from "the fragrance of sesame cakes" to "a chain of cars", anhui's thousand-year-old town "transforms into a green butterfly"
2024-10-06
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if it weren't for the strong rise of the new energy automobile industry, the most famous specialty of xiatang town, a thousand-year-old ancient town in changfeng county, hefei, anhui province, might still be the "millennium shaobing".
this kind of xiatang shaobing baked in a dome-shaped hanging furnace is golden, crispy and has an attractive aroma. it has not only become hefei's municipal intangible cultural heritage, but also gave birth to the "shaobing economy" for a time, enriching the wallets of shaobing stall owners. xiatang has also gained the reputation of "shaobing town".
today, the aroma of sesame cakes at the entrance of the town is still lingering, but the "specialty" that residents talk about has quietly turned into "new energy vehicles."
walking in the industrial park, you can see young employees carrying large and small bags at the door of the dormitory area of the automobile factory. "car carriers" (special vehicles for transporting cars) with license plates from all over the country are parked on the road shoulders near the factory. inadvertently, looking up, you can see the "yunba" shuttle carrying workers over the industrial park, and a modern automobile city is beginning to take shape.
it can be said that the development trend of anhui's new energy automobile industry has given birth to the industrial changes in xiatang town. in recent years, anhui province has clearly regarded the automobile industry as the "primary industry", with new energy vehicles as the main direction. it has promoted the development of the new energy automobile industry by building seven major ecosystems: innovation, intelligent manufacturing, service, talent, culture, capital and openness. "fast lane". the "regulations on the development of new energy vehicle industry clusters in anhui province", which has been implemented since march this year, is the country's first provincial-level special regulation for the new energy vehicle industry, showing the strategic determination and determination of "drawing a blueprint to the end".
data shows that anhui's automobile production will be 2.491 million units in 2023, of which 868,000 new energy vehicles will be produced. the output of new energy vehicles in xiatang town exceeds 480,000 units. last year, the town’s industrial output value above designated size reached 74 billion yuan, which is enough to confirm its pivotal position in anhui’s new energy vehicle industry.
lin kaixin, director of the economic development bureau of xiatang town, is a post-90s generation and has personally experienced and witnessed the process of new energy vehicles “making things out of nothing”. since he joined the company in 2017, the town has proposed developing an industrial economy. at first, the industrial park only had small-scale traditional heavy industries such as steel, aluminum, and building materials.
"in order to transform and upgrade the industry, the county and town have planned to introduce new materials, equipment manufacturing and other industries. to this end, we have conducted extensive research and repeated studies and judgments. in the process, we encountered new energy vehicle companies represented by byd. " he analyzed that xiatang town has convenient transportation and superior location, and is an important part of hefei's eastern industrial corridor. "the most important thing is that it can provide a large area of flat land to undertake the construction of automobile super factories."
in july 2021, the byd project was officially launched. in lin kaixin's view, the reason why the leading new energy vehicle company chose xiatang town, which has no outstanding industrial base, is "both accidental and inevitable." in fact, it is a "two-way rush."
with the full support of the provincial and municipal governments, changfeng county is racing against time to provide all-round guarantees for the project to be launched. it took 23 days from project negotiation to signing the contract, 42 days from signing the contract to the start of construction, and 314 days from the start of construction to the end of the vehicle production line. with a total area of 2.8 million square meters of factory buildings built, the xiatang byd project set a new "hefei speed" and also won the recognition and respect of the enterprise.
after byd built its vehicle production base in xiatang, it led to the establishment of related industries one after another, showing a strong traction and driving effect, and industrial clusters began to emerge. in just three or four years, leading automotive supporting companies such as giti tire, sino-singapore aviation, shuangjie electric, and faurecia have also arrived to jointly build a new new energy industry chain.
the core technology of new energy vehicles lies in batteries. zhongxin aviation technology co., ltd. is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the development of lithium-ion batteries. the batteries it produces are supplied to two local car companies, nio and changan, in hefei.
recently, anhui province has issued an action plan for the construction of county auto parts industry clusters, proposing to focus on promoting the county auto parts industry to become bigger, stronger and better. by 2027, the county auto parts industry cluster revenue will reach about 500 billion yuan, and an additional 100 million yuan will be added. there are 5-7 billion-level industrial clusters, and each prefecture-level city will cultivate at least one county-level auto parts industry cluster.
faurecia group from france is a well-known auto parts supplier and a long-term cooperative enterprise of byd. "we followed byd to xiatang. we mainly produce car seat systems. we will officially go into mass production at the end of 2022 and support several models." tian renyi, production manager of the hefei branch, analyzed that this way the cooperative company saves logistics costs and is more efficient. facilitate technical exchanges with vehicle companies.
"many supporting companies did not expect byd's xiatang project to develop so fast. now we have to follow suit to expand the scale. at the beginning, there was only one production project, now there are four, and there will be at least five projects next year." tian renyi said that the company currently has employees there are more than 300 people, and it is expected to expand to 600 next year.
data shows that hefei currently has more than 100,000 employees working in the field of new energy vehicles, including more than 20,000 r&d personnel. tian renyi is a technical talent who "returned" to his hometown. he has studied and worked in shanghai for more than 10 years. in 2021, as a member of the company's vanguard, he was among the first to set foot on this land and witnessed the changes that followed.
tian renyi remembers that when the company first settled, there were no supporting facilities nearby and there was no way to order takeout. "today, there are takeaways, express delivery, shared bicycles, and milk tea shops here. life is as convenient as in downtown hefei. young people can stay here happily." he said with emotion.
it is understood that in the past, xiatang town’s permanent population was only 45,000, but now there are more than 60,000 workers in the industrial park. the town’s permanent population has exceeded 100,000, and it has achieved a transformation from a place of population outflow to a place of inflow. in order to provide supporting living services, the local government invested in the town's first commercial complex to create a new landmark of the automobile city, meet the living needs of workers in the park and surrounding residents, and enhance the attractiveness of the park. since then, xiatang’s nighttime economy has been lit up, and young people in the park have a new place to go after get off work.
standing at the forefront of new energy, it naturally has the advantage of taking off. in addition to the automobile industry, xiatang town is also at the forefront of the province in the comprehensive utilization of new energy. as the first pilot county in anhui province to actively explore comprehensive energy reform, changfeng county has built the province’s first integrated energy port for “oil, gas, electricity and hydrogen services”, located on wutong avenue in xiatang town.
li dalong, the person in charge of the energy port, said that it can provide multiple types of energy supply services such as refueling, gas refueling, charging, battery swapping, and hydrogenation. it only takes 3 minutes to change the battery of a car and 10 minutes to refuel a bus. in addition, the two-way interaction between the micro-energy network and the power grid in the station is realized here, which has important demonstration significance for the integration of "source, grid, load and storage".
reporters from china youth daily and china youth daily saw on the spot that a dark blue bus was waiting for hydrogen refueling. in january this year, hefei city’s first hydrogen fuel cell bus line, the “xiatang special line” in changfeng county, was put into operation. the first batch of 10 hydrogen buses came online. as the first city in the country to launch demonstration operations of pure electric vehicles, hefei has also completed all types of new energy vehicles.
"it can be said that we are witnessing the emergence of new things and new changes every day. the town is changing so fast that it is dizzying." lin kaixin told reporters that now when locals promote the industries in xiatang, they are used to making a statement about it. comparison of "speed" - if it takes 60 seconds to bake a piece of sesame seed cake, then today in xiatang, it took less than 60 seconds for a complete vehicle to come off the assembly line, which is faster than the speed of making a piece of sesame seed pancake!
"from sesame cakes to new energy vehicles, it is not only a continuation of history, but also a transcendence of history!" he said with emotion.
china youth daily·china youth daily reporter wang lei and wang haihan source: china youth daily
(source: china youth daily)
