Not long ago, Yuyuan Ninghai Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd.’s research and demonstration project of typical industrial furnace and kiln collaborative disposal of secondary ash technology, the research and development and industrialization project of Jianxin Zhao’s new energy vehicle modular power battery system technology, and the research and development and industrialization project of key technologies for the formation of ultra-lightweight large automotive interior parts of Founder mold were listed in the second batch of municipal industrial major science and technology projects in 2021. So far, 9 projects in Ninghai County have been listed in the major municipal industrial science and technology projects in 2021, with the highest number of projects approved in the year.
Since the launch of the major special action of “scientific and technological innovation 2025” in Ningbo in 2018, Ninghai County has continuously strengthened the core position of innovation in the overall development, vigorously improved the independent innovation ability of enterprises, led key technological innovation, and enterprises have continued to carry out technological research.
On the one hand, based on scientific and technological self-reliance, focusing on industrial chain and innovation chain strengthening, complementing and extending the chain, Ninghai County Science and Technology Bureau supports enterprises to continuously increase investment in R&D and innovation. In 2021, the R&D expenditure of industrial enterprises above designated size in the county will be 3.14 billion yuan, up 25.8% year on year, and the total social R&D investment will increase by 160% year on year compared with the beginning of the 13th Five-Year Plan. By the end of last year, the county had 1351 effective invention patents and 285 effective high-tech enterprises. In 2021, the county’s technology trading volume exceeded 1 billion yuan for the first time. On the other hand, we should continue to strengthen the construction of enterprise R&D institutions and enhance the impetus of technological innovation. In 2021, the number of provincial enterprise research institutes and provincial high-tech enterprise research and development centers in the county will reach 11 and 59 respectively, and the number of municipal and county-level engineering and technology centers will reach 100 and 257 respectively. On this basis, the Science and Technology Bureau of Ninghai County focuses on regional advantageous and characteristic industries, centering on strategic emerging industries such as new materials, new energy and biological medicine, and guides key enterprises in the county to actively undertake major scientific and technological innovation projects in conjunction with universities and scientific research institutes, conquer a number of key core technologies in key industries, develop a number of brand products with independent intellectual property rights and market competitiveness, and guide enterprises to run from the same direction Leading transformation. Last year, a total of 26 projects in Ninghai County were listed in the municipal “Science and Technology Innovation 2025” major project, with a total investment of 768 million yuan.
In order to improve the industrial competitiveness, Ninghai County Science and Technology Bureau, on the one hand, strengthened publicity and training, closely followed the actual needs of enterprises, and established a consulting service team composed of experts from colleges and universities and enterprise engineers to provide professional guidance services to “specialized, specialized and new” enterprises; On the other hand, we should further promote industry-university-research cooperation, give full play to the role of industrial technology research institutes, industrial innovation service complexes, technology markets and other public service platforms, and pull the flow of innovative elements such as technology, intelligence and data to “specialized and innovative” enterprises, promote major special scientific and technological breakthroughs, and add assistance to enterprise research and development. At Oriental Risheng New Energy Co., Ltd., a key technology and application demonstration project in the field of new energy jointly undertaken with the Ningbo Institute of Materials of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is being vigorously promoted. At present, it has entered the closing stage, with a total investment of nearly 50 million yuan. After the successful implementation of the project, the new economic value generated by the new products will not be less than 100 million yuan, which will further lead the technological upgrading of the photovoltaic industry and boost the photovoltaic power generation parity.
With the help of external forces and tapping potential, Ninghai County has actively promoted the level of human resources, promoted the promotion of quality brands and accelerated the building of high-quality industrial chains. Yuefan Medical and the Information Technology Application Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Ningbo jointly undertook the research and development and application of intelligent wearable terminal AI chips based on edge computing, which is a major technological innovation project, aiming to fill the gap in the domestic intelligent wearable device industry – the research and development and design of terminal processing chips. After the completion of the project, the annual economic income will reach more than 50 million yuan, and the annual output value of the upstream and downstream industrial chain will increase by more than 1 billion yuan.
In the next step, Ninghai County Science and Technology Bureau will continue to guide enterprises to carry out diversified cooperation, take multiple measures to tap potential, comprehensively promote breakthroughs in major science and technology projects, strive to form a number of characteristic technology chains, drive the overall leap of industrial competitiveness, and effectively drive industrial innovation through scientific and technological innovation.
(Source: Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology)