Cranes are a common piece of equipment in modern construction. If you want to ask: How long does it take to build a crane weighing thousands of tons? In Changyuan, Henan, you will get the answer - on average, there are 3.2 sets of crane supporting products every 1 minute, and 38 complete cranes come off the production line every 1 hour.
Lifting equipment in the Weihua Group factory
Changyuan is the largest gantry crane production base in my country. The lifting equipment industry has a centralized layout and a complete chain. It has an annual output of 330,000 gantry cranes and 1.7 million spare parts (sets). The domestic market share of gantry cranes reaches more than 70%, and many lifting machinery manufacturers have emerged.
Among them, Weihua Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Weihua Group") is the most influential leading enterprise. On December 6, in the factory of Weihua Group, the reporter saw several new industrial robots welding the upper and lower cover plates of the crane's main beam together in an orderly manner, while there was only one worker on the operating table beside him.
"Compared with manual welding, these new industrial robots not only save time and increase efficiency, but also improve product quality." Nie Fuquan, deputy chief engineer of Weihua Group, told reporters that factory intelligence has greatly improved the efficiency of Weihua Group's production lines. "Production efficiency has increased by 80%, a production line has been reduced from 50 people to 10 people, and the production cycle has been reduced by 70%."
Efficiency improvements benefit from intelligence improvements, which come from continuous innovation and R&D investment. Nie Fuquan said that in recent years, Weihua Group has been market-oriented and technological innovation as the starting point to build a technological innovation platform and continue to increase investment in scientific research. Annual R&D investment accounts for more than 4% of annual sales revenue, providing strong support for corporate transformation and upgrading.
The word "innovation" is particularly eye-catching in the factory of Weihua Group
Not long ago, the Henan Provincial Government just released the "List of the Top 100 Private Enterprises in Henan in 2021". The reporter noticed that innovation investment is a highlight of this year's top 100 private enterprises. The total R&D investment of the top 100 private enterprises was 15.414 billion yuan, breaking through the 15 billion yuan mark for the first time. Weihua Group is one of the six companies with R&D expenses exceeding 500 million yuan.
In fact, Weihua Group’s continuous investment in scientific research is inseparable from the policy support of the Changyuan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government.
In recent years, Changyuan has regarded technological innovation as a key measure to promote high-quality development of the industry. The "Six Major Projects" of innovation drive, brand drive, standard guidance, quality improvement, enterprise listing, and talent support were planned and implemented, and the "Implementation Opinions of Changyuan County on Strengthening Innovation Drive to Promote Industrial Upgrading and Development" were issued, focusing on incentives from intelligent manufacturing, technological innovation, quality improvement, talent development, standard guidance, brand creation, etc. The city's finance allocated more than 100 million yuan for awards and subsidies every year, and the cumulative awards and subsidies for enterprise innovation development funds in the past five years reached 760 million yuan.
At the same time, in order to promote the development of industrial agglomeration, Changyuan has also launched the construction of major industrial projects such as Tuoren Medical Device Industry New City with a total investment of 9.5 billion yuan, Weihua Intelligent Equipment Industrial Park with a total investment of 3 billion yuan, and Hekuang Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park with a total investment of 2.6 billion yuan. It guides leading industries to drive high-end development with technological innovation, promotes the upstream and downstream extension of the industrial chain, and cluster development.
Overlooking Weihua Intelligent Equipment Industrial Park
Today, Changyuan’s overall independent innovation capabilities have been significantly improved. Currently, it has 3 provincial governor quality award enterprises, 260 innovative enterprise cultivation basic enterprises, 76 national science and technology small and medium-sized enterprises, 83 national high-tech enterprises, and 3 provincial innovation leading enterprises; it has 111 R&D platforms above the provincial level, participated in the formulation and revision of 396 industry standards, and the number of authorized patents has exceeded 10,000.
According to data released by the Henan Provincial Science and Technology, Industry and Statistics System, last year, long-term growthThe investment intensity of social research and experimental development in Yuan City reached 3.2%, and the contribution rate to scientific and technological progress was 70.6%, ranking first among counties (cities) in the province.
In March this year, the government work report proposed that we should rely on innovation to promote high-quality development of the real economy and cultivate and expand new driving forces. Today, Changyuan is taking practical actions to make a difference on the road of scientific and technological innovation, courageously taking on responsibilities, and contributing Changyuan's strength to my country's acceleration of building an innovative country and a strong scientific and technological country.
