China News Service, Lishui, August 10 (Fan Yubin) Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, Zhejiang people who dare to be the first have changed the economic and social development of Zhejiang with the "genes" of scientific and technological innovation. When a new wave of scientific and technological innovation swept through, Zhejiang once again stood at the forefront, becoming the first batch of innovative pilot provinces in the country, and the country's first provincial demonstration area for the transfer and transformation of national scientific and technological achievements.

Testing equipment of an enterprise in Longquan (Photo by Fan Yubin)

In Zhejiang, the "gene" of technological innovation has long been integrated into every inch of Zhejiang's land. Among the mountains in the southwest of Zhejiang, Longquan City, Zhejiang Province, sitting on the "source of three rivers", is stepping on the "hot wheel" of scientific and technological innovation, gathering innovative resources, optimizing public services, and injecting "sources" into industrial upgrading and regional development. running water".

Technological innovation "adds impetus" for enterprises to take off

If the keywords of the 1.0 version of Longquan are "the capital of swords and porcelain" and "the top of Jiangsu and Zhejiang", then the keywords of the 2.0 version of Longquan are inseparable from "scientific and technological innovation" and "automobile air condition".

3D printed celadon at Jinhong Longquan Celadon Research Institute in Zhejiang Province (Photo by Fan Yubin)

Clean and ventilated production workshops, fully automated assembly line production, skilled employees operating machines, and parts streaming out one by one... Before entering a local automotive air-condition company, it was hard to imagine that "Longquan in Mountain City" could be associated with "intelligent manufacturing" .

Today, Longquan has become a manufacturing base for automotive air-condition parts in China. From 2003 to 2017, the output value of Longquan's automotive air-condition industry increased from 120 million yuan to about 7 billion yuan, with an average growth rate of over 30%, making it the pillar industry with the fastest development and greatest potential in the local industrial economy.

Fan Aisong, chairman of Zhejiang Xinjin Air Condition Equipment Co., Ltd., said bluntly: "Scientific and technological innovation is the 'only way' for the rise of Longquan's automotive air condition industry. We have introduced modern management, machine substitution, and talent recruitment. The advantages of innovation and research and development have become increasingly prominent."

With the growth of the industry, many companies have made great efforts to increase efficiency, improve quality and upgrade.

"From imitating to adding local elements, carrying out independent innovation, and then 'changing lanes and overtaking'. For enterprises, it is necessary to constantly break through the existing core technologies, and make advanced R&D capabilities a strong driving force for the rapid development of enterprises." Sanda Group Chen Qinghua, president of the company, said that they invest 5%-6% of their sales in product research and development and technological innovation every year, and conduct industry-university-research cooperation with universities.

At the beginning of the transformation, Chen Qinghua was full of doubts: "Isn't it worthwhile to invest in such a conference?" When the product performance began to become stable, the efficiency became higher and higher, and it was favored by manufacturers, Chen Qinghua was relieved and felt that "this is the way to go." correct".

The self-proclaimed "explorer" of industrial upgrading, Huang Zhongyi, chairman of Zhejiang Yili Automobile Air Condition Co., Ltd., said that technological innovation has become the strongest driving force for enterprise development. They set up a research and development center in Jiangsu, and the scientific and technological achievements of the "enclave" of science and technology have been transformed into Longquan and achieved good results.

Science and technology innovation platform "does service" for industrial development

It takes a month for an expansion valve to perform 300,000 fatigue tests, but a company in Longquan pushes the improvement of product quality with 1.2 million "high requirements".

The vibration and noise inspection room in the Longquan Automobile Air Condition Industry Innovation Service Complex in Zhejiang Province (Photo by Fan Yubin)

At present, Longquan enterprises are promoting transformation and upgrading by "improving quality and efficiency".

"In the past, our products had to travel long distances to Hefei, Chongqing, Changchun and other places for testing, which was time-consuming, labor-intensive and expensive. Since Longquan established a technological innovation service platform for the automotive air-condition industry, we can experience the 'one-stop' at home. ' testing service." Fan Aisong said with a smile, "Sometimes I wait at the testing center all night, and as soon as the result comes out, the order is signed immediately, which is really convenient!"

The service platform mentioned by Fan Aisong is a local innovative service complex that integrates quality inspection, technology research and development, talent training, scientific and technological services, and product display. "It's like a technology-demand supermarket, where companies can find solutions to problems," said Ye Yadong, director of the Longquan Science and Technology Bureau.

In 2011, Longquan invested more than 41 million yuan to build a technology innovation service platform for the automotive air-condition industry, and the platform was completed in 2013. This year, the platform was certified by the China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS) and became a nationally recognized standard testing laboratory.

Intelligent Factory of Zhejiang Xinjin Air Condition Equipment Co., Ltd. (Photo by Fan Yubin)

"More and more companies are 'queuing up' to come to the center for testing." said Ye Jun, deputy director of Longquan Industrial Innovation Service Center, "The needs of enterprise development are the guide for our services, and the shortcomings of enterprise development are our efforts. The point is, the problems facing businesses are the ones we need to overcome.”

Ye Jun said that everything is for the better growth of the company. In the next step, the industrial innovation service complex will create "eight centers" of R&D design, inspection and testing, talent exchange services, technology public services, brand marketing, international cooperation, technology finance, and big data cloud services.

Recruiting talents and attracting wisdom as the "source of supply" for scientific and technological innovation

The key to technological innovation is talent.

In 2007, Longquan City, adhering to the deep historical relationship with Zhejiang University, put forward the development strategy of "backing Zhejiang University, marrying universities, and developing Longquan", and explored the establishment of "personnel relations and R&D life in universities, achievement transformation and production services in Longquan". "The Flying Man Project".

Zhejiang Yili Automobile Air Condition Co., Ltd. dust-free workshop (Photo by Fan Yubin)

For example, in 2009, Longquan City flexibly introduced Xiong Shusheng, an associate professor of the Department of Energy Engineering of Zhejiang University, as the chief expert of the automotive air-condition industry through the "city-school cooperation" to take the pulse of the development of the industry.

"When I first arrived in Longquan, I was faced with the 'three noes' dilemma of no venue, no talent, and no funding." Xiong Shusheng said that after nine years of hard work, he realized the "manufacturing in Longquan, testing in Longquan, and standards in Longquan" for automotive air conditioners. "The goal.

One person drives an industry, which is not an isolated case in Longquan.

In the green waters and green mountains of Longquan, Li Dong, a science and technology commissioner, spent four years spreading the "dream of agriculture" on the fields of Longquan. During the winter and summer, Li Dong and nearly 100 experts invited by him build a dream together to promote ecological agriculture, organic agriculture and circular agriculture.

"Longquan is a good place, I don't want to leave when I come here. Small tomatoes over summer, pitaya over winter, Ganoderma lucidum continuous cropping obstacles, promotion of wild tea from high mountains, feeding groupers with traditional Chinese medicine, finding the best planting density of sweet potatoes, introducing colored rice In the past four years, I have guided countless agricultural products, and Longquan is like a 'natural laboratory', and helping farmers increase production and become rich is what I am most proud of." Li Dong said.

The more the merrier. Nowadays, more and more "technologists" come to Longquan to write "thesis" on the land of Longquan, and this is just a microcosm of Longquan's "recruitment of talents" to help scientific and technological innovation.

In recent years, Longquan has successively carried out industry-university-research cooperation with 91 domestic and foreign scientific research institutions (institutions), with a total of 367 experts and professors, promoting the "take-off" of Longquan's social economy.