"The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to build a modern industrial system and insist on focusing on the development of the economy on the real economy. This has further strengthened our development direction and given a shot of the dev

Changsha Evening News All-Media Reporter Zhu Zehuan

"The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to build a modern industrial system and insist on focusing on the development of the economy on the real economy. This has further strengthened our development direction and given a shot of the development of enterprises." On the 19th, Wang Junhong, general manager of Hunan Xiaoguang Automobile Mold Co., Ltd., said in an interview with reporters that enterprises have always been firmly committed to deepening the real economy represented by manufacturing, and continue to promote the transformation and development of mold manufacturing with innovation as the driving force.

is different from the mold production workshop I remember. The production workshop of Xiaoguang mold is clean and tidy, with few staff. The production stations in the huge factory are distributed in an orderly manner, and production workers work intently. "On the morning of the 16th, we organized key employees to watch the opening meeting of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The content mentioned in the report, such as the real economy and manufacturing power, have a great impact on employees." Wang Junhong said.

As early as 2017, Xiaoguang Mold began to focus on promoting the digital transformation of to , empowering the development of traditional manufacturing with information technology. "There are more intelligent equipment, fewer operators, and higher precision of molds." After witnessing the changes brought to the industry by digital transformation, the workshop head told reporters, "The most important thing is that we have received more orders for high-end model molds."

In the industry, molds are known as the "mother of industry". The quality of molds determines the quality and performance of products. They are an industry that is capital-intensive, talent-intensive and technology-intensive. Through years of accumulation and continuous innovation, Xiaoguang Mold has successfully been the first to break through the strength of 1,180 MPa in cold stamping ultra-high strength mold manufacturing. There are only a handful of companies that can realize this technology in the country.

In addition to the cold stamping process, indirect thermoforming technology is a high-end core technology with high technological content and high technical difficulty in the mold industry, and has always been monopolized abroad. "We jointly developed an upgraded version of the 'stage thermoforming technology' of this technology in , Hunan University, and became the second company in the world to overcome this technology and the only one in China," said Wang Junhong.

With its leading technology and continuous improvement attitude, Xiaoguang Mould's market in the high-end automobile field is getting wider and wider. In 2021, BMW Auto selected three manufacturing companies to trial molds nationwide, and selected one of them as a long-term supplier based on the results. "Among the three shortlisted companies, Xiaoguang mold is not the largest in scale and is not the oldest in qualifications." Wang Junhong told reporters that with his unique attainments in the innovation end and precise control on the production and manufacturing end, Xiaoguang mold has gathered R&D and manufacturing elites to fight for several months and finally successfully entered the supply chain of BMW Automobile. Up to now, the share of high-end car molds such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW accounts for more than 50% of Xiaoguang mold orders.

"As a national-level 'specialized, special and new' key small giant enterprise and a nomination award for the Hunan Provincial Governor Quality Award, we will ride the 20th anniversary of the east wind, unswervingly implement the company's strategy and make Xiaoguang contributions to China's manufacturing industry." Wang Junhong said that Xiaoguang Mold has formulated a "three-year plan", and will focus on the main business, deepen the development direction of automobile lightweight, and follow the main line of innovative development, take digitalization as a starting point, strengthen the management system, and realize the construction of core technical advantages, especially in talent cultivation, to create a healthy and ecological growth environment for Xiaoguang Mold, and realize Xiaoguang's dream of "highly trusted by customers and Xiaoguang in the world" during the "14th Five-Year Plan".