Reported by China Deep Foundation Engineering Network and Deep Foundation Engineering Magazine　Recently, the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security announced the "2021 List of Approved Jiangsu Provincial Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Bases." Congratulations to Jiangsu Wuxi Exploration Machinery General Factory Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Jiangsu Xitan") for making the list!

As a provincial-level postdoctoral work platform, the Jiangsu Provincial Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Base is an organization jointly established by universities and research institutions together with production units to jointly recruit and train postdoctoral researchers. It aims to establish a smooth channel for the flow of talent and intellectual resources between enterprises, public institutions, and research institutes, promote the integration of industry, academia, and research, and facilitate the rapid development of enterprises and public institutions. It is an important vehicle for cultivating high-level talent, advancing scientific and technological innovation, and transforming achievements.

Jiangsu Wuxi Exploration Machinery General Factory Co., Ltd. is an engineering machinery manufacturing enterprise integrating scientific research, design, production, sales, and service. It is a national high-tech enterprise and a technology-based small and medium-sized enterprise, and possesses the "Jiangsu Provincial Exploration Machinery Engineering Technology Research Center" and the "Wuxi Municipal Recognized Enterprise Technology Center." In 2020, it was rated as a provincial and municipal "Specialized, Refined, Distinctive, and Innovative Little Giant" enterprise and a "Municipal Intellectual Property Strong Enterprise"; in 2021, it was rated as a "Gazelle" enterprise. The company has established long-term and in-depth industry-academia-research cooperation relationships with the Institute of Exploration Techniques of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Zhejiang University, Jiangnan University, and other research institutes. The company has accumulated 120 patents, including 35 valid invention patents.

The approval to establish a Jiangsu Provincial Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Base this time affirms Jiangsu Xitan's comprehensive strength and scientific research and innovation capabilities, and is also high recognition of the company's scientific and technological R&D capabilities, industrial linkage capabilities, and talent aggregation capabilities. It will help promote the company's forward-looking research and technological reserves, further enhance its brand promotion and quality building, and is of great significance for the company to further broaden high-level talent cultivation channels, deepen industry-academia-research cooperation, and drive technological innovation.

Jiangsu Xitan will take the construction of the postdoctoral innovation practice base as an opportunity, adhere to the "Xitan Technology" characteristic of product diversification, increase independent innovation efforts, further strengthen talent introduction and cultivation, promote the integration of industry, academia, and research, and provide deeper competitiveness for enterprise innovation.