A piece of good news came from the Foshan Private Entrepreneurs Conference: Foshan was officially approved to become a national comprehensive reform pilot for the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry. As a major manufacturing town and a large private economy city in China, Foshan will undoubtedly usher in unprecedented development opportunities after being approved for national pilot projects.
As a national pilot project for manufacturing transformation and upgrading, what kind of mission does Foshan carry? To take the lead in exploring the path for "Made in China 2025", what core propositions does Foshan need to answer?
Today, Nanfang Daily officially launched the "Innovation·Innovation-2015 Pearl River Delta Competitiveness Report". Among them, the focus was on Foshan: How can China's major manufacturing city shift from using machines to making machines?
Currently, Foshan is focusing on the equipment manufacturing industry and leading the innovation and upgrading of the industrial system. The transformation of machines is the source of change in the manufacturing industry; from making products, buying equipment, and using machines in the past, to today's making machines, production lines, and smart factories, a profound change is taking place within Foshan's manufacturing workshops. occur. Answering the "machine-building question" well is an important part of Foshan's implementation of the national pilot work. ●Nanfang Daily reporter Liu Jialin
Changes in manufacturing
"New dividends" of the reengineering industry
In 1991, Galanz Group introduced the world's most advanced Toshiba microwave oven production line at the time. It was completed and put into production within half a year, and was shouted "Wolf is coming" by the national home appliance industry.
Three years later, Galanz’s domestic market share of microwave ovens reached 25.1%, ranking first in the country. Seven years later, Galanz’s domestic market share rose to 67.1%. The rapid growth in sales has also created a large demand for Galanz's front-line production employees. The most classic scene in the past was that after the Spring Festival every year, Galanz even went to bus stations and train stations to recruit employees.
Galanz’s feat has inspired many companies to follow suit. Foshan's traditional manufacturing industries such as home appliances, ceramics and furniture are proud of the introduction of various "first production lines in the country". But at the same time, like Galanz, advanced production lines have made it difficult to recruit workers, which has become the norm for Foshan companies.
Time has evolved to 2015, walking into the newly completed workshop of Galanz, "One microwave oven can be produced in one second. We use the equipment used to make cars to produce microwave ovens." Planning by Guangdong Galanz Group Co., Ltd. Minister You Limin said.
In March 2014, Galanz announced that it would spend 3 billion to upgrade its automated factory to achieve a significant improvement in production efficiency. Statistics show that the new factory's single-line efficiency is 62% higher than that of the traditional production line.
Creating higher production efficiency is the "new dividend" that mechanical equipment brings to Foshan manufacturing. While efficiency is improving, increasingly intelligent equipment has further reduced reliance on labor and reduced wage costs.
The author’s visit found that from large and medium-sized enterprises to small and micro enterprises, from home appliance manufacturing to various traditional manufacturing, Foshan enterprises in the process of transformation and upgrading are giving birth to a new wave of mechanical equipment application.
Not only Foshan, but also in the past two or three years, there has been an upsurge in the development of equipment manufacturing industry in many places in China. In Quanzhou, after more than 20 years of development, its rich categories, sophisticated products, and continuous innovation have enabled the Quanzhou machinery and equipment manufacturing industry to provide equipment with low prices and no less than the top technical levels at home and abroad. Starting from Quanzhou, the machinery and equipment manufacturing industry has become popular across the country, including Wuhan, Chengdu, Shenyang and then Foshan. Made in China is moving towards an era of competition with “machines”.
Thoughts on Innovation
As a manufacturing cluster in Guangdong, equipment manufacturing has become the largest industry in Foshan. Last year, the total industrial output value above designated size reached nearly 420 billion yuan. The provincial party committee and the provincial government have made overall arrangements for the industrial positioning on the east and west sides of the Pearl River. On the west bank of the Pearl River Delta, with Foshan as the leader, this intensive technological migration to the manufacturing industry is happening every day.
"We first cooperated with Siemens in Germany and learned German technology to produce vacuum pumps. Later, after mastering the technology, we improved the original products and started independent production and manufacturing." Guangdong Kenfulai Pump Industry Co., Ltd. is a large-scale company Ren Xueyun, assistant director of the company's import and export department, said that there are very few domestic companies that produce vacuum pumps and few have mastered the core technology. They are the leading companies in this field. High-end products such as vacuum pumps can now be exported under their own brands.
Behind the beautiful turnaround of Guangdong Kenfulai Pump Co., Ltd. is a microcosm of the intensive flow of technology from all over the world in Foshan's equipment manufacturing industry under the layout of the Foshan Municipal Government.
While guiding this technological migration feast to take place in enterprises, on May 28, 2015, the South China Intelligent Robot Innovation Research Institute, the first to be established by Guangdong Province, Foshan City and Shunde District, was unveiled in Shunde. Established, focusing on key technological breakthroughs and industry application promotion of robots and intelligent equipment. Previously, the Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Foshan City and Nanhai District, and Guangdong University of Technology have jointly established the CNC Equipment Collaborative Innovation Research Institute to provide technology research and development services to enterprises.
These government-led public technology platforms will also promote the intensive inflow of advanced domestic technologies into Foshan.
In addition to technology, Foshan has also not forgotten to inject financial "live water" into the machinery and equipment manufacturing industry. In February 2014, the Foshan Municipal Government issued the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting the Integrated Development of the Financial Technology Industry", further proposing the construction of a "trinity" financial service model of technology finance, private finance and policy finance. With the approval of the provincial government, Foshan has built the Guangdong Province Financial Technology Industry Integration Innovation Comprehensive Pilot Zone and the Industrial Finance Reform Pilot Zone in Nanhai District and Shunde District respectively, attracting many financial companies to try to guide and mobilize funds and capital with limited government investment. Liquidity effectively solves the problem of "difficult and expensive financing" of enterprises.
As the focus of Foshan's manufacturing industry shifts from "using machines" to "making machines", and from technology to finance, an innovation-driven urban system corresponding to "making machines" is being built.
Where is the system for “making machines”?
The battle for supply
“Racing with foreign machines”
The arrival of the new industrial revolution has given rise to the global cry of “racing with machines”. For Foshan manufacturing, racing against machines "is actually "racing against foreign machines."
Galanz, the leading home appliance company in Foshan, announced the introduction of advanced foreign automated production lines worth 3 billion yuan. At the same time, Galanz has been After learning from experience, we develop an automated production line with independent intellectual property rights.
“The products currently produced are only our by-products, and the main output is to export advanced production methods to Galanz. "Huang Zhaohua, general manager of Galanz Electrical Accessories Manufacturing Co., Ltd., said that in their workshop, the entire automated production, except for some general-purpose machines, such as injection molding machines, punches, etc., is produced by themselves. In this way, Galanz has obtained The greatest competitiveness of the entire enterprise. Because Galanz has no equipment competitors.
Huang Zhaohua said that he hopes to realize an unmanned workshop in the near future and eventually build a black light workshop, and all automated equipment will be surnamed. "Galanz".
But it still takes time for Huang Zhaohua's wish to be realized. Today, Foshan's industrial output exceeds 2 trillion yuan, of which the core equipment manufacturing industry has an output value of 60 billion yuan, and the current scale of robots is only 2.9 billion yuan. 100 million, local companies are mostly system application integration service companies. Foshan companies such as Galanz still need to use robots produced abroad. Guangdong Kekaida Intelligent Robot Company is working hard to manufacture its own robots, hoping to break the monopoly of the giant. Wu Gongping, a professor at Wuhan University, introduced that the company mainly focuses on the research and development, production and promotion of high-voltage transmission line inspection robots, and has filled the technical gaps at home and abroad in many technologies such as intelligent application of robots and wire crossing. It is expected that in the future 3. -The output value will reach 1 billion to 1.5 billion yuan in five years
On the timeline of global technology flooding into Foshan and collision with industry, under the new vision of "supply-side reform", Foshan is also taking its own path in improving the proposition of "machine supply"
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What does the "Nine Cities Question" ask?
Today, Nanfang Daily launched a large-scale annual special issue "Innovation - 2015 Pearl River Delta Competitiveness Report". A research team composed of more than 40 reporters went to the frontline innovation sites in the Pearl River Delta for three months to conduct in-depth research and dialogue. Hundreds of experts and entrepreneurs explored the latest trends and trends in innovation in the Pearl River Delta.
As China’s largest economy, faced with the challenges of the “three superpositions” of the growth rate shifting period, the structural adjustment period and the early stimulus policy digestion period, Guangdong took the lead in taking the lead from factor-driven to innovation Drive the pace of transformation, take innovation-driven development as the core strategy and overall starting point for transformation and upgrading, and re-establish the leading advantage in a new round of development.
The Pearl River Delta region in particular has the most advanced modern industrial system and a relatively complete supporting system in the country. It accounts for 0.5% of the country’s land area and creates 9.08% of the country’s GDP; and its R&D expenditures About 150 billion yuan, accounting for more than 2.6% of GDP, has entered a new stage of innovation-driven development. Nanfang Daily reporters went deep into the first site of production and R&D, focused on the construction of a regional innovation system, and discussed innovation in the Pearl River Delta with nine major issues.
During the investigation, the reporter captured the changes taking place in the Pearl River Delta: robots entered the workshops, professors "entered the market" to engage in research and development, the "world factory" turned to "Smart Silicon Valley", Guangzhou Nansha, Shenzhen Qianhai The three major free trade zones of Shekou and Zhuhai Hengqin have accelerated the construction of a new open economic system... Innovation-driven development has released more powerful momentum.
In fact, these changes are closely related to Foshan. They may be happening now, may be about to happen, or may happen in the future. This report is worth learning from.
In particular, the research team issued the "Nine Cities and Nine Questions" to nine cities in the Pearl River Delta: Guangzhou, when the world economy enters the stage of innovation and competition, how can Guangzhou reconstruct the power mechanism of the future urban system? How can a once glorious traditional industrial city ride the wave of the new economy? How to avoid Detroit-style decline?
Shenzhen, the "leader" in innovation-driven development. Can Shenzhen uphold the courage of "blazing a bloody road" in the past, "blazing a second bloody road" for China in terms of innovation-driven development, and provide more domestic cities with Learn from experience?
How can Zhuhai open up at a higher level, in a wider field and at a deeper level, fully connect with the world, gather innovative elements, enhance innovation capabilities, seize innovation high points, and become the source and service provider of innovation on the west bank of the Pearl River? ?
Foshan, how can we develop the equipment manufacturing industry to provide strong support for China's industrial transformation and provide a demonstration for faster transformation of China's manufacturing industry from fast to good?
In Huizhou, how can we innovate so that the greenery will not fade while the industry develops, and avoid the "dilemma" that may arise between the developing economy and the environment?
In Dongguan, how can the industrial structure burdened with the burden of traditional manufacturing find the best combination of innovation? How does the regional innovation corridor drive the coordinated development of surrounding towns and streets? How to avoid falling back on the old path of “processing trade” while enjoying the spillover of innovative resources from Guangzhou and Shenzhen? How do the city coordinates in the middle connect the entire Guangdong-Hong Kong innovation community on the east bank of the Pearl River Estuary?
In Zhongshan, how to promote the "second entrepreneurship" of professional towns and let them once again carry the "innovation banner"?
How can Jiangmen explore an innovation-driven development path to accelerate development and strive for the leading position during the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” period?
The "feast" carefully prepared by the research team may provide new experience for Foshan to check and fill in the gaps in its own transformation and development road, and how to go better in the future development road.