In the height of midsummer, with temperatures remaining high, the enthusiasm for accelerating project construction in Zhoucun District of Zibo City and the Wenchang Lake Provincial Tourist Resort has not diminished in the slightest.
"We must strengthen market awareness and industrial thinking, anchor to the development direction of high-end, refined, intelligent and lightweight, further hone our unique skills and build flagship products, continuously enhance added value, and move toward the higher end of the industrial chain and value chain," said Jing Guangze, general manager of Shandong Jiafeng Glass Machinery Co., Ltd., on June 20, 2024.
From a township enterprise repairing agricultural machinery equipment to today's *** high-tech intelligent manufacturing enterprise, Jiafeng Glass Machinery has gone through more than 50 years of development. At present, the company owns more than 50 national invention and utility model patents, with more than 10 products being firsts at home and abroad. Its main performance indicators rank at the leading level among similar products, and its domestic market share reaches 40%.
Take the new fully servo-controlled bottle-making machine produced by Jiafeng as an example: an ordinary bottle-making machine can produce 60 bottles per minute, while the new machine can produce 800 bottles per minute, 13 times the original production efficiency. In the past, such precision equipment basically relied on imports, which were expensive and inconvenient to maintain. The emergence of Jiafeng Glass Machinery enabled the domestic bottle-making industry to use "Made in China" products at a stroke. In 2024, Jiafeng's orders are already booked through the end of the year.
Moreover, through intelligent transformation in recent years, Jiafeng Glass Machinery has achieved automated production. The workshop can operate normally 24 hours a day without on-duty personnel, making it a veritable "lights-out factory." According to Jing Guangze, the company is currently making every effort to advance the intelligent technical transformation of its production workshop for 1,000 sets of bottle-making machines per year and the construction project of a 3D printing new material workshop. Once fully put into production and effective, the company will add an intelligent production workshop and its production capacity will increase significantly.
Emerging industries are the weather vanes leading high-quality development. In recent years, while focusing on casting, extending, supplementing and strengthening chains through key projects, Zhoucun District has also, in light of the region's actual development and future industrial trends, "made its moves" in various cutting-edge industry fields. Among them, a key enterprise in the new energy industry chain — Zibo Jingyou Photovoltaic Technology Co., Ltd. — is exactly such a "clever move."
"We are seizing the window period of the photovoltaic industry, accurately grasping the industry development situation and technological innovation trends, adhering to innovation-driven development, strengthening technological research, continuously exploring new technologies and new applications, reasonably reducing overall costs, and promoting the industry to become bigger and stronger. We will work tirelessly toward this goal and strive to achieve greater breakthroughs," said Zhang Pengfei, executive deputy general manager of Jingyou Photovoltaic.
The 3GW-per-year solar cell module project invested in and built by Jingyou Photovoltaic with 1 billion yuan is both a major municipal project and a **demonstration project of integrated industry-finance implementation in the city's fund-based investment attraction. It can be called a model of cooperation among capital, industry and technology. The project covers all mainstream product technologies in the current industry and can produce the largest 210mm multi-busbar high-power solar cell modules in China, while being compatible with 182mm-size modules. It conforms to the industry trend of cost reduction and efficiency improvement and has significant advantages such as low cost, high stability, strong applicability and high conversion efficiency.
Big projects bring big returns. After the project reaches full-capacity operation, annual sales will reach 5 billion yuan, providing stronger driving support for industrial structure adjustment and the transformation of energy development modes in Zhoucun and even Zibo. At the same time, the innovative customized module production model pioneered by Jingyou Photovoltaic in the industry has greatly reduced users' production costs and investment risks and has been widely praised by users at home and abroad.
The director of the Industry and Information Technology Bureau of Zhoucun District, Zibo City, said that the industry and information technology department will earnestly implement the requirements of the municipal Party committee, adopt the spirit of "striving, seizing and fighting" and maintain the momentum of "doing, running and charging ahead," scientifically analyze and assess the industrial operation situation, seize the policy opportunity of large-scale equipment renewal, encourage enterprises to launch projects, expand production and improve quality and efficiency, focus on the district's eight key industrial chains to effectively implement the "chain chief system," accelerate the aggregation of extended chains, and make greater contributions to the green, low-carbon and high-quality development of the city's industry.