On the 15th, Fu Qiang, the general manager of Heilongjiang New Industry Investment Group Co., Ltd. (referred to as “Provincial Investment Group”), and Li Yiqing, the deputy general manager, along with Liu Jing, the chairman of Heilongjiang Keli High-tech Industry Investment Co., Ltd., and Hao Jianquan, the general manager, visited Harbin Shimada Big Bird Industrial Co., Ltd. (referred to as “Big Bird Industrial”) for a research visit.
Heilongjiang New Industry Investment Group Co., Ltd. is a wholly state-owned company controlled by the Heilongjiang Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission 100%, and is also the first batch of state-owned capital investment company reform pilot enterprises in the province.
Under the guidance of Chairman Li Pengtang, general manager Fu Qiang and his team conducted an on-site inspection of Big Bird Industrial's production plant, comprehensively understanding the production processes and technical characteristics of main products such as cleaning machines and visual equipments. During the research visit, Chairman Li Pengtang emphasized the technical bottlenecks and upgrade demands of the enterprise in the field of intelligent manufacturing, stating, “Currently, we urgently need breakthroughs in high-end visual recognition algorithms and the iterative upgrade of cleaning technologies. The cutting-edge research of universities is the key to solving these problems. We hope to build a cooperation bridge through the platform advantages of the Provincial Investment Group.”
General manager Fu Qiang highly recognized the production strength and market positioning of Big Bird Industrial. The core responsibility of the Provincial Investment Group is to break through the connection blockages between the innovation chain and the industrial chain. This research visit is precisely to accurately match the innovative resources of universities with the actual needs of enterprises, turning the technologies in laboratories into benefits in the industry.
During the exchange session, both sides reached multiple consensus on specific cooperation models. According to the plan, a “three-level linkage” cooperation system will be established to form a closed loop of technology transfer: at the government connection level, the Provincial Investment Group will leverage its advantages in policy interpretation and resource integration to assist Big Bird Industrial in connecting with provincial and municipal science and technology authorities. At the same time, it will expand the application scenarios of products by relying on the technology transfer platforms established by the government. At the university cooperation level, both sides will jointly build a “university-industry-research innovation consortium”with key universities in the province such as Harbin Institute of Technology and Heilongjiang University. Through the mechanism of “enterprises proposing demands, universities providing solutions, and capital providing support”, cross-disciplinary research teams will be formed for specific topics such as the intelligent upgrade of cleaning equipment and visual detection equpment. University researchers can deeply participate in the technology transfer through methods such as “joint recruitment and use” and “technology equity participation”, achieving “funding for research, carriers for transfer, and guaranteed returns”. At the level of result implementation, the Provincial Investment Group will include Big Bird Industrial as a core member of the provincial technology transfer alliance and give priority to introducing mature technological achievements from universities. For laboratory technologies developed by universities, the Provincial Investment Group will lead the organization of technical evaluations and market research to reduce transfer risks. Once the technologies are mature, Big Bird Industrial will carry out large-scale production, forming a complete chain from “basic research - application development - industrial implementation”.
Chairman Li Pengtang emphasized during the exchange that Big Bird Industrial will take this cooperation as an opportunity to solidify its business fundamentals. “We not only want to be the recipients of technological achievements but also the promoters of regional intelligent manufacturing industries. Through in-depth cooperation with the Provincial Investment Group and universities, we will drive the upgrading of upstream and downstream enterprises together, truly being responsible to shareholders and the industry.”
This research visit marks a crucial step for Big Bird Industrial on the path of coordinated development among government, enterprises, and universities. In the future, both sides will take specific projects as the starting point, refine cooperation plans, and improve promotion mechanisms to achieve win-win results in technological innovation, talent cultivation, and industrial upgrading, contributing more to the high-quality development of the intelligent manufacturing industry in Heilongjiang Province.
