Lingang New Area: Layout of new tracks and promotion of new industries

On the road of Lingang Nicheng Community, these days there are more turquoise buses. The word "HO" on the body shows its difference: this is the first hydrogen energy bus in the new area, Lingang 7 Road, which has been running for more than two months.

The core stack of hydrogen energy bus operation comes from Shanghai Hydrogen Chen New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., a local enterprise rooted in Lingang, whose newly developed 230kW product has completed performance testing and is currently the world's largest fuel cell stack.

The data released at the just-concluded Two Sessions of Pudong New Area is eye-catching: since the listing of the Lingang New Area, the construction has accelerated, accumulating more than 970 newly signed projects with a total investment of more than 500 billion yuan, and the new track of the layout of emerging industries has become a new target of Lingang.

"Lingang-made" the world's largest power fuel cell stack will come out

From the main urban area of Lingang along the newly built Lianggang Avenue Expressway, it will soon reach the China-Japan (Shanghai) Local Development Cooperation Demonstration Zone, with fuel cell cooperation as the starting point, where joint research on key technologies of hydrogen energy is underway to create a cooperation platform for R&D and manufacturing in the new energy industry.

The development of hydrogen energy and fuel cell vehicles has become a global consensus, and fuel cells are the "power source" of this future car. The stack composed of hundreds of panels "hand in hand" is not only the core of the fuel cell to generate power, but also the "golden key" to reduce the cost of the vehicle.

From the school's basic research projects, to the continuous testing of the science and technology innovation platform, to the establishment of a company in cooperation with Lingang Group, the hydrogen energy research and development road of The Xinmin team of Shanghai Jiao Tong University has spanned 15 years. "The market demand is high power, long distance, low cost, fuel cell stack development trend should be from the original extender or small power to the full power mode change." Lai Xinmin told reporters that the development of high power density, high power output, long-life operation and low-cost manufacturing of vehicle stacks is the original intention of the entire scientific research team since 2005, and its ultimate goal is to let new energy vehicles equipped with metal bipolar plate stacks run on the highway from the production line.

Hydrogen Chen Technology continues to invest more than 100 million yuan in research and development funds to develop a new generation of H3 technology and 230kW stacks. "The development of 200kW-class high-power metal plate stacks is not an extension of the number of pieces or area, but requires the reconstruction of the material system, simulation system, manufacturing system and control system." Yi Peiyun, general manager of Hydrogen Chen Technology, revealed the difficulties, this "world's best" design process, to make breakthroughs in the catalyst, carrier, coating, carbon paper and other core materials, bipolar plates, membrane electrodes, sealing elements, integrated end plates and other core components. In the manufacturing and quality system, it is necessary to break through the key technologies of rapid component inspection, intelligent matching, size chain control and efficient stacking, and achieve the Six Sigma standard for fuel cell manufacturing.

Lingang New Area is working on the hydrogen energy industry, building an "international hydrogen energy valley" and creating a leading area for hydrogen energy development. Hydrogen Chen Technology is building a domestic first-class and internationally renowned hydrogen energy industrial park with an investment of 10 billion yuan and a 100 billion yuan industry for the new area, and undertakes the task of supplying high-power fuel cells.

Create an industrial chain of "1000 km endurance of electric vehicles"

Just at the southern end of Lianggang Avenue, Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory has just released its annual report for the past year, with annual deliveries of 484,000 units, up 235% year-on-year. Tesla's Shanghai R&D and Innovation Center, which has been put into use, focuses on the development of software, hardware, processes and technologies, while undertaking application adaptation and standard testing in the Chinese market, and participating in the research and development of global AI (artificial intelligence) machine learning.

Similarly, at SAIC's Lingang Smart Factory, the Zhiji L7 Beta Experience Edition has rolled off the production line. From the establishment of the project to the delivery of the first car off the production line, Zhiji Automobile only took 22 months. Through parallel development and cross-border joint research, the team integrates many industry-leading intelligent cutting-edge technologies to achieve a new height of industry "intelligence" and create a new generation of intelligent network new terminal products.

Support Tesla's production capacity increase and phase II construction, accelerate the implementation of the functions of the R&D center, support SAIC Zhiji Automobile to make breakthroughs in the middle and high-end fields, and accelerate the research and development and commercial operation of intelligent and connected vehicles. This year, the new area will focus on new growth points such as automobile "three electricity", automobile power, and automobile support, strengthen the nearby supporting of parts, and create an industrial chain of "1,000 kilometers endurance of electric vehicles".

"With the attitude of waiting for no time and only racing against the clock, we will seize the new track and stand at the forefront, and the new area will aim at creating a 'power city'." Zhang Tong, director of the High-tech Industry and Science and Technology Innovation Division of the Lingang New Area Management Committee, said that the new area will focus on aviation, new energy, ships, automobiles, industrial mother machines, etc., and strengthen the pro-cyclical layout of the industry and the advance layout of industrialization.

Create a good policy environment for the accelerated formation of new formats

Aerospace is also one of the key frontier industries in Lingang New Area. Aviation Development Shanghai Commercial Aero Engine Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has always set its sights on the aero engine, which is known as the "crown jewel" of modern industry. Chen Guoqing, secretary of the party committee and deputy general manager of the company, said: "The important feature of the aviation industry is the cluster development, and at present, the preparation technology and capabilities of some core parts in China's aero engine industry chain are either missing or still being cultivated, and a certain industrial scale has not been formed." ”

On the first working day of the new year, the large aircraft park located in the south area of Pudong Airport ushered in the start of the final assembly supporting project. In 40 months, 19 single-storey factory buildings and 2 multi-storey factory buildings will be erected. This project is adjacent to comAC assembly base, focusing on the layout of airborne, power system and other upstream and downstream industrial chains, forming a "door-to-door" final assembly support.

Chen Guoqing hopes to take the Shangfa Pudong Lingang Industrial Base as the core, make up for the shortcomings of the core capabilities of the industry, enhance the comprehensive supporting capabilities, incubate and cultivate a number of high-level commercial aero engine specialized supporting enterprises, and create a comprehensive industrial cluster with first-class technology, independent control and orderly competition.

In the past year, the cutting-edge science and technology industry in Lingang New Area has accelerated its agglomeration, the output value of the new energy automobile industry has exceeded 100 billion yuan for the first time, and the energy level of key industries such as integrated circuits, biomedicine, artificial intelligence, civil aviation, and high-end equipment manufacturing has been accelerated, and its industrial scale will also grow rapidly with the completion and operation of a large number of projects.

The rapid development of industrial clusters has made the underlying soil for policy innovation more abundant. Wu Qunfeng, director of the System Innovation and Risk Prevention Division of the Lingang New Area Management Committee, said that the management committee will focus on the pain points and difficulties encountered in the development of eight frontier industries, finance, trade and shipping, further loosen and empower industrial development, and create a good policy environment for the accelerated formation of new industrial forms and new formats.

Author: Zhu Yue

Editor: Su Zhan

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