[zhangjiagang daily] build a new advantage of high platform reconstruction -- in-depth interpretatio

On January 22, the "jiangsu metallurgical technology research institute" jointly built by zhangjiagang municipal people's government, metallurgical industrial park, shagang group, yonggang group and jiangsu industrial technology research institute was formally signed.This marks the city's "one enterprise one courtyard" innovation system began to enter the substantive stage.The "one enterprise and one institute" is shagang group and the "one institute" is jiangsu metallurgical technology research institute.This is shagang group relying on jiangsu metallurgical technology research institute to build an open collaborative innovation platform with international cutting-edge technology and world-leading green competitiveness.

Why build such a new innovation platform?What kind of role will our city economy develop in the future?How does the new innovation platform work?

1. In the era of "surplus", where is the road for steel enterprises?

"A ton of steel is less profitable than a plate of stir-fried vegetables."Two years ago, shen wenrong, chairman of shagang group, gave an interview to a reporter about the cruelty of the steel market and the hardships of the steel people, and also reflected that China's steel industry has entered the era of "surplus economy" from "shortage economy".

This kind of "surplus economy" is reflected incisively and vividly in the "roller coaster" type violent turbulence that the steel market has experienced in the past three years.Shagang group trade company first deputy general manager li xu recalled this wave of prices are still worried.

Construction rebar, one of the original main products of shagang, was still at a high price of around 4,000 yuan/ton in 2013.However, due to the excess capacity of domestic steel, the market quickly showed its cruel side. At the end of that year, the steel price began to go down sharply, and the whole situation was in a shock downward state for nearly two years. Until March 2016, the price of construction rebar only stood firm at 2000 yuan/ton, and then rose all the way, and now it is stable at 3000 yuan/ton.

The brutal market fluctuations have left the domestic steel industry in a state of mourning.In 2015, 80 percent of China's steel mills lost money, and some large mills in the north had to lay off workers.Domestic steel industry only baosteel, shasteel and other small number of steel profits.

Although shagang group in this round of "roller coaster" of the market still maintain a certain profit, but such a tragic market turmoil shagang people out of a cold sweat.Some people questioned: steel as a traditional industry has no prospects for development?

In the face of skepticism, shagang group chairman shen wenrong, who has been in the steel industry for decades, believes that the result of the development of the market economy is surplus, and only surplus can produce competition.Because competition can improve the level of the industry;If the steel industry has been in short supply, the level is not high.Clearly, he was prepared for the era of excess in the steel market.

In fact, the so-called surplus is only relative.From jiangsu, the province has a large number of advanced manufacturing enterprises, the proportion of high-end steel products demand.However, on the supply side, on the one hand, some low-end steel has excess capacity, on the other hand, provincial steel products cannot meet high-end demand, many high-end steel still need to be purchased from other provinces, some even rely on imports.

Gong sheng, executive director and President of shagang group, believes that steel is needed in infrastructure construction, automobiles, home appliances and shipbuilding.At present, excess steel capacity is just structural excess. Shagang needs to upgrade its product level and develop high-end products such as high strength, high toughness, corrosion resistance and lightweight.

2. Leading by science and technology, shagang actively responds to the "winter" of steel industry

"Advanced technology and process make our quality very excellent, and the quality of our products won the trust of the construction party in the tender."Shagang group sales department of a person in charge told reporters.

Looking back on shagang's entrepreneurial path for decades, accelerating product upgrading through scientific and technological innovation is an important factor in their development achievements today.In order to stand at the forefront of the world's steel technology, shagang group has invested 600 million yuan in the construction of jiangsu province (shagang) iron and steel research institute since 2007.At present, the institute has more than 150 researchers, including 28 doctors and 80 masters, whose research fields have achieved full coverage of the steel production process, according to vice President Dr. Ma han.Over the past 10 years, the institute has developed more than 400 new products with the goal of enhancing the core competitiveness of shagang group.

Strong technical innovation ability can make shagang face steel market volatility strength, easy to implement the strategy of "projects", namely the development of efficient varieties, the development of high-end target customers, increase sales, improve efficiency, and set up a "integration of production and marketing research" the team for tackling key problems and further speed up the transformation and upgrading of products, main products in the past - building low-end rebar proportion has dropped to 25% from 45% a few years ago, a batch of high-end steel products successively debut of key projects both at home and abroad, accelerate to develop the field of high-end product market.

The emirates palace hotel, an eight-star hotel in ABU dhabi, the capital of the united Arab emirates, is described as "literally a hotel built for the king". It was built with strict steel quality requirements.Finally, shagang has become its largest supplier with excellent quality, accounting for nearly 80% of the steel used in the project.

In 2014, shagang began to develop 600 mpa high-end rebar with high strength, high toughness and high corrosion resistance. Shagang is the only one in China to master this technology.In 2015, it was put into the market, with sales of over 100,000 tons in that year. It is mainly used in key civil air defense projects and cross-sea Bridges in China.

The construction of hutong bridge has strict requirements on tensile strength, toughness, corrosion resistance and flatness of steel plate to ensure riveting quality.At the beginning of construction, all the famous steel mills in China participated in the bidding, and shagang finally became the largest supplier due to its superior quality, accounting for about 30% of the steel used in the hutong bridge.

Belkert of Belgium is a world-renowned tire cord manufacturer and the world's largest manufacturer of metal products.Shagang has become the world's largest supplier with advanced technology and excellent quality, accounting for over 20% of its total procurement volume and over 60% of its domestic procurement.

Strong technical innovation ability to shagang in the market under the circumstances of violent fluctuations have no risk.In 2015, shagang still made a profit of 1.89 billion yuan, ranking the third among its domestic peers, despite the loss of 80% of domestic steel enterprises.In 2016, the steel market recovered and shagang ushered in the spring again. In that year, shagang made a profit of 5.05 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 147%. The company's efficiency level continues to be among the best in the steel industry.

3. "innovate the four questions" and open up new ideas for the transformation and development of our city

In the development of high and new technology industry calls for increasingly high, zhangjiagang as a traditional manufacturing market, how to upgrade?The municipal party committee and government attach great importance to the steady development, transformation and upgrading of the traditional manufacturing industry while vigorously cultivating the high-tech industry.At the 11th municipal party congress held last year, zhu lifan, the party secretary, listed "innovation-driven" in his report as the first of the "four paths" for the development of the city, and specially emphasized the traditional industries in the city.Huang ji, deputy secretary of the municipal party committee and mayor of zhangjiagang, went to jiangsu province (shagang) iron and steel research institute for research shortly after he was transferred to zhangjiagang last year, asking for further upgrading the level of the research institute with an international perspective.Obviously, the municipal party committee and the municipal government have high hopes for the transformation and development of the city's traditional industries.

How to innovate more effectively?Last November, the 13th party congress of jiangsu province put forward the strategy of "two gather and one high".During the meeting, li qiang, secretary of the CPC provincial party committee, went to suzhou for a special discussion and put forward the "four questions on innovation".Q: how to pursue original and innovative results in promoting independent innovation?Q 3: on the basis of comprehensively improving the level of innovation, how to build an iconic brand?Q 4: how to better reflect openness and inclusiveness in building an innovation ecosystem?

"Four questions of innovation" not only conforms to the development path of zhangjiagang, but also gives new enlightenment to the implementation of the innovation-driven development path of our city.

Last December 14, party secretary Zhu Lifan spirit of delegates to a congress of the province's keynote on how to do "innovation four asked" paper points out that in the city, zhangjiagang development is at a critical period of transformation, which innovation development urgent than ever, the whole city must fully realize the innovation as the first motive force in the development of the significance, aiming high, confidence, fast.At the same time, he asked for "innovation four ask" the third "how to create iconic brand" puts forward a new train of thought, the way to zhangjiagang city the most advantages and conditions of the industries and businesses to focus on breakthrough, around "the enterprise" "one enterprise one port" "one enterprise ecosystem" direction of innovation, cultivate a group of leading technology, industry, and has a certain scale of zhangjiagang "peak" enterprise.

When it comes to zhangjiagang "peak" enterprise, the first thing that comes to mind is shagang "steel giant".Data shows that last year the city's metallurgical industry scale above (annual sales of 20 million yuan) there are 60 enterprises, annual sales revenue of 213.9 billion yuan, accounting for the city's scale above the industrial sales of 47.2%.Shagang group alone has an annual sales revenue of 1983 billion yuan.It can be seen that shagang is of great significance to the steady economic development of our city.Based on this reality, the municipal party committee and government put forward the innovation system of "one enterprise and one institute", hoping to support shagang, yonggang and other backbone enterprises to continue to grow and strengthen through building higher innovation platform.

"The proportion of traditional industries in zhangjiagang is larger, and the task of transformation is arduous.In the emerging industry is still in the stage of cultivation, the traditional industry dominated by iron and steel in the future is still an important industry in our city.Therefore, the steel industry is not only not a burden, but also should be the main body of innovation.We at shagang fully support the "one enterprise, one hospital" strategy of the municipal party committee and government."Shagang group executive executive director, President gong sheng told reporters.

4. Collaborative innovation helps "plateau" rise again and "peak" stand out

What kind of research institution is jiangsu metallurgical technology research institute?How will the future work?What positive effect will it have on our city's economic development?

On January 22, jiangsu institute of metallurgy technology signing ceremony held, concerned expert points out: jiangsu institute of metallurgy technology will gather the global metallurgical industry technology innovation resources, in comprehensive carding of metallurgical industry chain and technology innovation chain, based on the full integration of metallurgy industry innovation resources through market mechanism, in accordance with the "open, joint, competition, sharing" principle, the joint institutions and research institutions at home and abroad, the construction of industrial generic technology and key technology research and development, achievements and technical services, third-party testing and personnel training communication is equal to a new type of research and development institutions.

What is new about the new r&d organization?Zhu lifan, party secretary, pointed out that jiangsu metallurgical technology research institute is not a technical department of an enterprise, nor a department of a university. It undertakes collaborative innovation and technology integration, and is the source of industrial upgrading.

Huang ji, deputy secretary of the municipal party committee and mayor, hopes that jiangsu metallurgical technology research institute can gather the world's talents and contribute to the development of the city and even the whole province's metallurgical industry.

Wu yaofang, chairman and general manager of yonggang group, said: "the present is a critical period for the transformation and upgrading of iron and steel enterprises, and bottlenecks such as technology and talent are increasingly prominent.The establishment of jiangsu metallurgical technology research institute will undoubtedly provide strong support for the transformation and upgrading of enterprises.

As for the necessity and importance of collaborative innovation and technology integration, Dr. Ma han, deputy director of the iron and steel research institute of jiangsu (shagang), has deep experience: "it was very difficult to promote the technology we developed to customers before.With the platform of jiangsu metallurgical technology research institute, the research and development resources in the iron and steel industry chain can be integrated and the transformation and upgrading of the whole metallurgical industry can be realized through collaborative research and development, which is more significant than the transformation and upgrading of a single enterprise."

How does the new innovation platform work?According to introducing, jiangsu metallurgy technology research institute will be in the form of joint-stock company, the President that executes council leadership, expert committee to support is in charge of make.It is planned to set up specialized research institutions such as new materials research institute, new technology research institute, environmental protection energy and resources research institute, intelligent manufacturing research institute and ultra-thin belt research institute.According to the development needs of the metallurgical industry, actively carry out scientific research projects representing the cutting-edge level of the industry, conquer and transform series of core research and development results, and lead the sustainable development of the metallurgical industry in jiangsu province.Strive to build a national first-class, internationally renowned metallurgical technology research institute through five years of efforts.

Former vice President of Chinese academy of engineering, Chinese academy of engineering GanYong, said China's strongest steel cluster is in jiangsu province, it's the whole level of steel production capacity on behalf of the domestic and international leading level, and representatives of the iron and steel enterprises in jiangsu shagang in operation mechanism, management, science and technology research and development, personnel training and so on are all very good, enjoys a high reputation in domestic and international.On this basis, the establishment of jiangsu metallurgical technology research institute can be said to be at the right time, will make a great contribution to the development of the iron and steel industry in jiangsu province and even the whole country.

Metallurgy is the advantage industry of zhangjiagang.If the city's metallurgical industry to the "plateau", so shagang, yonggang is the "plateau" on the "peak".Therefore, the transformation and upgrading of the whole industrial chain will surely make the "plateau" rise again and the "peak" stand out even more.

Zhangjiagang municipal party committee and government leaders expressed their full support for the construction of jiangsu metallurgical technology research institute.We will encourage more enterprises to base themselves on "plateau" and scale "peak", and make good achievements in zhangjiagang.