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Shenyang, July 26 (Xinhua) - Behind the rapid growth of equipment manufacturing industry in the three northeastern provinces of China
Xinhua News Agency reporter
Since the beginning of this year, the growth of equipment manufacturing industry in the three northeastern provinces has been remarkable——
In the first half of the year, the equipment manufacturing industry, a pillar industry in Liaoning Province, saw a year-on-year increase of 12.6% in added value, an increase of 17 percentage points compared to the same period last year;
In the first five months, the added value of equipment manufacturing industry in Jilin Province increased by 22.6%. Especially driven by the construction of "Land Scenery Three Gorges" and other projects, new energy equipment manufacturing enterprises have achieved rapid development;
In the first five months, the growth rate of the added value of the equipment industry in Heilongjiang Province reached 9.5%, among which the output value of the railway, shipbuilding, aerospace, and other transportation equipment manufacturing industries in Harbin increased by 25.5% year-on-year
The equipment manufacturing industry is an important support for stabilizing the industrial market, and its growth plays an important role in promoting the overall development of the Northeast economy. The rapid growth of equipment manufacturing industry in the three northeastern provinces is a vivid footnote to the transformation and upgrading of old industrial bases and the vigorous construction of modern industrial systems.
This is the appearance of the Fuxing Asian Games intelligent multiple unit taken on July 21st. On that day, the Fuxing Asian Games intelligent multiple unit was officially taken offline at CRRC Changchun Rail Transit Co., Ltd. located in Changchun, Jilin. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ma Xiaocheng
Only with a deep foundation can one accumulate knowledge and achieve success
China's first diesel locomotive, first jet aircraft, and first 10000 ton ship... With a century long history of industrial development, the Northeast region has become one of the national key industrial bases focused on equipment manufacturing since the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
In the new era, relying on a large team of technical workers and a strong industrial foundation, a number of major national heavy weapons such as the first domestically produced aircraft carrier, the main compressor of the transonic wind tunnel, and the pressure vessel of the "Hualong 1" nuclear reactor have been successively launched here.
"Some ships have already been scheduled for delivery until 2027." Since the beginning of this year, the team led by Jiang Hongliang, the head of the Production Management Department of Dalian Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Group Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Shipbuilding Group, has been working tirelessly. "The most important reason why customers choose us is because of our strong product and technological accumulation."
"The equipment manufacturing industry has the characteristics of capital intensive, technology intensive, and labor-intensive. It not only requires a large amount of investment, but also relies more on technology and intellectual factors in the production process than other industries," said Liang Qidong, Vice President of Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences.
As an old industrial base, the equipment manufacturing industry in the three northeastern provinces has a complete range of categories. Taking Heilongjiang Province as an example, since the establishment of the People's Republic of China, this province has provided one-third of the country's complete power plant equipment and half of the railway freight cars.
On a solid foundation, the three northeastern provinces continue to improve the planning and layout of high-end equipment manufacturing industry.
Taking the special action for the development of advanced manufacturing clusters launched this year as an opportunity, Liaoning has developed 22 key industrial clusters, including integrated circuits, aviation equipment, CNC machine tools, and new energy vehicles.
While consolidating and expanding the advantages of traditional equipment manufacturing, Jilin is also expanding and strengthening the new energy equipment industry chain that integrates wind power machines, motors, blades, energy storage and other equipment.
Heilongjiang focuses on building advanced manufacturing clusters of national important advanced power equipment, special rail transit equipment, high-end CNC machine tools, intelligent robots, and high-end intelligent agricultural machinery.
This is the appearance of the Fuxing Asian Games intelligent multiple unit taken on July 21st. On that day, the Fuxing Asian Games intelligent multiple unit was officially taken offline at CRRC Changchun Rail Transit Co., Ltd. located in Changchun, Jilin. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ma Xiaocheng
Seize opportunities to win the market
The equipment manufacturing industry in the three northeastern provinces started the earliest, had the most complete categories, and had the highest concentration, but also faced challenges such as being far from the market. The three provinces in Northeast China are promoting equipment manufacturing enterprises to step out of Northeast China, actively participating in domestic and international dual circulation, seizing opportunities to win the market.
At the end of February this year, Duan Hongliang, Deputy Director of CRRC Changke National Rail Transit Engineering Research Center, was particularly busy this year. "To explore the market, we need to continuously capture market trends and seize fleeting opportunities."
Since the beginning of this year, CRRC Changke has seized various opportunities to showcase its products to the market, promote potential cooperation, and have successively signed multiple domestic and foreign orders. CRRC Changke's production line has also maintained a busy production rhythm.
Lines danced on the computer screen one by one, and the staff stared intently at the screen. The keyboard and mouse made light sounds, and as the lines moved around, construction drawings were drawn one by one. At Dalian Heavy Industry Equipment Group Co., Ltd., engineering personnel were nervously designing the crankshaft, known as the "heart" of ship engines.
"In recent years, the global shipping market has been booming, driving the rapid development of the shipbuilding industry. Dalian Heavy Industry Equipment Group Co., Ltd. is an enterprise with a deep manufacturing industry accumulation. At this time, we need to look at the global market, leverage competitive advantages such as strong supporting capabilities, high cost-effectiveness, and short service cycles, and seize opportunities to win the market." said Dong Wei, Deputy General Manager of Dalian Heavy Industry Equipment Group Co., Ltd.
Dalian Heavy Industry Equipment Group's crankshaft company has an annual design and production capacity of 150 crankshafts, but the order volume in 2023 has reached over 170. At present, the enterprise is further optimizing production processes, improving processing efficiency, and expanding production capacity on the basis of existing factories to meet market demand.
While connecting with market demand and leveraging the advantages of traditional manufacturing, the three northeastern provinces are actively seizing new development opportunities brought by industries such as new materials and new energy to the equipment manufacturing industry.
In Jilin CRRC Songyuan New Energy Equipment Industrial Park, the spacious workshop is filled with a bustling production scene. "Our production orders have been scheduled until the end of the year," said Liu Hui, General Manager of CRRC Songyuan New Energy Equipment Industry Park Blade Factory.
Wind and sun exposure were once seen as natural disadvantages in the western part of Jilin Province. However, Jilin Province has seized the opportunity for green energy development, gathering new energy industries from nothing. In recent years, it has attracted CRRC Group to establish enterprises here, and has also driven more than a hundred upstream and downstream supporting enterprises to develop together, creating a "wind" and "light" industrial chain.
In Heilongjiang, the business and operational models of "time-honored" enterprises are experiencing positive changes. In the blade forming workshop of China Yizhong Longshen Composite Materials Co., Ltd., a batch of S89 wind turbine blades produced for the Heigang Wind Farm in Longjiang County are being manufactured intensively. The wind turbine blade manufacturing project will not only become a new growth point in China, but also comprehensively enhance the core manufacturing and overall supporting capabilities of wind power new energy technology equipment in Qiqihar and surrounding areas.
Not long ago, the container ship DE125, built by Dalian COSCO Shipping Kawasaki Shipbuilding Engineering Co., Ltd., was launched in Lushun, Dalian. It is currently one of the largest and largest container ships in the world.
Chen Hu, Deputy Director of the Department of Industry and Information Technology of Liaoning Province, stated that Liaoning Province is actively promoting the transformation of manufacturing towards high-end, intelligent, and green industries, and helping enterprises improve quality and efficiency through transformation.
On July 20th, Dalian Heavy Industry Equipment Group successfully shipped five large door seats exported to Indonesia. Shen Jizhong
Targeting digitalization is the key to breaking through the cocoon and becoming a butterfly
In Harbin, the "three major power plants" built during the "First Five Year Plan" period - the motor factory, boiler factory, and steam turbine factory - have now developed and grown into Harbin Electric Group. The group is carrying out a project called "Digital Twin Project of Power Plant Equipment"——
When the main equipment of the power station is working and another digital analog equipment is running synchronously, and there is a deviation in the parameters of the two, the analog equipment will give an alarm, and then discover possible problems with the physical equipment.
With the support of digitalization, Harbin Electric Group is accelerating its transformation from a traditional manufacturing enterprise to an equipment manufacturer, system integrator, and operation and maintenance service provider, providing customers with intelligent manufacturing, remote operation and maintenance, and full lifecycle management system services. Che Dongguang, General Manager of the Innovation and Digitalization Department of the Group, said that during the 14th Five Year Plan period, the Group will invest 1 billion yuan to build "Digital Harbin Electric".
In recent years, a group of Northeast "time-honored" equipment manufacturing enterprises such as Harbin Electric Group have embraced digital technologies and technological transformations such as 5G and artificial intelligence to achieve "old, middle, new", accelerate the transformation from traditional production manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing, expand business areas, and change operating models.
Stimulating the vitality of digital transformation is a key path for the development of equipment manufacturing industry in the three eastern provinces.
On May 26th, the floating production storage and unloading vessel "Bacalhau" was delivered in Dalian. Shen Jizhong
At present, Liaoning has cultivated a total of 30 benchmark enterprises for digital transformation in the manufacturing industry, built 152 digital workshops and intelligent factories, and applied 1235 scenarios. Liaoning has set up special funds to support the construction of a digital Liaoning and an intelligent province, utilizing new generation information technologies such as artificial intelligence to empower and increase efficiency in traditional industries, and to assist in their transformation and upgrading.
Focusing on "cloud, digital and intelligent", Heilongjiang launched a special action for digital transformation of manufacturing industry, and strengthened the construction of 5G, gigabit cities, industrial Internet and other new infrastructure. The Intelligent Manufacturing Innovation Center for Power Generation Equipment, led by Harbin Electric Power Group, has been recognized as the first provincial-level manufacturing innovation center in Heilongjiang.
This year, Jilin Province announced the "Action Plan for Intelligent Transformation and Digital Transformation of Manufacturing Industry in Jilin Province", aiming to focus on supporting more than 300 "smart transformation and digital transformation" demonstration projects within three years, build 1 to 2 lighthouse factories, 100 smart manufacturing demonstration factories, and 300 provincial-level smart manufacturing digital workshops, and promote industrial enterprises above designated size with willingness to complete a round of "smart transformation and digital transformation"
"Advance layout, accelerate the construction of digital infrastructure, fill the gaps, forge the strengths, fully leverage the advantages of industrial digitization and digital industrialization resources, accelerate the 'digital transformation' of the manufacturing industry in the process of accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system, and the three provinces in Northeast China will continue to move towards a new direction of China's intelligent manufacturing in China's manufacturing industry," said Liang Qidong.
