"Little Sampan" swims through the "Little Giant" of the Greater Bay Area to brave the big world

● Southern Daily reporter Chen Siqin

Liu Shiqiang Li Pengcheng

"This year we have done another 'big thing.'" Zhou Zhen, chairman and chief scientist of Guangzhou Hexin Instrument Co., Ltd., told reporters that the company landed on the science and technology innovation board in September this year and became the "first mass spectrometer stock" in China's capital market.

Mass spectrometry instruments are the crown jewels of scientific instruments, but their core technology has long been monopolized by foreign countries. For more than ten years, adhering to the belief of "making a mass spectrometer for Chinese", Zhou Zhen led the team to rewrite the history of no domestic mass spectrometer, and also created the history of China's large-scale cutting-edge scientific instruments exported to Europe and the United States.

On October 24, 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Guangzhou and put forward the entrustment that "small and medium-sized enterprises can do great things".

In the past 3 years, Guangzhou has planted fertile soil for enterprise development, so that small and medium-sized enterprises can innovate without distraction, concentrate on doing big things - aiming at the "card neck" problem, filling gaps in key areas such as integrated circuits, biomedicine, new displays, and unmanned driving, and becoming an "irreplaceable" existence in the industrial chain. The "small but extraordinary" powerful army is becoming the leading force for Guangzhou to seize the commanding heights of strategic emerging industries.

Having such a group of small and medium-sized enterprises is the most vivid competitiveness of Guangzhou's manufacturing high-quality development, and it is also the most solid foundation for Guangzhou to achieve the new vitality of the old city and the "four new brilliant".

"Ant soldiers" shoulder the mission of localization

Chips are known as "industrial grains" and are the core technology of manufacturing.

In 2013, Wu Hao, chairman of Chuangtian Electronics, hollowed out the "home base" to develop independent and controllable microwave RF components raw materials. At that time, many people did not understand - how could a private small enterprise with a registered capital of only a few million yuan dare to get involved in the field of materials monopolized by foreign giants?

After 5 years of research and development, Chuangtian Electronics has successfully realized the localization and mass production of high-capacitance and high-frequency microwave materials. In the process of tackling key problems, the company has also won more than 40 related patents, of which 90% are invention patents.

"The Beidou system in the sky is Chinese its own, and the chip on the ground must also be its own." This is the original intention of Gao Feng, chairman of Taidou Microelectronics Technology Company, to start a business. At present, the market share of GNSS chips in the domestic market of Taidou Microelectronics exceeds 35%, breaking the monopoly of foreign manufacturers and becoming the "key puzzle" for the operation of the Beidou system.

Only by overcoming the "stuck neck" problem can we firmly grasp the initiative of technology and development in our own hands. In the past three years, it has developed more "unique skills" and built a "moat" for industrial development, which has become the consensus of small and medium-sized enterprises in Guangzhou.

Tianci high-tech electrolyte sales continue to rank first in the world, becoming the only designated supplier of Tesla lithium-ion battery electrolyte in the world; Fangbang Electronics high-performance electromagnetic shielding film breaks the technical monopoly of Japanese companies in this field, and now the global market share ranks second; Jiete Bio breaks through the surface modification and processing technology of polymer materials, making the price of similar imported products drop by 40%... There are 68 national-level specialized new "little giant" enterprises selected by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in the city, ranking first in the first echelon of major cities in the country. The output value of high-tech products accounted for 50% of the city's total industrial output value above designated size from 39.3% in 2017 to 50% in 2020.

On March 8 this year, the "National New Display Technology Innovation Center" settled in the Guangzhou Development Zone was approved to be established, which is the only national technology innovation center in the field of new display in China. The promoter of the technology innovation center is the Guangdong Juhua New Display Research Institute under the display industry giant TCL. Li Dongsheng, founder and chairman of TCL Group, hopes that through the "old" with "new", "big" with "small", the upstream and downstream enterprises of the new display industry chain in the United Nations, related universities, scientific research institutes and other units will break a new road to solve the problem of the core materials and equipment in the upstream of the display panel industry being "stuck neck".

A person in charge of the Economic and Information Technology Bureau of the Guangzhou Development Zone told reporters that the development zone is building a pilot demonstration zone for "small and medium-sized enterprises can do big things". "If tens of millions of small and medium-sized enterprises can focus on innovation and creation, and a technology fills a small gap, the 'ant soldiers' can carry a thousand pounds."

"Catfish" accelerates the flow of innovative resources in the Greater Bay Area

"Virus hunters" assemble and strike where they are most needed.

On March 1 this year, Nanyue Jinyu Medical Laboratory officially undertook the task of nucleic acid testing in Macao. As of the end of August, the "Falcon" air membrane laboratory developed by Jinyu Medical, a leading domestic third-party testing company, has maintained two world records: the cumulative nucleic acid testing has exceeded 150 million copies in the country, ranking first in the world; the group's total single-day nucleic acid testing capacity exceeds 1.1 million tubes, ranking first in the world.

Leung Yiu-ming, Chairman and CEO of Jinyu Medical Group, said: "With Hong Kong and Macao as the bridgehead, we actively introduce and transform international innovative technologies while promoting medical examination services to go global, serving about 1,700 medical institutions in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. ”

The construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is not only a national strategy, but also a great opportunity for small and medium-sized enterprises in Guangzhou to actively seize

"The advantages of all parts of the Greater Bay Area have made Jinko Electronics what it is today!" Xiao Guowei, founder, chairman and president of Jinko Electronics, who is rooted in Nansha, Guangzhou, has said this more than once in public. JinkoSolar started in Hong Kong Science and Technology Park and grew up in Nansha, Guangzhou. When settled in Nansha, the Fok Ying Tung Foundation invested 10 million yuan to build a laboratory, which played an important role in Jinko's research and development of chips; relying on Guangzhou's complete industrial chain, Jinko Electronics achieved large-scale industrialization and introduction of application ends.

In October, Xiaopeng Automobile Guangzhou Intelligent Manufacturing Base located in Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City was fully capped, with a planned annual production capacity of 100,000 vehicles. At present, Xiaopeng Automobile has formed a "Guangzhou + Zhaoqing" intelligent manufacturing dual engine layout, and has firmly established the foundation of independent research and development and manufacturing. Chairman and CEO He Xiaopeng said: "Guangzhou Intelligent Manufacturing Base and Zhaoqing Factory are indispensable parts of the development layout of enterprises, and the two will continue to run in and cooperate. ”

At present, Guangzhou should give full play to the core engine function of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and lead the construction of a regional development pattern of "one nuclear, one belt and one region".

A group of small and medium-sized enterprises that focus on innovation and open vision are becoming the "catfish" active in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area – they stir up innovation resources, accelerate the flow of innovation resources, and become the "main force" of Guangzhou's industrial transformation and upgrading and the city's energy level.

The "strongest brain" inhabits the industrial rainforest

In April this year, the commercial production of BeiGene Guangzhou Biopharmaceutical Production Base was officially approved, becoming the first pharmaceutical enterprise in Guangdong Province to be approved for the commercial production of PD-1 monoclonal antibody. PD-1 antibody drug tirelizumab injection is a new anti-cancer drug independently developed by BeiGene, and the world's leading anti-cancer drug will achieve "Made in Guangzhou".

Introduce a talent, gather a team, cultivate an enterprise, and drive an industry.

At present, Huangpu District and Guangzhou Development Zone have formed a "magnetic field" of biomedical top talents and hub projects: Guangzhou Laboratory led by Academician Zhong Nanshan, Nuocheng Jianhua led by Academician Shi Yigong, Guangzhou Saina helmed by Academician Xie Xiaoliang and other projects have settled down - today, there are more than 3,000 biomedical enterprises in the region, more than 40 academician expert teams, more than 700 high-end life science talents, and the overall development level ranks first in China. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the industrial scale will move from 100 billion to trillion.

At present, Guangzhou is using global talents to lay out cutting-edge industries and seize the position of future urban competition.

Lou Tiancheng is known as "the first person in computer programming for Chinese college students". In 2016, he and Tsinghua alumnus Peng Jun founded the driverless company Xiaoma Zhixing in Silicon Valley and Beijing, and in 2018, Xiaoma Zhixing settled in Nansha. Today, Pony is the most expensive self-driving startup in China, valued at $12 billion. Peng Jun said that because of policy and road conditions, Guangzhou is more suitable for autonomous driving research and development than Silicon Valley and Beijing.

The collision of "new" and "old" often makes fire and vitality burst out. When the strong traditional pillar industry of Guangzhou, the automobile industry, encounters a new generation of information technology and encounters the digital economy, the driverless industry is "starting to run" in Guangzhou, and the speed is far ahead.

In addition to Xiaoma Zhixing, local car companies such as Xiaopeng Automobile and Guangzhou Automobile Group have laid out their layouts, and enterprises such as Wenyuan Zhixing and Baidu Apollo have also entered Guangzhou.

Guangzhou knows that talent is the first resource and the source of vitality for development. "Thank you for solving the worries of the enterprise, so that the enterprise can retain talents and let the talents work with peace of mind, which is also the most concerned issue for our enterprise to take root and develop!" Not long ago, Lu Xianfeng, head of Guangzhou Nuocheng Jianhua Pharmaceutical Technology Co., Ltd., made a special trip to the Jiufo Street Office of Knowledge City to present a pennant to thank the street efficient service enterprises.

Since 2018, optimizing the business environment has always been the number one project in Guangzhou to comprehensively deepen reform. This year, Guangzhou has become one of the first batch of pilot cities for business environment innovation in China, which is also the most powerful footnote to the new brilliance of the modern international business environment.

The improvement of the business environment has become the strongest magnetic attraction in Guangzhou: the number of market entities in Guangzhou has increased from about 1.75 million in 2017 to more than 2.8 million in the first half of this year, and the vitality of entrepreneurship and innovation has been continuously improved; Huangpu District has issued the country's first "10 International Talent Free Ports", and Nansha has created the country's first "International Talent Special Zone"; the city has issued a total of 10,096 talent green cards, and the total number of academicians working in The Two Academies has increased from 77 in 2017 to 119 in 2020, ranking first in the province.