"Gazelle" Breeding Technique In Dongguan: The Source Of Advanced Scientific And Technological Innovation Strategy And Achievement Transformation Highland Of "World Factory"

Dongguan, the "factory of the world", is striving to build an innovation highland in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. The emerging gazelle enterprises and specialized and special new enterprises are becoming an important part of Dongguan's technological innovation map.

In recent years, Dongguan has firmly grasped the "bull nose" of the cultivation and development of science and technology enterprises, actively constructed the innovative enterprise echelon of "science and technology based small and medium-sized enterprises - high-tech enterprises - gazelle Enterprises - Top 100 innovative enterprises", and explored and implemented classified support in the aspects of enterprise R & D investment, talent introduction, capital investment, industry exchange and spatial allocation, We will vigorously promote the development of high growth enterprises and promote high-quality economic development.

According to the data of Dongguan Science and Technology Bureau, in the past few years, the number and quality of high-tech enterprises in Dongguan have been "double improved". In 2015, the total number of high-tech enterprises in Dongguan was 986, while in 2020, it had reached 6385, with an average annual growth of 51.7%, ranking first among prefecture level cities in Guangdong Province; From 2015 to 2020, the operating revenue of high-tech enterprises in Dongguan City increased from 298.9 billion yuan to 1390 billion yuan, an increase of about 4.6 times. At present, Dongguan City has identified 34 gazelle enterprises and 29 top 100 innovative enterprises.

In the first half of this year, the GDP of Dongguan was 500.11 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.0%. It is expected that Dongguan will officially enter the city club with trillion GDP in 2021, and will stand at a new starting point to realize the start of the "14th five year plan". What is the innovation code of Dongguan? How can high growth enterprises spring up like mushrooms? Recently, all media reporters from southern finance and economics have conducted in-depth research on many gazelle enterprises in Dongguan, trying to explore the innovative development path of the city.

Dongguan gazelle enterprise innovation password

"The cold water is put into the heating pipe and the boiled water can be taken in three seconds after being electrified, which is more convenient and environmentally friendly than the previous technical scheme." Chen Zexing, general manager of Dongguan Dongsi Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., introduced the stainless steel thick film electric heating tube independently developed by the enterprise. The technology has been widely used in the water heater, water heater, dishwasher and other industries.

Thanks to its unique geographical advantages, complete industrial support and superior business environment, Dongguan has attracted many grassroots entrepreneurs to take root here, one of which is Chen Zexing.

Dongsi electronics is located in Songshan Lake high tech Zone, Dongguan City. It is engaged in the design and development of new electronic components and thick film hybrid integrated circuit products. In 2020, it was recognized as Dongguan gazelle enterprise. The new material industry of TOS electronics is one of the 10 strategic emerging industrial clusters that Guangdong focuses on cultivating and developing.

For small and medium-sized innovative enterprises, technology determines success or failure. "Over the years, we have attached great importance to technology research and development. In the past seven years, TOSE electronics has applied for more than 30 patents, and 21 patents have been authorized," Chen said

Today, Dongsi electronics has already crossed the "Death Valley" and ushered in a period of rapid development“ In recent years, our performance has increased by about 30% every year. This year, it is expected to grow by 50%. Next year, our revenue will exceed 80 million yuan. "

From the list of gazelle enterprises in Dongguan, the majority of enterprises are in the fields of new generation information technology, high-end equipment manufacturing, new energy and new materials, which is also a reflection of Dongguan's vigorous layout of strategic emerging industries in recent years.

In the production workshop of Dongguan Ruiqin Electronics Co., Ltd., the automation manipulator constantly carries out various high-precision processes, and the employees stand in front of the electronic screen to monitor the progress, and the whole workshop is running efficiently.

As a leading enterprise in the R & D and manufacturing of electroacoustic components in China, Ruiqin electronics established a silicon micro microphone (MEMS) packaging line and laboratory supporting facilities in 2017, and then successfully entered the ranks of suppliers of numerous electronic communication giants at home and abroad. On the development code of enterprises, Chen Weibo, general manager of Ruiqin electronics, said: "small and medium-sized enterprises should first grasp the market opportunities and set a good development direction. It is precisely by seizing the opportunity of the development of China's advanced manufacturing industry and keeping up with the forefront of voice human-computer interaction, our enterprises can achieve rapid development. "

Artificial intelligence has been listed as a key deep ploughing field by Ruiqin electronics. Chen Weibo said: "enterprises adhere to product innovation is to protect themselves. In the early stage of development, enterprises should take the initiative to carry out product iteration according to the market and customer demand, so as to pull products by the market, so that they can transform into product driven market after having core technology."

Such enterprises are not a few. At present, Dongguan has 170000 manufacturing enterprises, among which more than 10000 are above designated industrial enterprises. This has laid a solid foundation for the local cultivation of gazelle enterprises and specialized and special new "little giant" enterprises, so as to continuously build a "new engine" for the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry.

On the other hand, a large number of small and medium-sized traditional manufacturing enterprises in Dongguan are still facing the problem of transformation and upgrading. Taking the garment and textile industry as an example, with the increase of factor cost and the gradual transfer of industrial chain to the mainland, Dongguan textile and garment industry is facing challenges. However, the traditional manufacturing industry is not without vitality, and many enterprises have also found a way out.

Guangdong zhaotian Textile Technology Co., Ltd., located in Nancheng, Dongguan, is an enterprise focusing on the R & D and production of functional fabrics. At present, zhaotian textile has developed into an important service provider in the domestic functional knitted fabric industry, and is the representative of Dongguan traditional enterprises attacking gazelle enterprises.

"In traditional industries, enterprises should find their own positioning in market segments and focus on innovation." Li Yanmin, executive deputy general manager of zhaotian textile, said that zhaotian textile has consolidated its market competitiveness through continuous research and development.

At present, zhaotian textile has become the "invisible champion" in the field of functional underwear fabrics, accounting for about one third of the domestic market share. What's more surprising is that zhaotian textile was born as a pioneer in the industry, which effectively promoted the transformation and upgrading of a number of similar enterprises.

"The average profit level of ordinary fabrics in the textile industry is 5%, but our products maintain a gross profit of more than 30% in the terminal, and the traditional industry also has high growth space. It depends on how to tap." Li Yanmin said that zhaotian textile also has greater "ambition"“ In the future, we will create a model factory in the textile industry, explore lean management and digital production, and will replicate and transport to the industry after the demonstration effect is formed, so as to drive the development of the whole industry. "

According to the survey, Dongguan is a "mini" city with high growth enterprises in almost every town and street, which strongly supports the high-quality development of the local economy. In fact, the emergence of a number of high growth enterprises, regardless of traditional superior industries or strategic emerging industries, has formed a strong driving force for economic development in Dongguan.

Innovation ecology based on platform "chain"

How to develop chain innovation ecology from enterprise single point innovation?

This is another more important proposition that Dongguan is trying to answer. From the perspective of innovation layout in recent years, Dongguan has taken the cultivation and development of industrial clusters as an important path to build a modern industrial system.

A few days ago, the "14th five year plan" for high quality development of manufacturing industry in Guangdong Province also "named" 19 key industries in Dongguan, covering 9 strategic pillar industrial clusters and 10 strategic emerging industrial clusters. Specifically, Dongguan has been identified as the core city of Guangdong Province in terms of new generation electronic information, modern light industry and textile, software and information services, frontier new materials and new energy.

Dongguan's huge enterprise base and deep manufacturing industry accumulation have become the natural advantages of industrial cluster cultivation and development, and the continuous development and growth of industrial clusters continue to empower the growth of gazelle enterprises.

Take the new generation of electronic information industry as an example, Dongguan is at the advanced level of Guangdong and even the whole country. Huawei, oppo and vivo are the three major smartphone giants gathered here, and the industrial chain is highly integrated. According to the planning of Dongguan City, by the end of 2025, the city will form a new generation of information technology industry cluster with trillion level.

It is Dongguan's strong agglomeration advantage in the new generation of information technology industry that creates favorable conditions for the development of Ruiqin electronics. "Dongguan can effectively solve the supply chain problem, and the customer group is also very close, which creates a huge advantage for enterprise development, and we can also promote the development of the entire industrial chain," Chen Weibo said

Huang Shuiling, general manager of Dongguan Songshan intelligent robot Co., Ltd., is also deeply touched. In 2016, Huang Shuiling moved the company to Songshan Lake, Dongguan, mainly engaged in the R & D and production of robot integrated system and intelligent automation equipment, as well as the optimization of factory layout, logistics, and line body. In combination with robots and peripheral equipment, Huang Shuiling systematically provides flexible manufacturing lines for enterprises with man-machine integration. The products are widely used in 3C electronic manufacturing and other industries.

In just a few years, the performance of Songshan intelligent has achieved "three-level jump". The output value will reach 20 million yuan in 2018, 50 million yuan in 2019 and 80 million yuan this year.

The reason why the development is so rapid, Huang Shuiling said frankly, this can not do without the support of the Li Zexiang team and the Songshan Lake robot base. When it comes to Dongguan robot industry, Professor Li Zexiang of Hong Kong University of science and technology is an inseparable name. Songshan Lake International Robot industry base has become a benchmark for innovation and entrepreneurship in Dongguan City and even Dawan district.

In 2014, with the support of Dongguan municipal government and Songshan Lake Management Committee, Songshan Lake International Robot industrial base was jointly established by Professor Li Zexiang, Professor Gao Bingqiang, and Professor Gan Jie. It is constructed and operated according to the mode of "government funding and enterprise operation". The base integrates the complete industrial chain and mature innovation and entrepreneurship market advantages of Dawan District, focusing on the entrepreneurship incubation of robots and intelligent hardware“ At present, the base has incubated 80 start-up entities with a total output value of more than 3.5 billion yuan, including several Unicorn / small Unicorn technology enterprises, such as Li Qun automation, Yunjing intelligent, Hairou intelligent, and Yidong technology. " The person in charge of the base introduced.

Thanks to this, a number of robot gazelle enterprises quickly "run out"“ The seed wheel of our enterprise is invested by the base, and Mr. Li Zexiang has given great help in all aspects of enterprise development. " Huang Shuiling said.

Talking about the advantages of Dongguan's industrial chain, Li Zexiang once said vividly, "the iteration speed of young people here to create a new technology product may be 5 to 10 times faster than that of Silicon Valley and Europe, but the cost only needs 1 / 5 to 1 / 4 of that of Silicon Valley or Europe, so it has built a very unique advantage."

In fact, with the construction of industrial ecology, such advantages are still emerging. Huang Shuiling said: "the robot base has a supply chain platform. If there is a demand, enterprises can go there to find suppliers. The matching degree and efficiency are very high. In addition to promoting the docking of the supply chain, the base will also help enterprises connect with customers. At the same time, enterprises in the base have formed an innovation ecosystem of sharing information and actively cooperating with each other. "

For the development of emerging industries, the importance of platform support is also reflected in the talent level“ Now we don't need to go to Shenzhen to recruit people, because the base has formed a certain talent gathering effect. We can directly introduce some professional and technical talents from Hong Kong University of science and technology, South China University of technology and other universities. " Huang Shuiling said.

It is understood that since 2015, the robot base has cooperated with Dongguan Institute of technology, Guangdong University of technology and Hong Kong University of science and technology to jointly build the Guangdong Hong Kong Institute of robotics to cultivate technical engineers and technical management talents of robots and high-end equipment. Up to now, it has trained 1352 entrepreneurs.

Songshan Lake International Robot industrial base is just a miniature of Dongguan's efforts to create a carrier of scientific and technological innovation and entrepreneurship. According to the data of Dongguan Science and Technology Bureau, there are 118 science and technology business incubators in Dongguan City (including 25 national incubators), with an incubation area of 2.078 million square meters and about 3709 enterprises under incubation.

The source of science and technology innovation and the main position of achievement transformation

The growing enterprises are inevitably faced with many problems, which put forward a test on the policy supply capacity.

From the perspective of Dongguan, the reason why this "world factory" has been able to perform well in transformation and upgrading in recent years is that it has launched a series of accurate and effective policies, thus strengthening the dominant position of enterprises in innovation, and guiding resource elements to continuously gather with high-quality enterprises such as gazelle Enterprises and specialized and innovative enterprises, so as to make high-growth enterprises continuously radiate strong vitality. For example, Dongguan has established a comprehensive policy system for the cultivation of specialized and special new enterprises, including a one-time reward of 500000 yuan for enterprises recognized as "small giants" by the state.

A group of data intuitively shows the gratifying achievements of Dongguan: from 2017 to 2018, there were only 42 specialized and special new enterprises in Dongguan. In 2019, the number of new enterprises reached 94. By the end of that year, the total number of specialized and special new enterprises in Dongguan had reached 152, and the total number of enterprises had increased by more than 3.6 times in three years.

"Bumper harvest" cannot do without "fertile soil". Li Yanmin said: "the key to the rapid development of zhaotian textile is the research and development leader. In the face of important issues such as capital investment and intellectual property protection, Dongguan's continuous policies have given strong guidance and support in a timely manner, effectively supporting the sound operation and orderly operation of the enterprise."

According to Lin Jiang, an economics professor at Lingnan College of Sun Yat sen University, Dongguan's innovation and development mainly comes from two kinds of driving forces. One is the transformation and upgrading needs of large-scale processing and manufacturing enterprises. Dongguan meets the needs and creates conditions to meet them, thus forming the innovation power; Second, Dongguan is increasing the supply of new industries and new economy through innovation. As an economic, especially industrial increment, Dongguan has become another source of power for Dongguan's innovation and development.

At present, Dongguan is speeding up the pace of promoting the manufacturing industry to the middle and high-end of the industrial chain value chain, and is striving to build a national advanced manufacturing city led by scientific and technological innovation. With the continuous construction and improvement of the policy system and platform system, Dongguan's innovation and development level has also continued to improve, which has brought a huge space for imagination for more and better gazelle enterprises. In July 2020, the national development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of science and technology approved that Dongguan Songshan Lake Science City and Shenzhen Guangming Science City will jointly build the first start-up area of comprehensive national science center in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, which will become the fourth comprehensive national science center in China.

Whether it is to optimize the stock or create the increment, the landing of the comprehensive national science center in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao will become an important source for the city to breed high growth enterprises and create new economic momentum. With the help of China spallation neutron source, Songshan Lake material laboratory and other large scientific facilities and key scientific research institutions, a large number of innovation resources will be gathered, and through the perfect innovation and entrepreneurship ecology, enterprises will cross the "Death Valley" of achievement transformation.

Taking Songshan Lake materials laboratory as a laboratory of Guangdong Province as an example, according to Dongguan Science and Technology Bureau, the laboratory has successfully incubated 25 industrial companies based on the accumulation of various teams for many years, covering new energy, semiconductor and high-end consumer electronics, intelligent equipment, health care and other fields.

According to Lin Jiang's analysis, in the process of transformation, upgrading and innovation and development, Dongguan has formed a clear direction and certain layout of strategic emerging industries, including new generation electronic information, intelligent manufacturing, and new materials, which plays an important role in cultivating and attracting gazelle enterprises in Dongguan. At the same time, the construction and implementation of a number of innovation carriers and platforms can provide key support for the development of gazelle enterprises and the cultivation of strategic emerging industries.

Taking advantage of this, Dongguan, which used to be a "world factory", has now pressed the "fast forward" button to upgrade its urban innovation level. Lin Jiang believes that in the next few years, Dongguan gazelle enterprises are expected to grow rapidly. By combining the advantages of scientific and technological innovation of the comprehensive national science center with the industrial supporting advantages of Dongguan, Dongguan will become the main position of Dawan district's scientific and technological innovation policy source and achievement transformation by giving full play to the role of enterprise innovation subject.

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