China News Service, Hangzhou, September 4 (Wang Yifei, Qian Chenfei) China is about to usher in the historical node of a comprehensive well-off society. Looking back on the "well-off process" of more than 40 years, we will take the initiative to respond to and reform the new situation amidst uncertain changes. Outstanding features of "Chinese Story".
In Zhejiang, the private economy, which has reached the "forty forty years", is just a representative changer.
As the pioneer of China's market economy, Zhejiang’s private economy contributed 65% of the province’s GDP, 74% of taxes, 87% of employment, and 91% of the total number of enterprises.
From the initial road market, the chicken feathers for sugar, to the global trade and influence the world, for more than 40 years, the sense of crisis and the daring to seek change have allowed Zhejiang’s private economy to win "face", and it has also created a way of its own at the "lizi" level. "The Road to a Well-off Society".
Recently, the reporter interviewed the heads of private enterprises in various fields in Zhejiang to explore the transformation of the private economy in the eyes of "people in the bureau."
In their eyes, "environmental and inclusive growth", "more confidence and anti-risk ability", "innovation-driven kinetic energy release", etc., have also become optional perspectives for observing the history of the rise of China's private economy.
During the epidemic, Figo Group produced protective equipment.
Photo courtesy of Figo
"Green" made in Zhejiang
Although all the machines in the workshop are not fully operational, the 70-year-old Zhan Yougeng is still satisfied with the company's current recovery.
"Domestic demand is gradually recovering. Affected by downstream partners' foreign market factors and the one-month suspension of production, our revenue in the first half of the year fell by 4.5%. However, sales in some months have exceeded the same period last year." As Aoxing Electronics Co., Ltd. The chairman of the company, Zhan Yougeng, has led the company that produces aluminum electrolytic capacitor parts for 46 years.
From a machinery factory that started in a pigsty house to today’s NEEQ listed company and the hidden champion of global aluminum shell manufacturing, from a difficult start with 4 people to a total of more than 600 employees in Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Dongguan, this company has gathered Zhan Yougeng's life's hard work.
When it comes to corporate changes, he has always moved closer to "green" is his deepest experience.
This feeling is reflected in the factory of Austar Electronics.
On the side of its workshop, equipment foundation excavation is underway in a vacant area.
Soon, the equipment for the clean production upgrade project of aluminum housing newly purchased by the company will be placed here.
"Although the revenue declined in the first half of the year, we still invested 8 million yuan to build this project." Zhan Yougeng introduced that the equipment uses a purely physical countercurrent absorption process to treat the exhaust gas produced by production, realizes full recycling and online discharge standards. Go further in production.
Xun Ant drone.
Image courtesy of Xun Ant
The first and largest investment this year after the company resumed work is to be more environmentally friendly and more energy-efficient. This is an active choice for companies to seek environmentally friendly development and inclusive growth.
And this initiative also reflects the development thinking and contingency strategies that Zhejiang Manufacturing has gradually produced in response to the changes and requirements of the times.
In Zhejiang, the first prototype of a private economy was achieved by burning fire in every village and smoking from households.
The subsequent advancement of the industrialization process increased the pressure on the province's ecological carrying capacity.
The former Governor of Zhejiang Province, Lu Zushan, previously stated in an interview with reporters that Zhejiang’s environmental problems at the turn of the century-"After more than 20 years of development, it can be said that there are few places in Zhejiang that are not polluted. By 2003, the total amount of wastewater discharged in Zhejiang The total industrial waste gas emissions and industrial solid waste production increased by 84.8%, 300%, and 130% respectively over 1990. At that time, 66 of the 69 cities above the county level in the province were covered by acid rain, of which 33 were heavy acid rain areas. "
At that time, at the official level, the "eight-eight strategy" proposed the creation of an ecological province, and the concept of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains" put forward Zhejiang's clear direction.
At the micro level, tens of thousands of manufacturing companies in the province have also begun to green awaken.
Take Aoxing Electronics as an example, it has established internal waste incineration facilities in many companies earlier.
In 2004, when the company was preparing to build an aluminum plate and strip workshop and faced with the choice of casting fuel, the company did not choose coal or oil that would cause pollution, but spent several times the cost to use natural gas first in the local area.
Having spent a lifetime in the manufacturing industry, Zhan Yougeng said, “A healthy company must be a company that keeps pace with the times and pursues green and ecology. This is a very important aspect of our century-old company.”
On the whole, from gray to green, with the goal of achieving environmentally friendly and inclusive growth, the improvement of technology and management concepts is the process of Zhejiang's private economy in the historical range of a comprehensive well-off and in the process of moving from the low end of the industrial chain to the middle and high end. The characteristics of the times shown.
Taking the past five years as an example, according to the Provincial Statistical Communiqué on National Economic and Social Development, of the 221 provincial-controlled sections in Zhejiang in terms of water environment, as of last year, Grade III and above water quality sections accounted for 91.4%, an increase of 18.5 percentage points from 2015.
The energy consumption per unit of industrial added value of industrial enterprises above designated size in Zhejiang has dropped by 3.76% annually on average.
Foreign trade: see confidence in the most difficult time
Zhejiang's economy is known for its high degree of outward orientation.
Foreign trade is also a mirror to observe the private economy of the province.
"The more difficulties you have, the more you have to persevere. A crisis is an opportunity, and it depends on how to turn a crisis into an opportunity." This is the attitude of Shi Yun, the chairman and senior economist of Ningbo Figo Group.
On the day of the interview, Shi Yun had to participate in multiple meetings within the company, and even the lunch break could not be guaranteed.
He disagrees with such "spinning", after all, companies are now facing the most difficult time.
Founded in 1992, Figo Group focuses on clothing foreign trade.
In the first half of the year, due to the one-month suspension of production and production, the reduction or cancellation of orders caused by the overseas epidemic, and the extension of receipts, the total value of corporate clothing exports fell by 15%.
Fortunately for many foreign trade companies, the Figo Group previously converted the production of masks and protective clothing to the government and hospitals in a timely manner. At the same time, it also promoted a 12% revenue growth in the first half of the year through exports.
Shi Yun explained that the "most difficult" feeling was mainly due to the harsh environment.
"In recent years, the external economic environment has not been very favorable. In addition, the impact of the market's shift to Southeast Asia has brought about problems such as grabbing orders and lowering prices. The pressure on enterprises is very high. For example, five to ten thousand pieces were originally small orders, but now they are considered large orders. Up."
For nearly 30 years in foreign trade, in Shi Yun's eyes, the more emboldened side of Zhejiang foreign trade can be seen at the hardest time.
“It can be clearly felt that Zhejiang Foreign Trade’s ability to resist risks has become stronger in recent years. Everyone will not be blindly pessimistic due to external influences as before. This is in line with the increasing diversification of our products, the improvement of independent research and development capabilities, the optimization of customer distribution, and The new business model, the coordination of the two markets, etc. are related. They are all actively thinking of ways, and naturally they have confidence."
For example, FIOCCO continues to expand its market layout internationally, and at the same time develops cross-border e-commerce business. On the other hand, it created a mid-to-high-end women's clothing brand "FIOCCO" a few years ago to target the domestic market.
To drive the development of the industrial chain, the company also initiated the establishment of the textile and apparel industry innovation service complex "Yunshang Valley" to strengthen collaborative innovation.
"'Yunshang Valley' has gathered more than 50 small, medium and micro enterprises in the upstream and downstream of the textile and apparel industry chain to achieve effective integration of resources. The enterprises entering the park are not only tenants, but also resource sharers, and they can complete one here without leaving their homes. A series of projects.” Shi Yun regards the platform as an attempt for high-quality transformation and development of the company, and he hopes that the company can replicate this model for export in the future.
The confidence in his eyes is also related to the government's support for foreign trade enterprises.
"During the epidemic, we received loan credits for foreign trade companies and special fund support for epidemic prevention, which played an important role in corporate stability."
In the context of the spread of the global epidemic, the turmoil of the international financial market, and the "three major elements" of economic and trade frictions, in order to help foreign trade companies secure orders and expand the market, the Zhejiang commerce department held 162 online trade fairs featuring one country and one product. 46 countries.
The Hangzhou Central Sub-branch of the People's Bank of China has created an "order loan" financing model, helping enterprises to increase loans exceeding 110 billion yuan.
Sheng Qiuping, director of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce, publicly stated that “to stabilize 77,000 foreign trade companies is to stabilize development.”
Zhejiang's foreign trade performance in the first half of the year was impressive.
The province’s exports have maintained positive year-on-year and month-on-month growth for four consecutive months starting in March. In the first half of the year, exports were 1,085.8 billion yuan, an increase of 3.3%.
Digital economy and endless possibilities
The emergence and application of the Internet can be regarded as the most revolutionary change in the well-off process.
When information technology started a new big change, Zhejiang's private economy changed again in response to the situation.
This is the case with the rise of the digital economy.
In Zhejiang, it has become a strong "back wave", bringing endless possibilities with innovation.
"If everything we need in the future can be quickly obtained by drone delivery, then this scenario will be very cool." Compared with entrepreneurs engaged in manufacturing and foreign trade, Yu, co-founder of Hangzhou Xunyi Network Technology Co., Ltd. Hang's discourse style has a strong "post-80s" color.
This company was founded by a team of graduates from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, dedicated to building a large-scale robotic capacity network (UAV logistics).
They hope to use the power of technology to make the delivery of objects timely and efficient without any barriers.
The company has developed a number of UAVs suitable for different distribution scenarios in the five years since its establishment. The cloud scheduling platform based on advanced technologies such as AI algorithms has also matured, achieving the entire distribution process without manual intervention.
"We have core technical barriers in the development of products and the operation of logistics scenarios." Yu Hang said.
As a representative of new technologies and new business formats that are derived nowadays, this company has created many "domestic firsts".
Such as obtaining the first domestic urban logistics drone trial operation license, completing the first domestic drone O2O fresh food distribution, opening the first domestic drone mail route, and operating the first domestic commercial unmanned The machine express network, completed the first domestic UAV cluster cross-sea distribution......
Xunant's UAV delivery scene application has also made scenes once conceived by people become the norm in many places.
In terms of postal express delivery, in some mountain villages such as Zhejiang, Sichuan, and Guizhou, companies are now cooperating with China Post to invest more than 20 drones as "postmen" to improve the delivery time.
In Yuhang District, Hangzhou, combined with the construction of the local medical community, the test samples from multiple primary health service stations can be transported to higher-level medical institutions on daily drone "flights" for testing. Patients in remote areas can get the results on the same day. Went to the trouble of seeing a doctor many times in the past.
"In the future, while building an air logistics network, we can also use the collected big data to help city management. This is even more meaningful." In Yu Hang's view, the use of new logistics based on digital technology The means to change the mode of production and life can not only create huge economic value, but also bring more social value. This is the kinetic energy released by innovation.
He believes that due to the penetration of information technology in all aspects, the variety of changes can be called the biggest feature of the digital economy, and it has also brought a huge demand market.
Digital economy companies mostly focus on innovation in some "unprecedented" sub-fields, which makes it easier for them to stand at the forefront of the industry and gain first-mover advantages.
In Zhejiang, there are tens of thousands of digital economy companies like Xunyi.
Although they are latecomers, the convergence of individual innovation forces is enough to explode the fission effect.
At present, the added value of the core industries of the digital economy accounts for more than 10% of Zhejiang's GDP.
In Hangzhou and other places, the contribution rate of the digital economy to economic growth has exceeded 50%.
"Zhejiang's private innovation force is infinite, and it supports Zhejiang's economy to rejuvenate its youth in the economic downturn." said Zhuo Yongliang, director of the New Economic Development Research Center of Zhejiang Tsinghua Yangtze River Delta Research Institute.
The above is a micro-story from the enterprise, but also from the trend of the private economy in Zhejiang.
Represented by it, many new characteristics are forming a healthier private economic development paradigm, which will provide a stronger impetus for the development of Zhejiang in the future.
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