Tianjin Dongli District Government, Tsinghua High-end Institute and Haier Group signed a tripartite cooperation agreement to jointly build the world's leading industrial platform in the field of intelligent manufacturing.

On the afternoon of May 18, 2017, Tianjin Dongli District Government, Tsinghua University Tianjin High-end equipment Research Institute (referred to as "High-end Institute"), and Haier Group held a grand strategic agreement signing ceremony at Tianjin Guest House. The project of "Industry-City-Creating Ecological Circle" officially settled in Tianjin. The total investment of the project is about 13 billion yuan. After the completion of the project, the annual output value will reach 7 billion yuan, which will solve the employment of more than 3000 people and drive the regional investment of 20 billion yuan.

Project sub-agreement signing

The integration ecosystem of "production", "city" and "creation" jointly created by the three parties is the first practice of the production and city creation model in the whole country. Relying on their advantages in scientific research, market, finance and industry, the three parties will cooperate in the fields of joint research center, industrial maker center and financial innovation. Among them, the joint research center will introduce excellent teams from universities, high-end institutes, and Haier Group to jointly tackle key problems, and develop systematic and transformative common key technology research and development and achievement transformation for Haier Group, Tianjin and the whole country, and drive industry technological innovation and improve The level of intelligent manufacturing, and strive to become a national-level collaborative innovation center. The Industrial Maker Center will gather the advantages of all parties, build a maker ecosystem, support maker incubation in the whole process, and strive to become a global industrial maker center. In the field of financial innovation cooperation, the three parties will jointly set up an industrial development fund with a total scale of about 6 billion yuan, implementing market-oriented operation, professional management and independent investment decision-making, with emphasis on improving the construction of intelligent manufacturing ecosystem, promoting the development of healthy industries, and promoting the construction of industrial incubation platforms, cultivate talents in science and technology, finance and other fields to provide a strong driving force for the development of science and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises.

Chen Xu, secretary of the Party Committee of Tsinghua University, said that Tsinghua and Tianjin have always maintained good cooperation and have achieved many results in personnel training, collaborative innovation, integration of production, education and research, and transformation of scientific and technological achievements. The cooperation with Tianjin and Haier Group this time is an important implementation of Tsinghua's deep participation in the innovation-driven development strategy. This innovative cooperation model allows innovation to go out of the school, better utilize the scientific and technological advantages of Tsinghua's comprehensive disciplines, and integrate the school's development plan The docking of corporate manufacturing advantages has helped Chinese companies achieve better results internationally.

Zhang Ruimin, chairman of the board of directors and CEO of Haier Group, said that "production-city-creation ecosystem" is a project that Haier is striving to promote. "Production" is a cluster platform for industrial development, "city" is an interactive platform for urban communities, and "creation" is a platform for small and micro innovation and entrepreneurship, with three levels of linkage to jointly build a production-city creation ecosystem. Industry drives entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship promotes employment, and at the same time supporting smart living towns to promote the integrated development of urban industrial communities, forming an open, co-creation, and win-win ecosystem model. The "production city creation ecosystem" is the practice of supply-side reform, which provides new momentum for the development of cities and industries.

Finally, the three parties signed a strategic agreement. The "production_city_creation ecosystem" model officially settled in Tianjin, opening a new chapter in the development and upgrading of Tianjin's industrial integration.

Ministry of Industry Report/Tan Peitu/Yu Zhongpan