Xinhua News Agency, Taiyuan, May 23. Topic: Opening up and accelerating innovation and promoting transformation-looking at the high-quality development of the central region from the Central China Expo
Xinhua News Agency reporters Zhao Donghui, Liang Xiaofei, Wei Biao
In Mengxia season, the vegetation is verdant.
23 The twelfth China Central China Investment and Trade Expo at sunset was fruitful.
In the past three days, more than 1,000 exhibitors from home and abroad have gathered in Shanxi, focusing on "opening, cooperation, transformation, and innovation" to discuss future industrial directions and find new opportunities for investment and trade.
As the first large-scale exhibition held in the central region during the first year of the "14th Five-Year Plan", this grand event has demonstrated to the world the enormous development vitality and potential of China's hinterland.
Openness, cooperation and vitality
In the past few days, guests and exhibitors gathered at the Jinyang Lake International Exhibition Center in Taiyuan.
Entering the central exhibition area, a set of equipment models that use new energy to desalinate seawater attracts attention.
"This is our first time to participate in an exhibition in the central region, and what we are looking for is the development potential here." Dou Xiaohui, manager of the planning department of Jiangsu Fenghai New Energy Desalination Seawater Development Company, said that although the central provinces are not coastal, their brackish water is desalinated, Sewage treatment has broad market prospects.
Connecting east and west, connecting south and north, the central region has convenient transportation, rich resources, profound cultural heritage and great development potential.
Last year, the central region achieved a regional GDP of 22.2 trillion yuan, and created 21.9% of the country's GDP with 10.7% of the land area.
Compared with previous editions, this Central China Expo is more open and cooperative.
Participating provinces have expanded from 6 central provinces to 16 provinces across the country; 883 companies from 15 countries participated in the exhibition, and the number of multinational companies was the largest in history; except for the exhibition areas of 6 central provinces, a central exhibition area, Hong Kong and Macao exhibition areas, and international exhibition areas were specially set up; the main venue Combined with branch venues, online and offline, trade fairs, order fairs, and new product launches have been fruitful.
On the afternoon of the opening of the Central China Expo on May 21, six Taiwan-funded projects including the Shanxi Comprehensive Reform Zone Cross-Strait Science and Technology Industrial Park were successfully signed, with a total investment of 11.5 billion yuan.
Wang Lizhen, a Taiwanese businessman who came to Taiyuan for the first time, said that after gaining a better understanding of the central region, she and her companions encouraged Taiwanese businessmen to visit Shanxi and central China more.
"The economic strength and consumption power of the central region continue to increase, making it more and more attractive to enterprises." said Zhang Wenshuang, deputy director of the Wuhan Representative Office of the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Agency.
Market potential is constantly being stimulated, opening to the outside world is further deepened, and economic and trade ties between the central region and other countries in the world are getting closer.
"The United Kingdom and the World Bank have reached cooperation with Shanxi Province to strongly support the transition to a low-carbon economy." Greenham Stewart, Secretary of State for the Department of International Trade of the United Kingdom, said that despite the impact of the epidemic, the products of the United Kingdom and central China in 2020 The trade volume still increased by 23.6%, reaching US$8.7 billion.
Wang Shouwen, Vice Minister of Commerce and Deputy Representative of International Trade Negotiations, said that the growth of foreign trade and foreign investment in the central region last year was better than expected, stabilizing the basic situation of foreign trade and foreign investment.
In the first four months of this year, the foreign trade of the six central provinces increased by 57.9% and foreign investment increased by 47.7%, ushering in a good start to the development of the "14th Five-Year Plan".
Innovation opens the way to lead transformation
The opening day of the Central China Expo coincided with Xiaoman in the twenty-four solar terms.
The agricultural proverb says: "Small man sees three new things."
Quantum security mobile phones, magnetically controlled capsule gastroscope mobile examination vehicle, civilian version of Dongfeng Mengshi M50...walking through various exhibition areas, new industries, new technologies, and new achievements are dizzying.
A prominent position in the Anhui showroom is equipped with a new-style pure electric vehicle from Weilai.
The streamlined shape, touch-sensitive central control panel, and retractable door handles make this car full of futuristic and technological style.
According to on-site staff, NIO selected Hefei, a central city in China, as its headquarters in China, using the local mature foundry and automotive supporting industrial chain to allow the company to grow rapidly in a relatively short period of time.
A bland screen window can make the PM2.5 filtration rate reach 99.5% at one time, a mask is reused 20 times without generating odor, and an aerogel zero-energy house can be "self-sufficient" without power supply... In front of the exhibition area of Huayang New Materials Group, people stopped and watched from time to time.
The predecessor of this company, Yangmei Group, was a well-known old coal company.
A year ago, after reform and reorganization, Huayang New Materials Group focused on the blue ocean of new materials and vigorously deployed new projects at the end of research and development and the first of mass production.
In the first quarter of this year, Huayang Group Aerogel Science and Technology City achieved sales income of 42.84 million yuan.
While new industries are "new", old industries are being renewed at an accelerated pace.
In front of the central exhibition area, a small tractor attracts countless eyes. A tractor with only 50 horsepower has the power comparable to traditional medium-sized tractors and has lower energy consumption.
This is China's first 5G+ hydrogen fuel electric tractor developed by the National Agricultural Machinery Equipment Innovation Center.
"Hydrogen fuel cell is the main and lithium battery is the supplement. It can be applied to plains and hilly areas and will provide a better choice for traditional agriculture." said Guo Peilong, an on-site technician.
In the Central New Products Exhibition Area, the paper-cut crafts made with steel as raw materials are eye-catching. Behind this idea is the "hand-tear steel" technology of China Baowu Taigang Group.
Just a week before the opening of the expo, TISCO had two new stainless steel products for the world premiere.
The staff of the exhibition area said that, unlike the extremely thin technical route of "hand-tear steel", the new product pursues flatness and smoothness, and the surface roughness of the newly developed non-textured "water drop steel" has been reduced to less than 20 nanometers.
Relying on scientific and technological innovation, strategic emerging industries such as integrated circuits and intelligent manufacturing in Hubei Province are growing rapidly, original achievements such as quantum communications and dynamic memory chips in Anhui Province are emerging, the number of high-tech enterprises in Henan Province has exceeded 10,000, and the number of high-tech enterprises in Shanxi Province It has increased by 3.5 times in 5 years. The competitiveness of the construction machinery and advanced rail transit industries in Hunan Province has increased significantly, and the new aviation materials industries in Jiangxi Province are in the ascendant.
In the first quarter of this year, the added value of high-tech manufacturing or high-tech industries in the six provinces all achieved a strong growth of more than 20%.
Shanxi’s new energy vehicles increased by 6.8 times, Anhui’s industrial robots increased by 96%, Jiangxi’s smart phones increased by 313%, Henan’s civilian drones increased by 138%, Hubei’s 3D printing equipment increased by 25.6 times, and Hunan’s integrated circuits increased by 2 times...
The green rise of "beautiful middle part"
In the outdoor exhibition area, a nearly 30-meter-long tram with exquisite and concise interior accessories attracted attention.
"The power of this tram comes from power sources." Tang Jincheng, chairman of China New Energy Rail Transportation Equipment Co., Ltd., said that the company has established its production base in Yongji, Shanxi. It is optimistic about the energy revolution and low-carbon transition. Unique industrial advantages and policy advantages.
The Politburo meeting of the CPC Central Committee held on March 30 reviewed the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the High-Quality Development of the Central Region in the New Era", emphasizing efforts to build a beautiful central region with green development.
Across the Yangtze River and Mai Yellow River, the central region is a national demonstration area for ecological civilization construction, and it is also an important national energy and raw material base.
This Central China Expo has set up a green development exhibition hall to showcase the new momentum and opportunities of green development.
The reporter saw in the exhibition hall that there are companies using textiles for sewage treatment, pure suction dust removal and haze reduction cleaning vehicles, and robots that can detect and clean municipal sewage pipes, and even carbon dioxide emitted by industrial production and produced by coal mining. Gas has also "turned waste into treasure."
“What’s stored in this box is the carbon dioxide we captured from the chimney of Datang Yungang Thermal Power Plant. The concentration can be purified to more than 99.9%.” Song Weining, director of Shanxi Clean Carbon Economic Industry Research Institute, took out a box of dry ice from the box and poured it on. Half a glass of water immediately turned into a smoky "wonderland".
Song Weining said that using self-developed carbon capture and conversion devices, carbon dioxide is captured from the flue gas of thermal power plants and converted into strategic new materials, carbon nanotubes and their downstream products.
In March of this year, the first batch of conductive pastes for lithium batteries produced by the carbon nanotube conductive paste production line has been provided to Tianjin Lishen Battery Co., Ltd. for trial.
The emission control and reuse of low-concentration coal mine gas has always been a problem that plagued the development of the coal industry.
An exhibitor from Shanxi-Shanxi Mingshi Coalbed Methane Utilization Co., Ltd. has developed a low-concentration coal mine gas safe combustion and heating integrated technology, taking the lead in realizing the safe combustion and heating use of coal mine gas with a concentration of more than 6%.
"We are working hard to develop low-concentration coal mine gas safe combustion and heating integrated technology of less than 6% to help the green, low-carbon and sustainable development of the coal industry." said Zhou Jianjun, deputy general manager of Shanxi Mingshi CBM Utilization Co., Ltd.
(Reporters participating in the writing: Hong Muxuan, Wang Jinyu, Xu Xiong, Zhang Lei)