After the beginning of 2022, Shandong has sounded the charge of high-quality development in the form of grandly commending outstanding entrepreneurs.
Over the years, the characteristics of Shandong’s economy have been described as “big”. The rise of industry champions makes Shandong’s economy “excellent” and “strong” more prominent.
“The Kite Capital of the World” and the “Vegetable Capital of the Universe” Weifang, currently has 90 individual champions in the manufacturing industry above the provincial level. The whole province beats Qingdao, Jinan, Yantai and other more famous cities, ranking first in Shandong Province.
How did this little-known city become the first city in Shandong for individual championships?
What’s more striking is that Weifang City also has 17 national single champion enterprises, 27 national “little giant” enterprises, “specialized There are 304 “Jingtexin” enterprises and more than 1,000 national high-tech enterprises. It is rare for a prefecture-level city to have so many “champion” enterprises in advanced manufacturing even in the world.
A city of hidden champions
< p data-track="13">Recently, Weichai Power has launched the world’s first commercial diesel engine for commercial vehicles with a thermal efficiency of over 50% in the power equipment industry, where Weifang has produced the most “champion” companies. In 2021, the Weifang power equipment industry cluster will be selected as a national advanced manufacturing cluster, and the number of “geese formation” industrial clusters ranks second in the province.
In 2021, Weifang’s GDP will reach 701.06 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 9.7%, ranking first in Shandong Province, and its fiscal revenue ranks first in the province Third, there are 3,627 industrial enterprises above designated size, and the total output value and main business income of industrial enterprises above designated size “double over one trillion yuan”, ranking second in Shandong Province.
In history, Weifang established a market with manufacturing and prospered with manufacturing. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was famous all over the country for its “two hundred red furnaces, three thousand copper and blacksmiths, nine thousand embroidered women, and one hundred thousand looms”. Electronic City, Textile City, Agricultural Machinery City” and so on.
In the 1980s and 1990s, “Suxichang” in Weifang and Jiangsu Province was also called “China’s Industrial Star City”; Weifang is also famous for its agricultural industrialization. Today, Weifang’s urban development orientation and urban characteristics have been sublimated by having a large number of invisible champions and single champion enterprises. Weifang has become a nationally famous “champion” enterprise city.
▲Strong strength Specialized in special new SMEs, “little giants”, invisible Champions, individual champions, etc., are the backbone of Weifang’s current economic growth.
Sun Xiaodong, Deputy Director of Weifang Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, believes that there are many “champion” enterprises in Weifang, which is related to the profound heritage of the local manufacturing industry .
Public information shows that Weifang has 37 of the 41 major industrial categories in the country, including all 31 of the national economic industry categories. manufacturing industry. Among them, there are 108 categories and more than 5,000 varieties of industrial products. The power equipment industry alone has nearly 800 regulated enterprises, and the products cover three major fields: automobiles, agricultural equipment, and engineering equipment.
These enterprises not only have excellent quality, but also have a long lifespan. At present, the average operating life of Shandong provincial-level manufacturing champion enterprises in Weifang City is 20.89 years, which is eight times the average life expectancy of small and medium-sized enterprises in my country.
Different from Qingdao, Weifang has few consumer goods like Haier, and local industrial products are mostly in the middle of the supply chain. Owning core technologies has become an indispensable part of the industrial chain, which is the foundation of many enterprises in Weifang, which also creates the low-key temperament of Weifang.
Li Yujun, former first-level researcher of Weifang Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, said: “In terms of urban attractiveness, Weifang is not comparable to Qingdao, Jinan, or even Yantai. .”
In 2021, Weifang City will launch the “Double Hundred Action” for school-local talent cooperation, that is, to send 100 cadres who are familiar with technology and talent work , went to the scientific and technological achievements transformation departments of key domestic universities and research institutes, and served as a scientific and technological talent commissioner to recruit talents for Weifang; at the same time, 100 experts were selected from key domestic universities and colleges to serve as scientific and technological talent consultants for enterprises in the city.
At present, more than 50% of the experts recruited by the “Double Hundred Action” are from Weifang. “I have been paying attention to the changes in Weifang, and want to do as much as possible for my hometown.” Ge Yanyan, an associate professor at Nanjing Agricultural University, has applied for 4 invention patents since she was hired as a scientific and technological talent consultant of Daye Co., Ltd.
On October 15, 2016, Herman Simon, the father of “Hidden Champions”, gave a lecture to local entrepreneurs in Weifang . At that time, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the China Federation of Industrial Economics had just issued the “Special Action Plan for the Cultivation and Improvement of Individual Champion Enterprises in Manufacturing”, and the cultivation plan for individual champion enterprises and “hidden champion” enterprises in Shandong Province had not yet been released.
Inspired by the concept of “Hidden Champion”, Weifang SME Public Service Platform has launched “Entrepreneurship Counseling, Cultivation and Growth, Innovation and Improvement, Hidden Champions”. ” cultivation path.
At present, the Weifang city industry and information department selects about 30 companies every year to be included in the target group for cultivation, implements tracking and guidance, and improves the accuracy of declaration. It has formed a pattern of echelon cultivation from specialized and special new enterprises, specialized and special new “little giant” enterprises, “hidden champion” enterprises to single champion enterprises.
Make the 1 meter wide market 100 meters deep
Today, Weifang’s GDP has successfully reached a new starting point of 700 billion yuan, and its ranking among large and medium-sized cities in the country has risen to35th.
Weifang Reform and Development Research Center Du Huixin said: “Manufacturing is the key to driving Weifang’s take-off. In 2021, Weifang’s manufacturing industry will be listed on the industrial scale. The total revenue exceeded one trillion yuan, accounting for about 1/10 of the province and 1/100 of the whole country. The number of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 501 a year to 3,621, ranking first in Shandong Province. Behind a series of data , which reflects the strong manufacturing strength. The strong manufacturing industry is the key support for Weifang’s current position and the core competitiveness of the city.”
In 2021, Weifang will focus on 5 industrial chains with a value of 100 billion and 10 with a value of 50 billion to implement the “chain length system” and explore the development of chain clusters.
Du Huixin found that specializing in new small and medium-sized enterprises, “little giants”, invisible champions, individual champions, etc. The backbone of growth, many of the invisible champions and individual champions grew up from the best among the “little giants”.
Weifang is known as Shandong’s “Single Champion No. 1 City”, not only because of the large companies that stand in the sky, but also because of its many strengths Strong SMEs. In 2021, there will be 89 enterprises in Weifang with tax revenue exceeding 100 million yuan, and 21 enterprises with operating income exceeding 10 billion yuan. Weichai Power was selected into the “Top 500 in the World”, 4 enterprises were selected into the “Top 500 Chinese Enterprises”, and 10 enterprises were selected into the “Top 500 Chinese Manufacturing Enterprises”. Weifang has 27 national “little giant” enterprises, 304 “specialized and special new” small and medium-sized enterprises, and 107 provincial gazelle enterprises. High-quality enterprises represented by “little giants”, individual champions and leading enterprises have become the leading geese in the high-quality development of Weifang’s manufacturing industry.
The trump card of individual champions is product and technology. Counting the development of these individual champions in Weifang, in order to go further, they are all continuing to carry out technological innovation and industrial digging. “Make the 1 meter wide market 100 meters deep.” said the relevant person in charge of the Weifang Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology.
This year, Goertek, the world’s No. 1 company in terms of shipments of many products, was very willing to pay in the early stage when the small-scale capital was not sufficient. R. After development and growth, Goertek has accumulated R&D investment of 13 billion yuan in the past five years. Such continuous innovation has accelerated its industrial upgrading, allowing it to continue to become the industry champion, with many products ranking first in the global segment.
Homai Technology, the world’s largest mold maker, has never relaxed its innovation over the years. In the atmosphere of “encouraging innovation and tolerant of failure”, 553,800 proposals for innovation and improvement will be collected in 2021, creating a total of 180 million yuan in benefits and granting 9,228,900 yuan in bonuses.
Homai Technology Party Secretary and Chairman Zhang Gongyun said: “Our technology is iteratively upgraded every two to three years, precisely because we have It is the driving force for innovation, so it can win in the industry.”
These champion companies have explored and created the internal driving force in years of development, allowing them to The more you go, the more stable you are, the deeper you go.
On October 20, 1991, People’s Daily published a news investigation “The Rise of Kite Capital”. Today, Weifang has come to the crossroads of the times again, hoping to build a city brand of “National manufacturing industry looks at Shandong, Shandong manufacturing industry looks at Weifang” through the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry.
Qin Shuo, a financial writer, has an article “An “Invisible City” Rich in “Invisible Champions”” that has been widely circulated on the Internet. Qin Shuo’s insight was: “As a native of Shandong, I didn’t know that Weifang’s manufacturing industry had so many bright spots. It can be seen that there is still a lot of room for improvement in our Shandong’s external publicity. I wish Weifang’s two major players of modern agriculture and advanced manufacturing. The industry continues to advance by leaps and bounds, achieving remarkable urban transformation in high-quality development, allowing champion companies to enter people’s field of vision, and allowing resounding city brands to remain in people’s hearts.”