How does Yinchuan gather technological potential to activate development momentum?

In China, Zhongguancun is a symbol of innovation-driven development. Recently, Yinchuan·Zhongguancun Innovation Center was officially opened and put into operation in Yinchuan City, Ningxia. The first batch of 24 companies intends to sign contracts with Yinchuan Zhongguancun Innovation Center. Among these companies, there are many high-tech companies such as Oracle and Lenovo.

The physical space of Park 16 in Zhongguancun District 1 is less than 3 times the area of ??Beijing, but the annual output value it creates accounts for a quarter of Beijing’s total economic output. In recent years, Zhongguancun has already gone beyond Beijing and gone overseas, setting up "semi-colons" in places such as Silicon Valley in the United States and Ottawa in Canada, where innovation elements are relatively concentrated.

This time, why did the Zhongguancun Innovation Center move to the northwest, which is relatively poor in innovation elements?

Collaborative innovation between Yinchuan and Beijing

Why did Zhongguancun settle in Yinchuan?

“Innovation has always been a banner of Zhongguancun. Zhongguancun first considers a city’s development concept and innovation atmosphere.” Faced with reporters’ doubts, Yao Jianlin, Yinchuan project leader of Beijing Zhongguancun Information Valley Asset Management Co., Ltd. Said that the 12th Ningxia Party Congress placed the innovation-driven development strategy at the top of the "three major strategies". As the capital of Ningxia, Yinchuan’s existing scientific and technological foundation and urban positioning are completely in sync with Zhongguancun’s development philosophy.

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Not long after the 12th Ningxia Party Congress concluded, in June 2017, Jiang Zhigang, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and secretary of the Yinchuan Municipal Party Committee, went north to Zhongguancun to seek cooperation matters - Yinchuan City's accurate and pragmatic Zhongguancun was moved by its positioning, win-win mentality of cooperation, good industrial foundation and investment environment.

Since then, the Beijing Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park Management Committee and Zhongguancun Development Group have sent people to Yinchuan for docking inspections four times. After repeated discussions between the two parties, on September 30, 2017, the Yinchuan Municipal People's Government signed a strategic agreement with the Zhongguancun Management Committee and Zhongguancun Development Group.

“In less than three months, Yinchuan·Zhongguancun Innovation Center was officially unveiled and put into operation. This reflects the pragmatic and efficient innovation cooperation between Yinchuan and Zhongguancun, and also demonstrates the huge potential contained in Yinchuan.” Zhongguancun, Beijing Said Shi Qilin, general manager of Information Valley Asset Management Co., Ltd.

The Yinchuan·Zhongguancun Innovation and Entrepreneurship Science and Technology Park consists of one center and one base. The first center is the Yinchuan·Zhongguancun Innovation Center, and a 100,000-square-meter cooperative carrier in Ningxia Entrepreneurship Valley was selected for construction; the first base is located in Xixia District is where Ningxia universities gather. The project is planned to be constructed in three phases. In one year, 50 companies will be introduced and gathered in the Yinchuan Zhongguancun Innovation Center, and the innovation service system and mechanism will be initially formed; in three years, 150 companies will be introduced, and an industrial agglomeration effect will be initially formed; in five years, 300 companies will be introduced Enterprise, the output value exceeded 10 billion yuan, and it became the Beijing-Yinchuan Collaborative Innovation Demonstration Zone.

“Through the collaborative innovation of Yinchuan and Beijing, strong development potential will be gathered, which will promote the efficient flow and optimal allocation of innovative elements between regions.” Yang Yujing, mayor of Yinchuan City, said that Yinchuan will maximize the provision of high-quality and efficient Service, promote Yinchuan Zhongguancun Innovation and Entrepreneurship Science and Technology Park to become the "source" that leads the development of Yinchuan's emerging industries, the "new engine" that drives Yinchuan's economic development, and the "new benchmark" for innovative industries in the northwest region.

"Two parks and three districts" build a large innovation-driven platform

Yinchuan Zhongguancun Innovation and Entrepreneurship Science and Technology Park is one of the innovation-driven development platforms laid out by Yinchuan City since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The city has also launched the planning and construction of the Yinchuan Silk Road Economic Park in its core area, focusing on the development of producer services, mainly the non-public economy. At present, the park has started construction, and the first batch of 20 companies have signed contracts with an investment intention of 18.2 billion yuan.

Yinchuan “Internet Education” smart education model.

Yinchuan New Energy “Blue Ocean”.

Yinchuan Zhongguancun Innovation and Entrepreneurship Science and Technology Park and Yinchuan Silk Road Economic Park, plus the existing Yinchuan Economic and Technological Development Zone, Binhe New Area, and Comprehensive Bonded Zone, will form a coordinated development.

The ***Xiang Group, located in Yinchuan Economic and Technological Development Zone, has "traveled" through an era from a traditional foundry workshop to a smart foundry factory, less than 100 meters apart. Through self-developed casting 3D printing technology, this company has allowed the entire industry to evolve from "silly, big, black and thick" to "fair and graceful lady". According to the person in charge of the company, taking the diesel engine cylinder casting mold as an example, it used to take five highly skilled workers two weeks to assemble it from 25 parts. Even under the best conditions, the yield rate was only 50%. Nowadays, through 3D printing technology, while productivity has increased by 5 times, the yield rate has also increased by 20 to 30%. At present, more than 80 of the customers of ***Xiang Group are Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders.

Yinchuan LONGi Silicon Materials Co., Ltd., which is also located in this park, is the first in the domestic industry to research and promote the application of diamond wire cutting technology on a large scale. Zhong Baoshen, the person in charge of the company, said that this technology alone has increased the utilization rate of silicon materials by more than 30% and reduced the cost of silicon wafers by 30%. In October 2017, the SEMI PV22-0817 silicon wafer standard was developed under the leadership of its parent company Longi Corporation. 》Released to the world, this standard has brought a value contribution of more than 5 billion yuan to the entire industry and is an important measure to accelerate the "affordable grid" of photovoltaics.

The Silk Road Economic Park is located in Jinfeng District, Yinchuan City. It is currently the area with the highest government efficiency, urbanization rate, and internationalization rate in Ningxia. China-Arab Expo, WCA World E-Sports Competition, TMF Global Smart Summit, etc. International events are held here on a regular basis. The park identifies the non-public economy as the core leading industry, benchmarks the construction requirements of the urban functional core area and image display area of ??important nodes of the "Belt and Road", and focuses on the layout of four major categories of non-public economy, including private headquarters economy, finance and trade, modern services, and smart industries. Economy, it is expected that when fully completed, it can employ 80,000 people, have a resident population of 20,000, complete fixed asset investment of 35 billion yuan, and achieve a regional GDP of 20 billion yuan, becoming an important economic growth pole for the district and city.

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In Yinchuan Binhe New Area, Ningxia Ruyi Technology Company has a multi-in-one modern textile industry chain including intelligent spinning, high-end fabrics, personalized clothing customization and scientific research and education. Already formed. Through the grafting of new technologies such as "Internet" big data, 3D scanning and tailoring are realized for tailor-made garments. As long as you stand in front of the machine, 180 data can be generated in 30 seconds, and the garment can be ready in as fast as 2 hours. In terms of intelligent production level, it has become the leader in the development of domestic high-end intelligent textile industry.

Yinchuan City has deployed an "innovation chain" around the "industrial chain", with smart textiles represented by Hengtian and Ruyi Company, and smart manufacturing represented by ***Xiang Cast Steel and Juneng Robot Company. New materials represented by LONGi Silicon and Jiajing are leaping from "chasers" to "leaders" with collective breakthroughs in technology.

However, as an underdeveloped area, Yinchuan still has poor innovation soil, and it is necessary to increase the strength of scientific and technological innovation through linkage between the east and the west.

The foreign scientific and technological cooperation of the "two parks and three zones" has different focuses: Yinchuan Economic and Technological Development Zone focuses on deepening cooperation with Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone. Currently, it is working with China Aviation Development Beijing Aeronautical Materials Research Institute Military-civilian integration project - a graphene project with a total investment of 4 billion yuan will start construction within the year and will generate an annual output value of 10 billion yuan after it is put into operation; Yinchuan Binhe New Area has in-depth cooperation with Suzhou Industrial Park to develop big data, smart manufacturing, general aviation, and big health Industry; Yinchuan Comprehensive Bonded Zone will copy the innovative policies of domestic free trade pilot zones and create an investment and trade facilitation demonstration zone.

Relax the hand of management and pave the way for innovation

Innovation is a complex ecosystem. Only by creating a "rainforest" ecology suitable for innovation can new "species" evolve.

“I only started to contact relevant parties in Yinchuan City in October last year, and completed various procedures for company registration and project implementation in November. Especially for company registration, I submitted materials in the morning and obtained the business license in the afternoon. , and the work efficiency is very high," said Zhou Daqiao, general manager of Yuhanyao Graphene Energy Storage Materials Technology Co., Ltd.

In the display cabinet on the first floor of Yinchuan Civic Hall, 59 official seals that have been permanently sealed lie quietly there.

These 59 official approval seals are not only "witnesses" of the once cumbersome administrative approval process, but also "witnesses" to the reform of the administrative approval system. Yinchuan City took the lead in the country to establish an administrative approval service bureau. It unified 153 types of approval matters and approval personnel from 26 departments such as development and reform, housing and construction into the approval service bureau, achieving "one seal for approval", shortening the time limit by 86% and personnel reduced by 90.

The reform of the commercial system has not only benefited high-tech companies with large investments, but also stimulated the enthusiasm of a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises for innovation and entrepreneurship. "It used to be that we had to fill in 4 forms and submit 9 application requirements, but now one form solves all the problems." At the approval window of the Administrative Approval Service Bureau of Yinchuan Citizen's Hall, Xu Juan from Ningxia Deshengtai Pharmacy Chain Co., Ltd. passed the "one form" "Tong" applies for the issuance of a "Drug Business License" for retail pharmacies. It only takes 12 minutes from receipt to acceptance, and only 1 hour and 58 minutes from acceptance to preliminary review.

The innovation ecology is not “managed” but “released”. According to reports, since the reform, Yinchuan has attracted 46,812 enterprises to register efficiently, a year-on-year increase of 48%, and more than 860 new industries in eight categories including e-commerce, games, and informatization have been added.