Take advantage of the trend to actively innovate the old industrial base to revitalize new vitality

In China's regional coordinated development strategy, Northeast China holds an important position and shoulders the significant mission of safeguarding national defense security, food security, ecological security, energy security and industrial security, which is crucial to the overall development of the country. During his inspection, he repeatedly emphasized the significance of scientific and technological innovation in the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China. So, what efforts has Northeast China made in scientific and technological innovation and industrial upgrading, and what are the results?

　The hand of a robot that looks like Iron Man weighs only 1.2 kilograms and is very lightweight. It can not only flexibly simulate human hand movements but also has its own sensing ability, capable of making sensitive tactile responses to the objects it touches.

　　Developed by the Institute of Advanced Technology of Harbin Institute of Technology, the robotic dexterity hand adapted to humanoid robots is the world's leading hand in lightness, dexterity, grip and perception. However, in the early stage of research and development, the team did not have full confidence in such precision design and manufacturing, from the technical ability and supporting support.

　　Li Wangyang, research and development staff of Harbin Lingbo Robot Co., LTD. : "At that time, we encountered a lot of difficulties, such as the hardware function of smart hand is not rich enough, it is difficult to buy smart hand products (accessories) that meet the research needs in the market at that time, and the ability of the algorithm at that time could not meet the complex grasping and operation needs."

　　To improve the algorithm, the model needed to be rebuilt, and there was a lack of professional talent and supporting high-performance computing equipment.

　　Innovation is the engine of development. In 2023, when he visited Heilongjiang, he pointed out that the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China in the new era is key to scientific and technological innovation. It is necessary to actively cultivate strategic emerging industries such as new energy, new materials, advanced manufacturing, and electronic information, actively cultivate future industries, and accelerate the formation of new quality productivity. Before and after the Spring Festival in 2025, the General Secretary went to Liaoning, Heilongjiang and Jilin successively, during the inspection, he once again stressed that it is necessary to strengthen the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and develop new quality productivity according to local conditions.

　　Wu Sa, deputy director of the Economic Research Institute of the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission: "Without innovation, there will be no new quality productivity, and there will be no construction of a modern industrial system. Northeast China has a large number of industrial and agricultural industries, and many research institutes and large enterprises have settled in Northeast China. The key is to make these innovative enterprises and resources, how to show greater creativity and vitality in the new stage."

　　How to integrate the existing innovative elements to stimulate greater vitality? In 2023, with the goal of scientific and technological innovation leading high-quality development, Heilongjiang Province built the Advanced Technology Research Institute of Harbin Institute of Technology to a high standard.

　　Wang Congfei, Dean of the Institute of Advanced Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology: "(The Institute of Advanced Technology) mainly focuses on the new quality productivity fields of HIT such as aerospace, artificial intelligence, robotics, and new materials, and carries out project incubation, enterprise cultivation, and industrial undertaking and radiation."

　　In order to encourage technological innovation, the institute and the local government provide comprehensive guarantees for the settled enterprises in terms of research and development sites, tax breaks, research and development subsidies, and attracting talents. Under such protection, smart hands can be successfully developed, and has reached cooperation intentions with a number of well-known enterprises, and the application prospect is very broad. At present, the institute has settled 26 technology enterprises, and by 2024, the financing has reached nearly 100 million yuan, and the investment intention has reached about 200 million yuan. Today, in the whole Heilongjiang Province, innovation leads the development of new quality productivity has become a prairie fire.

　　Wang Zhengtuo, first-level director of the Achievements transformation Department of Heilongjiang Science and Technology Department: "In 2024, Heilongjiang has built seven innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems such as Harbin Institute of Technology and Harbin Project, and 622 major scientific and technological achievements transformation projects have been realized in the province, forming an economic benefit of 11.25 billion yuan."

　　The achievements of scientific and technological innovation should not only be used for emerging industries and future industries, but also for the transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing industries. Especially in the old industrial base such as the northeast, scientific and technological innovation has become the key code for industrial transformation and high-quality development.

　　Machine tool is known as the industrial mother machine, is the machine that makes the machine, it is advanced or not directly determines the level of a country's overall industrial equipment. General Technology Shenyang Machine tool is the largest CNC machine tool production base in China. In the fully automated workshop, 14 intelligent machine tools are busy 24 hours a day without manpower. Dong Lingyun has worked in General Technology Shenyang Machine tool for 32 years, and he has witnessed the great changes in the production mode of the enterprise.

　　General technology Shenyang Machine tool strategy and operation Department Minister Dong Lingyun: "Before the technical reform, a person at most one to two machine tools, manual loading and unloading, the whole work intensity is relatively large, the efficiency is relatively low." Now, the workshop is fully automated, and production efficiency has increased by 50 percent, which is a very significant improvement over the past."

　　Through intelligent manufacturing, the enterprise has achieved a gorgeous turn around, and at that time, the enterprise has been on the brink of life and death. Shenyang machine tool has long occupied the leading position in China's machine tool industry, but with the acceleration of global technological innovation, after 2013, Shenyang machine tool has continued to lose money, and the benefit has fallen off the cliff. In 2018, Shenyang Machine Tool was burdened with a heavy debt of 20.2 billion yuan and faced the risk of bankruptcy.

　　To survive, we must respond to challenges and strive to break the game, and the way to crack is still the word "innovation". In January 2025, the General Secretary pointed out during his inspection in Liaoning that traditional industries should strengthen industrial base reconstruction and research on major technology and equipment, and constantly improve their core competitiveness; The manufacturing industry should adhere to the direction of high-end, intelligent and green, and constantly improve the technological content and added value of products. The development idea of Northeast China leading industrial upgrading through innovation has become clearer.

　　Wu Sa: "In the northeast, it already has very good basic conditions for large industrial and manufacturing industries. Why does the large number of manufacturing industries in Northeast China not show advantages in the current market competition, and even seem backward? It is precisely in this link of innovation that there are still many deficiencies.”

　　In order to promote independent research and development of enterprises and carry out technological transformation and upgrading, it is necessary to have good policies to promote and supporting platform construction. In recent years, Liaoning Province has vigorously promoted the construction of "Digital Liaoning and Smart Manufacturing Province", introduced relevant action plans for manufacturing digital empowerment, and formulated the "Liaoning Province Digital Workshop and Smart Factory Specification Conditions" to help enterprises carry out digital transformation and high-quality development.

　　Du Changzheng, Party member and deputy director of Liaoning Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology: "We lead industrial transformation and upgrading with scientific and technological innovation, accelerate digital transformation, and actively cultivate provincial digital workshops and smart factories."

　　This old machine tool company is also determined to take the road of scientific and technological innovation, spend great efforts to carry out technological research, and constantly promote digital and intelligent transformation.

　　In 2024, the operating income of Shenyang machine tool key areas increased by nearly 50% year-on-year, and overseas income rose against the trend and reached a new high. The adjustment of Shenyang machine tool is the epitome of the overall transformation and upgrading of Liaoning manufacturing industry. By 2024, the numerical control rate of key processes in Liaoning's chemical, building materials, steel, nonferrous and other raw material industries will exceed 75%.

　　Li Haoyang, Director of the Industrial Department of Liaoning Provincial Development and Reform Commission, said, "We organized large-scale equipment upgrading and technological transformation to promote new industrialization, and attracted more than 13 billion yuan of investment."

　　In the northeast, there are a number of cities that are highly dependent on resources. In the past, resources were treasures for them, but with the exhaustion of resources, many such cities are facing development difficulties, and using scientific and technological innovation to lead industrial transformation has become their new development path.

　　More than 8 o 'clock in the evening, Liaoyuan City new energy vehicle supporting industrial park lights, in the car mold production workshop, workers rushed through the night to make orders. Liaoyuan, Jilin Province, once an important coal city in northeast China, was listed as one of the first pilot cities in the country to transform the resource-exhausted economy in 2008. To wean ourselves off coal, we need to find new avenues for growth. Liaoyuan has some small-scale automobile manufacturing supporting industries, in recent years, the local saw the explosive growth of the new energy automobile industry, decided to seize this opportunity to develop the automobile supporting industry chain, and build Liaoyuan into a modern new energy automobile supporting industry base.

　　Although there is a certain foundation before, but to create a truly modern new energy auto parts industry, there are still huge challenges, and many links have to start from scratch. Take a mold company as an example, because the requirements for mold accuracy of new energy vehicles far exceed that of traditional fuel vehicles, enterprises are faced with jams in the first step of production.

　　Overcoming technological bottlenecks depends on innovation and reform. In 2021, Liaoyuan City started the construction of new energy vehicle supporting industrial park, launched reform measures in various aspects such as capital investment and talent introduction, and led the establishment of a collaborative innovation platform for government, industry, education and research to promote in-depth cooperation with universities and colleges in view of technical pain points in the industrial chain.

　　Li Yanfu, deputy director of Science and Technology Bureau of Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province: "Collected the technical needs of enterprises, turned them into problem resources, and helped key enterprises take the initiative to connect with 12 universities such as Jilin University and Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, comprehensively enhancing the ability of industrial collaborative innovation."

　　Relying on the support of policies and platform resources, this enterprise through technological innovation and fine adjustment of the digital mold, making the accuracy of the product meet the requirements of the manufacturing of new energy vehicles.

　　Under the guidance of technological innovation, Liaoyuan has gathered 47 new energy auto parts related enterprises, and the order has increased from 3 billion yuan in 2020 to 7 billion yuan in 2024, forming a relatively complete industrial chain covering automotive lightweight parts, battery materials, and vehicle supporting.

　　Xu Yang, director of the Automotive industry Management Office of the Bureau of Industry and Information Technology of Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province: "We focus on the industrial advantages like high-precision aluminum and new materials, through a series of precise investment initiatives and policy support, to attract upstream and downstream related enterprises to gather and achieve strong chain reinforcement." Promote the new energy vehicle supporting industry to 10 billion level, and help the city successfully transform."

　　In the Northeast, "innovation" is the key word.

　　Wu Sa: "The key now is to use reform to build a more superior innovation environment, so that innovation resources can be organically integrated with the relatively rich industrial manufacturing enterprises in Northeast China, forming a chain, giving it new growth vitality, and finally driving the entire economic and social development, which is very key to the future development of Northeast China."

　　Using scientific and technological innovation to promote industrial innovation, such a vivid practice is slowly spreading on the black land. At present, the economic development of Northeast China is at an important turning point. Based on high-quality development, the Northeast has implemented the new development concept, further deepened reform and opening up in an all-round way, and the effect of comprehensive revitalization has gradually emerged, more and more positive changes are occurring, and favorable factors for revitalization and development are accelerating. Firmly grasping the core driving force of innovation and unblocking the flow of various innovative factors will surely make the old industrial base of the Republic full of vitality in the new era and make due contributions to promoting the process of Chinese-style modernization.

Note: This news reprinted on CCTV network.