Baotou rare Earth High-tech Zone: scientific and technological Innovation promotes Industrial Development

SMM News: scientific and technological innovation is the driving force leading development and the strategic support for building a modern economic system. Since the beginning of this year, Inner Mongolia Baotou rare Earth High-tech Zone revolves around the industrial chain, innovation chain and capital chain, strengthening technology, grasping achievements, promoting transformation, and constantly tapping the endogenous driving force of growth. relying on the scientific and technological resources advantages of the Baotou rare Earth Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Baotou Materials Research Institute of Shanghai Jiaotou University, we will give full play to the role of 3 state-level and 54 autonomous district-level enterprise technology R & D centers to guide both colleges and enterprises to jointly build innovation carriers. We will get rid of the predicament of "technology isolated island" and effectively form a vivid situation of a continuous stream of high-end science and technology projects.

Strengthen the main body of innovation

Improve the efficiency of scientific and technological innovation

Entering the production workshop of Haoming rare Earth New Power Technology Co., Ltd., the new capacitive Ni-MH power battery independently developed by the company is being produced in small batches. this product, known as the "champion of long-distance running", carbon element is added on the basis of light rare earth elements, ceramic fiber material is added to the diaphragm, and the electrolyte is composed of ternary alkaline materials according to a certain ratio, which can achieve continuous charge and discharge at low temperature for 3 consecutive months. It has six characteristics of safety, cold resistance, fast charging, long life, environmental protection and recyclability.

This capacitive Ni-MH battery can be used for both military and civilian use. Military orders are mainly used in start-up power supplies and base stations, and civilian use is mainly in the areas of 5G base stations and urban public transportation. It can be said that we have achieved the technological commanding heights in this field. " Jiang Zhijun, chief engineer of the company, told reporters proudly.

The reporter saw in the production workshop of North Entrepreneurship Company, another enterprise in Baotou rare Earth High-tech Zone, that a new type of powder material tank container is being produced intensively. This is a single champion product created by the company combined with market demand and its own technical characteristics, and for the first time, the mature powder material vulcanization technology of railway trucks has been successfully applied to canned container products, filling in the gap of such products in Inner Mongolia. Liu Qitai, deputy general manager of the company, said: "our product, which has the characteristics of large volume, low self-weight and low residue, is a green and environmentally friendly product, which provides an effective guarantee for the implementation of national policies such as' winning the blue sky defense war 'and' public railway'."

In recent years, Baotou rare Earth High-tech Zone has strengthened cooperation between colleges and enterprises and comprehensively promoted the innovation capability of enterprises. by the end of 2019, Baotou rare Earth Research Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Baotou Materials Research Institute of Shanghai Jiaotou University had tracked more than 60 high-tech achievements. 18 pilot demonstration lines and 11 industrialization projects have been established to provide technical services to more than 200 enterprises and help them climb up the value chain.

Among them, the middle science and technology century has an annual output of 50,000 tons, the world's first continuous tunnel kiln test line of rare earth sulphide colorant, which is expected to achieve an annual output value of more than 1 billion yuan after the completion of industrialization, and the industrialization project of intelligent annual output of 50, 000 sets of servo motors, which effectively alleviates the situation that China's high-end servo motors rely on imports for a long time, and is expected to achieve an annual output value of more than 1 billion yuan after the completion of industrialization. The high-quality rare earth special steel pilot project cooperated by the Institute of Metals of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Baotou Steel Group has solved the technical problem of adding rare earth to the steel, which is expected to lead to an industrial scale of 10 billion after the completion of industrialization. China Science and Technology Xuan reached 600 tons of rare earth magnesium-nickel hydrogen storage alloy pilot project, the product performance reached the international leading level and broke the foreign monopoly. The industrialization project of 10, 000 tons of high-purity alumina in Saifuer, which has the leading level in the world, fills the gap of high-end products of non-ferrous metals in China. Jiatai metal 500t titanium matrix composite pilot project, can produce the only diameter 0.05mm titanium alloy ultra-fine wire, broad market prospects; Inman technology annual output of 1000 tons of rare earth oxide coating powder pilot project, extend the service life of the workpiece 5 times, product performance reached the world's advanced level.

In 2019 alone, Baotou rare Earth High-tech Zone organized 39 enterprises to pass the evaluation of national high-tech enterprises at the Inner Mongolia Autonomous region level, accounting for 57% of Baotou City's 13 enterprises applying for municipal science and technology "Little Giant" enterprises, accounting for 56% of Baotou City's 17 enterprises applying for city-level innovation-leading private enterprises, accounting for 68% of Baotou City. Rare earth enterprises and scientific research institutions participated in the drafting of 160 national and industry standards, accounting for more than 60% of the total number of national and industry standards.

Increase policy support

Optimize the environment for scientific and technological innovation

"Scientific and technological innovation is the power source to support the long-term development of our enterprise. as an enterprise specializing in the production of all kinds of rare earth metals and alloys, we continue to increase investment in research and development and the introduction of scientific and technological talents. since its inception, the company has been granted 15 patents, and the R & D center has been appraised as the 'Inner Mongolia Autonomous region Enterprise R & D Center'. At present, it has the ability to produce 5000 tons of rare earth metals per year. The output ranks among the top five of similar enterprises in the country. " Wang Dong, general manager of Baotou Sanlong rare Metal Materials Co., Ltd.

In recent years, Baotou rare Earth High-tech Zone has gathered innovation resources, strengthened innovation policy guidance, formulated and promulgated a series of measures, such as "Nine measures to further support the Development of New R & D institutions." From the project entry formalities, the project landing site, the construction of the pilot line, the introduction of industrialization projects, the holding of "Science and Technology Interactive Post Station", the training of "1-1" talents, the construction of innovation platform, the construction of industrial innovation alliance, the introduction of high-level talents and other aspects to provide funds, venues and other aspects of policy support for enterprises. We will set up a special fund of 10 million yuan for talent development, build a more scientific talent service management system and a high-quality talent service environment, better serve innovation and entrepreneurship, and promote the high-quality development of enterprises.

In order to promote the effective docking of innovation chain, capital chain and industrial chain, and effectively solve the problem of industrialization of scientific research projects, Baotou rare Earth High-tech Zone has set up three key development investment funds of Baotou City, a rare earth high-tech zone sub-fund and a talent innovation venture investment fund for rare earth high-tech zones. The fund has a scale of more than 1 billion yuan and invests nine key enterprises in the form of equity investment to effectively solve the problem of lack of funds in the landing of the project and the development of the enterprise. let the "source of capital" continuously irrigate the "industrial field" of science and technology, build an enterprise life cycle service system, and effectively provide an efficient and convenient environment for enterprise development.

This year, Baotou rare Earth High-tech Zone will strive to promote the R & D centers of all kinds of enterprises to implement 20 high-tech projects that are technologically leading and fill the domestic gap, and fully support and develop rare earth desulfurization catalyst development projects to achieve import substitution; accelerate the research and development of rare earth copper technology in Zhenxiong Copper, solve the technical problems of copper deep processing, and greatly increase the added value of copper products. We will implement the step-by-step cultivation plan for innovation platforms and the three-year cultivation plan for high-tech industries, upgrade 10 enterprise R & D centers, identify 1 key laboratory, cultivate 30 state-level high-tech enterprises and 5 scientific and technological "little giant" enterprises. we will make every effort to promote the deep integration of the industrial chain and the innovation chain, and promote the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements.

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