With the help of Qinchuangyuan platform, Xi'an is making every effort to build a highland of scientific and technological innovation. (Photo by Wang Jian, Chief Reporter of Xi'an Press All Media, Data Picture) The number of
high-tech enterprises increased from 1,253 to 7,140; the number of patent authorizations increased from 11,862 to 64,131; the transaction volume of technology contract increased from 30.022 billion yuan to 220.947 billion yuan... Behind a series of dazzling achievements and data, Xi'an's unremitting efforts and qualitative breakthroughs in scientific and technological innovation and development since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
In March last year, the construction of the Qinchuang original innovation-driven platform, the largest incubator and scientific and technological achievements transformation "special zone" in Shaanxi, was launched. As the core source of Qin Chuangyuan, Xi'an has even elevated its innovation-driven strategy to a source of driving force for urban transformation. At the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Science and Technology released the "National Innovation Capacity Evaluation Report 2021", showing that Xi'an ranked seventh in the national innovative city in 2021 and the first in the western region of innovation capabilities.
Technological innovation has pressed the "fast forward button". Now, Xi'an, a thousand-year-old capital, is constantly revitalizing new vitality and stimulating new momentum for development under the driving force of innovation engines.
Innovation Platform Construction
provides power for technology enterprises to "plant fertile soil"
"Just like my name, for ten years, our core team has unwavered around its strategic goals and embarked on an extremely difficult Long March." Looking back on the development over the past ten years, Sun Changzheng, chairman of Xi'an Advantageous Internet of Things Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Advantageous Technology), was filled with emotion.
Advantage Technology is the earliest explorer and practitioner in my country's Internet of Things industry. In 2009, the company successfully developed China's first "Tangxin No. 1" with independent intellectual property rights, embedding the Internet of Things into a strong "Chinese core", filling the domestic gap and causing sensation and attention. Over the past decade, targeting the "bottleneck" problem of industrial development, advantageous technology has gone through a path of independent innovation and evolution.
In Sun Changzheng's view, as the birthplace of the concept of "hard technology" and the gathering place of scientific and technological resources, the Western safe construction of the capital of "hard technology" has brought once-in-a-lifetime development opportunities to technology-based enterprises. Today, the integrated Internet of Things (WF-IoT) technology system created by Advantage Technology is the first IoT system in the industry to realize long-distance, large capacity, high reliability, high security, medium and high speed, free payment, and low power consumption. It has formed disruptive applications in high-energy consumption fields such as smart low-carbon construction, industrial low-carbon emission reduction, and intelligent green transportation. It has become the smart base and core support for realizing the dual-carbon strategy and digital economy , and comprehensively assisting industrial upgrading and China Intelligent Manufacturing.
has settled in the Qinchuangyuan platform, providing an accelerator for the development of enterprises. "Relying on Qin Chuangyuan's comprehensive advantages, we took the lead in implementing the general window of Xixian New District, and took the lead in establishing a smart low-carbon Internet of Things ecological service center. With the multiple driving force of technology, market and policies, we attract advantageous enterprises in the industrial chain to gather the digital and intelligent carbon neutral industrial park to provide users with one-stop comprehensive services." Sun Changzheng said.
Smart low-carbon Internet of Things industry chain is an important branch of the 23 key industrial chains identified by Shaanxi Province - the Internet of Things industry chain. With its best-in-class strength in the industry, this year, Advantage Technology has successfully been shortlisted for the first batch of "chain leader" enterprises in Shaanxi Province announced by our province.
Sun Changzheng said that the current smart low-carbon Internet of Things industry chain brings together more than 200 upstream and downstream enterprises, including government-related guidance institutions, universities, research institutes, industrial funds, consulting design, system integration, intelligent engineering, production and manufacturing enterprises, and comprehensive services. "We have established multiple innovation consortiums. We are jointly tackling key issues in the development of the industrial chain to help traditional manufacturing enterprises upgrade to strategic emerging intelligent industries."
From "Tangxin No. 1" to integrating the Internet of Things, the growth path of advantageous technology is a microcosm of Xi'an accelerating the construction of innovation platforms and incubating and cultivating enterprise growth over the past decade.
Over the past decade, the Municipal Science and Technology Bureau has accelerated the construction of a science and technology innovation platform and vigorously supported innovation and research and development.Last year, our city added 81 municipal engineering and technology centers, recognized 56 municipal "three-device (three-dimensional linkage incubator, result transformation accelerator, and two-chain integration promoter) demonstration platforms, and built 30 R&D platforms such as innovation consortiums. Carry out pilot program of the "posting list and taking charge" system for hard technology research in the high-tech zone. Continue to implement the reward and subsidy policies for enterprise R&D investment, and continue to improve the R&D and innovation capabilities of enterprises. Under the guidance of the Provincial Department of Science and Technology, we will jointly promote the establishment of seven provincial innovation consortiums, including advanced rare metal materials, semiconductors and integrated circuits, photonic industry, high-end CNC machine tools, and additive manufacturing. At the same time, Xi'an has built nine municipal innovation consortiums including additive manufacturing, intelligent voice, intelligent vision, , weapons industry, , etc., providing continuous impetus for scientific and technological innovation.
"Demolition of walls and fills the gap"
Mechanism innovation accelerates the transformation of results
As one of the largest scientific research institutions in the northwest region of the Chinese Academy of Sciences , ten years ago, Xi'an Institute of Optical and Mechanical Machinery found that a large number of scientific research results were shelved after the paper was published, and many of these scientific research results have reached the world-class level. The phenomenon of "technology and economics two-skin " is common. How to transform innovative achievements into direct economic benefits and drive regional development?
In order to explore a path to effectively transform scientific and technological achievements, Xi'an Institute of Optical and Mechanical Engineering has made drastic efforts to reform the science and technology system and mechanism. Demolition of walls and open offices, adhere to the principle of "state-owned equity participation and exit at the right time", "try first" towards the main battlefield of the national economy, and truly realize the deep integration of industry, academia and research ... The pointer of
time is turned back to 2012. This year, Xi'an Institute of Optical and Mechanical Engineering established asset management company - Xike Holdings. It takes the innovative talents, innovative achievements and innovative ideas continuously produced by Xi'an Institute of Optical and Mechanical Engineering as the innovation carrier, and builds a distinctive "hard technology" innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem with distinctive characteristics.
In 2013, Xike Holdings and social investment institutions jointly initiated and established a platform focusing on hard technology investment incubation - Xi'an Zhongke Chuangxing Technology Incubator Co., Ltd., and established the first angel fund in China that focuses on investment in the hard technology field, providing scientific research institutes and start-up hard technology enterprises with all-round, professional and systematic results transformation and investment incubation solutions.
"At the beginning, we talked about hard technology to others. Many entrepreneurs and investors thought we were liars and felt that 'hard technology' was invisible and intangible. The difficulty of finding investment can be imagined." said Wang Feng, deputy general manager of Xike Holdings.
Gong Ping, chairman of Xi'an Tangjing Quantum Technology Co., Ltd., returned to China to start a business with technology many years ago. It was not until the incubation base of Xike Holdings and Zhongke Chuangxing that he saw with his own eyes that the base not only had ready-made ultra-clean rooms and auxiliary equipment, but also a professional operation team to help the company quickly enter production that Gong Ping resolutely decided to settle in Xi'an. When the company was first established, the most important issue was the factory building. Fortunately, in the first round of financing after Tang Jing Quantum was founded, Zhongke Chuangxing injected one-third of the funds, becoming one of the three major shareholders, solving the urgent needs for the development of the company.
With the help of a professional semiconductor entrepreneurship incubation platform provided by Xike Holdings and Zhongke Chuangxing, Tangjing Quantum, founded in 2017, broke the monopoly of European and American technology and became the first VESCEL extrinsic foundry in China with mass production capabilities. "Practice proved that the decision to settle the company in Xi'an was the right choice," said Gong Ping.
, founding partner of Zhongke Chuangxing, Mi Lei , once called this incubation method the "tropical rainforest" model. "In the past, the Institute's results transformation adopted the 'farmland model', focusing on eliminating weeds, while the 'tropical rainforest model' emphasizes the diversity of rainwater, soil, air, and organisms, providing a good environment for technology companies to grow freely."
Now, entering the Xike Holdings Curvature Engine Industrial Park located in , Chang'an District, , infrared vascular imager, intelligent space management sensor, fully automatic nucleic acid detection system... The successful launch of these high-end and sophisticated products is inseparable from the incubation of Xike Holdings' innovative and entrepreneurial rainforest ecological system.At present, Xike Holdings has invested and incubated nearly 400 hard technology companies, with a total market value of over 264.4 billion yuan, and a total fund management scale exceeding 6.8 billion yuan, forming industrial clusters such as optoelectronic chips, aerospace, and artificial intelligence .
The innovative development path of Xi'an Optical and Mechanical Institute is a microcosm of our city's vigorous promotion of the "comprehensive innovation reform experiment". In recent years, Xi'an has steadily promoted the "comprehensive innovation reform experiment" task assigned by the state. Focusing on the two major reform priorities of " military-civilian integration " and "coordinating scientific and technological resources", it has successively formulated and issued 34 120 new policies and mechanisms, including "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the System of Promoting Comprehensive Innovation Reform Experiments and Building an "Belt and Road" Innovation Center", "23 New Talent Policy", to accelerate the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation factors. More walls are being demolished, and scientific and technological innovation is increasingly becoming a strong support for Xi'an's rapid development.
Technical agent
Let scientific and technological achievements come out of the "laboratory" and become "hot cake"
On Qin Chuangyuan's stage, such a group is active. They are not matchmakers, but they often match enterprises and universities. They have a sensitive sense of innovation projects and are good at turning "toys in the window" into "hot cakes" on the industry side. They are the team of science and technology brokers who undertake the important task of transforming scientific and technological achievements.
Zhao Yuqing, a teacher at the School of Electronic Science and Technology of Xi'an Jiaotong University, focuses on the research of electron beam, ion beam devices and micro processing technology. "Ion beam amorphous carbon-based film equipment" is his scientific and technological achievement in the past 20 years. Previously, due to the fact that teaching and scientific research took up a lot of time and energy, this technology has never been able to achieve industrial expansion.
"Jiangsu National Technology Transfer Center heard about this technology and immediately connected with my team to fully understand the project characteristics, application scenarios and market prospects, and help us sort out and polish the project." Zhao Yuqing said that the market he was originally aiming at was the missile infrared window in the military industry, but Liu Shuang, deputy director of the Technical Development Department of the National Technology Transfer Center of Xi'an Jiaotong University, led professionals and Zhao Yuqing's team to sort out the market plan together, adjusted the strategy, first entered the carbide tool and micro-drill market, and quickly opened up the situation.
"In 2021, the technology broker team recommended the project to Qin Chuangyuan, obtained the support of Qin Chuangyuan Spring Seed Fund, and established Shaanxi Ain Buoneng Carbon-based Technology Co., Ltd., which put the 'ion beam amorphous carbon-based film' project on the road of industrialization." Liu Shuang said that the transfer center then continued to assist Zhao Yuqing's team in connecting with industrial resources and investment institutions. In July 2022, it received an angel round financing of 10 million yuan. It is currently operating and establishing the Xi'an Coating Processing Center. In the future, the transfer center will continue to assist the team in the path of industrialization, promote the development of the domestic coating industry, and compete with international peers.
Build a team of science and technology brokers is an effective means to open up the "last mile" of transformation of scientific and technological achievements.
"Before 2018, the transfer center had less than 10 external branches, the center had less than 10 people, and the results were very few." Recalling the development over the past ten years, Wu Zhen, director of the Cooperation and Exchange Center of the National Technology Transfer Center of Xi'an Jiaotong University, felt sad. After 2018, the transfer center began to build a professional and full-time technical broker team. They went deep into enterprises and universities, from confirming and demonstrating enterprise needs, to matching factors, and then to coordinating resources from schools, governments, and enterprises, and building an ecosystem of "government, industry, academia, research, and financial use" for multiple business formats, truly enabling "talent + technology + industry" to develop in a comprehensive manner. At present, the transfer center has established nearly 40 branches in 15 provinces and more than 60 full-time science and technology brokers to accurately serve the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.
"In the past three years, our team of science and technology brokers has collected more than 1,100 convertible scientific and technological achievements and sorted out more than 20,000 patents and non-patent stock scientific and technological achievements. Each branch has carried out nearly 800 industry-university-research docking activities, visited more than 13,000 enterprises, and promoted the cooperation amount of industry-university-research cooperation of more than 170 million yuan. After the Qinchuangyuan platform was completed, the transfer center has targeted more than 280 seed projects for the Qinchuangyuan Xixian New District Spring Seed Fund, of which the cumulative financing exceeded 120 million yuan..." Speaking of current achievements, Wu Zhen was full of pride in his words.
Over the past decade, our city has innovated mechanisms and taken multiple measures to smooth the path of transformation of scientific and technological achievements. As of 2021, our city has established a technical manager service system, and has recognized a total of 664 junior technical managers, 86 intermediate technical managers, and 80 certified technical manager institutions. 122 industry-university-research-financial-research-financial collaboration docking activities were carried out, and 356 projects for on-site transformation of scientific and technological achievements were promoted. In the first half of this year alone, our city added 888 technical managers and 88 technical manager institutions, which has helped promote the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements.
Looking back at ten years is exciting; looking forward to the future, full of passion.
Nowadays, the foundation for Xi'an to build a highland of scientific and technological innovation is being continuously consolidated by the rich "soil" built by Qinchuang's original innovation driver platform as a carrier. The 14th Party Congress of the city included the construction of Qinchuangyuan-driven platform in nine key tasks. In the future, our city will use high standards to build Qinchuangyuan on the new track, deploy innovation chains around the industrial chain, layout industrial chains around the innovation chain, form a general pattern of "one general and two belts" construction, build a pilot demonstration zone for high-quality development in Shaanxi and even the west, and promote Xi'an to continue to reach a new level on the road of high-quality economic and social development. (In addition to the signature of this article, Xi'an Newspaper All-Media Reporter Guan Ying/Text)
Source: Xi'an News Network
