(Grassroots in the Spring Festival) Shandong, a large industrial province, "grabs momentum" and strives to achieve a "good start" in economic development

  Chinanews.com, Jinan, February 4th (Reporter Sha Jianlong) "Just after the Spring Festival, we began to further sort out production bottlenecks, and continued to increase production capacity through scientific scheduling, technological breakthroughs, and production line automation." In Weichai Baudouin In the high-speed high-end large-bore engine manufacturing base, Wang Guangming and his colleagues are rushing to produce a batch of 128 M-series large-bore engines for power generation to be sent to Turkey.

"In January, the output of this series of large-bore engines increased by 100% year-on-year, achieving a 'good start' in the first month."

  Shandong is a major industrial province in China, with 41 industrial categories. Industry accounts for nearly 1/3 of the province's economic system and is the main engine for economic development.

In 2022, Shandong's industrial added value above designated size will increase by 5.1%, which will strongly support the province's GDP growth of 3.9%.

As of January 31 this year, the operating rate of 34,000 regulated industrial enterprises in Shandong exceeded 90%.

Cultivating new kinetic energy and new advantages for industrial economic development has become a breakthrough for the province's development.

The picture shows the workshop of a glass product manufacturer.

Photo by Xiao Shouxiang

  Weichai Group is located in Weifang City, Shandong Province. During the visit to the group, the reporter noticed that various parks started intensively, and production lines were running at an accelerated speed; scientific research personnel were busy tackling key problems and making breakthroughs in key technologies; Equipment to ensure high-quality output of products... presenting a scene of enthusiasm.

  "After the Spring Festival, the company quickly organized employees to promote production. Currently, 50 tons of medicinal glass tubes are produced every day, and the order has been scheduled until the end of March." In Heze, Shandong, Liu Conggang, deputy general manager of Tianma Glass Products Co., Ltd., is supervising the production progress.

The fuel supply system just completed by the company has reduced gas consumption by 320 cubic meters per ton of glass products, increased the rate of finished products by 5%, and the pass rate of produced products has exceeded 95%.

"We will further expand sales channels in foreign markets this year, increase exports to South Korea, Japan, New Zealand and other countries, and ensure double production and sales."

The picture shows the intelligent digital production workshop of Tsingtao Brewery (Zaozhuang) Factory.

Photo courtesy of Xuecheng Propaganda Department

  At the construction site of the 300,000-ton-a-year lithium-ion anode and cathode materials project of Trampus in Zaozhuang, Shandong, there are many tower cranes and roaring machines.

This project is a major project in Shandong Province in 2023. After completion, it will further improve the lithium battery industry chain in Zaozhuang City.

Gao Qimin, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Shandong Taifa Group, told reporters that after the festival, the project team worked at full capacity, and all construction tasks were advanced simultaneously and progressed rapidly, striving to complete and reach production capacity as soon as possible.

"It is estimated that after it is put into operation, it can realize an annual output value of 45 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), and an annual tax payment of about 1.6 billion to 1.9 billion yuan, which will drive more than 700 jobs."

  Similar to the above-mentioned scenario, at present, Jinan, Qingdao, Zibo and other cities in Shandong have seized the new "momentum" of starting work after the festival, quickly resumed work and production, released production capacity, and rushed to seize the "golden period" of project construction.

It is understood that vigorously promoting the construction of major industrial projects is one of Shandong's key tasks in 2023. This year, there are 602 major projects in the province with a total investment of 2.5 trillion yuan.

  As the capital of Shandong Province, Jinan is taking the road of becoming a strong industrial city in line with the actual development of the city.

After the first meeting after the start of construction, the city set the tone for 2023 as the "project breakthrough year", clearly proposed to strive for breakthroughs in the "ten major areas", and released the first batch of 1,301 key projects for green, low-carbon and high-quality development. The investment exceeds 2.4 trillion yuan.

Wei Bin, deputy director of the Jinan Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, said that the city will strive to achieve an increase of 6.5% in the added value of industrial enterprises above the designated size in the first quarter, and an increase of more than 6.5% in the whole year.

  In 2023, 15,000 key projects will be planned at the city and county levels in Shandong Province, with a list and responsibilities assigned to each person, focusing on accelerating the promotion of industrial projects worth more than 1 billion yuan.

In the fields of metallurgy, chemical industry, machinery, building materials, etc., Shandong will also implement the "ten thousand enterprise transformation" and "ten thousand technical reforms" on a rolling basis this year, of which about 10,000 technical reform projects cost more than 5 million yuan.

Weichai (Qingdao) Intelligent Heavy Industry Intelligent Manufacturing Center project site.

Photo courtesy of Weichai Group

  On February 1 this year, the Shandong province-wide conference on speeding up the high-quality development of the industrial economy was held in Jinan. Lin Wu, secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, stated at the meeting that the province should take promoting high-quality development as its top priority and put the industrial economy on the top priority. In a more prominent position, the new development concept will be completely, accurately and comprehensively implemented in terms of development requirements, high-end, intelligent, green, and clustered will be highlighted in the development direction, the transformation of new and old kinetic energy will continue to be deepened in terms of development momentum, and the advanced manufacturing industry will be deeply implemented. The provincial action plan will accelerate the high-quality development of the industrial economy.

  In order to help the economy continue to improve, at the beginning of 2023, Shandong will launch the first batch of policy lists for 2023 that will "promote stability while improving quality".

Among them, 214 continued the policies implemented in 2022. At the same time, 27 new policies were introduced around 5 aspects including helping enterprises to bail out, optimizing supply and expanding demand, and supporting innovative factors, involving a total of 124.2 billion yuan in provincial fiscal expenditures.

Shandong will also play the role of dispatching grassroots "four-entry" work teams, do a good job in policy publicity and service, and let the "golden policy" play a "golden effect".

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