The transformation of "breaking the circle" is fighting for a piece of Xintiandi. Shanghai's old brand national development zone has entered the integrated circuit industry enterprise | park | industry
Entering its fourth year, the new area of Lingang Free Trade Zone is in the ascendant. On this land of towering factories, the Lingang Park of Minhang Development Zone, rooted in Shanghai Real Estate Group for nearly 20 years, is no longer young.
After more than ten years of dormancy, this old brand park has managed to create a Xintiandi in the fierce national competition for investment attraction and the pattern of the emergence of Shanghai industrial parks. Creating 30% of the new area's integrated circuit output value with 1% of the new area's area, attracting a total investment of nearly 34 billion yuan... The indicator data from Minhang Development Zone Lingang Park has surprised and surprised the outside world.
In the eyes of the developers of the park, success is by no means accidental: technological innovation is undoubtedly the most powerful driving force for a country or city to achieve high-quality development, and this is also true for an industrial park.
The new track of the old park
As one of the earliest national level economic and technological development zones in Shanghai, Minhang Development Zone has spent nearly 40 years gathering a group of manufacturing industry leaders such as Johnson&Johnson, Siemens, Braun, and Mitsubishi in the headquarters of Minhang, becoming a leading "park" in the country. When entering Lingang, Minhang Development Zone did not take advantage of the "famous park" effect and introduced a large number of manufacturing foreign giants, choosing to start again.
"In the industrial park sector of Shanghai Real Estate Group, Minhang Development Zone Lingang Park specializes in future industries, including integrated circuit equipment manufacturing and new energy vehicle supporting characteristic industries." Li Zhong, Vice President of Shanghai Real Estate Group, said that Minhang Development Zone has been mainly focused on manufacturing for nearly 40 years, which is a new track attempted by old development zones.
To lay out a new track is to step out of the comfort zone. In the view of Feng Xiaoming, the Party Secretary of Minhong of Shanghai Real Estate, the transformation is difficult, but it has to be changed. Although Minhang Development Zone has numerous multinational leading and headquarters enterprises, it lacks high-level products and leading technologies developed locally; Although a large number of high-tech enterprises have been cultivated through the establishment of "Zero Bay", there is a lack of endogenous innovation leaders with international and domestic leading capabilities.
Bird's-eye view of Lingang Park in Minhang Development Zone
The troubles faced by Minhang Development Zone also reflect the industrial development difficulties of the city. "When the economy reaches a certain stage of development and continues to rely on investment driven and technological imitation, it is difficult to support high-quality urban development." Industry insiders told reporters that Shanghai must use technological innovation to stimulate greater urban potential and provide new impetus for high-quality development.
At the end of the 13th Five Year Plan, Shanghai Innovation proposed a "3+6" industrial layout, with "3" referring to the three leading industries of integrated circuits, biopharmaceuticals, and artificial intelligence. The Lingang Park of Minhang Development Zone is waiting for the wind to come, combining the strategic and policy advantages of the new area's "Oriental Core Port" to quickly layout the future science and technology innovation industry, breaking through the circle and entering new tracks. During this period, the investment promotion staff also politely declined the initiative of high-quality enterprises, including traditional industry leaders with high revenue.
Nowadays, enterprises such as Xinwei Semiconductor and Kangmaxin that settle in Lingang Park of Minhang Development Zone, although not as well-known as the Fortune Global 500, are regarded by the industry as representatives of future industries, brewing a "nuclear explosion point" for science and technology innovation, and may even create a high growth, large capacity, and predictable incremental market. Taking Kangmaxin as an example, CEO Guo Huijuan introduced that the company focuses on the research and development of biopharmaceuticals and artificial intelligence, and its self-developed cell-free protein synthesis technology has achieved world first in three aspects.
Chain investment promotion promotes the source of scientific and technological innovation strategies
One of the "four major functions" strengthened by Shanghai is the source of technological innovation strategies. That is to say, in the past, simply introducing science and technology innovation enterprises and implementing technology projects will no longer be the focus of this city's future efforts, but will shift towards gathering the most advanced high-tech industries and entrepreneurs with the most innovative capabilities, and creating conditions for these science and technology innovation elements to produce biochemical reactions together, release energy outward, and then affect the whole country and even the world.
How to leverage the resources of scientific and technological innovation to achieve the transformation of old industrial parks, Minhang Development Zone also has deeper thinking. "We adhere to industry chain investment promotion and precise investment promotion, using leading enterprises to drive upstream and downstream supporting agglomeration." The person in charge of Lingang Park in Minhang Development Zone said that the key to the attraction law of the park lies in the enterprises themselves.
At the beginning of 2020, Liaoning Science and Technology Innovation Board's first stock and domestic integrated circuit equipment leader, Xinyuan Microelectronics, was preparing to enter the Yangtze River Delta. In the carefully prepared inspection list by the team, Lingang Park in Minhang Development Zone was not included. Facing the Minhang Development Zone Lingang Park team who went to Shenyang to inspect and attract investment, Cui Xiaowei, a core member of Shenyang Xinyuan Microelectronics, was puzzled and said, "Where is the Minhang Development Zone Lingang Park? Is it reliable?"
Sitting opposite Cui Xiaowei is Feng Xiaoming. As a veteran of investment promotion, he has dealt with nearly a hundred global manufacturing giants, but he is still uncertain about the new integrated circuit industry. After pondering for a long time, he told the company that "the landing and development of enterprises not only depend on investment policies, but also on their social circles and the industry situation here in the next five years. The Lingang Industrial Park in Minhang Development Zone has already gathered multiple upstream and downstream semiconductor equipment enterprises, and everyone here speaks the same language.".
This sentence deeply moved Xinyuan Microelectronics and became a major driving force for enterprises to enter the park. Cui Xiaowei said that the integrated circuit equipment industry is all aimed at the global market and participating in global competition. Unfortunately, due to the scattered national layout and lack of close connections among major enterprises, the lack of social circles has become a real dilemma faced by the industry. If we want to break through together, we must gather together for warmth and break through geographical barriers.
Behind precise investment attraction lies its industrial logic. When an industrial closed-loop is formed, the comprehensive business costs of upstream and downstream enterprises will be greatly reduced, the flow of factors will accelerate, and more chemical reactions will be generated.
Led by Changdian, Zhongwei, Tuojing, Tianyue, and Xinyuan Microelectronics, Minhang Development Zone Lingang Park quickly gathered 17 similar enterprises, many of which were introduced by the leaders through word of mouth. Nowadays, the park has initially formed an industrial ecological loop of integrated circuits upstream and downstream, and a trend of attracting investment with high friends.
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From 0 to 10, it refers to the complete process of technological innovation from basic research to industrialization. The organic connection of this chain is the key to enhancing the ability of technological innovation policy sources.
For the integrated circuit industry, bridging this chain is even more difficult. Minhang Development Zone Lingang Park aims to hit the pain points directly, providing comprehensive and accurate services, allowing enterprises to fully focus on research and development and production, and striving to avoid wasting time.
The logic of "time is money, efficiency is life" is highly applicable in the integrated circuit industry. Every minute and second saved by China's manufacturing upgrade breakthrough could create valuable opportunities for Chinese companies to tear open the web of overseas giants.
High quality carrier space is a fertile ground for the growth and growth of emerging industries. In the past decade or so, the Lingang Industrial Park in Minhang Development Zone has not been eager to fill the park with enterprises, but has devoted a lot of time to basic development, making the land mature and waiting for good families.
Tianyue advanced and thus became associated with Shanghai. Wang Yaru, Brand and Strategic Director of Shanghai Tianyue Semiconductor Materials Company, told reporters that as a leading enterprise in silicon carbide substrate materials, Tianyue Advanced has achieved a market share of semi insulating silicon carbide substrates for four consecutive years, ranking among the top three in the world. The market share of conductive substrates is also constantly increasing. The biggest obstacle to the development of the silicon carbide semiconductor industry currently lies in the insufficient supply of substrate materials. When Tianyue Advanced was planning to expand production, it had received many olive branches from first tier cities and industrial parks. After multiple comparisons, Minhang Development Zone Lingang Park stood out. Among them, mature areas with fast development speed are an important driving force for promoting cooperation between both parties. In 2021, the first phase of the Tianyue Advanced Shanghai Smart Factory, which cost 2.5 billion yuan to build, took the lead in construction and achieved product delivery in May of this year. After just 3 years of entry, Shanghai Tianyue Advanced relies on the concept of intelligent manufacturing, using efficient preparation technology and high-quality products to meet the increasingly strong market demand. The next stage of production expansion is being intensively planned.
Manufacturing in international metropolises may incur high land prices, but this does not necessarily mean that the overall business costs for enterprises will be high. The person in charge of Lingang Park in Minhang Development Zone believes that only by continuously optimizing the business environment can we truly promote the production efficiency of enterprises. Some technology companies admit that although the policies in the new area are good, there are over a hundred supporting items, which are difficult to fully understand in the short term. The park team quickly established an exclusive WeChat group, breaking down policies one by one, and providing one-on-one guidance according to the type of enterprise and development stage to avoid distractions. Benefiting from this, the Shanghai team of Xinyuan Microelectronics quickly formed and operated, and their self-developed products had already landed before the factory was built.
Benchmarking against the world's top, domestic enterprises still have a long way to go, and the same goes for industrial parks. As an international financial center, Shanghai is a gathering place for industrial funds, venture capital institutions, and securities banks, and its financial advantages are constantly empowering science and technology innovation enterprises. "How to efficiently integrate the advantages of urban resources and accurately empower enterprises?" This has become a new topic being studied in the Lingang Park of Minhang Development Zone.
Sharing risks and benefits is a solution that empowers the leapfrog development of science and technology innovation. "At present, Shanghai Real Estate Group is increasing its efforts to explore and work with local governments to jointly promote the establishment of an industrial investment fund and innovate the profit model of the park." Li Zhong said that the bidding and investment linkage model will effectively enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of the park's investment attraction. By promoting investment, production, and innovation, the high-tech industry chain will be connected, and the industrial ecology will continue to be optimized and strengthened to serve the industry and achieve breakthroughs.
