During the first half of this year, the city's industrial output value above a designated size grew by 8.1% year-on-year, ranking fourth in the province and maintaining a stable and improving operational trend.
Looking at leading indicators, industrial electricity consumption grew by 6.15% in the first half, remaining among the top in the province. In terms of development support, 86 key projects are scheduled to start construction and be included in statistics in the third quarter, generating new investment growth. Regarding the construction of major projects, 293 industrial projects, including the fourth phase of the Huaneng Texas Power Plant, the upgrade and renovation of the Hualu Hengsheng Gasification Platform, and the Pioneer LiDAR project, will be completed and put into operation within the year, expected to add 15 billion yuan in new output value.
These achievements stem from the city's in-depth implementation of a strategy to build a strong advanced manufacturing hub, with a focus on the "primary project" of the industrial economy. A series of targeted support measures were adopted for market expansion, industrial upgrading, technological innovation, and project construction, boosting confidence, driving progress, and making concentrated breakthroughs.
Since the beginning of this year, the city has resolutely promoted industrial investment, continuously improving the scale and efficiency of the industrial sector, and simultaneously focusing on investment scale, progress, and returns. With increasing uncertainties in the current economic development landscape, it is necessary to maintain confidence, continue expanding investment and launching projects, sustain a certain pace of industrial growth, and solve development problems through development methods.
"With strong support from relevant city departments, we achieved the main framework's topping-out just 100 days after project commencement, once again breaking industry records," said Chen Yuan, Deputy Manager of the Engineering Construction Department at Hualu Hengsheng. The gasification platform upgrade project, after 10 months of rapid construction, is now in its final debugging phase and is expected to be commissioned and operational in August. The 200,000-ton-per-year dibasic acid quality improvement project has also commenced construction and is expected to be completed and put into operation in the first half of 2027. In Yucheng, 78 provincial, city, and county-level key projects, including Baolingbao's annual production of 20,000 tons of allulose and Jinghua Technology's chemical storage, are progressing in an orderly manner, with a total investment exceeding 24 billion yuan. Once all projects are fully operational, they are expected to add 7 billion yuan in new industrial output value.
Efforts are being made in every possible way to expand market reach. The market is the ultimate testing ground for industrial value, and only by continuously expanding markets can we secure broad development space. Shandong Hengji Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd., located in Decheng District, holds nearly 30% of the national market share for high-end rebar connections and has received 120 million yuan in orders this year. In response to difficulties in market expansion and a shortage of orders reported by some companies, since the beginning of this year, all levels of the city have actively guided businesses to "go global," increasing market development efforts and exploring new growth opportunities. In April, the city successfully held a special seminar on "Going to Southeast Asia," systematically interpreting trade policies, laws, regulations, and market demands in the region, sharing practical experiences from companies, and helping businesses reduce risks and boost confidence in overseas expansion. In May, focusing on advantageous industries like food and seasonings, multiple companies were organized in a "group overseas" model to conduct matchmaking activities in Malaysia and Thailand.
Deepening digital and intelligent transformation, using artificial intelligence to enhance industrial quality and efficiency. "Order progress, equipment status, and quality data are displayed in real-time on electronic screens. All equipment is 100% connected. When an order arrives, the system automatically schedules production. If any link shows an abnormality, the large screen immediately triggers an alarm," explained the technical leader at Dezhou Jincheng Electric Equipment Co., Ltd.'s smart workshop.
Since the start of the year, leveraging the city's selection as a provincial pioneer for "AI + Manufacturing" applications, the city has implemented three key tasks: creating typical application scenarios, building an AI empowerment center, and cultivating benchmark enterprises. This has driven the full adoption of "AI + Manufacturing" across 11 industrial chains. The city will strengthen technology supply, select a group of high-quality digital and intelligent service providers, and establish a city-wide "resource pool" for digital transformation service providers to rapidly expand the scale of the digital economy.
Implementing a growth plan for high-quality industrial enterprises. At Linyi Lanjian Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., warehouse robots travel up and down a 45-meter-high rail track at a speed of 4 meters per second. Compact transport robots move back and forth on shelves like well-trained "worker ants," precisely placing bins. Lanjian is a microcosm of the city's efforts to support the development of specialized and new "little giant" enterprises. Currently, the number of high-quality industrial enterprises in the city is at the mid-level among provinces. Fostering a tiered cultivation system for specialized and new "little giant" enterprises is the fundamental approach, emphasizing industrial foundation strengthening as a policy direction, and improving development quality and efficiency as the latest trend. Going forward, the city will improve a gradient cultivation system of "ascending, upgrading, advancing, and listing," expanding the matrix of high-tech enterprises, technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises, and specialized and new "little giant" enterprises, aiming for the proportion of output from high-tech industries to remain stable above 60%.
Using a "chain-based" approach to strengthen industrial clusters. Cultivating and expanding characteristic industrial clusters is a crucial breakthrough for promoting the transformation and upgrading of the industrial economy and a key path to driving rapid regional economic development. The city has precisely laid out 11 distinctive industrial chains, strengthening industrial advantages and injecting new vitality into the modern industrial system. Since the start of the year, the city has organized multiple precise matchmaking events around key chains and regional characteristic industries. These include a supply chain integration activity between high-end equipment and high-end chemicals led by Jingjin Equipment, an "AI + Warehousing and Logistics" application matchmaking event led by Lanjian Intelligent, a machinery processing and CNC machine tool industry meeting in Pingyuan County, and a dedicated matchmaking event between steel structure companies in Qingyun County and city-wide technical transformation projects. "Through two-way precise matching of 'chain leader + supporting' and 'demand + supply,' we have effectively solved problems like information asymmetry between production and sales, low local supporting rates, and mismatches in supply and demand, promoting resource sharing, complementary advantages, and coordinated development among upstream and downstream enterprises," a representative from the Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology explained.
Strengthening the industrial sector is fundamentally about deeply implementing the new development philosophy, vigorously promoting new-type industrialization, leading industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation, accelerating the development of new productive forces, and promoting high-end, intelligent, and green development in manufacturing to comprehensively enhance the strength of the industrial economy.
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