On the first working day after the holiday, the city's high-quality development conference was held, and key industrial science and technology projects with a total investment of 55 billion yuan were signed, and the "15 Articles for Strengthening the City with Scientific and Technological Innovation" and the "Recruitment Order" for talents were issued; In the first quarter of 2024, at the groundbreaking ceremony of major manufacturing projects, 69 projects with a total investment of 564400 million yuan, new materials, 5G integrated semiconductors, a new generation of optical communications and other advanced manufacturing projects accounted for more than half of ......At the beginning of the new year, Zhongshan showed its firm determination to focus on new quality productivity and improve the energy level of the manufacturing industry with a series of actions.
2024 is the year of the opening of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor, and in the face of major historical development opportunities, Zhongshan has a clear idea - adhere to leading the industrial revitalization with scientific and technological innovation, promote the mutual promotion of industry and science and technology, make scientific and technological innovation the "key variable" the "largest increment" of high-quality development, and stride forward towards the goal of building a strong city with scientific and technological innovation.
"Innovation" has become the biggest keyword in Zhongshan this spring, and "no innovation, no Zhongshan" has become the most extensive consensus of Zhongshan's political, business, industry, academia and research circles on the road to high-quality development.
Zhongshan's confidence in innovation:
The carrier of the "Ten Fleets" of modern industrial clusters is huge.
Enterprises are the main body of scientific and technological innovation. Zhongshan's manufacturing industry started early and has a solid foundation, with 33 of the 39 industrial categories, and manufacturing enterprises all over the city, making it a veritable manufacturing city.
This is the year of the washing machine, and the manufacturers are estimated to have gone out of business. A few days ago, a netizen posted his own "antique" washing machine and said that the washing machine produced by "Zhongshan Weili Washing Machine*** was purchased by his family in 1997 and can still be used normally until now."
Didn't go out of business! After seeing the information, Zhongshan Dongling Weili Electric Appliance *** original Zhongshan Weili Washing Machine *** hereinafter referred to as "Weili Company") saw the information, not only interacted with the "report safety" for the first time, but also gave a new Weili brand drum washing machine to this netizen.
Rooted in Zhongshan for more than 40 years, Weili Company has adhered to the light of domestic products all the way from the beginning to the vast overseas market, which not only tells the story of an old brand of integrity and innovation, but also is a vivid epitome of the development of Zhongshan's manufacturing industry. In recent years, Weili has invested 60 million yuan every year in the research and development and manufacturing upgrading of new products, and is striving to polish the old domestic brand more brightly.
Looking at the whole of Zhongshan, thousands of veteran enterprises like Weili have insisted on quality improvement and brand building for decades, and jointly supported and polished the shining signboard of Zhongshan's "manufacturing city".
Walking into Guangdong Wanliangzi Intelligent Control Technology Co., Ltd., which is located in Zhongshan Torch Development Zone, hereinafter referred to as "Wanliangzi"), a hot production scene is presented in front of you - the automated production line is operating in an orderly manner according to the instructions of technical personnel, and the equipment status, production status, and process quality are visualized through intelligent management.
As a subsidiary of TCL Air Conditioner (Zhongshan) ** focusing on the manufacturing and sales of inverter air conditioning controllers, power boards and other intelligent controllers, Wanliangzi adheres to scientific and technological innovation to lead the transformation and upgrading of intelligent manufacturing, and currently has 32 intelligent production lines, and is expected to have a production capacity of 3.5 million units in the first quarter. "We plan to further expand production and increase capacity in 2024, and continue to increase investment in technology research and development innovation. Zhang Changhong, head of the production department of 10,000 seeds, said.
Today's Zhongshan has formed a new era of modern industrial clusters dominated by new energy, biomedicine and health, a new generation of information technology, smart home appliances, high-end equipment, optoelectronic optics, lighting, Zhongshan Mercure, modern agriculture and food, and modern fashion industry, providing a huge carrier and becoming the biggest confidence in Zhongshan's scientific and technological innovation.
Zhongshan's courage to innovate:
Invest 5 billion yuan to support the digital and intelligent transformation of manufacturing enterprises.
In recent years, Zhongshan has always focused on guiding, encouraging and supporting enterprises to take the road of innovation-driven development.
On November 1 last year, on the second "Zhongshan Entrepreneur Day", Zhongshan awarded the "Top 30 Scientific and Technological Innovation Enterprises of Zhongshan Manufacturing Enterprises". It includes not only the top 100 industrial enterprises above designated size, science and technology leading enterprises, national high-tech enterprises, specialized and special new enterprises or leading backbone enterprises and other manufacturing science and technology enterprises, but also some small and medium-sized micro enterprises with core technical capabilities or international and domestic advanced level in subdivided fields, which fully embodies the concept of "scientific and technological innovation regardless of the size of the enterprise".
Innovation integration is one of the important tasks of the "six integrations" of Shenzhen and China. In 2023, Zhongshan City will focus on the normalization of the collection of enterprise technology needs from the "Ten Fleets" of Zhongshan's modern industrial cluster, guide the flow of innovative forces such as Shenzhen scientific research institutes to Zhongshan's manufacturing industry, and promote a total of 31 Shenzhen-China technology transactions, with a contract amount of 53.72 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 144%.
Zhongshan City is also determined to invest no less than 5 billion yuan to support the digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing enterprises, support the technological transformation of enterprises according to up to 20% of the total investment, and fully discount the loan for digital and intelligent projects, up to 30 million yuan. This move aims to strengthen the body and enhance core competitiveness through digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading through incentive policies and special funds. In 2023, Zhongshan will become a pilot city for the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises in Guangdong Province, and the digital transformation coverage rate of industrial enterprises above the designated size in the city will be among the top in the province, and Wistron will become a world-class "lighthouse factory". 4 enterprises were selected as the "chain master" enterprises of the provincial key industrial chain, and 11 national "little giant" enterprises and 7 provincial individual champion enterprises were added.
In terms of technology and R&D investment, Zhongshan is also catching up. In 2023, the city's total investment in research and experimental development (hereinafter referred to as "R&D") will exceed 10 billion yuan for the first time, ranking second in the Pearl River Delta in terms of growth rate and first in the province in terms of R&D investment intensity.
According to the goal proposed by this year's Zhongshan High-quality Development Conference, by 2025, Zhongshan will strive to achieve the city's "R&D" investment intensity of 35%, the industrial output value of high-tech enterprises above designated size accounts for more than 50% of the total industrial output value above designated size, the number of high-tech enterprises reaches 3,200, and the number of provincial and municipal innovative scientific research teams exceeds 100.
Zhongshan's determination to innovate:
The 15 "Science and Technology Innovations" accelerates the gathering of innovative elements.
At the Zhongshan High-quality Development Conference held on February 18, Guo Wenhai, Secretary of the Zhongshan Municipal Party Committee, emphasized that it is necessary to make every effort to create a social atmosphere of advocating innovation of "no innovation, no Zhongshan", strive to break down all ideological obstacles and institutional barriers that restrict scientific and technological innovation, and use innovative thinking and methods to promote the city's work to strive for first-class and first-class, cultivate an innovative culture and create an innovative atmosphere in the whole society, and form a vivid situation in which cadres dare to act, enterprises dare to do, and talents dare to create, so as to truly make innovation a shining city symbol.
On the same day, the "15 Articles of Zhongshan City for Strengthening the City with Science and Technology Innovation" (hereinafter referred to as the "15 Articles of Science and Technology Innovation") was released in the form of "No. 1 Document", which launched measures to strengthen the main position of enterprise innovation, promote the construction of science and technology industry carriers, enhance the ability of scientific research institutions to empower industries, promote technological research and achievement transformation, promote the development of science and technology-industry-financial integration, build a highland for scientific and technological innovation talents, and promote the coordinated development of regional scientific and technological innovation, and formulated a roadmap for leading the high-quality development of the industry with scientific and technological innovation.
For enterprises with R&D investment of more than 10 million yuan and a year-on-year growth rate of more than 15%, the maximum subsidy is 5 million yuan; Focusing on the technological innovation needs of the "Ten Fleets" of Zhongshan Modern Industrial Cluster in the new era, we will support key industries to carry out key technologies, core technology research and industrialization, with a maximum funding of 10 million yuan for a single project; Through the 1 billion yuan scale of talent innovation and entrepreneurship**, it provides equity and financing support ...... for start-ups and seed projects initiated by scientific and technological innovation talentsLooking at the "15 Articles of Science and Technology", we can see everywhere the rewards for the real gold of enterprise scientific and technological innovation, the resource tilt for building a large platform for scientific and technological innovation, and the full sincerity for the introduction and cultivation of scientific and technological talents.
It is worth noting that in order to accelerate the gathering of talent elements, Zhongshan also issued a "recruitment order" to global talents this year with the "Top Ten Fleet" industrial cluster enterprises as the mainstay. Among them, it brings together 1,158 talents in 346 positions in 114 powerful enterprises and scientific research institutes in the city, and the key enterprises include 10 listed companies such as Mingyang and Akeso, with an annual salary of one million yuan.
The data shows that in recent years, as Zhongshan has continuously strengthened the mechanism of policy introduction, platform education, and service retention, the total number of talents in the city has continued to grow, and the number of talents of all kinds has exceeded 1.11 million, providing a solid wisdom guarantee for scientific and technological innovation and industrial development.
Text: Zhang Degang, Zheng Longjun.