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On November 18, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the public announcement list of the 2024 Advanced Manufacturing Cluster Competition. Nanjing City’s Nanshan Special Steel Materials Cluster and the Yangtze River Delta (including Jiangxi) large aircraft cluster participating in the application were shortlisted. With the previously shortlisted software and information services and new power (smart grid) equipment clusters,
Nanjing already has four national advanced manufacturing clusters.
The advanced manufacturing cluster is an industrial ecosystem formed in a certain area by highly gathering of advanced manufacturing enterprises and related entities, and condenses resources such as industry, academia, research and application, upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, and various public service platforms. Unlike traditional industrial clusters, advanced manufacturing clusters have advantages such as complete industrial ecology and strong radiation and driving capabilities, and can play an important role in enhancing innovation capabilities, expanding brand effects, and improving market competitiveness.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s national advanced manufacturing cluster competition is an important measure to cultivate world’s advanced manufacturing clusters and promote my country’s industries to move towards the middle and high end of the global value chain. This competition is regarded as a “national team selection match”, and the selected cluster will become the “national team”.
As the cradle of China’s modern industry,Eastern manufacturing townNanjing has a strong industrial foundationShows strong core competitiveness
Special steel materials industry
High value-added and high-tech products
Continuously increasing
As an outstanding representative of the new materials field, special steel is responsible for providing high-precision materials for the development of national defense and military industry and high-end manufacturing. Nanjing, Wuxi, Suzhou, Changzhou and South Jiangsu have gradually established a special steel industry system with leading scale, high-end varieties and complete supporting facilities, ranking first in the country in terms of industrial scale and comprehensive competitiveness.
As the leading city of the special steel material cluster in southern Jiangsu, Nanjing has focused on promoting the transformation and upgrading of the special steel industry in recent years, and has taken new steps in the high-quality development of the industry. It is reported that Nanjing’s steel industry has implemented a high-end high-quality development strategy and has built an important high-performance special steel plate production base at home and abroad. The number of products with high added value and high technical content has been increasing, and more than 100 products such as large-thick crack-resistance steel have reached the international advanced level. , providing solid and reliable material support for many important equipment and key projects of major countries.
Founded in 1958, Nangang is one of the leading enterprises in the Nansu Special Steel Materials Cluster. In recent years, it has focused on the research and development and production of high-value-added high-quality special steels, and has formed medium-thick plates, bars, high-speed wires, strips, and special-shaped steels. Product series such as composite panels.
“We are the first company in China to develop the world’s thickest crack-resisting steel and 5Ni low-temperature steel in 100 mm. Ultra-low temperature (-196℃) 9% nickel steel and high-strength wear-resistant steel both won the national manufacturing single championship.” Nangang is responsible for the relevant responsibility of the company. According to the person, Nangang products have provided indispensable key materials for more than 300 major power heavy equipment, including China’s first luxury cruise ship, “Blue Whale One” for combustible ice mining, and the third-generation nuclear power demonstration project “Hualong Many important weapons and key projects of major powers such as No. 1, as well as major projects of the “Belt and Road” such as the Arctic Yamal Natural Gas Project, the Qatar Football World Cup Stadium, and the China-Russia Heihe Bridge.
Meigang actively explores the “optimal solution” of safety of steel products for food storage. In 2021, the company announced that the “double green” (green process, green product) electroplating tin products with “ultra-low lead + chromium-free passivation” have been launched worldwide, and beverage packaging cans such as Wangzai milk and Red Bull, and milk powders such as Wyeth and Nestlé. Meisteel products are used in the cans, Wahaha Babao Porridge, Meilin Lunch Meat and other food packaging cans.
In recent years, Nanjing’s steel industry has deeply promoted the “intelligent transformation of numbers to network connection” action, with the CNC rate of key cluster processes reaching 90%. The leading enterprise Nangang has successfully created a national-level smart factory and built the industry’s first integrated smart operation center.
The smart operation center is called Nangang’s “strongest brain”. Entering the Smart Operation Center, what catches your eye is a 42-meter-long, 6-meter-high display screen. The digital twin screen demonstrates the entire process of small ores growing into large steel in real time. From the real-time flow of raw materials, key parameters of the sintering machine, to every key point of the desulfurization and denitrification process, we ensure that environmental protection standards and production efficiency are equally important, and every process is at the control of it.
“We explore the deep integration of digital technology and steel business, use innovative technology to drive the reshaping of steel production and operation model, develop new quality productivity, and enhance the competitiveness of enterprises.” Deputy Institute of Nangang Digital Application Research Institute (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute) Chang Xu Faxi introduced that the Smart Operation Center uses technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence and digital twins to realize real-time visual dynamic prediction and early warning of enterprise production and operation, which can help improve the operation efficiency of the entire enterprise, reduce production and operation costs, and realize Nangang products. High-end and green.
According to a relevant person in charge of the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, all leading steel enterprises in Nanjing have completed ultra-low emission transformation, and the emissions of major pollutants have dropped by about 50% in the past three years. “The digital and intelligent empowerment of our city’s steel industry is at the forefront. Relying on the advantages of digital and intelligent development, Nanjing is actively creating a national artificial intelligence industry application demonstration base for ‘AI+ Steel’.” A relevant person in charge of the Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology revealed.
Large aircraft industry
Accelerate layout of key manufacturing links
“Big aircraft” is known as the “jewel in the crown of industry” and is a direct reflection of the overall level of a country’s industrial system. In the field of large aircraft industry, Nanjing has initially established an aerospace industry development system focusing on the manufacturing of aerospace engines and key components, airborne system manufacturing, ground equipment manufacturing, air traffic control system development, and drone aircraft. There are more than 100 companies above the scale, including 8 listed companies, 2 single-level manufacturing champions, 23 specialized and new “little giants” enterprises, and 26 specialized and new small and medium-sized enterprises.
The Airport Economic and Technological Development Zone located in Jiangning Development Zone is an important production base for core components of domestic large aircraft C919 and a leading area for aircraft electromechanical and mechanical systems industry in the country.
Development logic
The core competitiveness of the industry comes from strong strength
Behind the continuous renewal of national advanced manufacturing clusters is Nanjing’s strong industrial strength.
Among the three provincial capitals in the Yangtze River Delta, compared with the total industrial added value of the three provincial capitals in 2023, Nanjing ranked first with 501.545 billion yuan, of which Nanjing’s industrial added value accounted for 28.8% of the city’s GDP, the highest in the three cities.
Nanjing not only focuses on current returns and markets, but also strengthens its foundation and plans the development foundation and direction of a city in a broader time dimension. Nanjing’s three-year action plan for industrially strong city proposed that by 2025, the city’s total GDP will exceed one trillion yuan, and the proportion of manufacturing added value to GDP will remain stable at more than 30%. The role of the pillar industry “ballast stone” is more solid, strategic emerging industries have become the “main engine”, the “growth pole” of the industry will continue to be prominent in the future, and the “thermal value” of the modern service industry has increased significantly. In the next period, Nanjing will be built into an internationally competitive advanced manufacturing base in the Yangtze River Delta, a main carrier area for industrial science and technology innovation centers with global influence, and a national service economic center.
Traditional pillar industries have always been the “ballast stone” of Nanjing’s economy. In 2023, the city’s four key industries of petrochemical, electronics, automobiles and steel will have a total output value of over 900 billion yuan, accounting for 60.3% of the city’s total output, of which the output value of steel and petrochemical industries will account for more than 20% of the city’s total industrial volume.
Last year, Nanjing clearly proposed to consolidate and improve the four pillar industries, and each industry clarified the direction of improvement, specific projects and responsible entities.
“Ballast stone” is now more important. This year, Nanjing’s chemical industry has successively implemented 10 billion projects. This spring, the construction of Jinling Petrochemical high-end daily chemicals project with a total investment of 11 billion yuan was officially started. Nanjing thus built the first domestic daily chemical new materials industry cluster from petroleum raw materials to terminal products, comprehensively promoting the extension of the traditional chemical industry to fine chemical industry.
Traditional industries are the confidence of Nanjing’s industries. Developing towards advanced manufacturing with high added value and promoting emerging manufacturing toward technological frontiers is the direction of Nanjing’s industrial-strong city.
Data shows that Nanjing’s innovative industrial clusters have developed steadily, with the business revenue of six industrial clusters exceeding 200 billion yuan in 2023, of which software and information services exceeding 800 billion yuan, and smart grids exceeding 300 billion yuan, with growth rates reaching 8% respectively. 7%. The growth rate of intelligent manufacturing equipment, new energy vehicles, new materials, and biomedicine has reached double digits, and the business revenue has all exceeded 200 billion yuan.
What is even more exciting is that Nanjing is a pilot city for the application of “vehicle-road and cloud integration” in intelligent connected vehicles. Nanjing recently held a pilot policy press conference and announced that it will strive to realize the road test and demonstration application of intelligent connected vehicles in the city by 2026. Open all regions, intelligent transformation of key intersections, traffic signal networking rate exceeds 97%; build a unified architecture urban-level cloud control platform to build more than 50 demonstration application scenarios, and intelligent connected new energy vehicles achieve a total annual revenue of over 300 billion yuan. Yuan……
