Robot industrial park settles in Xiangtan, Hunan's energy transformation begins a new Long March

Xiangtan City and Xin Song Robot sign an agreement to jointly build a robot industrial park

　　Xiangtan, Hunan, late April 26 (Reporter Li Haixia) In late April, Xiangtan, Hunan finally ended the days of continuous spring rain, and the azaleas all over the mountains and plains became more and more charming. In the bustling Chairman Mao Zedong Square in Shaoshan, a special visitor arrived.

　　Xin Song Robot, the leading domestic robot company in China, and its "leader" Qu Daokui, plan to invest in a robot industrial park in Hunan Xiangtan's "Smart Manufacturing Valley" over the next five years. In this revolution known as "Industry 4.0," Xiangtan, an old industrial city in Hunan, has also embarked on a new Long March of new and old power transformation.

　　Why did the robot industrial park choose Xiangtan?

　　Highly consistent innovative concepts and strategic deployment

　　The above-mentioned industrial park is the first robot industrial park created by Xin Song. Like many characteristic towns in China that are accelerating their development, it has been given very high expectations.

　　Originating from the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xin Song has a deep connection with Xiangtan, Hunan, as it moves south to build a robot industrial park.

　　Only innovators can advance, and only innovators can be strong. The highly consistent innovative concepts have become a prerequisite repeatedly mentioned for the cooperation between the two sides.

　　"Innovation" drive is the gene for Xin Song's rapid growth, and it is also the inherent vitality of Hunan's promotion of comprehensive innovation led by technological innovation, and taking intelligent manufacturing as the key to the replacement of old and new industries.

　　Forming a group of large enterprises with international competitiveness and characteristic emerging industrial clusters that lead industrial upgrading is an important part of Hunan Province's 13th Five-Year Plan.

　　Hunan Governor Xu Dazhe said in a meeting that building a robot industry is an important strategic consideration for the new driving force of Hunan's economic development. The robot industrial park project and industrial layout are highly consistent with Hunan's strategic development of emerging industries.

　　According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2016, Hunan Province's regional GDP ranked ninth nationally, and Changsha ranked sixth among provincial capital cities nationwide. The Chang-Zhu-Tan region, where the project is located, contributed 44.4% to the province's economic growth in 2016.

　　According to the provincial vice governor Xiang Lili, Hunan Province attaches great importance to the development of the robot industry. Starting last year, it has conducted investigations of some enterprises in Shenzhen, Guangdong, Shanghai and other places, and finally selected Xin Song.

　　In Qu Daokui's view, robots are not only high-tech products with a huge market, but also an important support for intelligent manufacturing. They play a significant role in the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing, achieving intelligent transformation and changes in manufacturing models.

　　Qu Daokui said that as the largest robot company in China, Xin Song has many large customers in Xiangtan and Changsha. This time, the establishment of a robot industrial park in Xiangtan is intended to carry out comprehensive and in-depth cooperation.

　　In fact, on November 30 last year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology officially approved the establishment of the Chang-Zhu-Tan "Made in China 2025" pilot demonstration city cluster, requiring efforts to create a new industrial pattern with distinctive features and competitiveness, characterized by the coordinated and differentiated development of Changsha's "Lugu," Zhuzhou's "Power Valley," and Xiangtan's "Smart Manufacturing Valley."

　　The policy's preferential advantages make Xiangtan Municipal Party Secretary and Director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress Cao Jiongfang feel a heavy responsibility, but also quite confident that intelligent manufacturing will take root and develop into a new industrial cluster in Xiangtan. Speaking of advantageous industries, Xiangtan's greatest pride is intelligent manufacturing. In Cao Jiongfang's view, Xiangtan already has some advantageous conditions, with a large number of military enterprises playing the role of industry leaders, and new trends emerging in the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, especially new industries. In the future, high-tech and advanced equipment manufacturing industries will move towards the goal of a thousand-fold increase.

　　The dazzling data and valuable opportunities make Xin Song attach great importance to the industrial park layout. "It's not simply introducing an enterprise and project, but building a platform to fully reflect different elements such as R&D, industry, finance, and talent education on this platform, and radiating to surrounding areas through Hunan." Qu Daokui said.

　　What are the advantages of the robot industrial park?

　　Innovation source, technical support, and capital assistance

　　Cao Jiongfang, the local official, revealed the mystery of "Smart Manufacturing Valley," which carries the robot industrial park: Smart Manufacturing Valley is the beginning of the Long March of power transformation.

　　"Smart" is the key, "manufacturing" is the support, and "valley" is the goal. "Smart" is a concept that overturns the concept of machine automation and focuses on people; "manufacturing" is the support, a group of special people creating special "people"; "valley" is the goal, gathering various advantages and resources to attract capital, information, and talent to Xiangtan for development and radiation to surrounding areas." Cao Jiongfang said.

　　In the vision of both parties, the robot industrial park, as an important project of "Smart Manufacturing Valley," was created from the outset to become a benchmark for intelligent manufacturing in China.

　　Qu Daokui told People's Daily Online that the feasibility of the robot town lies in its innovation source, technical support, and capital assistance, which is a full reflection of the platform effect.

　　According to the plan, the robot industrial park in Xiangtan's "Smart Manufacturing Valley" will achieve an annual output value of approximately RMB 10 billion and an annual average tax contribution of approximately RMB 600 million. Among them, the annual industrial output value is approximately RMB 5.5 billion, and the annual industrial tax revenue is approximately RMB 275 million.

　　Hao Zhangang, president of Xin Song Robot Investment Co., Ltd., introduced that the industrial park is not limited to the robot industry, but aims to create a concept of pan-robot industry, and the future market for service robots has almost no ceiling.

　　In Qu Daokui's view, China has the opportunity for the first time to catch up with the world's synchronous development, and has fully entered the development period of the new industrial revolution, possessing the basic conditions for international competition. Through this cooperation, China's intelligent manufacturing may occupy a place on the world stage.

　　The vision for the robot industrial park is to organically combine the robot industry, the financial industry, the cultural industry, the tourism industry, and supporting living functions to create a five-in-one ecological intelligent manufacturing characteristic town.

　　Hao Zhangang said that from providing core technologies, core components, and core products, to providing 4.0 system solutions to society, promoting local enterprises to directly upgrade from the 2.0 era to the 4.0 era. Through the construction of the industrial park and the robot innovation service platform, promoting robot applications, and thus forming a world-class robot innovation and production gathering highland.

　　The first robot industrial park created by Xin Song is just the beginning. In the future, such industrial parks will spread like "a spark starting a prairie fire" across the country, promoting the popularization of robots nationwide. By seizing the core of intelligent manufacturing and deeply integrating informatization and industrialization, the robot industrial park will also become a "new business card" for Xiangtan, Hunan.