
Henan Daily Client Reporter Fan Xia Correspondent He Dao Duan Tongchuan
Jiyuan Steel Group, which has been crafting iron cast steel for more than 60 years, has taken the lead in entering the micro world of new nano materials. Yuguang Group, which is "same age", has stepped into the new energy field in the 5G era with the "identity" of the world's largest lead smelting enterprise and China's largest silver manufacturer.
Transformation and upgrading of traditional pillar industries conveys Jiyuan's determination and confidence to develop leapfrogly: rebuild advantages and lead the way.
seeks development through innovation and future through innovation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Jiyuan has thoroughly implemented the new development concept, accelerated the cultivation of innovation subjects, innovation platforms, innovative talents, and innovation ecology, and continuously built a science and technology innovation system with enterprises as the main body, adjust the structure, promote transformation, climb over obstacles, and strive against the trend, and promoted Jiyuan from a large raw materials market to a strong new material city, and empowered the efforts to build an innovative high-quality modern demonstration zone and comprehensively build a socialist modern Jiyuan.
Innovation drives the improvement of development energy level
Jiyuan is strong because of industry. Starting from the "five small industries" to now entering the top 100 industrial cities in the country and being selected as the first batch of innovation-driven central cities for leading scientific and technological talents in the country, Jiyuan has always placed innovation at the logical starting point of the high-quality development of and the core position of modernization construction.
The whole society's R&D investment intensity ranks fourth in the province, and the growth rate of national high-tech enterprises has been the first in the province for five consecutive years; the nanomaterial pilot base has become one of the first 8 pilot bases in the province; the added value of high-tech industries accounts for 33% of the industrial added value of and has become the backbone of industrial development... Behind the achievements of
, is the sonorous step of Jiyuan Industry's continuous promotion of scientific and technological innovation.
In recent years, Jiyuan has been guided by innovation, focusing on the goal of building a highland of scientific and technological innovation in northwest Henan, and has accelerated the improvement of the construction level of the " four batches of " of main cultivation, platform construction, organization construction, and talent introduction, established a working mechanism for the "top leaders" of the party and government to grasp innovation, and made every effort to do a good job in top-level design, and created a superior environment driven by innovation.

Jiyuan Municipal Party Committee Secretary Shi Bingrui attaches great importance to scientific and technological innovation, emphasizes the promotion of scientific and technological innovation, and focuses on building an innovation system. Jiyuan has steadily promoted the "1+1+N" work deployment, taken the comprehensive supporting reform of scientific and technological innovation as the driving force, and took science and technology opening up and cooperation as the starting point to comprehensively promote the deep integration of government, industry, education, research, finance, service and use, and improve the level of Jiyuan's innovation and development.
Jiyuan City Mayor Zhuang Jianqiu emphasized vigorously improving scientific and technological R&D capabilities, focusing on innovation platforms, focusing on laboratories, technological innovation centers, pilot bases, and new R&D institutions as the focus, and creating a "0-1-N" innovation chain.
"33 Measures for the Promotion of Talents" were issued and "Smart Jiyuan" was accelerated. Jiyuan intensively issued a series of policies on innovation-driven guidance, project layout management, independent authority for scientific research, and talent cultivation construction, focusing on creating a "policy sycamore" for innovative development, creating a good atmosphere for scientific and technological innovation in the whole society, and also activate a pool of spring water leading the high-quality development of science and technology.
creates a high-end innovation platform. Jiyuan attaches great importance to the construction of innovation platforms and carriers, and promotes the shift of innovation factors from dispersion to efficient aggregation. At present, the number of provincial innovation platforms and carriers in Jiyuan has reached 94, and the number of major new R&D institutions is at the upper and middle level in the province.

focuses on innovation entities, Jiyuan vigorously implements the innovative standard-setting action, the doubling plan for high-tech enterprises and the "spring bamboo shoots" plan for technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises, establish innovative enterprise clusters led by leading innovation enterprises and "gazelle" enterprises, and actively cultivate and strengthen " specialized, specialized, and specialized " enterprises.
is precisely because of such a strong atmosphere of innovation that Jiyuan "drives innovation and multi-engine efforts". Three companies including Yuguang Gold Lead and Jinma Energy have entered Henan Province's manufacturing leader enterprises, and the Special Steel Material Innovation Center has become the provincial manufacturing innovation center. 111 enterprises passed the national technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises evaluation, and the coverage rate of R&D activities of industrial enterprises above the designated size reached 73.2%, and the full coverage of R&D activities of R&D enterprises by the end of the year.
Transformation and development promotes industrial upgrading
In recent years, Jiyuan's high-quality development assessment has ranked among the top in the province many times. As a city with a large proportion of heavy industry and high consumption of resources and energy, such achievements are hard-won. We strive to overcome the hurdle of industrial structure transformation and upgrading, Jiyuan identified the direction and made precise efforts -
Jiyuan takes advanced manufacturing as the main direction of transformation and development, always keep a close eye on the forefront of world science and technology development, focus on "bottleneck" technologies and key core technologies, condense a number of major projects, implement a number of major projects, accelerate the improvement of innovation chain, promote the transformation of "advantageous industries → future industries", "advantageous technologies → transformation and incubation → future industries", accelerate the future of existing industries and future technologies industrialization, and seize the commanding heights of industrial development.

aims at high-end new materials. Jiyuan relies on key enterprises to actively implement the "three major transformations" of intelligence, greening and technological, and accelerate the development of traditional advantageous industries to improve the quality of advanced non-ferrous metal materials, advanced steel materials and advanced chemical materials.
focuses on the extension and replenishment of advanced steel materials for Jiyuan Steel (Group) and Zhongyuan Special Steel . Jiyuan Steel Product Deep Processing Industrial Park has formed an annual deep processing capacity of 1.5 million tons, developed three core industrial clusters of machinery and equipment, automobiles and their parts, and wire deep processing, and built a tens of billions of steel industry cluster, successfully embarking on a path of "specialization, precision, and innovation".
Based on the accurate grasp of the market, leading enterprises such as Yuguang Group, Huaneng Qinbei, Lianchuang Chemical, Jimei Energy, Zhonglian Cement , Toyota Fertilizer and other leading enterprises take "lead, zinc, copper, silver, rare precious metal smelting and processing and non-ferrous new materials" as the main chain, and "waste resource recycling" and "green building materials" as the auxiliary chain, coupled with the symbiotic non-ferrous metal circular economy industrial cluster. The nonferrous industry now has 281 core technologies, such as direct reduction of liquid high lead slag, and has participated in the drafting of 22 national and industry standards.
cultivates and expands emerging industries. Jiyuan vigorously develops strategic emerging industries such as new nano materials, high-end equipment, electronic information, green environmental protection, biomedicine and . In 2022, Jiyuan Nano New Materials Industry Cluster was selected as the first batch of strategic emerging industry clusters in the province, and has formed a new model of full-chain progressive industrial development of "small trial + pilot + start-up incubation + industrialization". The added value of strategic emerging industries increased by 9.7%.

Accelerate the layout of future industries such as cutting-edge new materials, hydrogen production and hydrogen storage, carbon capture engineering, and seize the new tracks such as digital economy , high-end instrument manufacturing, 3D manufacturing, and optoelectronic materials. The high-purity arsenic and high-purity silver powder project built by Yuguang Gold Lead is widely used in the second-generation and third-generation semiconductor material . Qinbei Power Plant , the carbon capture project implemented by Zoomlion Cement can capture more than 2.5 million tons of CO annually. Jinma Energy has developed supporting storage, transportation and filling projects of liquid combustible hydrogen and hydrogen gas , which can provide hydrogen energy raw materials for the demonstration application of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in our province.
Nowadays, with the injecting new impetus into scientific and technological innovation, Jiyuan Industry has a strong momentum of low-carbon and green development. 15 intelligent technology transformation projects such as Zhongyuan Special Steel ZYSCO Digital Factory and Jinma Middle East Energy Inspection Robot were launched; 5 enterprises of Lianchuang Chemical have created national green factories, and 6 products of Wanyang Fertilizer, Wanyang Green Energy, and Yuguang Co., Ltd. have become national green design products; 2 development zones have become national green parks; 8 projects of Yuguang Co., Ltd. and Jinli Jinlead have joined forces to apply for provincial "Green Development Leading Plan" projects; Qingshuiyuan .18 million tons of water treatment agent expansion and implementation of 5 technical transformation projects...
These landmark projects of industrial transformation and upgrading will undoubtedly become effective carriers for Jiyuan to cultivate new economic growth points and enhance development potential.
Institutional innovation accelerates the transformation of results
"The process flow is constantly optimized, new materials bring new changes, and new technologies may create new miracles." Wu Yanxin, 36, is the chief engineer of Yuguang Group Design Research Institute, and is mainly engaged in engineering research on the efficient comprehensive utilization and clean production of complex and difficult-to-treat materials. After working in Jiyuan for 9 years, he has regarded Jiyuan as his second hometown.
Attract talents, let them stay, and create a relaxed scientific research environment, which requires institutional guarantees. Jiyuan made good use of the policy of taking the lead and trial, focusing on scientific and technological plan management, scientific and technological open cooperation, and scientific researchers' authority, and accelerated the comprehensive supporting reform of scientific and technological innovation.
"The key to doing a good job in reforming the science and technology system is to accelerate the transformation of government functions from R&D management to innovative services, further highlight the enterprise's main position as the technological innovation subject, liberate productivity, and mobilize enthusiasm." said Li Junhua, director of the Industrial and Science and Technology Innovation Committee of Jiyuan Demonstration Zone.

As a pilot city for comprehensive reform of the science and technology system in our province, Jiyuan took the lead in launching science and technology system reform in the province, and introduced science and technology plan projects entrusted to third-party management in the province, improving the efficiency of fiscal science and technology funds, promoting industrial upgrading and innovative fusion; it was the first in the province to establish local standards for science and technology plan project management. It effectively reduces the application burden of scientific researchers and improves project service capabilities and management efficiency.
The results of Jiyuan's science and technology system and mechanism reform have been fully recognized and supported by the provincial party committee and the provincial government, and the comprehensive reform experience has been promoted in the science and technology system across the province.
The purpose is to transform scientific research results into productivity. Jiyuan has issued policies to improve the scientific and technological achievements transformation system, give full play to the role of provincial technology transfer demonstration institutions, and rely on universities to promote the transfer and transformation of high-quality scientific research results.
technology power is not only brought in, but also "going out". In order to make up for the shortcomings of scientific and technological resources, Jiyuan actively builds a win-win platform for foreign science and technology cooperation, build multi-level innovative resources and inter-regional cooperation, strive to gather more innovative factors and resources into Jiyuan, and improve the activity of innovation and entrepreneurship in Jiyuan.

At present, Jiyuan enterprises and universities and research cooperation between universities and institutes within and outside the province continues to deepen, and a number of enterprise and institute cooperation institutions such as Heda Nanomaterial Engineering Research Center, Henan Lianchuang Zhengda Green Catalysis Research Institute, and "Qingshuiyuan-Zhengzhou University Ecological Environment Research Institute" have been built. The National Explosion-proof Electrical Appliance Testing Center for Coal Mines, the National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Nanohybrid Materials, etc. have settled in Jiyuan. The transfer and transformation of advanced scientific and technological achievements in Jiyuan has been accelerated. According to statistics, in the first half of 2022 alone, the city has registered 66 technical contract projects, with a technical contract registration amount of 140.72 million yuan.
Optimizing the business environment helps enterprises move forward steadily and forge ahead
Reform and innovation is the endogenous driving force of Jiyuan's industry's resilience, while enterprises are the main body of innovation. Jiyuan has incorporated the improvement of the soft environment and enhancement of soft power into the "planning drawings" and "construction drawings" to promote the development of the industrial economy, and has achieved remarkable results.
Faced with the huge pressure of the rebound of the epidemic and the severe and complex internal and external development environment, Jiyuan issued the "Several Policies on Further Improving the Work of Industrial Enterprises to Benefit and Alleviate the Difficulties", and proposed a series of targeted operational, high policy content and strong support from nine aspects, including strengthening policy support, reducing logistics costs, and promoting project construction, to accelerate the implementation of various measures to benefit and alleviate the Difficulties.
highlights projects as king, rolling forward the "three batches" and deepening the "Ten Thousand People Help Ten Thousand Enterprises" activities, establish a whitelist service guarantee mechanism and docking and contact mechanism for the "four guarantees" enterprises in the industrial industry, and innovatively carry out the "Enterprise Service Bridge" activity. We have taken multiple measures to revitalize idle and inefficient assets. The city has revitalized 85 industrial projects, effectively integrating assets, forming a strong new economic momentum.

targeted efforts and precise policies based on what the company is anxious, needs, thinking and expect. Jiyuan has established a mechanism for sending cadres and chief waiters from government and enterprises in both directions, implemented a "project specialist" system for major projects, promptly and effectively solved the production and operation problems reported by enterprises, hired professional teams, took the pulse and consulted for enterprise development, and formulated a transformation and development plan for "one enterprise, one policy".
implements phased discounts on electricity use in small and micro enterprises, and exempts value-added tax from taxpayers from providing public transportation services; guarantees land for key projects, actively strives for land use indicators and revitalizes existing resources... Jiyuan insists on using the "optimal" of the business environment and activates the "revitality" of market entities, drives the "stability" of economic operation and the "advance" of industrial transformation and upgrading, and provides strong support for the high-quality economic and social development of the city.
Looking at Jiyuan today, the innovation power is magnificent, the scientific and technological innovation system is formed, enterprises dare to do innovation, and have abundant scientific and technological achievements.
Looking forward to the future, we should work hard and steer the boats and rush forward. Based on the forefront of scientific and technological innovation, Jiyuan embarks on a new journey of transformation and development.