East China’s Jiangsu province has made every possible effort to accelerate the resumption of work and production to offset the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the economy, as is evidenced by the year-on-year increase of 8.1% in its added value of industries above designated size in April.
The province’s added value of industries above designated size increased by 8.1% year-on-year in April and a 3.1% rebound from March, according to statistics released by the provincial department of industry and information technology.
From January to April, the province’s industrial added value decreased by 3.1% year-on-year, contracting by 4.7 percentage points from the January-March period.
12 of the 13 prefecture-level cities maintained positive industrial growth in April with Yancheng, Suzhou, and Changzhou reporting the fastest rebound.
Envision Technology Group and CRRC Times New Material Technology Co., Ltd have rolled off the assembly line the country’s first mass-produced carbon pultruded beam blade.
Compared with traditional glass fiber blades, carbon fiber blades have higher strength and only half the weight, making it significant for the continuous development of offshore wind power and leading cutting-edge technologies for large blades.
New products and technologies such as carbon pultruded beam blades have continuously entered the market and become a new industrial growth engine to drive the province’s industrial growth in April and ensure that it is back on the high-growth track.
Jiangsu will launch about 200 provincial-level enterprise technology centers this year and also develop 900 new products that are up to the international standards.
The province has also sorted out 175 research items for open bidding to replace imported products.
The recent establishment of the National Integrated Circuit Characteristic Process and Packaging Test Innovation Center in Jiangsu marks the second national manufacturing innovation center established in Jiangsu after the National Advanced Functional Fiber Innovation Center. The center will gather upstream and downstream resources in the industry chain, build an innovation system with enterprises as the mainstay and a combination of production, education and research in the hope of breaking through the key common technologies of integrated circuit.
