On November 18, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released the public list of winning clusters of the 2024 Advanced Manufacturing Cluster Competition.The Special Steel Material Cluster in Southern Jiangsu led by Nanjing and the Large Aircraft Cluster in Yangtze River Delta (including Jiangxi) participated in the declaration were shortlisted.Together with the previously shortlisted software and information services and new power (smart grid) equipment clusters, theNanjing already has four national advanced manufacturing clusters.
Advanced manufacturing cluster is an industrial ecosystem formed by the high concentration of advanced manufacturing enterprises and related subjects in a certain area, which unites the resources of industry, academia, research and utilization, upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, as well as all kinds of public service platforms and so on. Different from traditional industrial clusters, advanced manufacturing clusters have the advantages of complete industrial ecosystem, strong radiation driving ability, etc., which can play an important role in enhancing innovation ability, expanding brand effect and improving market competitiveness.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) carries out the National Advanced Manufacturing Cluster Competition, which is an important initiative to cultivate the world's advanced manufacturing clusters, and to promote China's industries to move towards the middle and high end of the global value chain.The competition is regarded as a "national team selection contest", and the selected clusters will be part of the "national team". As the cradle of China's modern industry, the eastern manufacturing town of Nanjing has a strong industrial base and strong core competitiveness.
01Special Steel Materials Industry
High-value-added, high-technology products
increase steadily
Special steel as a prominent representative of the field of new materials, bear for national defense and military industry, high-end manufacturing development to provide high-precision materials for the major mission. Nanjing, Wuxi, Suzhou, Changzhou, Zhenjiang, five cities in southern Jiangsu Province has gradually established a leading scale, high-end varieties, supporting the perfect special steel industry system, industrial scale and overall competitiveness ranked first in the country.
Nanjing, as the lead city of the special steel material cluster in southern Jiangsu Province, has been focusing on promoting the transformation and upgrading of the special steel industry in recent years, and the high-quality development of the industry has taken new steps.It is reported that Nanjing iron and steel industry to implement high-end high-quality goods development strategy, to create an important domestic and foreign high-performance special steel production base, high value-added, high-tech products continue to increase, large-thickness stop-cracking steel and other more than 100 products to reach the international advanced level, for the many great powers and key projects to provide a solid and reliable support for the material.
Founded in 1958, Nanshan Steel is one of the leading enterprises in the special steel material cluster in Southern Jiangsu Province. In recent years, focusing on the R&D and production of high value-added quality special steel, Nanshan Steel has formed a series of products such as medium-thickness plates, bars, high-speed wire rods, strips, profiled steels and composite plates.
"We are the first domestic enterprise to develop 100 mm of the world's thickest stop-cracking steel, 5Ni low-temperature steel, ultra-low-temperature (-196 ℃) 9% nickel steel, high-strength wear-resistant steel won the National Manufacturing Industry Single Champion." The relevant person in charge of Nangang introduced, up to now, Nangang products for more than 300 big countries to provide indispensable key materials, including China's first luxury cruise ships, combustible ice mining "Blue Whale No. 1", the third generation of nuclear power demonstration project "Hualong No. 1" and so on. These include China's first luxury cruise ship, "Blue Whale I" for combustible ice mining, "Hualong I" for third-generation nuclear power demonstration project, as well as major projects of the "Belt and Road", such as the Arctic Yamal natural gas project, the Qatar World Cup stadium, and the China-Russia Heihe Bridge.
Meigang actively explore food storage steel product safety "optimal solution". 2021, the company announced "ultra-low lead + chromium-free passivation" "double green" (green technology, green products) electroplated tin products since the global debut In 2021, the company announced "ultra-low lead + chromium-free passivation" "double green" (green process, green products) electroplated tin products since the global debut, Want Chai milk, Red Bull and other beverage cans, Wyeth, Nestle and other milk powder cans, Wahaha Eight Treasure Porridge, Merlin luncheon meat and other food packaging cans are used in the MEGAMAN® products.
In recent years, Nanjing iron and steel industry in-depth promotion of "wisdom to change the number of network connection" action, the cluster of key processes of CNC rate reached 90%.The leading enterprise Nanshan Steel has successfully created a national-level intelligent factory and built the industry's first integrated intelligent operation center.
The intelligent operation center is called the "strongest brain" of Nangang. Entering the Wisdom Operation Center, a 42-meter-long, 6-meter-high display screen will meet your eyes, and the digital twin will demonstrate in real time the whole process of growing a small ore into a big steel. From the real-time flow of raw materials, key parameters of the sintering machine, to each key point of the desulfurization and denitrification process, to ensure that environmental protection standards and production efficiency, every process is under control.
"We explore the deep integration of digital technology with the steel business, and use innovative technology to drive the reshaping of steel's production and operation model, develop new quality productivity, and enhance the competitiveness of enterprises." Xu Faxi, vice president of Nanshan Steel Digital Application Research Institute (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute), introduced that the intelligent operation center utilizes technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence and digital twins to achieve real-time visual dynamic prediction and warning of the enterprise's production and operation, which can help the entire enterprise to improve its operational efficiency, reduce the cost of production and operation, and achieve the high-end and greening of Nanshan Steel's products.
Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology relevant person in charge of the introduction, Nanjing iron and steel leading enterprises have all completed the ultra-low emission transformation, the main pollutant emissions in the past three years the cumulative decline of about 50%."The pace of digital intelligence empowerment in the city's steel industry is at the forefront, and relying on the advantages of digital intelligence development, Nanjing is actively creating an 'AI+steel' national demonstration base for the application of artificial intelligence in the industry."The head of the city's Industry and Information Technology Bureau revealed.02large aircraft industry
Accelerated layout of key manufacturing links
The "large aircraft" has the name of "pearl in the industrial crown", which is a direct reflection of the overall level of a country's industrial system. In the field of large aircraft industry.Nanjing has initially built up an aerospace industry development system focusing on the manufacturing of aviation engines and key components, airborne system manufacturing, ground equipment manufacturing, air traffic control system development, and complete UAVs, etc. There are more than one hundred enterprises on the regulation level, among which there are 8 listed companies, 2 manufacturing industry champions, 23 specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties, specialties and specialties Among them, there are 8 listed companies, 2 manufacturing single champions, 23 specialized, special and new "small giant" enterprises and 26 specialized, special and new small and medium enterprises.
Located in Jiangning Development Zone, Airport Economic Development Zone is an important production base for core parts of the domestic large aircraft C919 and a leading area for the national aircraft electromechanical system industry.
Located in the park, AVIC Nanjing Servo Control System Co., Ltd. is a holding subsidiary of Jincheng Nanjing Electromechanical Hydraulic Engineering Research Center of Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AIC), which originated from China Aviation Accessory Research Institute (Institute 609). With decades of dedication to one thing, the company focuses on niche areas, all R & D, production, delivery, maintenance business is centered on electro-hydraulic servo systems.
Electro-hydraulic servo valve components, can be a weak electrical signal proportionally converted into a great hydraulic power, connecting the electronic technology and hydraulic technology, in the hydraulic control system plays a role as the "heart". Since settling in Nanjing Airport Economic and Technological Development Zone, AVIC Nanjing servo development continues to ramp up, and gradually grow into a national level specialization, speciality and new "small giants" enterprises and Jiangsu Province gazelle enterprises, is currently the most complete product types in the domestic electro-hydraulic servo valve manufacturers, the largest production capacity, the unit with the highest market share, and the products are exported to the United States, Italy, Russia Our products are exported to the United States, Italy, Russia and other countries and regions. Especially with the rapid expansion of the commercial operation of the domestic aircraft C919, as a supporting enterprise of AVIC Nanjing servo, is fully embracing the new development opportunities.
Focusing on aviation engines, aviation airborne systems and other key areas, Nanjing Airport Economic Development Zone in recent years around the C919, MA700, AG600 and other civil aircraft electromechanical systems and core components, to promote the development of the aviation manufacturing industry, intelligent, high-end, cluster development, has been built to become the domestic civil aircraft fuel systems, hydraulic systems and ring control systems and other three major systems of the special manufacturing bearing place.Focused on cultivating a number of C919 parts suppliers represented by AVIC Nanjing servo, such as Ruihan Aviation to provide ring control pipeline, Nanjing Hangpeng to provide fuel, hydraulic system supporting equipment, etc., is rapidly integrated into the domestic aviation industry division of labor system, aviation manufacturing national influence is expanding.
In Nanjing, more and more manufacturing enterprises are seizing the opportunity of the times to join in the manufacture of large aircraft.
"So far this year, with the increase in the size of the aerospace market and the demand for specialized aerospace equipment, the company's orders for aerospace equipment have continued to increase and sales have continued to grow." Cai Jing, general manager of Nanjing Ningqing CNC Machine Tool Manufacturing Co. said.
As one of the earliest batch of enterprises developing CNC machine tools in China, Ningqing CNC's products such as beam moving high-speed CNC gantry machining centers and double pendulum head (five-axis linkage) CNC gantry machining centers are widely used in aerospace structural parts machining. At present, Ningqing CNC focuses on the aerospace market, covering a variety of fighter jets, C919 and other civil aircraft, missiles and rockets and other processing equipment. Among them, the large-scale high-speed CNC gantry machining center above 14 meters has become the main equipment for processing the wings of domestic large aircraft.
At present, Ningqing CNC adopts modular design and modular assembly for the aerospace market, which greatly shortens the delivery time. At the same time, closely around the aerospace of each host factory and supporting manufacturers, and constantly carry out technology and technical exchanges, accumulation of more and more extensive end demand, increase the R & D efforts for the special equipment, so that the product is more suitable for customer needs.03development logic
Industry core competitiveness comes from strong strength
Behind the national advanced manufacturing clusters constantly on the new, is Nanjing bursting out of the strong industrial strength.
Among the three capital cities of the Yangtze River Delta, comparing all the industrial added value of the three provincial capitals in 2023, Nanjing topped the list with 501.545 billion yuan, of which the added value of Nanjing's industry accounted for the proportion of the city's GDP amounted to 28.8%, which is the highest in the three cities.
Nanjing is not only focusing on the current revenue and market, but also consolidating its roots, planning the development of a city's foundation and direction in a broader dimension of time.The three-year action plan of Nanjing Industry Strengthening City proposes that by 2025, the city's total GDP will exceed one trillion yuan, and the proportion of manufacturing value-added of GDP will be stabilized at more than 30%. Pillar industries "ballast" role more firmly, strategic emerging industries to become the "main engine", the future industry "growth poles" continue to highlight, the modern service industry The "heat value" of modern service industry has increased significantly. In the coming period, Nanjing will become an advanced manufacturing base with international competitiveness in the Yangtze River Delta, the main carrying area of the industrial science and technology innovation center with global influence, and a national service economy center.
Traditional pillar industries have always been Nanjing's economic "ballast". 2023, the city's petrochemical, electronics, automotive, iron and steel four key industries combined output value of more than 900 billion yuan, accounting for the proportion of the city's total amount of 60.3%, of which the iron and steel, petrochemical industrial output value of the city's industrial output value of more than 20%.
Last year, Nanjing flagged the consolidation and enhancement of the four pillar industries, each industry is clear to enhance the direction, specific projects and the main body of responsibility.
"Ballast" is now more important. Nanjing chemical industry this year, there are 10 billion projects landed. This spring, a total investment of 11 billion yuan of Jinling Petrochemical high-end daily chemical products project officially started construction. Nanjing to build the first domestic from the petroleum raw materials to the end product of the new materials industry cluster, comprehensively promote the extension of the traditional chemical industry to the fine chemical industry.
Traditional industries are the bottom of Nanjing's industry, to the higher value-added advanced manufacturing development, promote the emerging manufacturing industry to the forefront of technology, is the direction of Nanjing's industrial strength of the city march.
The data show that Nanjing's innovative industry clusters are developing steadily, and six clusters will have business income of more than 200 billion yuan in 2023, including software and information services of more than 800 billion yuan and smart grids of more than 300 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 8 percent and 7 percent respectively. Intelligent manufacturing equipment, new energy vehicles, new materials, biomedicine growth rate of double-digit, and business income are more than 200 billion yuan.
What's more exciting is that Nanjing is a pilot city for the application of "vehicle, road and cloud integration" for intelligent networked vehicles.A few days ago, Nanjing held an application pilot policy conference, announced that it strives to 2026, to achieve the city's intelligent networked automobile road testing and demonstration application of the entire region open to the intelligent transformation of key intersections traffic signal machine networking rate of more than 97%; the construction of a unified architecture of the city-level cloud control platform to build more than 50 demonstration application scenarios, the intelligent networked new energy vehicles to achieve a total annual revenue of more than 300 billion yuan ......04look to the future
Stabilize the policy around the essential attributes of clusters
Looking into the future, what aspects can Nanjing start with to cultivate and grow advanced manufacturing clusters?
Tongji University School of Economics and Management Distinguished Professor Liu Hu Shen recently published in the "Science and Technology Daily" article or can provide reference. He pointed out that the cultivation and growth of advanced manufacturing clusters, need to focus on the essential attributes of advanced manufacturing clusters, multi-pronged, steady policy.
In his opinion.Firstly, there is a need to strengthen policy guidance.Promote the convergence of technology, capital, talents and other types of innovative resources and elements to advanced manufacturing clusters, and enhance the vitality of cluster innovation. Combined with the characteristics of advanced manufacturing clusters in different types of leading industries and at different stages of development, it will improve policy support according to local conditions, strengthen support in the areas of major technological equipment and new infrastructure construction, strengthen technological research and development, and continue to enhance the innovation capacity of the clusters.
The second is to promote the digitalization and upgrading of advanced manufacturing clusters.Supporting upstream and downstream enterprises to carry out digital transformation in a coordinated manner to enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of clusters. Chain masters and leading enterprises in the cluster should give full play to their role as "leaders", actively expand digital application scenarios, enhance digital transformation capabilities, and provide samples of enterprise digital transformation. Small and medium-sized enterprises should strengthen cooperation with chain masters and leading enterprises, make use of their platform capabilities and data bases, and promote their own digital transformation through upstream and downstream support, aggregation and incubation, open application scenarios and technology diffusion.
Finally, it is necessary to strengthen top-level design and coordination.Create a mechanism for interregional specialization and upstream/downstream collaboration to comprehensively empower cluster development. Guiding the harmonization of industry and product standards within clusters, and strengthening the development of pioneering and innovative standards. It will open up barriers to factor flows and industrial development, deepen the division of labor and collaboration among industries in various regions, establish a sound platform for cluster information sharing, and eliminate obstacles to the free flow of factors of production among different regions within the clusters.
