Baotou rare Earth High-tech Zone: science and Technology makes rare Earth products move towards High-end

The "14th five-year Plan" period is about to set sail, and the new development is surging to the east. Under the new upsurge of development in Baotou City in an all-round way, Inner Mongolia Baotou rare Earth High-tech Zone takes the initiative to renew its concept, accurately grasp the important opportunities of scientific and technological innovation and industrial reform, and target the key tasks of economic and social development during the 14th five-year Plan period. we will fully implement the arrangements of the autonomous region and Baotou City, and closely revolve around the major task of the times of high-quality development of the rare earth industry. The focus is on making concerted efforts in the five aspects of permanent magnet, hydrogen storage, polishing, catalysis and alloy, extending from the four dimensions of "up and down," to further strengthen the industrial base, raise the modernization level of the industrial chain, promote the feathering of rare earth products into butterflies and sprint to the high end, and with unconventional, vigorous and breakthrough measures, build the rare earth industry into a trillion-level industrial base, forming a new competitive advantage in the country and even the world. Create new highlands of global technology.

Deep integration of government, industry, university and research to create a new engine driven by innovation

At the 12th Baotou rare Earth Industry International Forum, which ended not long ago, rare earth magnesium-based hydrogen storage materials and their solid-state hydrogen storage technology, high-performance rapidly quenched magnetic powder, light rare earth glaze, miniature voice coil motor, heat-breaking rare earth glass coating, electroplating surface treatment, and industrial blast furnace slag extraction were all unveiled at the forefront of the rare earth industry. let the participants intuitively feel the great charm and broad prospects of rare earth scientific and technological innovation.

"Baotou is a pilot city for industrial green transformation and development and a pilot city for the transformation and upgrading of the rare earth industry in China. As the 'main battlefield' for the development of the rare earth industry in Baotou, the rare earth high-tech zone gives full play to the advantages of rare earth resources and extends the industrial chain through scientific and technological innovation. firmly grasp the initiative of the industrial value chain." At the forum, Chen Jianfeng, party member and secretary general of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, highly affirmed the innovative development of rare earths in Baotou and expressed the hope that through this exchange, we will actively explore the integrated development of government, industry, research and application of rare earth resources, realize the optimization of industrial structure, and further strengthen the rare earth industry.

In recent years, rare earth high-tech zones have adhered to high-end leadership and innovation drive, and established five working mechanisms of "two-way solicitation and feedback, two-way docking between colleges and enterprises, transformation of scientific and technological achievements, project tracking services, and base undertaking projects." cooperate with well-known scientific research institutes, institutions of higher learning, innovation teams, and leading enterprises in a market-oriented way, with the help of external forces and cohesion, actively cultivate and strengthen new R & D institutions and ignite innovation engines. We will speed up the formation of an independent, controllable, safe and stable technological innovation system.

In 2020, the North rare Earth R & D team independently developed continuous precipitation of light rare earth carbonate, mixed precipitant of ammonium bicarbonate and ammonia water and automatic control technology. the problems caused by single-stage and intermittent production, such as large water consumption, large fluctuation of product quality and low automation level in the whole production process, have been successfully solved, and the technology has reached the international leading level.

Tianhe Magnetic material Phase III project to speed up the intelligent manufacturing level of enterprise magnetic material production line is an important measure for enterprises to enhance economic efficiency and integrate with internationalization, which is expected to be formally put into production in 2021.

Inster invested more than 14 million yuan in scientific and technological research and development in 2020. The magnetic material production base of Inster A series 3C series products, which was officially put into operation in November, has built eight automatic production lines and supporting ancillary facilities, and is expected to achieve annual sales of 500 million yuan.

In recent years, the rare earth high-tech zone has stepped up the deep integration of politics, industry, research and application, relying on the Baotou rare Earth Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Baotou Materials Research Institute of Shanghai Jiaotou University, rare Earth Research Institute and other scientific research institutes. The five major innovation bases of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Industrial Park, Shanghai Jiaotong University Industrial Park, Haoming New Energy Industrial Park, Chinese Science Robot Industrial Park and rare Baobo Medical device Industrial Park have been built. Nine measures to further support the development of new R & D institutions have been formulated and promulgated one after another. from the project entry procedures, the project landing site, the construction of the pilot line, the introduction of industrialization projects, the holding of "science and technology interactive post stations", the training of "1-1" talents, the construction of innovation platform, the construction of industrial innovation alliance, the introduction of high-level talents to provide funds, venues and other policy support. 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.

According to the reporter's understanding, since the establishment of the Baotou rare Earth Research and Development Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015, it has tracked 40 high-tech achievements, incubated 20 high-tech enterprises, established 10 pilot demonstration lines, and 6 industrialization projects. Baotou Materials Research Institute of Shanghai Jiaotou University has incubated a total of 18 high-tech projects, established 8 pilot lines, 5 industrialization projects, and a number of technologies have reached the world's advanced level.

Break through the bottleneck of key technologies to help products achieve high-end

Walking into the production workshop of Baotou Huizhong Magnetic Valley rare Earth Technology Co., Ltd., the gears are flying and the machines are roaring. Two fully automatic electroplating production lines with a length of 100 meters and only 3 people working on each line are being produced at full capacity, which is the highest level of the domestic electroplating production line. The new surface coating technology of "nickel-copper-semi-bright nickel-bright nickel" rare earth magnet independently developed by the enterprise makes the surface of the magnet change from longitudinal corrosion to horizontal corrosion in the process of corrosion, and the service life of the product can be increased by more than 2 times. the thickness of the coating can be "slimmed down" from 15 microns to 10 microns, which can make the products more refined, stronger adhesion, higher safety and stability.

"the rare earth new materials industry base has been set up in the rare earth high-tech zone, gathering representative electroplating enterprises such as Huizhong Magnetic Valley and Dadixiong, forming a surface treatment capacity of 50,000 tons of new rare earth materials per year, which greatly meets the electroplating needs of Baotou and its surrounding rare earth enterprises, and breaks through the industrial bottleneck of the rare earth industry moving towards the terminal." An Yongping, general manager of Baotou Huizhong Magnetic Valley rare Earth Technology Co., Ltd.

In 2020, the rare earth high-tech zone plans to implement 26 key rare earth projects with a total investment of 8.113 billion yuan. Ke Rui Micromagnetic invests 120 million yuan to produce 2000 tons of rapidly quenched magnetic powder, Mingxin Science and Technology invests 55 million yuan to produce 3000 tons of high-performance rare earth polishing materials, Lichen Science and Technology invests 60 million yuan to produce 3800 tons of polishing powder and polishing liquid, Ningbo Baiqida invests 50 million yuan to build an annual processing project of 10, 000 tons of ND-Fe-B hydrogen crushing powder, and North rare earth invests 60 million yuan to build a 10, 000-ton rare earth heat stabilizer project. The Inner Mongolia Yuanwei science and technology registration project of 120 million yuan to build a flue gas dedusting device has been settled down one after another. It will inject strong power and potential energy into the industrial and economic development of the rare earth high-tech zone.

Zhang Yanping, deputy director of the rare earth industry base management office of the rare earth and high-tech industry bureau of the rare earth high-tech zone, said: "the rare earth and supporting enterprises in the rare earth high-tech zone have accelerated agglomeration, and the total number of rare earth employees has exceeded 10,000. A large number of innovative achievements have emerged and gradually realized industrialization, forming a good model of mutual matching and competitive development."

At present, the rare earth high-tech zone has gathered 115 rare earth enterprises, set up the first rare earth products trading platform in China, and established six service systems: transaction settlement, warehousing, logistics, quality inspection, supply chain finance and information. Build Inner Mongolia rare Earth functional Materials Innovation Center, carry out inspection and testing of rare earth magnetic materials, hydrogen storage materials, polishing materials, catalytic auxiliary materials, etc., and provide technical evaluation, design inspection, function verification and other services for new rare earth materials enterprises and downstream application enterprises.

"in the next step, the rare earth high-tech zone will go all out to create a high-quality environment that promotes the development of enterprises, accelerate scientific and technological innovation and policy implementation, and actively introduce good projects with high scientific and technological content, high degree of greening, and filling gaps in the industrial field. the leading advantage of the rare earth industry will be further expanded." Li Bin, head of rare Earth Industry Management Section of rare Earth and High-tech Industry Bureau of rare Earth High-tech Zone, said. Yang Jianying, deputy dean of the Baotou Institute of Materials at Shanghai Jiaotou University, said: "with the development of science and technology, rare earth researchers in Baotou are making full use of their efforts to catch up with and surpass the achievements in the application of rare earths in Japan, Europe and the United States." strive to strengthen the original innovation and innovation at the level of scientific principles, and strive to lead the world in the field of rare earth subdivision. "