A view of Tianjin TFI Higher Education Science and Technology Innovation Park. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ran.
Shanghai: A science and technology award "intellectual" method
On January 5, the 2023 Shanghai Industry-University-Research Cooperation Outstanding Project Award was announced. The 40 award-winning projects not only overcome many core technologies needed for nuclear power plants, space stations, and offshore oil and gas exploration, but also solve a number of problems that people are concerned about, such as surgical robots, green buildings, and first-class training.
This award is the only award set up in Shanghai to promote the deep integration of industry, university and research, with a total of 249 awards in the past 15 years, involving 236 enterprises, 46 universities and 40 scientific research institutes. Zhu Yinglei, president of the Shanghai CPPCC Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Promotion Association, said that to help Shanghai build a science and technology innovation center with global influence, the Association will continue to play the role of "paving stone", "shouter" and "runner", so that more "flowers of science and technology" will bear "industrial fruits".
A number of industry-university-research achievements ushered in a highlight moment
The reactor is the "heart" of a nuclear power plant. The reporter learned from Shanghai Electric Nuclear Power Group that an important breakthrough has been made in the key technology of mass manufacturing of the main equipment of the 600MW high-temperature gas-cooled reactor nuclear island, and it has a complete set of supply capacity.
From the beginning of the research and development of 10MW projects in 1995 to the current 600MW projects into commercial use, China has achieved a leap from 'following' to 'leading' in the field of high-temperature gas-cooled reactors. Sheng Xuting, director of the technology development department of Shanghai Electric Nuclear Power Group, said that the advantage of high-temperature gas-cooled reactors is safety, even if all cooling capacity is lost, without any intervention, it can maintain a safe state, and has unique advantages in the fields of chemical industry and large-scale heating.
The impetus for innovation comes from a nearly 30-year industry-university-research collaboration. Tsinghua University's Institute of Nuclear Energy and New Energy Technology is responsible for product design, and Shanghai Electric Nuclear Power Group is responsible for manufacturing technology. "We do not use funds as a link, but take the needs of the country as the traction to tackle key problems. Sheng Xuting said.
This is one of the two grand prizes of the 2023 Shanghai Industry-University-Research Cooperation Outstanding Project Award. Another grand prize was the representative achievement of the combination of medicine and engineering - "Honghu" joint replacement surgical robot, which was jointly created by the Ninth People's Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and Minimally Invasive Medical Company. In addition, 5 projects, including advanced hot stamping technology, aviation self-lubricating spherical bearings, high-performance aluminum matrix composite materials, key chips for intelligent magnetic sensors, and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene extreme rheological injection molding technology, won the first prize, and 8 second prizes, 16 third prizes, and 9 nomination awards.
Zhu Yinglei introduced that the winning projects of the 2023 Shanghai Industry-University-Research Cooperation Outstanding Project Award have obvious characteristics, representing the consistent encouragement direction of the Shanghai Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology: focusing on the major needs of the country, they have achieved breakthroughs in core technologies in their respective fieldsClosely follow people's lives and health, and strive to make life better;It basically covers strategic emerging industries such as integrated circuits, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence.
The level of industry-university-research cooperation has been continuously improved
Honghu "Joint Replacement Surgical Robot" was approved for marketing in China in 2022, and has now been exported overseas abroad, and has been upgraded from focusing on the knee joint to integrating the hip and knee joints. As an auxiliary tool, it can not only help doctors improve the accuracy of surgery, but also bring the best opportunities to patients with joint deformities.
Li Huiwu, chief physician of the Department of Orthopedics of the Ninth People's Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, told reporters that the development of the "Honghu" joint replacement surgery robot began with a special discussion. At that time, Xu Feng, director of the hospital's Achievement Transformation Office, led the way, and seven or eight people, including orthopedic surgeons, medical device engineers, and navigation technology experts, sat around to discuss the problems faced by joint surgery. "There are more than 5 million patients in China who undergo joint replacement surgery, but this type of surgery requires extremely high precision. If we develop a surgical robot, we can greatly improve the success rate of surgery. Li Huiwu said.
From project initiation to listing, and then to iteration, the "gene" of production, education and research runs throughout. For a while, going into the operating room became an engineer's routine. Shao Hui, R&D director of Suzhou MicroPort Changxing Robotics Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of MicroPort, said that engineers must understand the work of doctors and know how the surgery is done. Doctors also need to know some technology, and sometimes they just want the technology to be simple, but the patent may have already been filed.
The level of industry-university-research cooperation has been significantly improved, and the collaborative innovation, long-term cooperation effect and fighting spirit of the industrial chain have become more significant. Zhu Yinglei combed through the award-winning projects of more than ten years and found that some leading enterprises have played a significant leading role, and have cooperated with scientific research institutes and upstream and downstream enterprises to carry out collaborative research on common problems in the industry.
Zhu Yinglei took the first prize of the project as an example, Baosteel and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co., Ltd. cooperation can be traced back to 2005, the model has experienced a single project, subdivision, cluster strategic cooperation three upgrades, the current realization of advanced hot stamping technology localization, related parts in Wuling Automobile a large number of applications.
From teaching a man to fish to teaching a man to fish
As early as the beginning of this century, the Shanghai CPPCC began to consider building bridges between enterprises and universities. Zhu Yinglei said that at that time, small and medium-sized enterprises had a strong demand for science and technology, but the supply of intermediate platforms was not strong, as a platform for participating in politics, the Shanghai CPPCC fully implemented the strategy of rejuvenating the city through science and education in Shanghai, and formally established the Shanghai Association for the Promotion of the Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements in September 2003.
In the same year, the Shanghai Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology launched the "Alliance Plan" and the "Boost Plan" to connect enterprises with scientific and technological needs and help scientific research institutions find markets to transform results. Once launched, the two plans have continued to run for more than ten years, serving about 70 projects every year, and the total amount of industry-university-research funds invested and leveraged has reached more than 70 million yuan.
With the increase in the support of small and medium-sized enterprises in the first department, the promotion platform for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in the society has sprung up. "The historical task of the Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology has been completed, and the way to promote the deep integration of industry, university and research should also keep pace with the times, and the Shanghai Industry-University-Research Award came into being in 2009. Zhu Yinglei said.
The Shanghai Industry-University-Research Award is sponsored by the Shanghai Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology, the Shanghai Education Development Association, and the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology. Zhu Yinglei concluded that the key to the success of industry-university-research cooperation lies in clear planning goals, clear responsibilities and rights, rigorous organizational mechanisms, and close and efficient operation. The cooperation mechanism is the basic guarantee for the stable operation of school-enterprise industry-university-research, and the experience explored by the award-winning projects can be used as a reference for the industry.
It is hoped that the influence and driving force of the award will be used to encourage representative industry-university-research projects, promote the scientific concept of industry-university-research cooperation, publicize the basic methods of industry-university-research cooperation, and summarize the successful law of industry-university-research cooperation. Zhu Yinglei said that after 15 years of awards, from teaching people to fish to teaching people to fish, the Shanghai Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology will deepen the cooperation between industry, university and research, and strive to expand the leading and demonstration effect.
Tianjin: A science and technology innovation park's way of "attracting intelligence".
On the first working day of the new year, entrepreneur Li Shuangyang came to the office early. After greeting the team members, Li Shuangyang and everyone engaged in the project discussion. "Entrepreneurship is about moving the results from the bookshelf to the shelf. ”
This is the core area of TFI Higher Education Science and Technology Innovation Park, located in Nankai District, Tianjin, and is located in one of the areas with the highest "intelligence intensity" in Tianjin. The core area is surrounded by many universities such as Tianjin University and Nankai University, as well as more than 10 national, provincial and ministerial scientific research institutes, such as the Institute of Biomedical Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and the Tianjin Institute of Seawater Desalination and Comprehensive Utilization of the Ministry of Natural Resources.
At the end of 2023, Li Shuangyang, who had just completed the doctoral defense of Tianjin University, began to devote more energy to entrepreneurial projects.
He and his team's entrepreneurial project is to visualize small-caliber hydrogel artificial blood vessels, which have many advantages such as good biocompatibility and suitable mechanical strength. "We hope to build a mature production and sales system within five years. ”
Like Li Shuangyang, there are many young people who have dreams and walked into Tiankai Park. As the latest science and technology innovation park in Tianjin, since its official opening in May 2023, TFI Park has accumulated 1,160 newly registered enterprises, most of which are scientific and technological innovation enterprises.
How can a newly born campus have a "new gravity"?The enterprises settled in the park gave the answer.
The technology of the park has joined forces to open up the 'first mile' of innovation. Xu Zijian, executive director of Tianjin Tiankai Ruilai, said.
As one of the second batch of enterprises to settle in TFI Park, TFI Ruilai has independently developed a number of new agricultural and forestry drugs by relying on the State Key Laboratory of Elemental Organic Chemistry and the National Engineering Research Center for Pesticides (Tianjin) of Nankai University, and has obtained a number of invention patents in the agricultural field in one fell swoop.
Not long ago, Tian Kai Ruilai held a fruit sharing event. The fruits shared in the event are the experimental fruits planted by the company in cooperation with an orchard in Liaoning Province, and the technical cooperation has also made this "innovation sweetness" cross the mountains and rivers to Tianjin.
Fang Wei, deputy director of Tianjin Science and Technology Bureau, introduced that TFI Park has absorbed 15 national key laboratories, 6 Haihe laboratories and 377 municipal key laboratories, established TFI Laboratory Innovation and Development Alliance, and cooperated with enterprises in the park to carry out key core technology research, providing support for industrial docking, school-enterprise cooperation and talent training in TFI Park, so that enterprises in the park can complete "technology borrowing".
Tianjin Sailus Biotechnology*** cooperated with the team of Tianjin University to carry out technical research and development around the joint research and development of cellulose separators and cellulose conductive additives. The first batch of settled enterprises, Tianjin Sustainable New Materials, together with Tianjin University and other units, jointly established two joint laboratories around nanocellulose materials and fruit and vegetable preservation coating technology......Playing the function of "the source of innovation", TFI Park provides the soil for the germination of "a flash of inspiration".
As an incubator for scientific research achievements, TFI Park is committed to breaking down the barriers between intellectual creation and manufacturing. Focusing on the construction of new quality productivity, TFI Park focuses on the pain points of universities and scientific research institutions, and is committed to cultivating "nestlings" into "phoenixes".
A "square" the size of a truck's cargo compartment, driven by an electric motor, unfolds into a livable mobile home in a matter of minutes. Zhao Ning, chairman of Bainiao Zongheng Technology (Tianjin)**, told reporters that the new factory established by financing could be officially put into operation at the end of February this year, and his excitement was overflowing to see that more than three years of research and development and efforts could finally be implemented.
From docking with investors, to coordinating production sites, from corporate financial training, to legal knowledge tutoring. "TFI helped us start from scratch. Zhao Ning said.
The list goes on and on. From registering the enterprise to getting the order and 11 million yuan of equity financing, Wang Yifeng, an associate professor at Tianjin University, only took half a year. The team of Li Wei, a professor at the School of Chemistry of Nankai University, has the core technology of preparing bio-aviation kerosene from castor oil, and with the help of the broker for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, it has completed the enterprise registration in Tiankai Park, and docked with the industrial park, and is about to start building a 10,000-ton demonstration device.
Guan Yong, deputy director of the Park Comprehensive Management Office of Tianjin Science and Technology Bureau, said that through the implementation of enterprise research and development projects, the establishment of a loan discount mechanism, and support for proof of concept, enterprises are encouraged to strengthen industry-university-research cooperation and carry out original technological research. "At present, TFI Park has cashed out a total of 2 special funds3.6 billion yuan, giving birth to a number of patented technologies. ”
With "golden ideas" and "money bags", we have to "set up a platform" for long-term development. Walking into the comprehensive smart service center of the park, from industrial and commercial registration to patent application, from legal support to business docking, the "one-stop" service allows entrepreneurs to solve most of their needs at a table.
On one side of the hall, there is also a special machine for online application and printing of various documents, which can realize 24-hour self-service. Even the business related to living documents such as driver's licenses can be completed here. "Start from the details and pave the way for the transformation of scientific research achievements. Wang Yang, deputy general manager of Tianjin Tiankai Development Group, said.
Since the opening of the park for more than seven months, the jointing growth of more than 1,000 enterprises is a "two-way rush" between the park and entrepreneurs, and it is also a vivid footnote to the vigorous development of Tianjin's new quality productivity.
In the future, TFI Park will further play the functional positioning of a source of scientific and technological innovation, an incubator for scientific research achievements, and a scientific and technological innovation service ecosystem, and create a 'happy land' for entrepreneurs. Zhu Yubing, director of the Tianjin Science and Technology Bureau, said.
Hebei: The road to "intelligence" of an industrial cluster
In the middle of winter, in the factory of Tangshan Jinhengtong Automobile Materials, Lutai Economic Development Zone, Tangshan City, Hebei Province, workers are busy on the production line in an orderly manner, and a batch of bicycle brackets that have just come off the assembly line are being packed and about to be sent to Germany.
From extensive to refined, from "manufacturing" to "intelligent manufacturing", and then to the international market recognition, Lutai has witnessed the transformation and upgrading of China's bicycle industry.
Today, bicycles assembled from our parts can be found everywhere on the streets of Japan. Cao Hongxi, chairman of Tangshan Jinhengtong Group, said that he suffered a lot in order to enter the international market.
More than 20 years ago, at the beginning of his business, Cao Hongxi took more than a dozen workers and several sets of obsolete equipment to solve the problems of capital, market and technology in a workshop of less than 100 square meters, and finally gained a firm foothold in the northern Chinese market. When he entered the international market with confidence, he hit a nail. The first time he went abroad to seek cooperation, when the customer heard "Made in China", the indifference on his face deeply stung Cao Hongxi, which also made him deeply aware of the gap in product quality.
After returning to China, we worked hard to polish the details of the product, improve the technology, and after dozens of improvements and negotiations, we finally signed a contract with a Japanese company with impeccable product quality. Cao Hongxi said that since then, Tangshan bicycle parts have rapidly entered the Japanese market, and the current market share of similar products exceeds 60%.
From 'manufacturing' to 'intelligent manufacturing' is the only way for China to seek high-quality development. Li Rubao, deputy director of the Development and Reform Bureau of Lutai Economic Development Zone, said that in order to improve the market competitiveness of industrial clusters, they encourage enterprises to innovate in science and technology, and continue to give financial support in technological transformation and scientific research investment. Inspired by this, local bicycle companies have carried out industry-university-research cooperation with domestic universities to collaborate on the production of key core components such as bicycle transmissions, derailleurs, and carbon fiber brackets.
Next to the production line, Cao Hongxi picked up a bicycle frame with one finger, "This is made of carbon fiber, with a total weight of only 680 grams, which is one-fifth of the steel material of similar products, but the strength is 10 times higher than that of steel products." ”
Cao Hongxi said that when they started to develop carbon fiber core components, they were not favored by the industry because of their high cost and high risk. Through continuous R&D investment, in 2015, it successfully manufactured the first carbon fiber electric bicycle frame in China, thus entering the high-end market of the international bicycle industry.
Since then, Tangshan Jinhengtong has successfully developed high-end products such as lightweight road bikes and carbon fiber-assisted wheelchairs, which are exported to Canada, the Netherlands, Poland and other countries, and have become long-term partners with well-known enterprises such as Lightning in the United States and Decathlon in France.
Christian, CEO of the German company TUBUS, who has cooperated with Jin Hengtong for many years, said that the product quality of Chinese bicycle companies is very trustworthy, and he hopes that the cooperation will become smoother and smoother in the future.
In order to meet the low-carbon needs of end users, Lutai bicycle enterprises have launched rooftop distributed photovoltaic power generation projects and built "green power stations". Cao Hongxi said that their "power station" generates 120,000 kWh, which can meet 60% of daily electricity.
Bernard (Tangshan) Technology, which integrates design, R&D and production, will settle in Lutai in 2022. Zhang Haining, general manager of the company, said that they mainly focus on original brand mountain bikes, and currently export more than 200,000 bicycles annually, covering more than 30 countries and regions in Asia, Europe and Latin America. Recently, the company has seen the potential of electric mopeds in the European and American markets, and has developed three modes: cruise control, power assist and cycling.
At present, Bernard's new plant is rising from the ground and is expected to be put into operation in the second half of 2024. "At that time, the production capacity of bicycles will be expanded by 10 times, and more 'Lutai-made' bicycles will cross the ocean. Zhang Haining said.
By improving industry access and building a scientific and technological research and development platform, Lutai bicycle industry has achieved high-end and green development, and currently has 60 bicycle and parts production enterprises, covering more than 530 varieties of 64 series, becoming the "China bicycle parts industry base", and the products are directly and indirectly exported to Europe, America, Japan and South Korea more than 80% of the market.
According to the data, as of 2022, the output value of the Lutai bicycle industry cluster has risen from the initial few hundred million yuan to 5.5 billion yuan. From January to October 2023, the direct export value of Lutai bicycle vehicles and parts will reach 92 million yuan, and the annual export value is expected to be 10.8 billion yuan.
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