Traditional industries are the basis for Henan's development, but traditional industries do not mean backward industries. In 2023, Henan will focus on improving the quality and development of traditional industries with unprecedented determination and intensity. Today, we look at two figures, 25% and 80%, to see how they can "reshape" traditional industries.
Hu Bingbing, Henan Radio and Television Elephant News reporter: 25% refers to the new-type rate of traditional industries exceeding 25%, and 80% refers to the technological transformation coverage rate of enterprises above designated size in traditional industries reaching 80%. These two figures sound a bit abstract, but they are closely related to the development of every industry and enterprise in the province.
Traditional industries such as steel, building materials, and chemicals are the fundamentals of Henan's economy. Making them "new" means promoting these traditional industries, cutting-edge technologies, and cross-border innovation., the subversive model forms "new manufacturing" through "high-level grafting".
Hu Bingbing, Henan Radio and Television Elephant News reporter: What can you do if I give you two square meters? In Zhongyi Chuangxin, a piece of equipment placed on two square meters can create an output value of 4.28 million yuan a year. The hero of this "leading" effort is this silicon carbide powder, which has filled the gap in our province's third-generation semiconductor industry. 5G communications, new energy vehicles, and all high-precision fields of automation and intelligence are inseparable from it. Look, it’s sparkling. Can you imagine that it was transformed from coal?
Yang Zhenghong, Technical Director of Henan Zhongyi Chuangxin Development Co., Ltd.: We have successfully opened up the country's and even the world's leading high-quality industrial chain of "coal-hydrogen-needle coke-high-purity silane-silicon carbide-silicon carbide semiconductor-energy storage lithium battery and photovoltaics" and recreated it with our advantages to form new productivity.
Producing coal but not seeing coal is not like a mine. Today, at Pingmei Shenma Group, the new industry has transformed a piece of coal into high-end products such as nylon yarn, high-performance fiber materials, clothes and bags, solar cells, and silane gas. The group's income from selling coal further dropped to less than 25% of its annual output value.
Li Yue, Henan Radio and Television Elephant News reporter: We usually eat snacks, order takeaways, airline meals on the plane, etc. In the encounter with delicious food, heatable aluminum foil tableware is becoming more and more popular. If ordinary aluminum foil paper like this is to be turned into a variety of tableware products, it is inseparable from the power of research and development, which gives aluminum materials a new life.
As a province with a major aluminum industry, Henan has continued to make new breakthroughs in deep processing such as packaging aluminum foil, new energy aluminum-based new materials, and lightweight high-end aluminum materials for automobiles this year. A piece of aluminum has also been sold from tons to grams.
In fact, traditional industries and emerging industries are not far apart. By extending the industrial chain, developing new products, and cultivating new business formats, this year more and more Henan companies have pierced the "window paper" of industrial newization. But how can we become “new”? In the final analysis, we still have to rely on technological innovation.
Henan Radio and Television Elephant News reporter Ge Yuzhen: "80%" refers to the coverage of technological transformation of enterprises above designated size in traditional industries. So what will technological transformation bring to the development of the industry?
Henan Radio and Television Elephant News reporter Ge Yuzhen: I am now in the production workshop of Changyuan Weihua Group. What is being stepped up to produce here is their newly developed in-line reducer. This reducer has a higher load-bearing capacity and is a transmission component for super-large tonnage cranes. With it, 600 tons of weight can be easily transported.
As the saying goes, don’t do porcelain work without diamonds. To make traditional cranes smarter, production needs to beIn order to carry out intelligent, green and low-carbon transformation of the line, Weihua has built a new 1,500-acre low-carbon intelligent equipment industrial park in Changyuan, focusing on the research and development and manufacturing of higher-end precision core components such as in-line reducers.
Li Guoqiang, Executive Chairman of Henan Weihua Group: Putting some intelligent hardware, including laser scanners and locators, into it will transform Weihua from a simple equipment manufacturing enterprise into an enterprise that pays equal attention to equipment and services, forming an upgrading of industrial clusters.
From equipment core replacement to machine replacement to production line replacement, Henan's traditional industries have set off a wave of technological transformation this year. Empowered by digital intelligence, Henan has cultivated 76 new national-level green factories this year. The energy consumption of industrial added value above designated size has dropped by 4.5% year-on-year. The conversion of old and new kinetic energy has accelerated, and new productivity has flourished.
