Coordinate internal and external resources Ningxia uses "new" to store energy for development

Source of original question: Science and Technology Daily

Reporter: Wang Yingxia Correspondent: Jiang Shan

A matchmaking meeting near May 1st stirred up a new material industry in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (hereinafter referred to as Ningxia).

At the end of last year, Ningxia identified nine key industries for development on the basis of repeated research and discussion and extensive listening to opinions, and the new materials were on the list.

Since ancient times, Ningxia has been a place where farming and nomadism meet, and its industrial foundation is weak.

Statistics show that in 2020, the new materials industry in the district will complete an industrial output value of approximately 55 billion yuan, an increase of 13% year-on-year, accounting for 11% of the planned industrial output value.

Break through a number of key core technologies, transfer and transform a number of advanced scientific and technological achievements, and cultivate a number of backbone enterprises with innovative capabilities and competitive strength.

Following this original intention, the new material industry matchmaking meeting jointly organized by the Shanghai Office of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Government, Yinchuan Science and Technology Bureau, Industry and Information Technology Bureau, and the Association for Science and Technology came at the right time.

The new material industry has both endowment and vitality

"Sapphire crystal specifications are 100 kg, 130 kg, 160 kg and 400 kg, of which 400 kg is currently the largest mass-produced C-direction sapphire crystal in China.

    On April 28, on Hongtu South Street in Yinchuan Economic and Technological Development Zone, the company’s industrial sapphire showroom suddenly became lively.

    Sapphire crystal is the most front-end and core basic material for value control in the sapphire industry chain.

    The bigger surprise is that it has formed a high degree of industrial agglomeration and unique advantages.

    Based on the advantages of regional resources, the development of the new materials industry with projects is a good way for this small northwestern province to take multiple measures to build, replenish, strengthen and extend the chain.

    In recent years, Ningxia has made use of power, climate and policy advantages to vigorously develop new materials industries focusing on photovoltaics and lithium electronic battery materials, high-performance metal materials, chemical materials, etc.

    Cooperation between the east and the west, science and technology serve local development

    Leveraging on the new pattern of dual-cycle development, Ningxia's new materials industry is gradually developing from a single elementary to intensive processing, a dominance of one industry to cluster integration, and traditional industries to a high-end frontier.

    How to make up for shortcomings? Shanhai hand in hand is a shortcut, but also a guide.

    When General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Ningxia in 2016, he pointed out that “the more underdeveloped regions, the more need to implement an innovation-driven development strategy”; this year, he also gave important instructions to “deepen cooperation between the east and the west and targeted assistance work”.

    The new material industry eager to emerge from the cocoon is also seizing opportunities.

    Open your arms on the one hand, looking for cooperation.

    In response to the key common technical problems in the sapphire crystal industry, Tiantong Yinsha New Materials Co.
, Ltd.
and Zhejiang University, Ningxia University, and Northern University for Nationalities have established a centralized control system for sapphire growth, research on basic mechanical properties of large-size sapphire, and crystal quality.
Cooperative relationship between control technology research and residual stress research on multi-wire-cut sapphire crystals.

    Local universities, which are "think tanks" of enterprises, also adhere to the principle of open education.
The School of Materials Science and Engineering of Northern University for Nationalities has successively cooperated with well-known institutions at home and abroad, such as the University of Michigan in the United States, Luleå University of Technology in Sweden, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and the Institute of Process of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to cultivate outstanding talents for ethnic regions.

    On the one hand, bow as a bridge and bring in.

    As early as 2001, Ningxia and Shanghai Jiaotong University began to have an in-depth docking.
In order to meet the development strategy of new materials, the Yinchuan Municipal Government cooperated with the school to establish the Materials Industry Research Institute of Shanghai Jiaotong University (Yinchuan) in 2018.

    "In the past 3 years, we have promoted the implementation of 5 vertical projects, which has driven the autonomous region's scientific research investment of more than 70 million yuan.
We have also implemented a number of research and development projects jointly with enterprises and directly invested more than 3 million yuan.
" Dean Xia Mingxu told reporters.

    The purpose of the institute is to "serve the development of local industries with technological innovation.
" They purchased advanced equipment, introduced a professional team, set up an analysis and testing center, and provided more than 4,000 testing, certification and analysis services for more than 50 companies in the region for more than a year.

    The project is the guide, and the support continues to upgrade

    All in one fell swoop.

    Taking advantage of the "dongfeng" of this industry matchmaking conference, Ningxia Sunshine New Energy Development Co.
, Ltd.
, Ningxia Zhongtai Magnesium Technology Co.
, Ltd.
and other companies have signed projects with Shanghai Jiaotong University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Ningxia University and other universities.

    "The purpose is to promote the precise connection between the technological needs of enterprises and the scientific research results of universities, so as to extend the industrial chain and enhance the value chain.
" said Han Fanfan, director of Yinchuan Science and Technology Bureau.

    In 2020, the bureau will take the project as the lead to strengthen the construction of the science and technology service system and talent cultivation system of the Shanghai Jiaotong University (Yinchuan) Material Industry Research Institute, providing enterprises with more than 8 million yuan in technological transformation services, applying for more than 20 projects, and driving enterprise technology research and development.
More than 20 million yuan was invested.

    Coinciding with the beginning of the "14th Five-Year Plan", this support continued to increase.

    "We will take advantage of the enrichment of raw materials such as aluminum, magnesium, silicon, carbon, tantalum, and niobium in Ningxia, and use shared analysis, shared pilot tests, and shared incubation as breakthrough points, and pass the new material testing and pilot test services on the cloud platform.
, Accelerating to become the source, gathering place and transformation place of new material technology in Northwest China.
” Han Fanfan said.

    According to Xia Mingxu’s vision, Yinchuan Material Industry Research Institute will strive to build a “portable technology expert” and “portable laboratory” for small and medium-sized enterprises, and build revenue among equipment investors, experimenters, laboratories, technical experts and enterprises.
Sharing mechanism to build a "Taobao Supermarket" of technological innovation.

    His ambition is not groundless.

    Not long ago, Ningxia Science and Technology Department researched and formulated the "Autonomous Region New Material Industry High-quality Development Science and Technology Support Action Plan", focusing on key areas such as metallic materials, inorganic non-metallic materials, new chemical materials, batteries and electronic materials, and cutting-edge new materials.
The intensity of scientific and technological innovation, using key technology research, achievement transfer and transformation, and foreign scientific and technological cooperation as means to promote the high-quality development of the industry.

    According to the plan, by 2025, implement a batch of scientific and technological research projects, cultivate a batch of leading science and technology enterprises, build a batch of science and technology innovation platforms, transform and apply a batch of science and technology achievements, and the core competitiveness of the new material industry will be significantly improved.
The influential new material production and R&D base provides scientific and technological support.

    "We will fully support school-enterprise cooperation to drive local economic development while achieving a win-win situation for all parties," said Chen Fang, deputy director of the Ningxia Science and Technology Department.

    In the future, Ningxia and Yinchuan science and technology authorities will continue to explore various mechanisms and system reforms, fully integrate their own resource advantages, gather high-quality scientific and technological resources, and use "newness" to empower the autonomous region's high-quality development.