The industrial code of Zhejiang Haiyan’s industrial growth rate “six consecutive years”

China News Service, Jiaxing, September 8 (Fu Feiyang) On the high-speed stamping line, a robotic arm accurately grabs sheet metal parts and feeds them into the press; at the end of the automated production line, several backplane connectors are arranged in an orderly manner and will be sent to major artificial intelligence computing power centers around the world... In Haiyan, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, this scene happens every day.

Opening the economic "semi-annual report", Haiyan's industrial added value increased by 12.1% year-on-year, ranking first in Jiaxing City for 6 consecutive quarters; industrial profits above designated size reached 10.43 billion yuan, becoming the only county (city, district) in Jiaxing to exceed 10 billion yuan.

As a province with a large private economy, Zhejiang’s “county camp” can be described as strong, with “big players” such as Yuhang, Binjiang, Cixi, and Yiwu, among which Haiyan is not conspicuous. But from the perspective of a "long man", the county has full development potential - how can it achieve "six consecutive championships" in industrial growth? The answer lies in the profound changes in the local industrial structure.

Incremental code: Foreign investment in intelligent manufacturing seizes new trends

In the first half of this year, Haiyan's industrial output value increased by approximately 7.2 billion yuan, of which four key intelligent manufacturing companies, including Amphenol and Danfoss Automation, contributed a total of more than 6 billion yuan in output value.

"Our ability to take the lead against the trend is mainly due to firmly grasping the development trend of the artificial intelligence industry and effectively driving the rapid rise of electronic information industries such as 5G communications." Ru Binfei, deputy director of the Economic and Information Technology Bureau of Haiyan County, said in an interview with China News Service.

Amphenol Group is an American multinational company. The high-end backplane connectors it produces in Haiyan are core components for technology giants such as Nvidia to build servers for artificial intelligence computing centers. Danfoss Group, a Danish company, has seized on the rigid need for "heat dissipation" in computing power industry equipment. The average monthly output value of the company's liquid cooling sector has jumped from about 100 million yuan last year to more than 500 million yuan today, a considerable increase.

In the past 9 years, Amphenol has built a total of 9 production plants and 1 high-tech enterprise R&D center in Haiyan; in the past 20 years, Danfoss has invested in Haiyan 10 times... Behind the continuous increase of foreign-funded enterprises is the "full life cycle companion service" system carefully constructed by Haiyan.

Taking Danfoss as an example, in order to ensure the smooth progress of its projects, Haiyan has innovatively launched a weekly reporting system, regularly convened special project teams and construction units for consultations, and customized a "green power package" for the company's carbon neutral needs, helping it become the world's first HVAC equipment company to obtain "zero-carbon factory" certification.

Haiyan proposed to strive to have GDP exceed 100 billion yuan by 2030. Foreign-funded enterprises have their own mature supply chains, advanced technologies and modern management systems, which are an important starting point for strengthening and replenishing chains. Haiyan has cultivated a tens-billion-level 5G communications industry cluster by introducing a company called Amphenol.

What the local government needs to do next is to continue to strengthen foreign-invested industry clusters and promote local companies to deeply integrate into the global supply chain, so that every seed that falls can take root and grow into a forest.

Changes in stock: traditional industries "old trees sprout new shoots"

If foreign-invested smart manufacturing is the engine of growth, then traditional advantageous industries such as fasteners, smart integrated homes, and high-end equipment manufacturing form the basic base of Haiyan's industry.

Haiyan fastener industry has a history of more than 40 years and is one of the three largest fastener production bases in the country. In 2025, the county's 171 regulated fastener companies will achieve an output value of 15.625 billion yuan, and their exports will account for nearly 10% of the country's fastener export share.

"A small screw can be used in nuclear power, high-speed rail, and aerospace." Ru Binfei said. The EMU brake disc fasteners produced by the local Qifeng Seiko have been successfully used on the Fuxing High-speed Railway, replacing imported parts; Yuxing Fasteners is the largest and most complete hexagonal nut manufacturer in China...

How can traditional industries "generate new sprouts from old trees"?

In August 2022, Haiyan County was included in the list of the first batch of pilot counties for digital transformation of subdivided industries in Zhejiang Province. In accordance with the requirements of "one county, one industry, one sample", it focused on the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises, such as "lack of samples and dare not change", "lack of funds and cannot afford to change" and "lack of talent and will not change". It took the lead in Jiaxing to implement the "N+X" (commonality + individuality) lightweight transformation of the fastener subdivision industry.

At present, the first batch of pilot enterprises have undergone transformation, and the production plan fulfillment rate has increased to more than 95%, the on-time delivery rate has increased by more than 35%, and the inventory capital occupancy rate and product failure rate have both dropped by 20%. The exploration of lightweight digital transformation paths has begun to show results.

Walking into the production workshop of Zhejiang Qicheng Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., six-axis industrial robots and supporting equipment are coming off the production line, and the company's delivery date has been scheduled to November this year.

"Our self-developed Qspeed high-speed robot can achieve synchronous and continuous operations. The production line can run 18 times per minute. The efficiency has been significantly improved, and the price is about one-third of similar overseas equipment." Liu Hao, the company's deputy chief engineer, said that in 2017, they settled in Haiyan through investment promotion. At that time, the annual output value was only 30 to 40 million yuan; now, the company's annual output value has exceeded 120 million yuan, and its products are exported to Malaysia, Vietnam, Russia and other countries, and its development is getting better and better.

Forward-looking layout: future industries “from zero to one”

For the high-quality development of counties, in many cases it is not enough to "have the best when others have it". Only when "I have the best when others have it" can we show explosive power. On the industrial map of Haiyan, the isotope industry is the most imaginative future industry.

Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant, located in the county, has the only two commercial heavy water reactors in the country and has the unique ability to produce medical isotopes through large-scale, stable, and continuous irradiation. This is the core comparative advantage of Haiyan's layout of the "nuclear energy +" future industry. Relying on the heavy water reactor, Qinshan Nuclear Power has achieved mass production of cobalt-60, comprehensive localization of carbon-14, yttrium-90 from the reactor, and lutetium-177 from the reactor to supply the market. The production capacity of key medical isotopes ranks first in the country.

Nuclear medicine is a cutting-edge technology that targets cancer cells and is also an important direction for future medical innovation. Since 2020, Qinshan Nuclear Power has joined forces with domestic enterprises and scientific research institutes to begin research on the large-scale production of medical isotopes using heavy water reactors. In May 2025, the "Hefu No. 1" technology brand was successfully launched; in December of the same year, Qinshan Nuclear Power was approved by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Science and Technology to form an isotope innovation consortium.

In recent years, Haiyan has based on its own industrial endowment, anchored the development direction of new productivity, planned and constructed a 1000-acre nuclear technology application (isotope) industrial park with high standards, continued to increase industry cultivation and investment attraction, and the development of industrial clusters has begun to take shape.

At present, the total investment of Haiyan Isotope Industrial Park has exceeded 10 billion yuan, and it has been selected as a future industry pilot zone in Zhejiang Province.

"The particularity of the nuclear medicine industry lies in its long approval cycle and high regulatory requirements - from radiation safety licenses to drug registration certificates, every link needs to be treated with caution." Ru Binfei said that Haiyan has innovatively established the country's first county-level radioactive drug supervision bureau to provide enterprises with precise pre-examination services and allow them to "avoid detours."

Strong vitality: "Haiyan Legion" chases the capital market

Listed companies are the "barometer" of local economic vitality. They are not only the fruits of industry, but also the amplifier of urban development vitality.

Up to now, the county has 12 listed companies, among which the number of listed companies on the Beijing Stock Exchange ranks first among Zhejiang counties (cities, districts), forming a unique "Haiyan Army".

"Most of our listed companies are specialized and new enterprises in niche fields. They are not 'big', but all of them have 'unique skills.'" said Liu Yingfeng, deputy director of the Haiyan County Financial Development Service Center.

In order to serve the listing of enterprises, Haiyan selects industry leaders, specialized and new enterprises to establish a reserve cultivation library for listing, and dynamically adjusts and provides classified guidance; it guarantees the land, energy use, and pollution emission indicators of the investment projects of enterprises to be listed, and provides support in technological transformation, research and development, talent and other policies...

In July this year, Xinxing Tools was listed on the GEM of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, becoming Haiyan’s 12th listed company.

"After more than 30 years of technology and market accumulation, our production capacity, R&D system, and digital construction have a certain foundation. Coupled with the current capital market's support orientation for specialized and new manufacturing companies, listing at this time can effectively use capital power to promote the company to complete a new round of leaps." said Zhu Dongwei, chairman of Zhejiang Xinxing Tools Co., Ltd.

Liu Yingfeng noticed that over the years, local listed companies have played the role of chain owners. Through raising investment to expand production, mergers and acquisitions and integration, strengthening and replenishing chains, they have driven the gathering of upstream and downstream supporting companies, and at the same time formed demonstrations to drive more small and medium-sized enterprises to seek standardized and capitalized development, increase R&D innovation, and strengthen new productivity.

From a screw to a dose of nuclear medicine, from traditional manufacturing to artificial intelligence, from county factories to capital markets - Haiyan's "six consecutive championships" in industrial growth are not accidental fluctuations, but the inevitable result of the continuous advancement of the industrial structure.

Standing at the new starting point of the "15th Five-Year Plan", this small county town is "accelerating" on the track of high-quality development with the determination to "move towards the new".