On January 28, the Changzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government of Jiangsu Province held a meeting to promote the construction of a new energy city and officially released the "Policies and Measures for Promoting the Construction of a New Energy City", sounding the clarion call to build a new energy city that leads the Yangtze River Delta, is nationally leading, and is globally influential.
"Changzhou's first New Year meeting focuses on the construction of a new energy city, which is like the first warm sunshine of the New Year, bringing huge confidence and unlimited energy to new energy companies." said the person in charge of the new energy company who came to participate in the meeting.
After more than ten years of hard work, the new energy industry has become a new track for Changzhou to forge development advantages. Changzhou has proposed higher development goals. By 2025, the scale of the new energy industry will exceed one trillion yuan, and the market value of the new energy Changzhou sector in the capital market will exceed one trillion yuan. By 2035, the scale of the industry will double on the basis of 2025.
Planting tung trees to attract phoenixes, industrial ecology is quietly formed
In Zhixi Guangcai Town, Jintan District, Changzhou City, you can see a large construction site being constructed in full swing along the road. This is the second phase factory building of Oriental Risheng (Changzhou) New Energy Co., Ltd.
"It is expected that the second phase of the project will be put into production in the first half of this year, with 8 new battery production lines and 3 module production lines, with a production capacity of 4GW of high-efficiency solar cells and 6GW of high-efficiency solar modules." Wang Fang, the relevant person in charge of Risheng Oriental (Changzhou) New Energy Co., Ltd. said.
This small town with an area of only 3.8 square kilometers has gathered 15 high-tech enterprises, 15 billion-yuan enterprises, and 40 enterprises above designated size, forming a relatively complete industrial chain. This is a vivid footnote to the development of Changzhou’s new energy industry.
Changzhou is one of the important birthplaces of the "Southern Jiangsu Model" and has the most complete industrial system among similar cities. Changzhou has 37 of the 41 major categories of national industry, 191 of 207 medium categories, and 600 of 666 subcategories. The completeness of the power battery industry chain reaches 97%. Intelligent manufacturing equipment and new carbon materials have been selected into the national strategic emerging industry cluster and the national advanced manufacturing cluster.
At the New Energy City Construction Promotion Conference, 15 major new energy industry projects with a total investment equivalent to more than 47 billion yuan were signed and settled, joining the "Changzhou New Energy Legion".
At present, Changzhou has formed a closed loop of "transmission, storage, distribution and use" of the new energy industry. Leading enterprises such as BYD, Ideal, Jiangsu Times, China New Aviation, and Honeycomb Energy have driven upstream and downstream enterprises to become bigger and stronger together. The industrial cluster effect has appeared, and a good industrial ecology has been formed.
"The biggest advantage that the industrial cluster development model brings to Changzhou is that enterprises support each other and reduce logistics and communication costs. This is very helpful for Changzhou to promote the development of the new energy industry. This model will be the general trend." said Wu Hui, president of the China Battery Industry Research Institute.
Driven by innovation, “real money” is invested in industrial upgrading
At the World New Energy Vehicle Conference held not long ago, a product called One-Stop Battery System attracted the attention of the participants and received worldwide and industry-wide attention.
This product was developed from Changzhou Zhongxin Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. Liu Jingyu, chairman and president of the company, pointed out the key to industrial development: "Only innovation can achieve the sustainable development of the power battery industry. China Innovation Aviation is promoting the continuous progress of battery technology from multiple dimensions such as material innovation, structural innovation, system innovation, and manufacturing innovation, thereby achieving sustained and rapid development of the industry."
A single tree cannot make a forest, and innovation has become the core pursuit of the development of Changzhou's new energy enterprises. In July 2022, the high-efficiency PERC battery product led by Trina Solar's State Key Laboratory of Photovoltaic Science and Technology achieved an energy conversion efficiency of 24.5%, once again setting a world record in this field. As one of the leading companies in the photovoltaic industry, Trina Solar has established a high-level R&D team and used technological innovation to drive the technological development of the industry.
Intelligent Manufacturing Longcheng Laboratory, Antai Chuangming New Energy Materials (Changzhou) Research Institute Co., Ltd., Yangtze River Delta Carbon Fiber and Composite Materials Technology Innovation Center... Today's Changzhou is dotted with innovation platforms, innovative entities are flourishing, and innovation resources are rapidly gathering.
In order to support enterprises to focus on the industry's "stuck" problems and consolidate its "leading" advantage, Changzhou is willing to use "real money" to support enterprises' technological research, standard innovation and intellectual property protection.
"We will actively guide leading industrial enterprises to take the lead in forming innovation consortiums, expand channels for international scientific and technological cooperation in the field of new energy, and rely on international cooperation parks such as the 'China-Israel Changzhou Innovation Park' and 'Sino-German Innovation Industrial Park' to promote the coordinated development of innovation internationalization and industrial internationalization," said Li Lei, director of the Changzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau.
It is reported that Changzhou will also accelerate the legislation of the "Changzhou Science and Technology Innovation Promotion Regulations" to encourage science and technology enterprises to strengthen basic research, conquer key technologies, set up special equity structures, stimulate the vitality of scientific researchers, and safeguard the rights and interests of enterprises in innovation and development in accordance with the law.
Be willing to be a "waiter" to create a place where enterprises and talents can realize their dreams
On January 31, the first batch of 900 new energy vehicles produced at BYD's Changzhou base and exported to the Netherlands issued its first customs declaration form in Changzhou, marking the successful entry of Changzhou's new energy vehicles into the international market.
BYD's successful "going overseas" is inseparable from the government's willingness to serve as a "waiter" and the warm-hearted service that is willing to "respond to all requests and not disturb anything". In 2022, the Changzhou National High-tech Zone Commerce Bureau, with the assistance of Changzhou customs, taxation and other departments, helped BYD successfully solve a series of problems such as export exemptions, offsets and refunds, eliminating the worries of the Changzhou production base entering overseas markets. Keep process evidence when comparing plans
Zou Shen, deputy director of the Bureau of Commerce of Changzhou National High-tech Zone, said that riding on the east wind of the New Energy City Construction Promotion Conference, Changzhou High-tech Zone must not only continue to do a good job in "bringing in", but also fully promote "going out", actively promote new energy vehicles to open up "going overseas" channels, help enterprises develop overseas markets, and strive for greater market share in the world. Changzhou flooring industry is mainly distributed in Henglin, Hutang, Zhenglu, Hengshanqiao and other towns, mainly concentrated in Henglin, and formed Henglin laminate flooring industry cluster, and has successively won the title of laminate flooring town, laminate flooring capital, and laminate flooring export base. Changzhou city scenery
Zhongjian Technology is a high-tech enterprise focusing on new materials. However, in the initial stage, R&D investment was large and returns were low, and the company once faced difficult difficulties. The Changzhou City and High-tech Zone governments took the initiative to provide support funds and help companies go to banks to secure loans. After more than ten years of development, Zhongjian Technology has broken the foreign technology blockade and become the leader of independent innovation in the industry.
The innovation culture of "if you haven't done anything for ten years, just wait for a blockbuster" has attracted batches of domestic and foreign entrepreneurs to take root in Changzhou. "After graduating with a master's degree, I have always wanted to work in the new energy automobile industry. I learned from the media that Changzhou is committed to building a new energy capital, so I chose to work in Changzhou without hesitation." Bai Hongri, a master's student from the University of Science and Technology Beijing, now works for an automobile company in Changzhou.
Talent is an important engine for urban development to take off. Changzhou has tailor-made special support policies for the "high-skilled and urgently needed" talents urgently needed for the development of the new energy industry; it has vigorously implemented the "Youth Retention" project, expanded talent funding from bachelor's, master's and doctoral graduates to college graduates from colleges and universities in Changzhou, and built 100,000 talent apartments, so that the majority of young talents can "come with one package, settle down at home, and build a 'new energy capital' together," making it the most desirable city for youth innovation and entrepreneurship in the country. A "new energy city" with an increasingly complete industrial chain and an increasing concentration of talents is emerging in southern Jiangsu.
