Last year, Jiangsu implemented 1,363 renovation projects with a total investment of over 200 billion yuan.

    Original title: Last year, the province implemented 1363 renovation projects with a total investment of over 200 billion yuan.

    Why can Jiangsu "do it with a heavy load" when traditional industries are rejuvenated?

    Traditional industries are the pillar and basic component of China’s national economy, the main force of economic growth and the main battlefield for solving employment in our province, accounting for half of the 14 national advanced manufacturing clusters and the "1650" industrial system in Jiangsu. Among the top 100 manufacturing enterprises in Jiangsu, enterprises related to traditional industries account for 80%.

    In the critical period of the deep adjustment and transformation of the current global economic structure, the rejuvenation and upgrading of traditional industries is not only an inevitable choice to break through the external shackles and stabilize the global industrial position, but also a key to promote the high-quality development of the domestic economy and build a new development pattern.

    In the past year, our province implemented 1,363 renovation projects with a total investment of 209.833 billion yuan, voluntarily withdrew 3,396 sets of old equipment, shut down and withdrew 73 low-quality and inefficient enterprises, introduced 337 key innovative products, built 34 traditional industrial characteristic parks, and added 27 enterprises to meet the national Standard Conditions for Foundry Enterprises, thus creating 51 national-level green parks, ranking first in the country.

    Jiangsu, which has a huge traditional industry, has a heavy burden and is difficult to transform. So, how did Jiangsu realize the "load-bearing transformation"?

    Background: With policies as the key link, funds as the wing and evaluation as the yardstick, traditional industries are rejuvenating and entering the fast lane.

    At the key node of the transformation of old and new kinetic energy, the rejuvenation and upgrading of traditional industries has become an important engine to promote high-quality economic development. From the central government to the local government, the policy dividend has been continuously released, and the revitalization and upgrading of traditional industries is timely and promising.

    On the one hand, the top-level design is the anchor direction for the rejuvenation of traditional industries.

    In December 2023, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other eight departments jointly issued the Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Transformation and Upgrading of Traditional Manufacturing Industry, which clarified the transformation path of traditional manufacturing industry to "high-end, intelligent, green and integrated" from six dimensions, such as innovation drive and digital empowerment. In this year’s government work report, we further made systematic arrangements for the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries from five aspects, such as industrial base reconstruction and technological transformation, and released a strong policy signal.

    On the other hand, Jiangsu has followed the national strategy and accelerated the construction of a local policy matrix.

    In 2023, Jiangsu issued the "Implementation Plan for Revitalizing Traditional Industries", and deployed the "five major actions" of eliminating backwardness, updating equipment, green transformation, product upgrading and layout optimization. Wuxi, Nantong, Yancheng and other cities also immediately issued implementation opinions to plan the industrial transformation path as a whole; Taizhou set up a special working class to refine the tasks to enterprises and projects, and promote the upgrading of advantageous industries such as ships and automobiles … All localities followed suit and built a linkage mechanism among provinces, cities, districts and counties. At the same time, six major industries, such as textile, printing and dyeing, simultaneously launched high-quality development plans, forming a policy system of "unification and separation" to achieve accurate guidance for industrial transformation.

    The investment of real money and silver is a solid backing for industrial rejuvenation and injects "living water" into industrial rejuvenation.

    In 2024, Jiangsu selected 90 traditional industrial transformation and upgrading projects for key support, recommended 83 equipment renewal projects to obtain 2.346 billion yuan of ultra-long-term special national debt funds, and issued 150 million yuan of financial discount funds for manufacturing loans in advance, bringing "timely rain" to industrial development.

    In terms of financial innovation, Jiangsu is also constantly exploring. The Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology and Nanjing Bank jointly launched the "Traditional Industry Revitalization Loan", which provided loans of 2.178 billion yuan for 54 key projects; Together with Jiangsu Bank, it launched the "Green Factory Loan", granted credit to 601 enterprises and issued loans of 60.8 billion yuan. These customized financial products have effectively alleviated the financing problems of enterprises and reduced the cost of transformation.

    The scientific evaluation system provides "weights and measures" for industrial rejuvenation.

    A scientific and reasonable evaluation system is an important yardstick to test the effectiveness of industrial rejuvenation. According to the principle of science and comparability, Jiangsu has established the evaluation index system for the rejuvenation of six traditional industries in the province and the evaluation index system for the rejuvenation of industries in districts and cities, and quantified the transformation effect from two dimensions of industries and regions.

    Over the past year or so, the revitalization of traditional industries in our province has taken policies as the key link, funds as the wing and evaluation as the yardstick, accelerated the breakthrough of development bottlenecks, and vigorously promoted the continuous transformation of old and new kinetic energy.

    Path: "breaking, giving up and leaving" breaks structural contradictions, and "five major actions" promote the upgrading of industrial energy level.

    The revitalization project of traditional industries in Jiangsu involves many industries and fields, and the development quality is different. How to highlight the key points and achieve results?

    "Our province has anchored the’ breaking away’ mode of extensive development mode, abandoning low-end backward production capacity and leaving the old road of high energy consumption and low price competition, and promoted the’ five major actions’ of eliminating backwardness, equipment renewal, green transformation, product upgrading and layout optimization, and made efforts to crack the structural contradictions in the transformation of traditional industries." Zhu Aixun, director of the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, showed his development ideas.

    Over the past year or so, the "five major actions" have worked together to become the core kinetic energy driving the high-quality development of traditional industries.

    Backward production capacity is cleared to speed up. In 2024, three levels of linkage between provinces and cities will accurately identify and repel 47 sets (items) of backward technology and equipment. Xuzhou, the old industrial base, has led to the withdrawal of more than 1,300 sets of low-quality production equipment; Jiangyan, where heavy chemical industry is concentrated, has implemented "two breaks and three cleanings" for 87 furnace-related enterprises, vacating more than 500 mu of land and releasing factor space for industrial upgrading.

    Equipment renewal and construction of new industrial productivity. Over the past year or so, relevant provincial departments have issued a list of equipment renewal requirements covering more than 3,000 enterprises, a list of supply for more than 2,000 enterprises, and financing requirements for 1,420 projects. Through 101 supply-demand and bank-enterprise docking activities, nearly 9,000 sub-enterprises were accurately matched in resources, which effectively promoted the process of equipment intelligence and laid a solid hardware foundation for industrial modernization.

    Green transformation shapes new competitive advantages. Suzhou took the lead in carrying out the pilot project of "near-zero carbon factory" construction, and built 40 benchmark enterprises. There were 95 new green factories, 18 green parks and 14 green supply chain enterprises in the province, ranking first in the country … Last year, the national green manufacturing system in our province achieved remarkable results, which provided a demonstration for the green development of traditional industries.

    The added value of product upgrading industry has increased. In the whole year, 1,483 new technologies and products were promoted, and 278 items were selected into the catalogue of independent innovation products. From new technologies to famous brands, the "excellent products" of traditional manufacturing industries have emerged one after another: last year, 12 brands in the province were selected as the first batch of "famous consumer products in China", ranking first in the country; Thirty-six products were selected into the national promotion catalogue of elderly products, accounting for 13%.

    Optimization of industrial layout releases agglomeration effect. Looking at Jiangsu, through the evaluation of intensive utilization of industrial enterprises’ resources, all localities have further promoted "changing cages for birds"-three chemical parks in Wuxi have been selected into the national "list of smart chemical parks"; Liyang has revitalized more than 700 mu of land to undertake emerging industries through the renovation of village-level industrial parks; Wujiang has upgraded 45,000 mu of inefficient industrial land, and the average tax revenue per mu has doubled compared with 2020, and the trend of industrial agglomeration and intensive development has become more and more obvious …

    The "five major actions" from production capacity clearing to technological innovation, from green development to industrial restructuring, form a joint development force, promote the transformation of traditional industries from factor-driven to innovation-driven, and help traditional industries in our province achieve energy level jump.

    Results: Six traditional industries have been transformed vigorously, and they have seized the opportunity in the global industrial chain reconstruction.

    From Kunshan, the "international coffee industry capital" that undertakes nearly 60% of the baking amount of raw beans in China, to Sunan special steel material cluster that ranks among the only advanced manufacturing clusters in the steel field in China; From the textile industry, which has become the second billion-dollar industry in Suqian, to the excavator industry in Jiangsu, which accounts for 40% of the country’s output … The transformation and upgrading of six traditional industries in Jiangsu, such as food, textile, chemical industry, metallurgy, building materials and machinery, is strong, which has become a powerful proof of the remarkable achievements of transformation and rejuvenation in our province.

    Food processing industry is the foundation of people’s livelihood. A Kunshan has gathered more than 40 coffee head enterprises such as Starbucks and Ruixing, forming a 100 billion-level industrial chain from raw coffee beans to finished products. This achievement benefited from strengthening local quality and safety supervision, promoting the application of intelligent equipment and traceability of raw materials safety, and comprehensively promoting the upgrading of coffee industry.

    According to my humble opinion, our province has held special activities such as collaborative innovation and development of new food clusters and cold chain logistics docking of prefabricated vegetable industry chain, released innovative achievements and demand for technology, talents, financing and equipment, and cooperated with many parties to promote the upgrading of the whole industry chain.

    There are many similar changes. Based on the logic of "green and low-carbon" development, Changshu, as the "hometown of traditional textiles", classified and reorganized the existing 136 printing and dyeing enterprises and optimized them to 64. Previously, Jiangsu multi-departments jointly issued the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of Printing and Dyeing Industry", promoted the implementation of 11 printing and dyeing reconstruction projects in Taihu Lake Basin, and conducted service-oriented manufacturing rounds for 20 enterprises to accelerate the integration of traditional manufacturing and modern service industries.

    In the past year, our province’s chemical industry galloped along a higher and greener development channel, and promoted the renovation of old chemical devices, with 281 sets completed, with a completion rate of 97.2%. The provincial government issued the Opinions on Accelerating the High-quality Development of Chemical Industry, and implemented the Measures for the Administration of Chemical Industry Parks in Jiangsu Province, serving the construction of tongzhou bay Chemical Industry Development Zone, guiding the expansion of chemical industry parks in Yangzhou, Lianyungang and Zhenjiang, and promoting the high-quality development of chemical industry in the whole province more systematically.

    In the field of metallurgical industry, the Sunan special steel material cluster led by Nanjing won the national advanced manufacturing cluster competition, and a number of low-carbon demonstration application cases such as "steel+transportation" and "steel+construction" continued to emerge; The building materials industry has launched a series of green building the countryside activities by compiling and publishing the implementation guidelines for high-end intelligent digital transformation of cement products, so as to tap the consumption potential of new products under the background of downward demand; The machinery industry is more high-end, with the output of excavators accounting for 40% of the country’s total, tractors and grain harvesters ranking second in the country, and the annual output of new energy vehicles is 1.226 million, accounting for 55.7% of the province’s automobile output …

    The phased results achieved by the revitalization of six traditional industries in Jiangsu not only significantly enhanced the core competitiveness of industries, but also reshaped the industrial development pattern, and played an important supporting role in stabilizing economic growth, ensuring employment and people’s livelihood, and promoting green and low-carbon transformation.

    Transformation is still on the road. The person in charge of the Industrial Transformation and Upgrading Department of the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology said that in the next step, policy measures should focus on more subdivided areas, including those that are limited by the current environmental protection and safety production policies and need to be upgraded by "using new technologies"; There are still "extensive development" fields such as casting, forging, cement and flat glass; The field of "low-end backward production capacity" that cannot meet the current bottom line policies such as environmental protection and safe production. Continuous exploration will help these areas seize the opportunity in the reconstruction of the global industrial chain. (Fu Qi)