Shanxi Dingxiang Flange High Quality Development Conference
In February 2023, although the city of Beijing is still cold and cold, there is a huge upsurge of development and vitality everywhere. "Mousse Sleep Mattress Test Project Result Review Meeting", "Social Security Theory Retreat"... In the aisle of Guoerzhao Hotel, various forums and conference guide signs show the vitality here. The tour area of the high-quality development conference in Shanxi Dingxiang Flange Professional Town is a bit special. From the historical evolution of Dingxiang Flange on the exhibition boards to various forging devices in the booth, it will explain the doubts of "how steel is made" for exhibitors. It also sparked constant speculation. Why did the forging industry show up in Beijing?
The confidence comes from Dingxiang's brilliant forging industry. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Dingxiang had the reputation of "a bucket of sesame blacksmith". Since its development, it has become the largest flange production base in Asia and the largest flange export base in the world. It has successively established national-level export flange forging product quality safety The demonstration area, the national torch characteristic industry base, and the national foreign trade transformation demonstration base are all well-deserved "Hometown of Forging in China".
"Forging iron" is a traditional craft in Dingxiang County. The history of forging can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. During the Qianlong period, Dingxiang iron products were exported to Suiyuan, Baotou and other places. In 1963, the birth of the first "clamp hammer" accelerated the development of the flange industry in Dingxiang. In 2023, the high-quality creation of a "professional flange town" made Dingxiang Flange usher in a "highlight moment".
In the past 60 years, Dingxiang has built a pole in the domestic flange industry within a period of Jiazi, and has become one of the four largest flange forging industry clusters in the country. At present, there are 302 forging enterprises in the county, 165 of which have self-support export rights. There are 20 high-tech enterprises, 43 "specialized and special new" enterprises, and 7 national-level specialized, special and new "little giant" enterprises. There are 1,086 sets of various forging equipment, 7,308 sets of machining equipment, more than 7,000 sets (sets) of robots and heat treatment equipment, with an annual production capacity of 1.4 million tons and more than 40,000 employees. The industry has obtained 543 invention patents and 168 registered trademarks. The products are exported to more than 40 countries and regions, and are widely used in high-end fields such as petrochemical, water conservancy and electric power, aerospace, military nuclear power and so on. The flange output accounts for more than 44% of the national output, the wind power tower flange accounts for about 60% of the national output, and the annual flange export volume accounts for more than 30% of the national output.
The prosperity of the manufacturing industry leads to the prosperity of the economy. The profound heritage of Dingxiang Flange is the hard-core support for its strong economy, and it is also the solid foundation for building a "Flange Professional Town", and it is also the requirement of the times for Dingxiang to go out in the new development stage. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly proposed to build a "manufacturing power", and made a strategic deployment of "insisting on focusing on the development of the economy on the real economy".
As for where to go, how to make the flange industry go from a plateau to a high place? At the development conference that day, Zhao Yajing, secretary of the Dingxiang County Party Committee, spoke frankly: "Currently, we are actively integrating into the collaborative innovation network of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and central Shanxi urban agglomerations, focusing on building the intelligent manufacturing innovation service base of the Dingxiang forging industry into an 'industry Reception room', strengthen the linkage with the provincial school cooperation demonstration base, take the innovation chain, industrial chain, and ecological chain as the core, take the enterprise as the main body, colleges and scientific research institutes work together, and an innovation system with a high degree of integration of government, industry, learning, research and application has been formed Prototype."
As long as the direction is right, you are not afraid of the long road. Therefore, at the high-quality development conference of Shanxi Dingxiang Flange Professional Town, academicians, experts, and scholars came. A "high-end forum" that enhanced intelligence and empowered the high-quality development of Dingxiang Flan Specialized Town achieved two-way travel.
