Lu Zhipeng, secretary of the Nantong Municipal Party Committee: Enterprises must increase investment in research and development, from running to running and jumping to leading

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More than 100 years ago, the late Qing Dynasty champion Zhang Hao set up his own business in Nantong, his hometown, making it the birthplace of China's modern national industry. It also formed the first group in China with modern business spirit - Tongshang (Nantong merchant). In order to further promote the spirit of Zhangye, since 2016, Nantong will open the production day of Dasheng Yarn Factory, which is designated as “Nantong Entrepreneur Day” on May 23 each year.

Today (May 20th), at the "2018 China Nantong Jianghai International Expo Opening Ceremony and Nantong Entrepreneur Development Conference", Lu Zhipeng, secretary of the Nantong Municipal Party Committee and director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress, stressed that it is necessary to stimulate modern entrepreneurship and create landmark entrepreneurs. Clusters, landmark enterprises and landmark industrial clusters call for enterprises to shift from focusing on scale expansion to focusing on efficiency improvement, from focusing on capital accumulation to focusing on knowledge, technology and innovation, from focusing on corporate responsibility to focusing on social responsibility, and strengthening quality change and efficiency. Change, dynamic change.

I hope that enterprises will further increase R&D investment

"Nantong's development started from the manufacturing industry, but also depends on the manufacturing industry, especially relying on advanced manufacturing to move toward the future," Lu Zhipeng said.

Lu Zhipeng told the reporter of "Daily Economic News" that "only by promoting the deep integration of the Internet, artificial intelligence, big data and manufacturing, can we achieve industrial development and overtake."

It is understood that Nantong is currently focusing on the development of three pillar industries of high-end textile, marine offshore and electronic information, and three emerging industries of intelligent equipment, new materials, new energy and new energy vehicles, and actively cultivates a new generation of information technology and life health technology. We will continue to build a “3+3+N” advanced manufacturing system, which is in line with the industrial development orientation and is conducive to the future industry of Nantong’s own advantages.

In the development process of the above-mentioned industries, what is urgently needed to be solved is to break through the missing links and shortcomings in the core technology. To this end, Nantong selects high-end fabrics in the high-end textile industry, key equipment such as communication and navigation in the marine industry, key technical components in the smart equipment industry, key technologies in the new materials industry, and cables in the new energy industry. Battery, as the main direction of breakthrough in technical breakthroughs.

Lu Zhipeng believes that the core technology is the active killer of winning the market competition strategy. Only by possessing independent innovation capability and mastering core technology projects can enterprises promote product renewal and quality improvement.

He stressed that enterprises need to further strengthen the sense of crisis and urgency, aim at industrial development and technological frontiers, further increase investment in research and development, and strive to obtain a number of major scientific and technological achievements with independent intellectual property rights that can achieve domestic substitution, and gradually realize the follow-up from technology. Go and run and jump to the lead.

Make good use of rules in international trade

In addition, Lu Zhipeng said at the conference that the current macroeconomic complex is complicated, trade frictions occur from time to time, exchange rate fluctuation risks increase, raw material costs, human capital and management costs continue to rise, bringing greater pressure on the manufacturing industry, an industry, a company Development cannot avoid the cyclical effects of the macro economy.

He called on all localities, departments and entrepreneurs to pay close attention to the trend of big countries' trade relations, take the initiative to strengthen forward-looking research, and actively prepare the response plan. From the perspective of enterprise management, it is necessary to learn to act in accordance with international trade rules and practices. It is necessary to avoid touching rules and giving people a handle; it is also good at using rules, safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises, and striving to improve their ability to deal with the international market.

Lu Zhipeng mentioned that many companies in Nantong have upgraded from the 1.0 version of the product to the 2.0 version of the manufacturing side, and some leading enterprises in the industry have upgraded to the capital side to go out version 3.0.

It is reported that more than 500 companies in Nantong have trade with the United States, involving electronic information, smart equipment, new energy, biomedicine and other industries, with an amount of more than 1 billion US dollars.