After 13 years of hard work, Lanzhou New Area has risen proudly in the western manufacturing highland as an industrial district. In the 13 years since it was approved as a national-level new area, Lanzhou New Area has always adhered to the development idea of "high-end, green and intensive", closely focused on the strategic mission and industrial development trend entrusted by the state, and did everything possible to revitalize the city with industry, promote production with the city, and integrate industry and city. In this vibrant land, many times of industrial fusion, scientific and technological innovation fission, opening up leap and quality butterfly change have been gathered, and a picture of the development of modern industrial clusters in the western region with high-quality development has been drawn.
Policy empowerment
Build a strong magnetic field for industrial development
On August 18, walking into the production workshop of Yihai Kerry (Lanzhou) Grain and Oil Industry Co., Ltd. in Lanzhou New Area, there was a busy and orderly scene in front of me, and a steady stream of barreled edible oil on the conveyor belt was efficiently "rushing" to all parts of the world. As a large-scale grain and oil processing enterprise mainly engaged in grain, food and non-staple food processing, since its settlement in 2018, Lanzhou New Area has comprehensively created conditions, provided high-quality services, strengthened factor guarantees, continuously optimized the software and hardware environment, fully supported enterprises to take root and grow in the new area, and the beautiful story of Yihai Kerry taking root in the new area continues to write a new chapter.
Along the Lanzhou New Area Food Industrial Park to the north, factories have risen from the ground, and the project construction site is hot, and the production enterprises have accelerated order production. This is the Lanzhou New Area New Materials Industrial Park. Baowu Carbon Lanzhou Baohang 100,000 tons of anode material project took only more than a year from signing to production, quickly releasing production capacity and driving the coordinated development of the upstream and downstream industrial chains. Since Hailiang Energy New Materials was put into operation in the new area, it has continuously expanded its production scale and improved the technical content of its products, and its products sell well in domestic and foreign markets. In just a few years, Lanzhou New Area has risen to become one of the largest copper foil bases in the country. "It is the good business environment of Lanzhou New Area that attracts us." The relevant person in charge of Gansu Hailiang New Energy Materials Co., Ltd. said frankly that Gansu is a major new energy province, which can provide sufficient "green electricity" for the development of enterprises, and a series of policies and measures implemented by Lanzhou New Area to benefit enterprises and the people have installed "accelerators" for the development of enterprises.
In recent years, Lanzhou New Area has benchmarked the first-class business environment and focused on the "pain points", "blockages" and "difficulties" of enterprises and entrepreneurship; Efforts will be made to deepen the reform of the "commitment system" and "zero fee" for the approval of enterprise investment projects, greatly reduce the approval matters, compress the approval and acceptance time, and fully serve the construction of investment promotion projects with the fewest matters and the most efficient government environment, so as to truly make the first-class business environment the brightest background for high-quality development.
According to reports, Lanzhou New Area has reduced the approval items, the main approval items have been reduced from 23 to 5, the approval time limit has been reduced from 147 working days to 26 working days, and the operating rate of newly signed projects has reached more than 80% that year. The "tracking" and "closed-loop" services of the Party Working Committee and Management Committee of Lanzhou New Area are also for enterprises to assist in the whole process from industrial and commercial registration, project land approval to completion acceptance, and the first registration of real estate, truly realizing the promise of "enterprises come with capital projects and I will do the rest".
At this moment, opening the industrial map of Lanzhou New Area, green chemicals, new energy and new materials, biomedicine, modern agriculture, data information and other industrial areas are arranged in turn, and advantageous industries such as high-end manufacturing, new energy and new materials, and scientific and technological innovation are accelerated here, forming a strong industrial cluster and outlining a magnificent blueprint for the modern industrial system of Lanzhou New Area.
Chain development
Activate new momentum for industrial clusters
In the Lanzhou New Area Chemical Park, the enterprises settled here are stepping up production and expanding production capacity, which is a busy scene in an orderly manner. Leading enterprises such as Dongjin Silicon, Yaowang Chemical, and Yaben Chemical are playing a leading role, attracting many pharmaceutical intermediates and new chemical materials enterprises to gather. These enterprises cooperate with each other to form a complete industrial chain from the production of basic chemical raw materials to the processing of fine chemical products.
"Enterprises in the park have realized the coordinated development of the industry, reduced production costs, and improved market competitiveness through shared resources and technical exchanges." Ye Deqiang, general manager of Lanzhou New Area Petrochemical Group, said. In the past 13 years, the agglomeration of enterprises such as Gansu Defu New Materials Co., Ltd. and Lanzhou Griffin Carbon Materials Co., Ltd. has not only promoted the development of the copper foil industry, but also driven the rise of battery materials, new energy vehicles and other related industries.
The landing of the Aimaran Prefecture New Area Industrial Park is the most vivid footnote to the development of the industrial chain in the new area. On August 19, the reporter walked into the construction site of the Aimaran New Area Industrial Park project with tower cranes and roaring machinery, and after more than 100 builders fought day and night, the outline of the first electric vehicle gigafactory in Northwest China with a total investment of 2 billion yuan began to appear. After the completion of this industrial landmark covering an area of 824 acres, it will achieve an annual output of 1 million two-wheeled and three-wheeled electric vehicles, with an annual output value of more than 4 billion yuan, filling the gap in high-end electric vehicle manufacturing in Northwest China.
"The company takes a fancy to the advantages of the complete industrial chain of Lanzhou New Area, and it only takes one month from negotiation to signing, and the special class in the new area helps with the construction procedures and relocates the pipeline throughout the whole process, so that we can make every effort to seize the construction period." Yu Jiang, head of the project of the Aimaran Prefecture New Area Industrial Park, said that under the cooperation of the government and enterprises, the construction of the first phase of the project has been fully completed, and the main construction of the four major workshops has been accelerated, two months ahead of the original plan, and the equipment can be installed in August this year. The construction adopts the "three-dimensional cross operation" mode, giving priority to completing the ground engineering of the three major workshops of assembly, frame and painting, leaving enough space for subsequent equipment installation and commissioning to ensure that it will be put into operation as scheduled in May 2026.
With the continuous extension of the industrial chain, Lanzhou New Area is gradually building an industrial ecology of new energy and new materials, from raw material production to terminal product manufacturing, forming an organic whole. In this industrial ecology, enterprises are interdependent and promote each other, and jointly promote the development of the industry to high-end, intelligent and green. In the past 13 years, Lanzhou New Area has formed two 100-billion-level industrial clusters of green chemicals and new energy and new materials, and five 10-billion-level advantageous industrial clusters of advanced equipment manufacturing, biomedicine, data information, trade and logistics, and modern agriculture. In the new stage, Lanzhou New Area is accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system with new area characteristics, focusing on releasing the potential of advantageous energy resources, and promoting the development of industrial agglomeration with chain thinking.
Innovation-driven
Ignite a new engine for industrial upgrading
The "new" of the new area lies in innovation, and the key is also innovation. In the past 13 years, Lanzhou New Area has adhered to innovation as the first driving force for development, led the development of new quality productive forces with scientific and technological innovation, continuously improved the level of transformation and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, and improved the modern industrial system with the characteristics of the new area.
Walking into the Science and Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Park of the Great Scientific Device in Lanzhou New Area, the Inspection and Testing Center of the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been completed and put into operation. The center's 10-meter anechoic chamber, the four walls and ceiling are covered with raised blue cone-shaped absorbers, which is full of "scientific and technological style" and the visual effect is quite shocking.
"The wall of this anechoic chamber is mainly composed of ferrite sheets and polyurethane foam tip splitting absorbing materials, which are used to shield the interference of external electromagnetic wave signals from the test signal and create a test environment that meets the test requirements." Hu Lingang, project director of the Achievement Transformation and Industry Department of the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said.
In the past 13 years, Lanzhou New Area has vigorously implemented the action of improving the level of science and technology innovation, anchored the goal of building the core area of the northwest industrial innovation center, actively strived for the implementation of more major scientific and technological infrastructure and key laboratories, accelerated the construction of high-energy innovation platforms such as ion accelerator inspection and testing centers, isotope laboratories, and new energy research institutes, and led high-level innovation with high-level innovation platforms.
At present, Lanzhou New Area has built more than 180 innovation platforms, more than 200 innovative enterprises, 150 high-tech enterprises, and 3.8% of the R&D investment intensity of the whole society. A number of products and technologies such as medical heavy ion accelerators, 12,000-meter offshore drilling rigs, and 3.5-micron copper foil are world-class. The agglomeration of these innovative resources provides strong scientific and technological support for the sustainable development of Lanzhou New Area.
"I firmly believe that products with core competitiveness will eventually take root and bloom on this fertile soil." A few years ago, Jia Xinming, production director of Bailin Ke (Lanzhou) New Materials Co., Ltd., was deeply involved in Lanzhou New Area, and with one technological breakthrough, the company became a "little giant".
In addition to strengthening innovation, strengthening industry-university-research cooperation is also an important measure for Lanzhou New Area to promote industrial innovation and development. At the same time, the new area has carried out in-depth cooperation with Lanzhou University, the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other universities and scientific research institutions to jointly build R&D platforms, jointly carry out scientific research projects, promote the implementation and transformation of scientific and technological achievements in the new area, and create a regional highland for the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements and industrialization.
Looking forward to the future, Lanzhou New Area will continue to anchor the goal of "strong industrial area", take innovation as the guide, open as the driving force, continuously optimize the industrial structure, enhance industrial competitiveness, and move forward bravely towards the goal of building a modern industrial new city. (Lanzhou Daily all-media reporter Zhou Jingbo text/photo)