Only with our own competitive products can we have the right to speak

——Qingxian builds "China's electronic chassis manufacturing base" to promote industrial transformation and upgrading

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In the assembly workshop of Cangzhou Xinpu Electric Co., Ltd., workers are assembling equipment. Photographed by reporter Wang Yanan

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In the production workshop of Hebei Hanzhi CNC Machinery Co., Ltd., workers are operating CNC bending machines. Photographed by Correspondent Zhu Zengzh

Visit to characteristic industrial clusters

Reporter Wang Yanan

In the 1970s, a new industry - electronic chassis manufacturing gradually emerged in Qingxian State-owned Farm and Machang Town.

Electronic chassis products are widely used in IT industry, industry, agriculture and other fields, and have become one of the characteristic leading industries in Qingxian County. After more than 40 years of development, the electronic chassis industry in Qingxian has gradually formed a chassis industry cluster centered on Machang Town from small workshops to large-scale.

Although there are a large number of enterprises, the profit space is squeezed smaller and smaller because the products are at the low end and have no core competitiveness. In order to solve this problem, Qingxian County led the transformation and upgrading of enterprises, improved the technological content of the industry, focused on cultivating technological innovation enterprises, and promoted the electronic chassis industry to extend from the production of low-end chassis shells to the production of high-end overall products, from the processing of chassis cabinets to high-end manufacturing of machine tools and other high-end products, and found a path of innovative development.

In 2012, the China Equipment Management Association identified Qingxian as the "China Electronics Chassis Manufacturing Base". In 2013, Qingxian County was awarded the title of "Famous County of Electronic Chassis Manufacturing in Hebei Province".

By the end of 2018, there were 953 electronic chassis enterprises in the county, with 18000 employees and 11.72 billion yuan of industrial output value, accounting for 60.5% of the sales market of electronic chassis products in the north of China.

Transformation and upgrading lead the development of enterprises to a new level

On May 6, in the assembly workshop of Cangzhou Xinpu Electric Co., Ltd., Liu Wenfu, the general manager, pointed to a row of equipment and said happily, "This is the sludge treatment electrical control equipment we produced for a company in Beijing. More than 1 million yuan of goods have been assembled and are waiting for delivery."

Cangzhou Xinpu Electric Co., Ltd. was originally an enterprise that only produced the case shell. Liu Wenfu's biggest feeling that he has been engaged in the case production for many years is that there are more and more enterprises in the same industry, and the competition is becoming more and more fierce. If he only takes the old way of OEM, he will be eliminated. "We are very passive when talking about cooperation with customers. They let you produce what kind of shell they want you to produce. The product has no added value, let alone the core competitiveness. We have no voice at all. We work hard to produce a set of chassis for only a few hundred yuan, and people can sell it for thousands of yuan or even tens of thousands of yuan if they take it back and install it. Such a large profit gap, I have to reflect."

By chance, Liu Wenfu's classmates encouraged him, "Why don't you try to make the electrical equipment in the box together?"

"We can't be satisfied with the production of the chassis shell and look for the way out of the whole machine. The idea of transformation and upgrading is deeply rooted in my heart." Liu Wenfu recalled that he did not know where the courage came from at that time, so he started the road of transformation, and received the first order to produce more than 200 sets of building power distribution equipment for a customer in Beijing, that is, the small control box we saw in the corridor.

At the beginning of the transformation, we encountered the first problem: professional and technical talents are not easy to recruit, and many college graduates are not willing to work in small villages. After many setbacks, Liu Wenfu hired professional technical personnel to design, develop and produce. However, due to the lack of thorough understanding of the electrical process specification at that time, the safety protection was always inadequate. After repeated rework, the goods were finally delivered as scheduled.

"It is a small leap for our company not to simply produce the case shell. But this batch of goods is still assembled according to the drawings, and we still do the work of processing on behalf of others, and we do not have our own products." Liu Wenfu said, "The key is that after the first order is processed, we can't find work. We must have our own fist products to have the right to speak."

Later, Cangzhou Xinpu Electric Co., Ltd. set up a research and development department in Beijing to hire professional technicians to develop new products. In compliance with the requirements of energy conservation and environmental protection, the company has invested more than 600000 yuan. After more than one year, it has developed its first product - intelligent and efficient power-saving equipment, which can be widely used in public lighting.

"We finally have our first product, which has also obtained a national patent. Although the sales effect at that time was not very ideal, we really embarked on the road of transformation and upgrading, with a sense of achievement." Liu Wenfu smiled.

At present, Cangzhou Xinpu Electric Co., Ltd. has changed from simply producing chassis shells to developing, manufacturing and selling integrated control equipment and various automatic control equipment for high-speed railway and subway, as well as the design and assembly of some new products, and equipped with advanced production and testing equipment.

Cangzhou Xinpu Electric Co., Ltd. is not an exception in the development, transformation and upgrading of Qingxian electronic chassis industry. Qingxian continues to promote the transformation and upgrading of the industry, leading the leapfrog development of the electronic chassis industry. At present, more than 40% of the enterprises above the designated size in Qingxian County have the production capacity of complete machines.

Independent R&D and technological innovation drive enterprises to become bigger and stronger

Transformation and upgrading is an important direction of enterprise development, while innovation is an inexhaustible power to improve product market competitiveness. Hebei Hanzhi CNC Machinery Co., Ltd., located in Qingxian Economic Development Zone, is the leader of Qingxian electronic chassis industry, and has always been on the path of independent research and development and scientific and technological innovation.

Hebei Hanzhi CNC Machinery Co., Ltd. is a sheet metal manufacturer specializing in the production of power control cabinets, chassis, and operating consoles. Its annual sales revenue has exceeded 70 million yuan before 2003.

However, the management personnel of Hebei Hanzhi CNC Machinery Co., Ltd. are soberly aware that the chassis industry belongs to the supporting processing industry, the technical content is not high, there is no independent brand, it is difficult to really grow bigger and stronger, the space for continuous development is limited, and it is difficult to break through.

"At that time, the technology level of the CNC punch used in production was far behind that of foreign products. The core machine tool control system was monopolized by foreign technology, and the imported equipment was very expensive." Zhu Zengzhi, the managing director of Hebei Hanzhi CNC Machinery Co., Ltd., said, "This gave us the idea of producing our own electronic case processing equipment, which is also a very bold idea."

Hebei Hanzhi CNC Machinery Co., Ltd. has actively attracted experts and technicians in electromechanical field, and established a research and development team to learn, design and process at the same time, opening the road of research and development.

It's easy to think of it, but not easy to do it. After five or six years, the first CNC punch was finally born.

"The research and development cycle of the case processing equipment is long and the investment is large. Our company has invested more than 10 million yuan in the research and development of this equipment. After the first equipment is produced, it will be free for trial use to the surrounding electronic case factories. After receiving feedback, it will be continuously optimized and updated." Zhu Zengzhi said that by 2014, the company has launched two series of products, namely CNC punch and CNC bending machine, with more than 10 product models.

In the production workshop, Zhu Zengzhi went to a device and said: "This is our independently developed CNC laser cutting machine, which is relatively simple to operate and convenient for customers to select plates and machined parts, and is suitable for order-based production. For customers, it saves both cost and time. It is also more accurate to ensure that the processed products are more beautiful. At present, our equipment has entered the markets of North China, East China, South China and other places. In 2018, the company achieved an output value of 200 million yuan. At the beginning of this year An environmental protection equipment manufacturer outside the province signed an order of more than 20 million yuan with us. "

Hebei Hanzhi CNC Machinery Co., Ltd. has made great progress by improving its technical strength through innovation and entering the high-end market. It is a microcosm of the innovation and development of Qingxian electronic chassis industry. From workshop production to modern enterprises with output value of more than 100 million, from chassis and cabinet processing to high-end machine tool manufacturing, more than 40 years of development have enabled Qingxian electronic chassis industry to grow in innovation. Up to now, the products of the whole industry are exported to more than 100 countries and regions in the world, and the domestic market is distributed in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Beijing and other large and medium-sized cities.

Diversified services boost the development of electronic chassis industry

"After settling in Qingxian Electronic Chassis Industrial Park, the relevant supporting facilities felt very good. When our company wanted to expand the production scale, the staff in the park always actively helped us coordinate and run various matters, which made us feel very warm." said Sun Qian, general manager of Cangzhou Warriors Development Equipment Co., Ltd, "Express delivery and logistics are also very awesome. We have many large goods, but it is convenient to deliver goods in the park."

Lu Xixin, director of Qingxian Development and Reform Bureau, said that Qingxian has integrated and planned Qingxian Electronic Chassis Industrial Park on the basis of the original Horse Factory Chassis Park and Farm Chassis Park. In the process of the development of the electronic chassis industry cluster, it has concentrated its advantages, actively improved the infrastructure of the industrial park such as water, electricity, road, communication, land, and attracted more electronic chassis enterprises to enter the park for development.

In recent years, Qingxian has been promoting the high-quality development of the electronic chassis industry cluster by focusing on the "Six Ones" project of "centralizing a park, preparing an intelligent transformation plan, establishing an industry promotion fund, establishing an industry association, establishing a research and development center, and holding or participating in an international exhibition".

On May 30, 2018, Qingxian Electronic Chassis Industry Chamber of Commerce was established with 43 members. The Chamber of Commerce focuses on solving the problems of the industry in terms of horizontal competition, development weaknesses, human resources, etc., promoting the overall improvement of the chassis industry in terms of manufacturing level, industrial chain, service platform, etc., and guiding and encouraging enterprises to vigorously carry out product and technology research and development.

At the same time, the intelligent transformation plan has been prepared. Up to now, Qingxian has invited China Machinery Industry City (Beijing) Planning and Design Institute to Qingxian for five times to investigate the electronic chassis industry, visited 10 leading enterprises on the spot, and taught intelligent development courses for the members of 43 electronic chassis chambers of commerce.

In addition, the county science and technology staff went to the grass-roots level, vigorously publicized the relevant national, provincial and municipal science and technology innovation policies, encouraged enterprises to apply for patents, actively assisted enterprises to apply for science and technology projects, and effectively managed, protected and served patent-based intellectual property rights.

"As far as the stage is concerned, the declining trend of the profit margin of the chassis industry has not been completely reversed year by year. The main reason is that the product technology content is low, the quality standard is not high, and the added value is small." Lu Xixin said that in the next step, Qingxian will strengthen the communication and coordination with the relevant departments of the country, provinces and cities, integrate resources, refine and improve policies, and promote the docking of the electronic chassis industrial policy with the policies of civil-military integration, intelligence, trade and other aspects, Further play the guiding role of financial funds, fully mobilize the enthusiasm of chassis enterprises, and promote the transformation and upgrading of the chassis industry. Through strengthening cooperation with Beijing-Tianjin scientific research institutions, increasing R&D investment and strengthening government support, we will guide and promote the upgrading of chassis products. Explore the establishment of the Beijing-Tianjin scientific research achievements transformation and entrepreneurship base to promote the better development of Qingxian electronic chassis industry.


Post time: Mar-02-2023