The mountains are green and vibrant. Stepping into Suichang Economic Development Zone, a bustling construction scene comes into view: the Yuheng Battery 3GWh lithium iron phosphate energy storage battery project, covering 100 mu with a total investment of 1.1 billion yuan, is about to be completed. It is expected that after the project reaches full production, the output value will reach 1.5 billion yuan, bringing more than 400 jobs to the local area...
From a small workshop to the top in Zhejiang Province in the field of storage batteries for small household appliances, behind the high-quality development of Yuheng Battery lies not only the continuous improvement of the enterprise's independent innovation capability and core competitiveness, but also the remarkable "cooperation story" between Nanhu and Suichang.
In 2023, the two places formed a consortium around promoting common prosperity through industries, and took "Five-Chain Integration" as the path to jointly seek to create a new model of industrial common prosperity.
"Relying on their different endowments in healthy agriculture, science and technology, education, medical care and other fields, Nanhu and Suichang complement each other in resources and have built deep cooperative relations in the industrial chain among enterprises in the two places," said a relevant person in charge of the Economic and Information Bureau of Nanhu District.
Taking the Industrial Chain as the "Core"
"Five-Chain Integration" Nurtures a New Ecosystem
When talking about Nanhu District, many people will think of the pioneering "Red Boat Spirit" or the new style of a "garden city" with clear water, green banks and scattered ancient residences. In fact, few people know that Nanhu District, known as "misty rain Jiangnan", also possesses strong industrial "hard power".
Last year, Nanhu District completed a total industrial output value of 113.224 billion yuan and an added value of 20.46 billion yuan for industrial enterprises above designated size; in the first half of this year, its added value of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 8.6%, the district's manufacturing investment reached 5.231 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18.3%, ranking first in Jiaxing, and the investment in high-tech industries was 4.675 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.2%, showing a trend of "the new year surpassing the old".
At present, Nanhu is aiming to build a "highland of urban advanced manufacturing industry" and create another "New Nanhu". This includes not only the high-tech leap of the "100-billion-yuan" industry by strengthening scientific and technological innovation leadership and optimizing enterprise cultivation, but also the layout of "100-billion-yuan" new quality productive forces by building a strong high-end new material cluster, developing new energy tracks, and upgrading the integrated circuit industrial chain.
After years of "cooperation" in industrial chain cooperation, Suichang's industrial breakthrough "chess game" has formed a certain tacit understanding with the layout of "New Nanhu".
"The industrial chain is the core of the core. Our goal is to nurture a new ecosystem of 'power equipment - energy storage batteries' through the integration and promotion of the industrial chain, policy chain, service chain, innovation chain and capital chain of the two places, and form a landmark achievement of high-quality development of manufacturing industry in Nanhu - Suichang," introduced the relevant person in charge of the Economic and Information Bureau of Nanhu District. The two places decode the "1+1+1+N" new path of common prosperity through "Five-Chain Integration", which specifically refers to -
Targeting the new energy track to build "1" new energy industrial chain with high coupling; relying on Suichang's bamboo forest resources to jointly build "1" high-standard bamboo industry common prosperity industrial park; implementing "1" batch of high-quality industrial chain cooperation projects; and implementing "N" characteristic paths of promoting common prosperity through industries with high efficiency.
Taking Yuheng New Energy, a subsidiary of Yuheng Battery, as an example, Yuheng New Energy is an enterprise specialized in the production and R&D of nickel-hydrogen batteries and lithium-ion batteries. Through cooperation between the two places, three equity investment enterprises in Nanhu Fund Town injected 75.6 million yuan into Yuheng New Energy, greatly enhancing the enterprise's competitiveness in the new energy track.
Industrial cooperation projects with the keyword "Nanhu" like Yuheng New Energy have sprung up like "stars" in Suichang. For example, in the fields of special steel new materials and fine chemicals, Dongfang Special Steel from Nanhu and Yongsang Special Materials from Suichang have collaborated on a special steel new material industrial chain cooperation project, with procurement orders exceeding 80 million yuan in 2023; Satellite Chemical from Nanhu and Nanli from Suichang have carried out a polymer chemical acrylic acid and ester industrial chain cooperation project, with an expected cooperation amount exceeding 50 million yuan.
"N" Characteristic Paths
Paired Achievements Turn into "Real Gold and Silver"
The precise matching of resources between the two places has not only led to the landing of a number of upstream and downstream cooperation projects in the industrial chain, but also incubated new industrial common prosperity platforms.
Suichang is known as the hometown of bamboo charcoal in China, with 350,000 mu of bamboo forest resources. Combining the application of bamboo charcoal materials in new energy batteries, the two places have jointly built a Nanhu-Suichang Bamboo Industry Common Prosperity Industrial Park covering about 79 mu, with a planned total investment of 323 million yuan. It is mainly used for the production of deep-processed bamboo products to meet the demand for basic raw materials of new energy batteries. It is reported that after the project reaches full production, the annual output value will reach 500 million yuan, which can increase the income of local bamboo farmers by 225 million yuan per year, and the effect of promoting common prosperity through industries will be turned into "real gold and silver" into the pockets of local people.
It is worth mentioning that both Nanhu and Suichang are pilot zones for innovative development of the digital economy in Zhejiang Province, and both aim to build a model of high-quality development of manufacturing industry led by the digital economy.
"Among the 'N' characteristic paths of paired assistance for promoting common prosperity through industries, there are not only measures such as deepening upstream and downstream docking and strengthening the sharing of investment promotion information, but also means of strengthening digital transformation assistance."
According to the person in charge, through the "Nanhu pays the bill + shared resource pool" method, the two places have carried out personalized diagnostic transformation. In 2024, the two places completed 120 times of digital transformation assistance and 21 lean management diagnoses, helping Suichang's digital transformation coverage rate increase by 16.4 percentage points.
Zhejiang Shuangcai New Materials Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shuangcai New Materials") was the "first to eat crabs" in this initiative. In October 2023, Nanhu District entrusted Zhejiang Lean Enterprise Management Group to conduct lean management diagnosis for enterprises in Suichang, and carry out demonstration counseling and improvement of lean operation management. As the first enterprise to sign up for demonstration counseling and improvement, Shuangcai New Materials achieved a significant increase in enterprise benefits in only 3 months - without increasing equipment and personnel, sales volume and output increased by 25.49% and 111.3% respectively, and product qualification rate increased from 65.2% to over 99%, realizing cost reduction and efficiency improvement in all links of the enterprise rapidly.
Making full use of the dividends of promoting common prosperity through industries, Suichang's industry continued to climb in 2023. The added value of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 7.9%, manufacturing investment increased by 37%, manufacturing value-added tax increased by 21%, 1 provincial single champion enterprise, 1 industrial internet platform and 1 digital workshop were added, and 3 projects were shortlisted for provincial demonstration projects of production and manufacturing mode transformation.
"In the next step, the two places will continue to deepen the '1+1+1+N' common prosperity path, promote the landing of more and better industrial chain cooperation projects, continuously advance the construction of common prosperity industrial parks, strengthen the coordination of investment promotion between the two places, and create more landmark achievements of industrial common prosperity in Nanhu - Suichang," the person in charge said.
