125 million subsidies to congest the Henan superhard materials industry

China's first regional characteristic industrial chain approved
After more than three years of hard work and waiting, Henan's super-hard materials and products industry has finally won the "birth certificate" of the country's first regional high-tech industrial chain.

Not only is it the first in the country, but also in the super-hard materials and products industry, Henan's regional high-tech industrial chain is also the only one in the country.

"For such a result, it can be said that the historical layout of this industry has laid a good foundation for Henan." Zhengzhou Abrasives Grinding Research Institute (hereinafter referred to as Sanmao) Deputy Director, National Superhard Materials and Products Engineering Liu Mingyao, deputy director of the Technical Research Center, introduced the reporter.

Not only that, this "birth certificate" also contains a more important content, that is, 10 industrial projects in Henan Province received the first batch of subsidies of 125 million yuan from the National Development and Reform Commission.

First in China
It is understood that the National Development and Reform Commission started the pilot project of regional high-tech industrial chain in 2008, and behind the implementation of the regional characteristic industrial chain is the macroeconomic policy of the state to support characteristic industries and promote the rapid development of local local economy.

In order to implement the relevant national planning such as the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan for the Development of High-tech Industry", give full play to the advantages of regional characteristics, promote the development of regional high-tech industries, promote the formation of industrial clusters that are mutually connected and coordinated, and accelerate the optimization and upgrading of regional industrial structure. And the transformation of economic growth mode, the National Development and Reform Commission has conducted a number of construction projects in Henan Province, and agreed to approve Henan high-hardness materials and products regional high-tech industrial chain.

The so-called super-hard material industry refers to the product industry consisting of synthetic steel, cubic boron nitride superhard materials and raw and auxiliary materials for synthetic superhard materials, production equipment and super-hard materials. chain.

The approval of the regional characteristic industrial chain in Henan Province also made Henan Province the first province in the country to obtain a state-supported regional high-tech industrial chain.

For this industrial chain construction, the state has key support directions: First, strengthen the weak links of the high-tech industrial chain, promote the formation and development of the industrial chain, and second, promote the industrial chain to extend and expand upstream and downstream.

Therefore, the National Development and Reform Commission approved the implementation of this regional high-tech industrial chain, which mainly includes four aspects: superhard material manufacturing, product processing, key equipment and innovation capacity building.

In these four aspects, the National Development and Reform Commission focused on supporting 10 projects planned by Henan Province, and arranged a total of 125 million yuan in subsidies.

“These 10 projects are selected from 59 projects in the “General Plan for High-tech Industrial Chains of Regional Super-hard Materials and Products in Henan Province”.” As the author of the above-mentioned program, Liu Mingyao said.

It is understood that the 10 demonstration projects supported by the National Development and Reform Commission have a total investment of 1.73 billion yuan. In addition to the state-sponsored subsidies, the rest will be invested by enterprises.

Henan characteristics
Superhard materials are a very small industry compared to other industries.

“There is only a total of more than 20 billion in the country.” Wang Hui, deputy director of the Zhengzhou Superhard Materials Industrial Park Management Office, said that despite this, it has a great influence on the development of other industries in many industrial categories.

"Compared with other industries, superhard materials account for a small proportion of the national economy, but there are not many large enterprises on the scale, but they play an irreplaceable role in the economic development process." Henan Huajing Superhard Zhao Qingguo, vice president of Materials Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Huajing) also admitted.

For the role of superhard materials in industrial development and the national economy, Zhao Qingguo further vividly said that superhard materials are equivalent to industrial teeth and are widely used in construction, roads, steel, aerospace, automotive, electronics and other fields. .

This is one of the important reasons why Henan superhard materials can get the national key "care".

On the other hand, the key to Henan's super-hard materials industry to become a national regional characteristic industrial chain is that the industry has formed a relatively complete industrial chain with scientific research, talents, raw materials and enterprise scale, and government guidance and support.

Such a set of data is just an average data. According to Wang Hui, some companies have reached an absolute position of 80% or even 90% in the country. The production of cubic boron nitride produced by Henan Fenike Superhard Materials Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Fenike) ranks first in the world.

In addition, in the super-hard materials industry, the situation of “three-legged” has been formed, and each company has a certain product that has an absolute leading position in the country and the world.

"It can be said that Henan has advantages in super-hard materials, and there is no place in the country." Liu Mingyao said proudly.

At present, there are about 200 super-hard materials enterprises in the province, and Zhengzhou National High-tech Industrial Development Zone (hereinafter referred to as Zhengzhou High-tech Zone) has set up a super-hard material industrial park since 1999, with 40 or 50 large and small factories. The enterprise has become a veritable national superhard material industry base.

The 10 projects of the state subsidy fund obtained this time, only Zhengzhou High-tech Zone alone accounted for half of the country. Sanmao, Huajing and Fu Nike in the district have undertaken 5 projects and received subsidy funds of 65 million yuan, accounting for 52% of the total funds.

In addition to the industry's own role and unique advantages, Henan's super-hard materials industry can become the first regional industrial chain industry approved by the state, and it is also the result of the efforts of all relevant units, departments and enterprises to "do it".

New industry issues
Although Henan superhard materials have incomparable advantages in the country and even the world, with the gradual expansion of the application of superhard materials, Henan superhard materials will also face new development issues, and there is still much room for improvement. .

“As Henan's most distinctive industry, although Henan has advantages in talents, technology, production capacity and equipment, the core advantage lies in raw materials, while the high value-added deep processing is relatively weak.” The above-mentioned Henan Provincial Development and Reform Commission high-tech industry The person in charge said.

“Henan is a big province of production, but it is our shortcoming in the field of super-hard materials.” Liu Mingyao also stressed.

In terms of related equipment and products, Henan is still lagging behind Beijing, Hebei, and Guangdong. Henan, on the other hand, basically exports raw and auxiliary materials with relatively low added value, and then goes through deep processing in foreign countries and then sells them to the mainland to obtain high profits.

"Henan still lacks large-scale enterprises, and we must speed up the development in this area in the future. Products are our ultimate goal." Liu Mingyao said.

"Now we are big and not strong, and the added value of products is low, so the competitiveness in the international market is small." Zhao Qingguo also said.

In this situation, Henan's superhard materials also have clear directions and goals.

In Liu Mingyao’s “Implementation Plan”, which has not yet been finalized, the reporter saw the future development goal of Henan super-hard materials products: by 2010, the province’s super-hard materials products will account for 60% of the entire industry chain. The domestic market share has increased from the current 20% to 40%. By 2012, the domestic market share of products will be 45%, the industrial added value will reach 20 billion yuan, and the sales revenue will reach 63 billion yuan.

In order to change the backward situation of Henan superhard material products and achieve the above goals more quickly, Liu Mingyao said that this requires an industrial chain.

Wang Hui said that the super-hard materials park will continue to do a good job in industrial transfer and docking, and actively carry out the investigation and investment work of super-hard materials superior enterprises outside the province to Zhengzhou. “We very much hope that foreign companies can invest, which will optimize our Industrial structure, the development of local enterprises."