An academic seminar was held to commemorate the 140th anniversary of the birth of Fan Xudong, the "father of China's chemical industry".
Promote the transformation of Hunan business culture into economic development momentum.
Huasheng**, December 18 (Quan** reporter Zhou Lei, correspondent Peng Liu, Jiang Ji) Today, to commemorate the 140th anniversary of the birth of Fan Xudong, the "father of China's chemical industry" and the academic seminar of "self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology, industry rejuvenation and serving the country" was held in Xiangyin County. Experts and scholars gathered in Xiangyin to "discuss" Hunan business culture, from the aspects of Fan Xudong's contribution to China's modern industrialization, Fan Xudong's entrepreneurial spirit and contemporary value, Fan Xudong and Huxiang culture, to tell the moving story of Fan Xudong's self-improvement in science and technology and serving the country through industry, and to promote the transformation of Hunan business culture with Fan Xudong as a representative figure into surging momentum for high-quality economic development.
Fan Xudong, ancestral home of Xiangyin, Chinese chemical industrialist, founded China's first refined salt enterprise, China's first private scientific research institution, Asia's first alkali plant, Asia's largest fertilizer plant, broke through the Western monopoly blockade, laid the cornerstone of China's chemical industry development, created a new era of China's chemical industry, and was known as the "father of China's national chemical industry".
As Fan Xudong's hometown, Xiangyin County has always put the promotion of scientific and technological innovation at the county level, the expansion and strengthening of the real economy in a prominent position, vigorously promoted new industrialization, and accelerated the construction of a modern industrial system at the county level. The county seized the development opportunity to be included in the core area of Xiangjiang New Area, promoted the province's only characteristic park with new energy as the development direction to settle in Xiangyin, and successively formed a cooperation alliance with 24 universities and institutes inside and outside the province to promote the deep integration of "learning, research, industry and city" to create a new energy material industry chain based on chemical energy storage materials. Yugong Port, which was listed in the "Top Ten Infrastructure Projects in the Province", has become the forefront of Xiangyin's deep integration into the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and a large number of famous enterprises such as Zoomlion, China Railway Urban Construction, China National Nuclear Corporation, BASF and Temasek have come to Xiangyin, and Xiangyin has become an investment depression with superimposed strategic opportunities.