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The 2022 World Advanced Manufacturing Conference opened in Jinan, the capital of East China's Shandong province on Aug 31. This is the second time for Jinan to hold the Conference since the first one in 2021.
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Jinan Has Become a Household Name for Holding the World Advanced Manufacturing Conference Twice (Photo: Business Wire)
Guided by the strategic decisions and plans of CPC central committee to make China a manufacturing and network powerhouse, Jinan has fully implemented the strategy of building a strong industrial city and a digital pioneer city, promoted the digital, networked, and intelligent transformation and upgrade of the manufacturing industry, taken the lead in proposing to make Jinan strong in intelligent economy and a digital pioneer city, forming a leading area for the development of advanced manufacturing and the digital economy.
The development of Jinan’s advanced manufacturing and digital economy has made new improvement, and the scale of the four leading pillar industries has exceeded 1.3 trillion RMB. Jinan ranks the 15th in the Top 100 Advanced Manufacturing Cities (2021) List released by CCID Research Institute, and the 6th in the Top 50 Digital Economy City in 2022 released by Deben Consulting, eNet Research Institute and CIWEEK.
Manufacturing in Jinan demonstrates Jinan's powerful strength in advanced manufacturing and the digital economy.
A series of the latest achievements in Jinan's advanced manufacturing and digital economy were exhibited at the innovation achievement exhibition held concurrently with the Conference, including the initiative and world-leading ski waxing truck in Beijing Winter Olympics, and the Joyoung "Space Kitchen" products applied to the Chinese Space Station and Shenzhou spacecraft, demonstrating Jinan's powerful strength as the host.
In the achievement exhibition area of "Strong Industrial City, Intelligent Manufacturing of Jinan," the reporter learned that there were 28 exhibitors from Jinan, accounting for 52% of the total in Shandong province. Moreover, the exhibits also counted for more than half of all. In terms of the exhibits, they included the shield tunneling machine of Jinan Heavy Industry Co., Ltd, the haul truck of LGMG, the childcare detection robot of Synthesis, the chip products of Shandong Huaguang optoelectronics Co., Ltd., “Space Kitchen” small appliances of Joyoung, phenolic hollow microspheres and light-core steel composite materials of Jinan Shengquan Group Share Holding Co., Ltd., semi-insulating silicon carbide substrate materials of SICC Co., Ltd., and the Fluorescent Quantitative Detection System of BIOBASE. All those new, famous and high quality products are concentrated, covering the four leading pillar industries in Jinan.
Jinan’s Manufacturing also appeared in the ten major pilot projects and the signing of key projects released at the Conference. At the main forum held on Aug 31, the ten leading projects of advanced manufacturing were released, including the projects of the stationary fuel cell and air-cooled fuel cell manufacturing base projects of Jinan Lvdong Hydrogen Energy Technology Co., Ltd. and Digital Supply Chain Enabled by JDM Business Model of Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co., Ltd.
In terms of the major projects, the Conference has collected 77 signed projects in total, with the total amount of 66.823 billion RMB. Among them, 16 key cooperation projects were signed at the main forum, covering advanced equipment, new-generation information technology, advanced materials and biomedicine. Jinan “captured” three projects including the intelligent system and robotics technology research center, new energy mining complete equipment digital factory, and the first artificial intelligence industrial park based on deterministic network computing and network integration applications in China.
Leading figures made compliments on this event.
The strategy of building a strong industrial city drives the vigorous development of the advanced manufacturing industry in Jinan.
The shining “Manufacturing of Jinan” displays Jinan’s persistence in the development of advanced manufacturing and its confidence in deepening the growth drivers transformation and taking the advantages of its high-quality development.
In the afternoon of Aug 31, at the High-end Equipment Strong Chain Forum of the Conference, Sun Bin, member of the Standing Committee of CPC Jinan Municipal Committee and Vice Mayor of Jinan, introduced that Jinan was guided by the strategy of building a strong industrial city and making every effort to promote the manufacturing development in a high-end, intelligent, green and low-carbon way. In 2021, Jinan's manufacturing industry counted for more than 90% of the industry, and the advanced manufacturing industry counted for more than 60% of the manufacturing industry. The development of the advanced manufacturing and the digital economy have both entered the forefront of the first-tier cities in China. Among them, the scale of the intelligent manufacturing and the high-end equipment industry has reached 450 billion RMB, and the scale of big data and new-generation information technology industry has reached 500 billion RMB. Heavy Duty commercial vehicles of China National Heavy Duty Truck Group Co., Ltd., the large-scale stamping production lines of Jinan Machine Tool Group Co., Ltd., and large-scale mining trucks of Shandong Lingong Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. all rank in the leading position in the industry. The production and sales volume of Inspur servers rank the 1st in China and 2nd in the world. Known as “the world's largest ring”, IRAETA's super-large integral ring-rolled steel ring has successfully become widely known, representing the highest technical level of nuclear power forgings. We now have cultivated 3,300 specialized enterprises, 85 national-level specialized little giant companies, and 892 gazelle companies.
The participants fully affirmed the strong resilience and vitality of the advanced manufacturing industry in Shandong Province, especially Jinan.
Zhou Ji, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of the National Manufacturing Strategy Advisory Committee, took Inspur Group as an example. He pointed out that in the process of making China a world manufacturing powerhouse, a large number of demonstration, benchmarking and lighthouse factories had emerged in China for the construction of digital and networked factories. These enterprises have become world-class and set demonstrations and examples for China's manufacturing industry regarding digital and networked transformation and upgrade, for example, Inspur Group is a demonstration factory for digital and networked manufacturing in the field of information equipment.
Ma Yaqing, chairperson of CCID Consulting Co., Ltd., said that Jinan, as an important industrial base in Shandong Province, had always been at the forefront of China in the development of advanced manufacturing. In recent years, guided by the strategy of building a strong industrial city and the digital economy, it has continued to expand institutional innovation. With all those efforts, the scale efficiency, innovation capability, market vitality and development quality of advanced manufacturing have been continuously improved.
The development of Shandong province and the changes of Jinan are obvious to all. Now Jinan is promoting the expansion of cooperation with Japan to a deeper level. We hope to give full play to the advantages of Japan and China to achieve more cooperation and breakthroughs in the field of advanced manufacturing, according to Hideo Kawabuchi, counselor of Embassy of Japan in China.
Advanced manufacturing is a promising prospect to strengthen Jinan’s economy and become a digital pioneer city.
Yu Haitian, Vice Party Secretary of CPC Jinan Municipal Committee and Mayor of Jinan, released the 2022 World Advanced Manufacturing Conference Jinan Declaration. Experts from home and abroad including Zhou Ji, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of the National Manufacturing Strategy Advisory Committee, Xie Yi, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and academician of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, and Huang Wei, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences have witnessed.
The Declaration proposes that advanced manufacturing is the main front of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, the main engine and ballast leading the global economic growth, and the key force to improve the well-being of people of the world. At present, a new type of industrialization represented by intelligent manufacturing is in the ascendant. The technological innovation is significantly accelerated, the real economy is accelerating its transformation and upgrade to being digital, networked and intelligent, and the development of advanced manufacturing is standing in the new era and facing new major opportunities.
The Declaration highlights the optimization and upgrade of the manufacturing industry, the development of the digital economy and measures in favor of the real economy, fosters three growth drivers including the innovation, projects and policies, and promotes the advanced manufacturing development in an innovative, pioneering and leading way. To this end, the Declaration proposes four major initiatives: adhere to innovation-driven development and strengthen new growth drivers of high quality development; adhere to integration and empowerment and embrace the digital economy; adhere to green and low-carbon development and explore new paths for transformation and upgrade; adhere to openness and cooperation and build a new model of integrated development pattern.
In recent years, Jinan Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology has focused on promoting the first-class industry and information development, continuously implementing the spirit of "future-oriented goals, advanced planning, efficient work and innovative development," exploring the innovative development path as mentioned in the Declaration for the industrial and information technology, and integrating industry, policy and service. Building a first-class industrial, policy and service system has stimulated the vitality of the market and the internal growth momentum of the enterprises, and thus Jinan has achieved good results in just three years.
The Conference aims to promote the international division of work and cooperation on industrial chain and supply chain under global vision, build platform for manufacturing high-quality development exchanges, reach consensus on high-quality development of manufacturing and provide new growth drivers and projects, together with enhancing the continuous innovation in technology, products, business modes and patterns. The industrial upgrade will eventually be achieved through the innovation. The successful conference in Jinan, in particular, the release of the Declaration undoubtedly bears far-reaching significance.
Looking into the future, Jinan enjoys the three integrated national strategies of Ecological Protection and High Quality Development of Yellow River, the Start-up Area for Growth Drivers Transformation and China (Shandong) Pilot Free Trade Zone, and the development prospect of Jinan's advanced manufacturing industry is promising. According to Ji Peide, director of Jinan Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Jinan will hold the World Advanced Manufacturing Conference in the future. The logo of the conference is two coupling gears, representing the dual-wheel drive that will lead the manufacturing into the broad prospects. We firmly believe that the intelligent manufacturing will be the main direction of the future manufacturing industry in Jinan, and Jinan will be strong in intelligent economy and a digital pioneer city.
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