"The land demand proposed by Zhejiang Chuangli Automotive Air Conditioner Co., Ltd. has been resolved, ensuring 18.4 acres of land for it."

"Four green transportation permits for goods have been delivered to Zhejiang Songxin Automotive Air Conditioning Co., Ltd."

"Guide Zhejiang Shike Auto Parts Co., Ltd. to declare the information of imported goods through the physical defense chain, and arrange professionals to carry out disinfection and sterilization"

Thousand cadres stationed in thousands of enterprises

Since the beginning of this year, Longquan has been focusing on building a billion dollar industrial cluster for automotive air conditioning. With the help of the "Thousand Cadres Residing in Thousand Enterprises" activity, Longquan has accurately aligned with the development needs of automotive parts enterprises, and effectively solved difficulties and sought development for them.

This approach, which truly solves practical problems for enterprises, makes them feel warm under the epidemic and also gives them more confidence in their development. This warmth and confidence are in line with Longquan's firm confidence and determination to build a billion dollar automotive air conditioning industry cluster.

Anchor the target

"Golden Business Card" departs again

"Wherever there is a car in the country, there is Longquan Manufacturing." This is not a slogan, but a jargon in the automotive industry.

Starting from a small "Chafeng Agricultural Machinery Repair Hardware Factory", after more than 40 years of development, Longquan's automotive air conditioning industry products now cover more than 200 series such as air conditioning compressors, expansion valves, condensers, etc., with an annual total output value of nearly 6 billion yuan. It has become an important part of Longquan's industrial sector and a "golden business card" of the industry.

As of now, there are nearly 200 Longquan auto parts production enterprises, including 41 above designated size enterprises, 9 enterprises with over 100 million yuan, 29 national high-tech enterprises, and nearly 20000 employees. The sales network covers more than 50 countries including Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe and America.

Zhejiang Santian Filter Co., Ltd. Industrial Exhibition Hall

In recent years, the automotive air conditioning industry has also achieved a leap from the low-end maintenance market to the mid to high end supporting market, with products transitioning towards total molding, whole machine models, and technology-based directions. The output value has increased by nearly 20% annually, and has successfully advanced to the national foreign trade transformation and upgrading base in 2021.

Lying flat cannot win, this is Longquan's firm understanding and choice. The 15th Party Congress of Longquan City clearly proposed to focus on building a billion dollar automotive parts industry, cultivating and strengthening industries such as engineering machinery, health medicine, bamboo and wood processing, and creating a more concentrated and competitive strategic pillar industry cluster. Among them, the automotive parts industry should make every effort to cultivate the entire air conditioning parts industry chain, enhance the collaborative innovation ability of the industry chain and the manufacturing ability of key components, and establish regional brands in the industry chain; Actively expand the manufacturing field of automotive electronics, brake systems, lubrication systems and other components.

To this day, setting new development goals for this industry is not only a necessary requirement for Longquan to accelerate the construction of a modern ecological economic system in the new development stage, but also a necessary path for Longquan to "comprehensively revive the capital of sword porcelain and strive to create high-quality Longquan.".

Standing at a new starting point, set off again towards the future. Based on the current basic advantages, Longquan will continue to make efforts in supplementing, strengthening, and extending the industrial chain. Through the industrial chain, it will connect key tasks such as industrial operation, innovation incubation, investment attraction, project construction, talent cultivation, and policy formulation, and make every effort to build a billion dollar automotive air conditioning industry cluster, accumulating strong development momentum to accelerate the promotion of common prosperity.

Dedicated to innovation

From Manufacturing to Intelligent Manufacturing

"The new economic environment has put forward stricter requirements for enterprise development, and in order to adapt to the new normal, it is necessary to adjust the structure and mode. Currently, there are still some shortcomings in the Longquan automotive air conditioning industry in the industry chain, and ultimately, it is necessary to continuously accelerate the pace of innovation." Speaking of the upgrading of this industry, the relevant person in charge of the Longquan Science and Technology Bureau emphasized the word "innovation".

Zhejiang Kilis Automotive Air Conditioning Co., Ltd

Where does innovation come from? The answer given by Longquan is to focus on intelligent manufacturing and platform construction in the industrial chain. 

Entering the production workshop of Zhejiang Xinjin Air Conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd., each machine is equipped with an operation display screen, which clearly displays data such as output, qualification rate, and process diagram. When a problem is found with a certain product, it can be traced and accurately located at the source of the problem for timely analysis, adjustment, and handling. At present, the enterprise has achieved full process product production supervision through digital transformation, ensuring that the product qualification rate reaches 100%.

Zhejiang Xinjin Air Conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd

Nowadays, in Longquan, there are more and more enterprises that use "numbers" like Xinjin, and digital transformation brings efficiency improvement and value creation to enterprises. Since the beginning of this year, Longquan has accelerated the digitalization process of the automotive parts industry, deeply implemented the "machine replacement" special action, focused on key areas such as production line automation transformation and integration of industrialization and industrialization, and continuously improved the intelligent manufacturing level of the automotive air conditioning industry through new intelligent manufacturing models such as digital design, intelligent production, and green manufacturing. As of now, more than 130 intelligent technology transformation projects have been implemented, continuously empowering the high-quality development of the industry.

"Technological innovation is the magic weapon of enterprises. Enterprises need to strengthen their research and development capabilities, accelerate product structure adjustment, and seize a place in the new energy vehicle market." Wang Bin, General Manager of Zhejiang Xinjin Air Conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd., told reporters that when it comes to this work, the "platform" plays an indispensable supporting role for enterprises.

The "platform" mentioned by Wang Bin is exactly the Zhejiang Southwest Science and Technology Innovation Base that Longquan is currently accelerating its construction. The base is like a comprehensive and integrated "smart collection system", integrating functions such as scientific and technological research and development, inspection and testing, talent cultivation, brand marketing, entrepreneurship incubation, and innovation services. Based on this, Longquan integrates production factors such as personnel, equipment, data, and policies in the upstream and downstream of the automotive air conditioning industry, and comprehensively connects the automotive air conditioning industry chain through unified supply and service sharing.

Zhejiang Southwest Science and Technology Innovation Base

"In the past two years, we have started from the needs of the market and enterprises, added new energy inspection and testing equipment, actively connected with well-known car companies, and successfully carried out the development of new vehicle models of automotive air conditioning for whole vehicle enterprises. The relevant person in charge of the base stated that in the future, we will seize development opportunities, explore hot topics such as" dual carbon ", lightweight, and" new four modernizations "of automobiles, and help enterprises explore broader markets.".

Chain style development

From excellent to strong promotion of butterfly transformation

Since the beginning of this year, Longquan has deepened its "chain thinking" to promote high-quality industrial development. In April, a work plan for the industrial chain leader system was introduced, with the main leaders personally leading the way as the "chain leader" and leading enterprises serving as the "chain leader". In terms of cultivating the automotive air conditioning industry chain, research and investigation were carried out to develop an industrial chain development plan, prepare an industrial investment map, establish a targeted enterprise database for investment attraction, study and formulate industrial support policies, concentrate efforts and focus on breaking through weak links in the industrial chain, and improve the stability and competitiveness of the industrial chain supply chain.

Mitsuda Group

With the full play of chain length production, leading enterprises in the industrial chain such as Mitsuda Group are also participating in the co construction of the industrial chain with a more open attitude. For example, in terms of market collaboration, Mitsuda Enterprises led more than 30 local upstream partners to collaborate and compete with international industry giants on the same stage. Through multiple experiences, the technological capabilities of the industrial cluster have been improved. In terms of technological innovation, companies such as Mitsuda have jointly conducted key common technology research with industry chain enterprises, promoting breakthroughs in a series of technical issues.

Gathering "chains" into "clusters" for development, parks are an important carrier. Currently, Longquan is accelerating the construction of a multi sector integrated automotive parts science and technology innovation park, building a solid foundation of "gathering chains and clusters through parks".

Zhejiang Yili Automotive Air Conditioning Co., Ltd

Entering the Songxi Lane block of Longquan Economic Development Zone in Zhejiang, the Automotive Parts Science and Technology Innovation Park project is currently under construction. On site, a series of factory buildings have been erected, and all buildings have been capped. Workers are working hard on the exterior facade construction.

"The current project construction is steadily advancing, and it is expected to be completed and accepted by the end of this year." The project leader told reporters that the investment promotion work and construction are progressing synchronously. Currently, nearly 30 upstream and downstream enterprises in the hardware and automotive parts industry chain have received applications to enter the park, and the planned purchase of factory space accounts for 40% of the total factory area.

Impressions of Automotive Parts Science and Technology Innovation Park

Ensuring every project and serving every enterprise well, Longquan is still deeply promoting the creation of the "Two Health" demonstration zone in the new era, and stimulating the development of the automotive air conditioning industry chain with the excellent business environment.

Inviting representatives of automotive air conditioning industry enterprises to participate in the formulation of policies related to enterprises, researching and solving individual problems and common problems in the industry chain; Develop a "Auto Parts Cloud" service platform to achieve online services and management for 23 enterprise units; Building a one-stop technology innovation service hall, achieving "handheld" and "one-stop" completion of project application, government and enterprise services, product testing and other businesses... Longquan has taken multiple measures to build a "four beams and eight pillars" to optimize the business environment.

Building a billion dollar industrial cluster for automotive air conditioning is not a one-time achievement. On the way forward, there will inevitably be shallow reefs and even rough waves, testing the local development environment and the innovation ability of enterprises. Currently, the international and domestic epidemic is still ongoing. We have seen that since the beginning of this year, through unremitting efforts in scientific and precise prevention and control, Longquan has achieved a phased effect of "zero input" of the epidemic, which has won us the opportunity and initiative to accelerate development.

Based on the current situation and facing the future, we have reason to believe that with the joint efforts of government and enterprises to accelerate the upgrading, transformation, and reconstruction of all elements of the industrial chain, Longquan's dream of building a billion yuan industrial cluster for automotive air conditioning will surely come true.