“New” because of innovation and “prosperous” because of reform
Release date: January 10, 2019
Xinchang is located in the east of Zhejiang, which is “eight mountains, half water and half fields”, a mountainous county with extremely limited resource endowment.
In 1990, Ethoxymethylene was successfully developed in Xinchang Synthetic Chemical Plant, a school-run factory in Shangougou. With excellent quality and relatively low price, the product broke the monopoly of Hirst Company in Germany and quickly occupied most of the national market share.
In 2011, Dr. Huang Ningjie was attracted by the “Micro-channel Technology” project to join Sanhua. Dr. Huang Ningjie and his team pioneered the application of micro-channel technology in the field of air conditioning and household appliances thermal management. In just a few years, Sanhua’s air conditioning micro-channel heat exchanger achieved an annual sales of from zero to 10 million yuan, and then exceeded 1 billion yuan, accounting for 50% of the global market share in the field of air conditioning micro-channel heat exchangers.
On September 25th this year, the plane made by Wan Feng Auto officially rolled off the production line in Wan Feng Aviation Town, Xinchang. Two planes, Wan Feng’s “ALTO100” and “Diamond DA20”, rushed into the sky, which once again brought the dream of private jet closer to ordinary people.
With innovation and potential energy gathering, Xinchang has become one of the most innovative counties in Zhejiang and even the whole country.
Enterprises stick to industry and lead the upgrade with innovation.
“The main body of innovation is the enterprise, so we should focus on the main business and make it bigger and stronger.” In the interview, the reporter found that this view has become the general consensus of Xinchang enterprises.
Looking back at the development history of Wan Feng Group, this manufacturing enterprise, which started from auto parts, has moved towards intelligent manufacturing step by step, from Xinchang, a small mountain town, to the whole world, and has a global layout in the United States, Canada, Mexico, India, Czech Republic, Britain and other countries.
Chen Ailian, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Wan Feng Group, said that Wan Feng has always adhered to the initial intention of sticking to the industry and strengthening its main business, insisting on doing something and not doing something, and doing what it is best at, from the modular champion of auto parts industry to a number of global champions in the field of transportation. “Wan Feng is not a diversified enterprise, and Wan Feng’s development strategy is very clear, that is, through integration, it will become an industry leader in the field of transportation.”
In Xinchang, there are still many enterprises that stick to industry and lead the upgrade with innovation.
Sanhua Holding Group, focusing on leading and surpassing innovation, produces one patent every day and two invention patents in three days. The rise of new leading products in each round stems from scientific and technological progress and continuous innovation.
Zhejiang Xinhecheng Co., Ltd. invested a huge sum of money, and the R&D team of more than 50 people conquered the methionine project in ten years, effectively alleviating the contradiction between supply and demand of methionine in China, and the price of imported methionine dropped from 30,000-50,000 yuan/ton to 1..650,000 yuan/ton. According to the domestic methionine demand of 200,000 tons in 2017, the domestic aquaculture industry saved at least 2.7 billion yuan in foreign exchange, which promoted the healthy development of the industrial chain.
Persistence is for innovation and breakthrough; Innovation makes persistence more valuable. In recent years, Xinchang county government has guided enterprises to stick to their main business, focus on their main business, make their main business bigger and stronger, encouraged enterprises to speed up the pace of going abroad, conduct mergers and acquisitions on a global scale, and accelerate their entry into the high-end global industrial chain. In recent years, Xinchang enterprises have carried out 53 mergers and acquisitions, with funds exceeding 19 billion yuan. Through mergers and acquisitions, the core competitiveness of Xinchang enterprises has been greatly enhanced, forming a number of “singles champions” at home and even in the world.
The government creates an excellent and innovative ecology and stimulates vitality through reform.
If scientific and technological innovation is compared to the new engine of China’s development, then reform is the essential ignition system to ignite this new engine.
Over the years, Xinchang science and technology department has been focusing on deepening the reform of the science and technology system, constantly optimizing the innovation environment, and constantly stimulating the vitality of scientific and technological innovation.
In 2016, Xinchang was included in the Zhejiang Comprehensive Innovation and Reform Experimental Zone, taking the lead in carrying out the pilot reform of Industry-University-Research comprehensive system in the province, actively deepening the long-term cooperation mechanism of “enterprises giving questions, institutions solving problems and government helping questions” in Industry-University-Research, and promoting the organic connection between enterprise needs and scientific research achievements of universities and colleges, and the seamless connection between innovation chain and industrial chain.
“Building a nest to attract phoenix” has accelerated the gathering of innovative resources of famous universities in the compound to Xinchang, and the number of R&D teams in colleges and universities that have been in Xinchang for a long time has increased from 6 in 2014 to more than 50 now. The team led by Professor Hu Xudong of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University is one of the important intellectual support forces. For more than 10 years, the senior professor of textile machinery industry has visited enterprises in Xinchang for investigation and service at least three days a week. The team has established cooperative relations with more than 80 textile machinery and bearing enterprises in Xinchang, helping enterprises solve more than 120 technical problems and develop more than 50 new products.
“By deepening the cooperation in Industry-University-Research, Xinchang has attracted a large number of graduate students and tutors from colleges and universities, effectively filling the shortcomings of talents, and the independent innovation ability of enterprises has been greatly improved. Especially driven by large enterprises, the innovation enthusiasm of small and medium-sized enterprises is effective and generate has formed an ecosystem of joint innovation of large, medium and small enterprises.” The relevant person in charge of Xinchang County Science and Technology Bureau said.
In order to attract more talents to stay in Xinchang and stay in the enterprise, Xinchang county government implements the “Tianmu Talents” plan, and arranges more than 50 million yuan of funds every year to provide living allowances and research and entrepreneurship funds for high-level talents and innovative teams. Policies such as self-built talent rooms, housing subsidies, family members’ settlement, children’s schooling, and medical examinations were introduced to solve their worries and strive for talents to “be willing to come and stay”.
Cultivate new kinetic energy, innovate and drive high-quality development
“Only reformers advance, only innovators are strong, but those who reform and innovate win.”.According to Hu Baifan, chairman of Zhejiang Xinhecheng Co., Ltd., “new” is relative, and new products can only be new at a certain stage. Innovation is an inexhaustible motive force for enterprise development.
With the strong innovation genes and the technological advantages of the enterprise itself, in recent years, Xinhe Cheng has targeted the industrial development direction at the new material industry and has risen rapidly. In September 2017, the company’s construction project with an annual output of 10,000 tons of polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) was listed as “industrialization project with central investment to enhance the core competitiveness of manufacturing industry”; The research on the synthesis and key composite technology of polyphenylene sulfide, fiber-grade polyphenylene sulfide resin and low-chlorine polyphenylene sulfide resin were all identified as provincial scientific and technological achievements; In 2017, Zhejiang Xinhecheng Special Materials Co., Ltd. participated in the formulation of PPS national standards; The PPS resin products produced by the company have been tried in many industries such as automobiles, electronic appliances and environmental protection, and have been unanimously recognized by users.
A large number of Xinchang enterprises like Xinhecheng seize the opportunity of transforming old and new kinetic energy and seize the commanding heights of future development. Today’s Xinchang is full of vitality of scientific and technological innovation and high-quality achievements driven by innovation: there are enterprises that build airplanes, those that dare to take orders for key parts of airplanes, those that manufacture aircraft engine blades and materials, those that win the bid for Tesla thermal management system with very demanding requirements, and the magic of one listed company for every 20,000 people.
Xinchang is “new” because of innovation and “prosperous” because of reform. The relevant person in charge of Xinchang Science and Technology Bureau said that the development of Xinchang in recent years shows that innovation can drive development, innovation can support development, and innovation can also lead development.
Next, Xinchang will make greater efforts to plan and promote innovation under the guidance of “a county with strong innovation”, fully promote the establishment of national innovative counties and national demonstration counties for the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, implement the key tasks of the provincial-level comprehensive reform pilot of science and technology system and the comprehensive innovation reform pilot zone, and strive to provide “Xinchang practice” for creating an upgraded version of county economy.
(Source: Zhejiang Online)