March 30, 2024
Published by Xinhua News Agency's "Lookout" news weekly
"Making high-quality development of manufacturing industry the main direction"
In-depth coverage of Henan and remembering General Secretary Xi Jinping’s instructions
Take the high-quality development of manufacturing industry as the main direction
Adhere to innovation-driven
Using the whole province’s efforts to promote the development achievements of new industrialization
Special attention
Ranked first in the country and second in the world in terms of crane production and sales
Weihua Group
Intensify efforts in transformation and upgrading
Promote "Made in Henan" to accelerate lane change
Original report
In March, the land of the Central Plains is full of spring, and Henan is full of vitality.
In the China Railway Equipment Assembly Workshop, two shield machines are being disassembled and shipped, and will soon be used in the construction of the Singapore subway project; in Zhongyuan Medical Science City, the construction of world-leading medical research platforms such as the CDMO platform for cell and immunotherapy and Zhongyuan Nanoenzyme Laboratory is accelerating; in Zhongyuan Science and Technology City, digital projects such as Huawei Cloud, Kirin Software, and JD Technology have been launched one after another...
In September 2019, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, pointed out during an inspection in Henan that "the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry should be the main direction and innovation should be placed in a prominent position in the overall development."
Manufacturing is the foundation of a country and the foundation of a strong country. High-quality development of manufacturing industry is an important cornerstone of high-quality economic development.
Henan has a complete industrial system and abundant human resources. It is a traditional province of materials, equipment, food, and light textile industries. Entering a new stage of development, Henan urgently needs to build a modern industrial system that is compatible with the construction of a strong manufacturing province, solve the problems of "heavy" manufacturing structure, "weak" innovation, and "short" chains, and accelerate the formation of new quality productivity.
Henan has kept in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping’s entrustment, taking high-quality development of manufacturing as its main direction, adhering to innovation-driven development, and mobilizing the province’s efforts to promote new industrialization. In September 2021, the Henan Provincial Party Committee working meeting decided toWe will comprehensively implement the "Ten Major Strategies" and put innovation at the logical starting point of development and at the core of modernization. In August 2023, the "Three-Year Action Plan for Henan Province to Build a Strong Manufacturing Province (2023-2025)" was released, clearly proposing that by 2025, 1 to 2 world-class, 7 trillion-level advanced manufacturing clusters and 28 100-billion-level modern industrial chains will be formed. Taking the strengthening of the "7+28+N" group chain as the overall focus, Henan has accelerated the construction of a modern industrial system supported by advanced manufacturing, with deep planning, high intensity, and high specifications.
Looking across the Central Plains, the construction of a modern industrial system with Henan characteristics and advantages is accelerating. In 2023, the added value of Henan's strategic emerging industries will increase by 10.3%, the added value of high-tech manufacturing will increase by 11.7%, and the added value of the five leading industries such as electronic information and equipment manufacturing will increase by 10.9%, accounting for more than 46% of designated industries.
Seven Stars compete in the Central Plains "Made in Henan" to speed up the lane change
As a major economic province, Henan’s industrial added value ranks among the top in the country. China Railway Equipment ranks first in the world in shield machine market share, Zhengzhou Coal Mining Machinery ranks first in the world in production and sales of mining hydraulic supports, Weihua Group ranks first in the country in production and sales of cranes and second in the world, Pinggao Electric and Xuji Group lead the country in complete sets of UHV power transmission and transformation equipment, CITIC Heavy Industries has the largest scale of special robots in the country, and China YTO ranks first in the domestic market share of large and medium-sized tractors... Each country's important equipment demonstrates the hard power of "Made in Henan".
Under the pressure of regional competition of “the pacesetters are getting further away and the pursuers are getting closer”, Henan has anchored its goal of becoming a strong manufacturing province, planning for new industrialization, building a modern industrial system, and promoting high-quality development of manufacturing.
——Using the whole province’s efforts to deeply shape the “7+28+N” modern industrial system. Since 2021, Henan has taken the strengthening of the "7+28+N" group chain as the overall focus, building 7 advanced manufacturing clusters such as new energy vehicles, strengthening 28 key industrial chains such as superhard materials, and extending downward to N specialized new subdivisions to deeply shape a modern industrial system.
In October 2023, Henan held a high-profile conference to promote the province's new industrialization and key industry chain cultivation, further emphasizing "classified and hierarchical cultivation" and implementing special projects in key subdivisions by chain. Each key industry chain has a mission statement, roadmap, and timetable.
Li Jiantao, Director of the Henan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, introduced that Henan has formulated an overall plan for cultivating key industrial chains and 28 sub-chain plans with high standards, and innovatively launched a "chain length + special class" "map"+ list", "chain owner + alliance" and "government + market" working mechanism.
Under the "drip irrigation" cultivation, Henan's new energy automobile industry is realizing a butterfly transformation from small to large, from weak to strong. A new energy automobile industry cluster with the Zhengzhou metropolitan area as the core is emerging.
In November last year, BYD’s 6 millionth new energy vehicle rolled off the production line in the Zhengzhou Airport Economic Comprehensive Experimental Zone. Two years ago, BYD's factory, with a total investment of over 10 billion yuan, settled in Zhengzhou and became BYD's important production base for mid-to-high-end models in the central region. Three new energy vehicles have been mass-produced.
As one of the world's largest bus manufacturers, Yutong's global sales of new energy buses have exceeded 190,000 units; the output of SAIC Motor's passenger car Zhengzhou base has exceeded 1.76 million units; the output of Dongfeng Nissan's Zhengzhou plant has exceeded 2.64 million units; the CATL new energy battery project with an initial investment of 14 billion yuan has been implemented...
At present, Henan has 17 new energy vehicle manufacturers and 22 well-known Internet of Things backbone companies, forming an advanced manufacturing cluster from raw materials to core components, to complete vehicles, supporting equipment, and the Internet of Things. In 2025, Henan's annual output of new energy vehicles is expected to exceed 2 million units, ranking among the top three in the country, and the industry scale reaching the trillion-level level.
Li Jiantao introduced that the "7+28+N" group chain has brought together more than 70% of Henan's key innovation platforms, created more than 80% of the total import and export volume, and more than 60% of the industrial output value above designated size, and has become the main battlefield for Henan to promote high-quality development of manufacturing and new industrialization.
——Using the "six new" guidance to bring new vitality to traditional industries. The scale of Henan's equipment manufacturing industry exceeds one trillion yuan, accounting for "half" of the province's industry. However, it has long had shortcomings such as "heavy" structure, "weak" innovation, and "short" chains. As one of the seven advanced manufacturing clusters that Henan is working hard to build, the advanced equipment industry is a vivid epitome of the transformation and upgrading of Henan's traditional industries and the jump in the energy level of chain groups.
In order to promote equipment manufacturing towards the mid-to-high end, in July 2023, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 11th Henan Provincial Party Committee proposed to proactively deploy new infrastructure, focus on conquering new technologies, vigorously develop new materials, actively build new equipment, diversify new products, accelerate the cultivation of new business formats, and empower new industrialization with the "six new" growth momentum.
Under the guidance of provincial policies, Weihua Group, Zhengmei Mining Machinery Group, China Yituo Group, etc. have intensified their transformation and upgrading efforts to promote key component products to high-quality, high-performance, and key stand-alone products.Products are being serialized into complete sets, and key complete sets are becoming high-end and intelligent.
On February 29 this year, the Long March 3B carrier rocket was successfully launched. It was an intelligent crane manufactured by Weihua Group that provided high-precision hoisting and transportation. This national manufacturing champion company born and raised in Henan has independently developed anti-sway technology that reduces the swing width from 80 centimeters to 2 millimeters, turning the crane into a "hoisting robot."
Zhengzhou Mining Machinery Group, the world’s largest fully mechanized coal mining technology and equipment supplier, has integrated digital transformation into the entire production process. "The hydraulic supports, scrapers, and shearers used in fully-mechanized mining of coal mines are transforming into complete sets and intelligence. They rely on each other's sensors to achieve comprehensive perception and collaborative control. Production data is transmitted to the industrial Internet platform in real time, and operating status, output data, fault conditions, etc. are clear at a glance." Wang Yongqiang, deputy general manager of Zhengzhou Coal Machinery Group Co., Ltd. said that the company's intelligent complete equipment has been exported to Australia, Turkey and other countries. In the past, it was sold by ton, but now it is sold by "configuration".
Follow the "Huashan Road" of innovation and development
To build a modern industrial system, Henan has identified the "Huashan Road" of innovation-driven high-quality development.
In September 2021, the Henan Provincial Party Committee Working Conference decided to fully implement the "Ten Major Strategies", taking innovation-driven, revitalizing the province through science and education, and strengthening the province through talent as the primary strategies, promoting the deep integration of the innovation chain and the industrial chain, forming a "three-legged" scientific and technological innovation pattern of Zhongyuan Science and Technology City, Zhongyuan Medical Science City, and Zhongyuan Agricultural Valley, leading and driving changes in the province's development momentum, structure, and quality.
——A "combination punch" of technological innovation and institutional innovation. Henan focuses on key common technologies in the industry, sets up major special projects, adopts "unveiling the list" and signing "military orders" to organize research, and focuses on researching a number of basic common technologies, breaking through a number of core components, launching a number of high-end products, and forming a number of Chinese standards.
"The research and development of TBM covers dozens of fields such as mechanics, mechanics, hydraulics, and electrical. It is known as the 'King of Construction Machinery' and has more than 30,000 precision parts. One control system has more than 2,000 control points. In the past, many core components and technologies relied on imports for a long time." He Fei, deputy director of the China Railway Equipment Technology Center, said that the cutting tools of the TBM are like teeth, and the materials used must have high hardness and corrosion resistance, as well as good flexibility and fatigue resistance.
In order to conquer this special material, China Railway Equipment and Tsinghua University jointlyWe jointly tackled key problems and conducted thousands of tests on more than a dozen added elements, finally solving the problem of high strength and high toughness of superhard materials and reaching the world's leading level.
With the help of a series of provincial policies, China Railway Equipment has created 16 internationally leading core technologies, from conquering atmospheric pressure tool changing and main drive telescopic swing technology to online real-time monitoring of tool status and intelligent tunnel boring machines, constantly breaking international monopolies. Currently, the number of orders for TBMs exceeds 1,600 units and they are exported to more than 30 countries and regions around the world. Its production and sales have ranked first in the world for six consecutive years.
——Strengthen the main position of enterprises in innovation and build an innovation alliance with close cooperation between upstream and downstream. In the past three years, Henan has established 6 new provincial industrial technology research institutes, 41 provincial industrial research institutes, and 28 provincial innovation consortiums. Establish 7 industrial alliances around 7 advanced manufacturing clusters to strengthen the main role of enterprises in innovation, build an innovation consortium with close cooperation between upstream and downstream, and promote the integration of industry, academia and research innovation.
"The competition in the future will not be between individual products or individual companies, but between industrial chains and ecological chains." said Li Shijiang, chairman of Polyfluoro New Materials Co., Ltd. and the first chairman of the Henan New Materials Industry Alliance.
After the Henan Province New Materials Industry Alliance was established in October 2023, it attracted all forces from industry, academia, research, and financial services to actively integrate into the chain and resonate at the same frequency, and the modernization of the industrial chain entered the fast lane.
Starting from traditional products such as cryolite and aluminum fluoride, Duofuo New Materials Co., Ltd. relies on industry-university-research cooperation and has gone through thousands of experiments to break foreign technology monopoly. The production and sales volume of lithium hexafluorophosphate, one of the core materials of lithium-ion batteries, ranks among the top in the world. Electronic-grade hydrofluoric acid has entered the supply chain of global chip industry giant TSMC.
——Promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into real productivity. Henan continues to increase investment in scientific and technological innovation. In the past three years, it has built 20 provincial laboratories and 50 provincial pilot bases. While strengthening basic research and applied basic research, it has promoted the transformation of high-level scientific and technological achievements in the province and forward-looking layout of future industries.
Corrosion-resistant light alloy materials and corrosion protective coatings in marine environments, high-strength aluminum alloys used in battery pack casings for new energy vehicles, magnesium alloy materials used in automobile wheels and aviation seat frames... In the Henan Province Light Metal Materials Pilot Base, a series of new technologies and new products have been verified in pilot tests and successfully achieved industrialization.
The pilot base is operated by Luoyang Special Materials Research Institute. Under the leadership of the scientific research team Dong Shuai of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the pilot base has provided more than 300 pilot services to more than 120 pilot service companies. The base has conducted 8 research projects with more than 50 units on material development, preparation process development, and application research of new lightweight metal materials.More than 0 cooperation projects have been carried out, of which more than 30 projects have entered the stage of substantial transformation and application, and 3 small and medium-sized technology enterprises have been incubated.
The relevant person in charge of the Henan Provincial Department of Science and Technology said that according to rough estimates, the success rate of industrialization of scientific and technological achievements before pilot testing is only 30%, but after pilot testing, the success rate of industrialization can reach 80%.
Go "green" to brighten the background of the manufacturing industry
Green development is the foundation for high-quality development of the manufacturing industry.
In 2021, the Henan Provincial Party Committee Work Conference proposed the implementation of a green and low-carbon transformation strategy, accelerating the construction of a green, low-carbon and efficient recycling industrial system, practicing green and low-carbon development concepts in product R&D and design, production and manufacturing, and environmental engineering, and continuously reducing manufacturing resource consumption and environmental impact.
——Building a green, low-carbon, efficient and circular industrial system. As a major province of superhard materials, Henan's synthetic diamond output accounts for about 80% of the country's total. Henan has listed the superhard materials industry chain as one of the 28 key industrial chains to be cultivated, with the provincial party committee secretary as the chain leader. It plans to build a 100 billion-level advanced superhard materials industry cluster by 2025 and create a new highland for the superhard materials industry. Greening is one of the important directions.
According to the relevant person in charge of the high-tech enterprise Power Diamond, the company has 1,600 six-sided presses, of which 1,400 are newly developed large-scale six-sided presses with a bore of 800 mm. Compared with the traditional small six-sided top press, the average unit energy consumption is reduced by about half. After technical research, the company has reduced the energy-consuming diamond purification electrolysis cycle from 14 days to 7 days, making it more energy-saving and environmentally friendly.
——Digital intelligence empowers the green transformation of the manufacturing industry. In 2023, Henan formulated a three-year action plan and special support policies for the "first transformation" and "three modernizations" of the manufacturing industry, clearly proposing to use digital transformation to promote green development. It is expected that it will take about three years to achieve full digital transformation coverage of the province's designated industrial enterprises.
Walking into the smart factory of Zhengzhou Coal Machinery Group covering an area of more than 70,000 square meters, the production scene is like a "science fiction movie." After the truck driver transports the plates to the factory, the robot automatically picks up the plates from the truck and stacks them into the intelligent storage area according to thickness, material, etc. Relying on the 5G communication system and the Internet of Things system, the factory's laser cutting production line and intelligent welding production line are all completed by robots.
"We use big data and blockchain technology to integrate digital transformation into the entire production process. Through the intelligent control center, we can achieve self-awareness, self-learning, self-decision-making, self-execution, and self-adaptation in the entire production process." Wang Yongqiang said that compared with traditional production, the efficiency has increased by more than 2 times, the space utilization rate has increased by 50%, and the production cost has been reduced by more than 60%.
According to Henan Provincial IndustryAccording to data from the Department of Industry and Information Technology, Henan has built a total of 1,105 provincial-level smart workshops and smart factories, with production efficiency increased by an average of 30%, operating costs reduced by an average of 20%, and energy consumption per unit output value reduced by an average of 10%. In the first three quarters of 2023, the energy consumption of industrial added value above designated size in Henan Province fell by 4.5% year-on-year, and the growth rate of comprehensive energy consumption dropped by 0.7% year-on-year.
——Let enterprises become the main body of green development. In addition to external hard constraints, Henan highlights the main role of enterprises in innovation, encourages enterprises to increase investment in green innovation, break through a number of key and disruptive technologies, and promote the demonstration and application of green technologies.
At my country Electrical Equipment Pinggao Electric, China’s R&D and manufacturing base for high-voltage, ultra-high voltage, ultra-high voltage switches and complete sets of power station equipment, scientific researchers have made important breakthroughs in overcoming the global problem of high-voltage environmentally friendly switches.
"High-voltage switches use sulfur hexafluoride gas as insulation and arc extinguishing media, and have been used for more than 70 years. However, sulfur hexafluoride is the known king of greenhouse effects. Emitting one ton of sulfur hexafluoride is equivalent to emitting 23,900 tons of carbon dioxide." said Jin Guangyao, deputy director of the Science and Information Department of China Electrical Equipment Pinggao Electric.
At present, the company has solved world-class technical problems such as vacuum switching and environmentally friendly alternative gases through core technology research. Last year, it fully realized the technological breakthrough and engineering application of 126 kV high-voltage "fluorine-free" switch, promoting the green transformation of power grid equipment.
The reporter’s investigation found that Henan has more and more green growth points in the process of accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system, and is expected to achieve overtaking in key industrial fields such as clean energy and new energy vehicles. Take Yutong Group as an example. The company's new energy buses have been exported in batches to more than 30 countries and regions, including Iceland, Chile, and Qatar.
The main leading comrades of the Henan Provincial Party Committee stated that Henan will seize the historic opportunities of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, insist on thinking about problems, making decisions, and grasping development from a 30-year perspective, and regard the development of new productive forces as a strategic move and long-term policy. It will continue to use the power of innovation to generate support points for stable growth, breakthrough points for structural adjustments, and growth points for new momentum. It will strive to accelerate the acceleration of high-quality development and shoulder the political responsibility of an economically powerful province.
