According to the Hunan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Hunan Province's 128 product innovation projects to lay the foundations have achieved remarkable results. In 2021, the cumulative sales revenue was 32.449 billion yuan; 514 key technologies have made breakthroughs; and, 431 patents were authorized.

There is no strong manufacturing industry without a solid industrial base. The whole province vigorously promoted the construction of "100 product innovation projects to lay the foundations". Last year, 128 projects completed an investment of 8.22 billion yuan, accounting for 138.41% of the annual planned investment. Of the total, 126 projects exceeded the annual investment targets. A total of 1.728 billion yuan of R&D investment was completed in 128 projects, accounting for more than 21% of the total investment.

Targeted measures were made to promote project construction across the province. Changsha has included product innovation projects into the service scope of key industrial enterprises. Hengyang has compiled "two maps, two databanks, two pools, and two reports" to provide "chained" services. Chenzhou has provided "one-to-one" pairing-up assistance to 60 key enterprises, to effectively solve more than 130 problems.

A total of 106, 111, 127, and 144 breakthroughs were made in key basic material projects, core basic components projects, advanced basic technology projects, and industrial technology base projects respectively. Twenty-six projects have broken the monopoly of foreign technology and market. Sinoboom 46.6-meter articulated boom aerial work platform has created three world records for maximum working height, maximum outreach level and maximum load. Zhuzhou’s National Innovation Center of Advanced Rail Transit Equipment filled the industry gap of intelligent perception, analysis and prediction of key components in rail transit equipment.

This article is from Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Xiao Juan

Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn