A piece of light blue shoe upper fabric, when you touch it with your hand, a cold feeling like a marble slab reaches your arms.Between square inches, a variety of chemical materials and textile processes are concentrated.
"This is our self-developed ice-like fabric, which is light and breathable, and is very popular in the international market." As a native of Jinjiang, Lin Haiou has been engaged in shoe material trade for nearly 20 years, and has accelerated the pace of transformation and upgrading in recent years. .
In 2017, Jinjiang International Shoe Textile City was put into use, and Lin Haiou was one of the first merchants to settle in.How can we occupy a place in the shoe spinning city of "masters like clouds"?
Lin Haiou's answer is "focus on quality, innovation and enterprise".For several consecutive years, tens of millions of yuan in research and development investment, the establishment of a scientific research team of dozens of people, so that Lin Haiou has a large number of new materials for shoe spinning.
"In the past, I used to sell materials by myself, but now foreign businessmen are actively looking for them, and I can't do it without learning a foreign language." Lin Haiou's strong southern Fujian accent is full of pride.
Since the reform and opening up, Jinjiang people have started from the development of township enterprises and adhered to the real economy with the aggressiveness of "dare to be the first in the world and love to fight to win", making Jinjiang an important manufacturing town in the southeast coastal area.Entering the new era, Jinjiang inherits and carries forward the "Jinjiang Experience", takes innovation as the guide, accelerates the transformation and upgrading of intelligentization and modernization, and expands and strengthens traditional industries.At present, Jinjiang has formed a footwear and apparel industry cluster exceeding 200 billion yuan, a textile industry cluster exceeding 100 billion yuan, and two industrial clusters exceeding 50 billion yuan in food and building materials.
"We produce 700 million zippers a year, and together they can circle the earth 5 times." Xunxing Zipper, located in Shenhu Town, Jinjiang City, once turned "small zipper" into a "big industry".At the moment, walking into the company's production workshop, the roar of the machine is non-stop, and the processes such as cloth cutting and plastic welding are in an orderly manner.
"After the intelligent production line is upgraded and put into use, the entire zipper production line is intelligent and standardized, so that small products can also use high technology." Talking about the application of the company's new technology, Gao Xiuzhong, head of the technology research and development center, was deeply touched.
Spraying glue, drying, sticking to the bottom... Standing in the production workshop of Fujian Huaang Sporting Goods Company, holding a stopwatch to calculate, it takes less than 12 seconds to produce a pair of finished shoes from raw and auxiliary materials.
"We independently developed intelligent production lines, which reduced the number of labor for each production line from 60 to 8, and used less labor to make better products." Huang Jinhuang, chairman of the company, said.Since 2018, the company and Huazhong University of Science and Technology have jointly developed intelligent production lines. The R&D investment has increased by more than 4% year by year, and the average annual growth of orders has been more than 15%.
The improvement and upgrading of the real economy is inseparable from the innovative investment of "drawing a blueprint to the end"."Jinjiang City continues to increase policy support to guide enterprises to speed up innovation and development and technological upgrading." Lin Yonghong, director of Jinjiang Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, said, "In the past 10 years, Jinjiang City has invested more than 180 billion yuan in technological transformation and introduced 9 countries. There are high-level scientific research institutions, 4 universities, and many enterprises have established their own laboratories and R&D centers.”
In the mobile phone live broadcast room, the intelligent transport vehicles that shuttled and the flexible robotic arms presented the "panoramic" production process of Hengan Group's baby diapers in front of consumers, attracting a large number of netizens to watch online.
"Moving the live broadcast room into the factory. We let consumers know the whole process of maternal and infant products from research and development, production to sales in a transparent and open way, and strive to make 'Made in Jinjiang' a 'reliable product'." Hengan Group Wu Jianlong, general manager of the baby pants business unit, said.
Since 2017, Jinjiang has made efforts in e-commerce to promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, introduced policies to support the development of the live broadcast e-commerce industry, and invested real money to build a famous live broadcast e-commerce city.Through a variety of e-commerce platforms, characteristic industries such as clothing, sports shoes, infants and children, and umbrellas have been able to continue to grow and expand. In 2021, the domestic online retail sales will exceed 35 billion yuan.
"We have always adhered to the main line of innovation and development, accelerated the high-tech transformation of traditional advantageous industries and the cluster development of emerging industries, and built innovative counties (cities) and national demonstration bases for innovation and entrepreneurship at a higher level." said Zhang Wenxian, member of the Standing Committee of the Quanzhou Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Jinjiang Municipal Party Committee.
Today, traditional industries such as shoes and clothing and textiles in Jinjiang continue to build up their advantages, and emerging industries such as new generation information technology and intelligent manufacturing equipment are also shifting gears to speed up.In 2021, the industrial output value of Jinjiang City above designated size will exceed 690 billion yuan, with 15 regional brands and 50 listed companies. Its economic strength has led the county economy in Fujian for 28 consecutive years.
