Changyuan City, Henan Province is located at the junction of Henan and Shandong in the east of Xinxiang City. It is the last turning point of the Yellow River from east to west to northeast. It has a land area of 1,051 square kilometers and a population of 880,000. It is a national civilized city, a national sanitary county, a national garden county, a national pilot city for “double cultivation of cities”, and a demonstration county for rural revitalization in the province. It enjoys the reputation of "China's Famous City of Hoisting Machinery", "China's Medical Consumables Capital", "China's Anti-Corrosion Capital" and "China's Hometown of Chefs".
Former "poor student"
Historically, Changyuan's development conditions were inherently deficient and can be described as "four no's and one big", namely: no resources on the ground, no mineral deposits underground, no location advantage, and no convenient transportation. It is a typical "zero resource county"; "one big" means high development pressure, backed by the "bean curd waist" of the Yellow River, and one-third of the city's population and land are in the floodplain area. In the 80 years from 1855 to 1935 when the Yellow River burst in Tongwaxiang, the Yellow River breached in Changyuan more than 60 times. Among them, there were 54 Yellow River breaches in Henan in 1933, and 33 breaches in Changyuan; after the founding of the People's Republic of China, major floods in 1949, 1958, and 1976 almost caused the Yellow River levee in Changyuan to breach, and it can be said that it has suffered from Yellow River floods. Changyuan is more than 80 kilometers away from Zhengzhou, Xinxiang, Puyang, Anyang and other surrounding prefecture-level cities. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Changyuan has experienced six administrative changes among prefecture-level cities such as Puyang, Anyang, and Xinxiang, and was officially included in Xinxiang City in 1986. In the 1980s, it was still labeled as a poor county, a typical "third category county" and a "poor student" in the county economy.
So, the former "poor student"How did you achieve a "counterattack" and become a "model student"? What is the "success password" for Changyuan City to promote high-quality development of county economy?
The floodplain environment that suffered nine disasters in ten years has shaped the hard-working, open, tolerant and innovative spirit of Changyuan people, and created the "Changyuan phenomenon" of the county economy, which is made out of nothing and develops counterattack. Seizing major national strategic opportunities and aiming to create a demonstration county for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, Changyuan planned, took advantage of, and capitalized on the situation, striving to turn past development shortcomings into development advantages.
"I came to Changyuan in 2004 and worked for Weihua Group for 17 years. I witnessed the transformation of Changyuan, a once "poor student", from its initial three acres of land to a national manufacturing champion, the largest industrial crane manufacturer in China and the second largest in the world. Weihua Group has grown. After 32 years of ups and downs." On March 3, at the Weihua Group Industrial Park in Changyuan City, Weihua Group President Yu Youfei told reporters that Weihua Group's sales revenue has grown from 240 million yuan in 2003 to 14.877 billion yuan in 2020, and sales revenue is 19 times that of 2004. It can be said that Weihua's development path is a vivid portrayal and typical epitome of Changyuan's high-quality development path.
Stick to responsibility
Successive leadership teams of Changyuan have adhered to the work determination and work style of "no fuss, no slacking off", drawing a blueprint to the end, and grasping things that comply with economic laws, industrial laws, and social laws to the end.
From the publication of the country's first anti-corrosion business advertisement in the "People's Daily" in 1980, to the planning and construction of the country's only featured industry cluster for lifting equipment in 2003, to the title of "China's Capital of Medical Consumables" in 2019, Changyuan has alwaysIt insists on developing industries unswervingly and always insists on focusing on leading industries without hesitation. The concentration, market share and industry influence of the three major industries of lifting, medical consumables and building anti-corrosion rank first in the country.
Relying on local leading enterprises, industry associations and foreign chambers of commerce, Changyuan actively guided overseas lifting and medical consumable business elites to return home to set up entities, completing an investment of 42.6 billion yuan. Attract the headquarters of anti-corrosion construction companies to relocate back and build a headquarters base. Combining the "big visits, big lectures, big investment promotion" activities with the "five batches" project of grassroots organization construction, a local talent pool of 3,723 people was established, and 198 economic experts were invited to serve as village branch secretaries, realizing the return of money, business creation, and people.
From the 1980s and 1990s, when people from Changyuan went to Wenzhou to learn from experience and develop their entrepreneurial spirit, at the turn of the century, they firmly guided family businesses to standardize management and improve quality development; especially in the past three years, the city has continuously invested heavily in rewarding and subsidizing technological innovations in enterprises, helping enterprises grow from small to large and become more refined and stronger. From 2014 to 2020, the number of designated industrial enterprises in the city increased from 140 to 271, the number of enterprises with tax payments exceeding 10 million yuan increased from 24 to 85, and the number of enterprises with tax payments exceeding 100 million yuan reached 6.
Ask for vitality from talents
Changyuan City insists on putting people first and strives to create a talent ecosystem that brings joy from near and far. Cultivate entrepreneurs' sense of responsibility and support 190 entrepreneurs to serve as county-level and above&ld"Two Representatives and One Member" provides a channel for them to provide advice and suggestions. A young entrepreneur club was established to help 78 "second generation entrepreneurs" and "second generation young people" improve their quality and ability, realize their own business or successfully take over. Create social welfare brands such as "Hundred Enterprises Help Hundreds of Villages", "Respect the Elderly and Filial Piety", and "Golden Autumn Education Aid", and cultivate Changyuan's entrepreneurial spirit of understanding the general situation, daring to take responsibility, and emphasizing dedication.
Enhance the sense of belonging of foreign talents. Changyuan City has established the country's first home club for externally hired senior talents, actively helping them integrate into Changyuan's "circle of friends". Implement a high-level talent introduction project and provide a "gift package" of entrepreneurial resources, welfare benefits, and social honors. More than 50,000 "New Changyuan people" constitute the main force of enterprise innovation and development.
"Many companies say that it is difficult to recruit talents. Our company does not have difficulty in recruiting talents. In recent years, the company has always attached great importance to technological innovation and established Tuoren Medical Device Research Institute; it attaches great importance to the introduction of all types of talents and strives to create a good employment and development environment for all types of talents. "Talking about talent recruitment, Li Mingzhong, vice chairman of Tuoren Medical Group, told reporters.
Changyuan City has cultivated a large number of skilled talents with craftsman spirit and inspired new craftsmen with a sense of honor. We vigorously promote the spirit of model workers and craftsmen, and have successively selected national model workers, provincial model workers, Changyuan famous teachers, Changyuan craftsmen, and the most beautiful Changyuan people from among skilled workers. Organize and guide outstanding skilled talents to participate in provincial and national craftsman selections, build a number of professional skills teams with outstanding craftsmen as the core, and provide solid talent support for Changyuan's economic and social development. Relying on Changyuan Technician College and Changyuan Culinary College, more than 2,000 professional technicians are trained every year. There are 70,000 workers with professional qualifications in the city, accounting for 35% of the total industrial workers, supporting the good reputation of Changyuan Manufacturing and Changyuan Construction.
Get motivation from innovation
Adhere to reform and innovation to expand development space. In recent years, the Changyuan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, based on the three leading industries, have grasped innovation with innovative concepts, innovative methods, and innovative systems, so that innovation has been well inherited and developed. Vigorously implement the strategy of "privately establishing a county and developing a county with characteristics", and has embarked on a development path of "privatizing the county economy, characterizing the private economy, scaling up the characteristic economy, and externalizing the scale economy". It adheres to the strategic orientation of "industry specificity, scale expansion, and chain lengthening", maintains the continuity and consistency of industrial policies, and positions the three leading characteristic industries of lifting equipment, sanitary materials and medical equipment, and anti-corrosion and new construction materials, and gradually cultivates and develops them from scratch.
Vigorously develop the innovative economy. Changyuan City continues to cultivate innovative enterprises, build innovation platforms, and establish innovation systems. Pay close attention to secondary entrepreneurship in industrial clusters, continue to upgrade more than 20 service platforms such as the National Crane Inspection Center, Changyuan Vocational Education and Training Center, and Changyuan International Convention and Exhibition Center; promote the integrated development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, the Internet of Things, and 5G with leading industries.
Enhance development through reform. Changyuan implements the comprehensive reform of the scientific and technological innovation system by focusing on the "six major projects" of innovation-driven, brand-driven, standard-led, quality improvement, enterprise listing, and talent support. As of September 2020, a total of 332 innovative enterprises at or above the provincial level have been approved in the city (project), there are 100 innovation platforms at or above the provincial level, and have obtained more than 200 innovation results, independent innovative products, major special projects, and scientific and technological breakthroughs at or above the provincial level. Among them, innovative enterprises include 82 national high-tech enterprises, 76 national science and technology small and medium-sized enterprises, 3 provincial innovation leading enterprises, 3 national industrial brand demonstration enterprises, 6 national quality benchmarks, 22 national integrated management system certification enterprises, 2 national green factories, 5 national "specialized, special and new" small giant enterprises, etc. The innovative platform includes 7 academician workstations, 1 nationally recognized laboratory, 1 national research center for lightweight design of lifting machinery, etc. Innovative achievements include 1 national big data industry development pilot demonstration project, 9 provincial science and technology progress awards, 3 provincial patent awards, etc. Participated in the formulation and revision of 296 national, industry, local, and group standards, and the number of patent authorizations reached 9,890, ranking first in the directly managed counties and cities in the province.
The "Implementation Opinions of Changyuan County on Strengthening Innovation-driven Promotion of Industrial Upgrading and Development" and "Changyuan County Innovation Development Points Management Rules (Revised)" and other documents have been issued, and a series of policies ranging from innovation-driven point rewards to super deductions for R&D expenses, from inclusive subsidy policies to tax exemptions for R&D expenses have been implemented to reduce the burden on enterprises and allow them to boldly innovate. In the past two years, the awards and subsidies directly supporting innovative entities have reached about 100 million yuan each year, leading each innovation entity to invest more than 1 billion yuan in innovation funds. Since the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", a total of 1.168 billion yuan in scientific and technological innovation incentive funds have been distributed to enterprises, creating a stable and lasting policy environment for enterprises.
Butterfly change" indicationFan Sheng"
"Take the anti-corrosion industry as an example. It originated in the 1970s. After more than 50 years of development, it has now become one of Changyuan's leading characteristic industries. In 2019, the city's anti-corrosion industry completed a cumulative output value of 31.3 billion yuan and paid a tax of 1.68 billion yuan. The tax contribution accounted for 35% of the city's industry-wide tax payment. "Wang Fengli, deputy director of the Changyuan City Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, introduced the development status of the city's anti-corrosion industry to reporters.
Changyuan City’s leading industries such as lifting, medical consumables, and building anti-corrosion rank first in the country in terms of industrial agglomeration, market share, and industry influence. At present, the city has more than 1,100 crane production and supporting companies, and the domestic market share of gantry cranes reaches 70%; there are 2,437 medical device production and operation companies, including 99 production companies and 2,338 operating companies. Medical consumable products cover more than 60% of hospitals nationwide; 605 anti-corrosion qualified companies account for more than 65% of the country's output value, profits and taxes, and number of teams.
Changyuan is a place of three virtues and a hometown of gentlemen. Today, Changyuan continues to carry forward the style and culture of gentlemen. Especially during the epidemic last year, the whole city expanded capacity and increased production regardless of the cost. On average, Every day, tens of thousands of sets of medical protective clothing and millions of medical masks are allocated to the country. A total of nearly 100 million yuan has been donated to the epidemic areas in Wuhan, Hubei and the province, demonstrating the feelings of Changyuan people about helping each other and helping the world. In 2020, Changyuan persisted in the "two-front battle" to combat the epidemic and promote development, ensured the resumption of work and production of industrial enterprises, ensured the production and supply of medical protective equipment, and completed the national allocation of 106 million surgical masks and 879,000 sets of medical protective clothing on time. The current daily production capacity of masks is 60.0131 million pieces, and the daily production capacity of protective clothing is 95,700 pieces, providing material support for winning the battle against epidemic prevention and control.
Changyuan vigorously develops the talent economy. Guide and help enterprises build innovative teams and technical teams, continue to promote high-level talent introduction projects, and strive to cultivate a group of entrepreneurs suitable for high-quality development. "Han Xianbao, the founder of Weihua Group, and the current leadership team of the company have always adhered to the employment philosophy of 'talent is Weihua's most valuable resource' and have effectively achieved 'retaining people with emotion, career, treatment and environment'. They have established a team headed by Yang Shuzi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Zhang Yuan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Tiegang is an academic leader with an elite scientific research team of more than 600 people, including 6 foreign experts, 29 professor-level senior engineers, and 14 postdoctoral fellows. It cultivates a reserve management talent team, formulates a unique qualification system, and opens up various promotion channels such as administration, technology, finance, human resources, and marketing. Since its establishment, the company has not only trained a large number of senior technical talents, but also trained two national labor models. "Song Xiaodan, Director of the Corporate Culture Department of Weihua Group, introduced the company's talent recruitment situation to reporters.
Vigorously develop the returning economy. Since the reform and opening up, 300,000 Changyuan people are doing business all over the country. While doing business and entrepreneurship and changing their own destiny, they have also introduced a steady flow of capital, projects, and information to the development of their hometown, forming a source of vitality for economic and social development. The reason why Changyuan can counterattack in the development of county economy and form its own characteristics and brand in the development of county industry is largely due to the development of returning economy. The return to the economy guides people who have started businesses abroad to start businesses in their hometowns, further promoting the return of industries, people and money, and providing inexhaustible impetus for the sustainable growth of Changyuan's economy.
Accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system. Changyuan continues to promote the Tuoren Industrial New City with a total investment of 6 billion yuan and the Hekuang Intelligent Manufacturing Industry with a total investment of 2.6 billion yuan.Major projects such as the Industrial Park and Weihua Intelligent Equipment Industrial Park with a total investment of 3 billion yuan have turned the traditional lifting equipment manufacturing industry into high-end manufacturing and intelligent manufacturing industries, and turned the building anti-corrosion industry into a new building anti-corrosion industry. Make the tertiary industry active, serve the creation and improvement of the value chain, service chain, and innovation chain of the primary and secondary industries, and focus on modern manufacturing and modern economic systems to accurately develop a number of e-commerce industries, modern logistics industries, and producer services industries. Polish the brand of "City of Events" and "City of Health", promote the integrated development of culture, tourism, creativity and food industries, and enhance the vitality of the city.
Changyuan City's GDP in 2020 was 49.017 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.9%, which was 3.6 and 1.7 percentage points higher than the province and Xinxiang city respectively. The public financial budget revenue was 3.408 billion yuan, ranking 8th among counties (cities) in the province, a year-on-year increase of 12.5%, ranking 5th among counties (cities) in the province, and the tax ratio reached 85.1%, ranking 1st among counties (cities) in the province. In May 2020, it ranked first among counties (cities) in the province's county economic high-quality development observation and evaluation; in 2020, it successfully won the title of the sixth national civilized city; and successfully created a provincial-level forest city. Today, Changyuan is a veritable industrial city, a vibrant city, an ecological city, a cultural city, and a smart city.
