake pipes, gears, bearings, shock absorbers and other parts are also famous in the domestic and international markets. The industrial cluster makes customers, competitors and suppliers relatively concentrated in specific geographical areas, effectively improving the production efficiency and the ability to cope with risks of enterprises. Although the first quarter of this year was greatly affected by the epidemic, since April, Geely’s coastal base has recovered rapidly. The production line runs for more than 12 hours every day, and on average, a new car drives off the production line every minute.
In order to promote the upgrading of pillar industrial clusters, Taizhou comprehensively implemented the cultivation project of advanced industrial clusters, encouraged the application of national advanced manufacturing industry clusters and national new industrial demonstration bases, and gave key support to core enterprises and key projects.
Establish a dynamic cultivation mechanism, and reward the leading enterprises of “Taizhou Manufacturing” that are expected to lead the industrial cluster in large proportion according to their actual contributions to local finance (limited to value-added tax and corporate income tax) according to the annual goal. A large amount of precise rewards will be given to the newly added national “little giant” enterprises specializing in special new products, provincial “invisible champion” enterprises, and domestic and foreign enterprises that have successfully acquired core technologies, major invention patents and well-known brands.
The development space of “Made in Taizhou” has suddenly become clear. By 2030, we will strive to basically form four global leading industrial clusters, including automobile, medicine and health, high-end mold, and intelligent sewing equipment, five national advanced industrial clusters, including pump and motor, aerospace, smart home, electronic information, and high-end equipment, and six industrial clusters with national influence, including rail transit, fashion and leisure, new rubber and plastic, plumbing valves, new energy electric vehicles, and green chemicals.
“High difficulty” runs out of “acceleration”
“Made in Taizhou” has a wide range of products, 299 “invisible champion” products ranked first at home and abroad, and 55 listed enterprises. The “family base” is not only rich, but also faces the problem of few new drivers and new growth points, especially the strategic emerging industries that can support long-term development in the future are relatively few. How to rise to the challenge and seize the opportunity to continuously improve the market competitiveness?
Taizhou’s response is to encourage enterprises to put scientific and technological innovation in the “C” position, take the initiative and strive to speed up high-quality development. Taizhou implemented the “seedling and afforestation” plan for high-tech enterprises, promoted the full coverage of innovation activities of large industrial enterprises’ R&D institutions and industrial enterprises above designated size, and strengthened the innovation chain. Benchmarking “Made in Germany”, it aims at innovative, technology-based, and growth oriented high-quality small and medium-sized micro enterprises, and comprehensively promotes the special action of cultivating “specialized and new”, “small giants”, “invisible champions”, and “singles champions”.
“Jump out of manufacturing and focus on manufacturing”, focus on “manufacturing service”, and accelerate industrial digital transformation. For the implementation of key industrial digitalization projects such as industrial Internet and intelligent chemical plants, and the soft investment in information systems, software services, etc. reaches more than one million yuan, a subsidy of 30% of the investment will be given. 15% subsidy for actual investment and R&D expenses will be given to those who have achieved success in the construction of new business types and models such as service-oriented manufacturing and personalized customization.
Zhejiang Xingxing Cold Chain Integration Co., Ltd., which has the largest share of domestic cold chain equipment, actively seeks change, actively embraces the digital economy, transforms into a service-oriented manufacturing enterprise, independently develops new retail intelligent sales cabinets, and has developed Internet platforms such as the Xingxing Cold Chain Smart Cloud Platform, the sesame door opening intelligent system, and the agricultural market intelligent management system that match the smart cabinet, to provide users with value-added services and extend the value chain of manufacturing enterprises. This year, the order of Star cold chain intelligent cabinet has exceeded 20000 sets. Driven by the sales of smart cabinets, it is expected that by the end of the first half of the year, the enterprise’s output value will catch up with that of the same period last year, thus creating good conditions for ensuring the growth of sales and profits throughout the year.
In 2020, Taizhou will strive to make the total number of listed enterprises exceed 60, the total number of enterprises above designated size exceed 4400, and more than 250 national high-tech enterprises and more than 1000 provincial technology-based SMEs will be added.
(Source: Zhejiang Daily)