Linkage between schools and enterprises to create the future with intelligence｜The scientific research team from East China Normal University visited Qindian Machinery for visits and exchanges to explore new paths for in-depth integration of industry, academia and research

At the beginning of the exchange, Chairman Yang Zhiguo accompanied researcher Yi Zhengfang and the master and doctoral research team to visit the corporate brand exhibition hall.

The exhibition hall systematically displays the development history of Qindian Machinery for more than 20 years, corporate qualifications and honors, core patented technologies, full range of intelligent packaging equipment, global market layout and benchmark cooperation cases. The visiting team learned in detail about the company's development achievements in intelligent automation, independent technology research and development, overseas market expansion, industry-university-research innovation, etc., and highly recognized the company's development philosophy of focusing on segmented tracks, deeply cultivating industry, and adhering to technological innovation.

As a national high-tech enterprise, a specialized enterprise, a scientific and technological innovation enterprise, and a national packaging technology innovation demonstration base, Shanghai innovative enterprise... Qindian Machinery relies on its solid R&D strength and product quality to serve nearly 10,000 enterprises around the world, of which 30 or 40 are among the world's top 500 brands. Its products are exported to more than 80 countries and regions around the world, and it has steadily promoted the global layout of serving hundreds of countries.

After the visit, both parties held a symposium on the development and future trends of private enterprises.

At the meeting, Chairman Yang Zhiguo comprehensively introduced the overall layout and business philosophy of the company. The company has now formed a three-dimensional integrated industrial structure of manufacturing, technology, and trade: the Shanghai headquarters serves as the core R&D and brand base, the Baoshan subsidiary deploys industrial Internet of Things and intelligent AI upgrades, and Hainan International Trade Company relies on the free trade port policy to fully develop global import and export trade.

At the same time, Chairman Yang Zhiguo shared his personal experience of more than 20 years of industrial development:

After graduating from university in 1999, he began to take root in the physical manufacturing industry. He joined a Taiwan-funded enterprise in the early days and witnessed the current situation of the domestic packaging equipment industry that was completely dependent on imports. He started his own business in 2006 and has been deeply involved in the field of intelligent packaging equipment for more than 20 years starting from the basics.

In the past 27 years in the manufacturing industry, we have always adhered to the steady development philosophy of "independent research and development, strong brand foundation, and specialization and refinement. We have rejected capital coercion and blind expansion, focused on polishing core products, consolidated industry reputation, and relied on continuous innovation and research and development to maintain high quality, high speed, and a path of private industrial development in specialized fields.

During the discussion, master's and doctoral students raised many practical questions based on their own scientific research studies and industry observations. Chairman Yang Zhiguo answered one by one based on the company's practical experience:

Q1: Automated production lines can be operated by one person and smart manufacturing continues to become more popular. Will this cause a large number of people to lose their jobs?

Answer: Automation is an inevitable trend in the development of the manufacturing industry. Traditional manual assembly line positions will decrease, but at the same time, a large number of new positions will be created such as equipment research and development and debugging, Internet of Things operation and maintenance, foreign trade, and technical services. In the early years, all equipment relied on overseas imports. After the rise of domestic industries, the overall industrial value increased. Independent innovation is the core competitiveness of enterprises.

Q2: Many peer companies choose to expand their scale and enter the capital market. Why does your company adhere to the line of specialization and refinement and does not plan to expand rapidly with the help of capital?

Answer: Listing is prone to being coerced by capital and can easily deviate from the original business intention. We are deeply involved in market segments and do not expand blindly. We focus on building a stable and high-quality brand. We rely on our own R&D and global channels to achieve long-term stable operations and maintain stable profit margins.

Q3: Nowadays, many young people give priority to taking the civil service examination. What do you think of the two options for young people to take the civil service examination and enter the physical manufacturing industry?

Answer: Currently, competition in public examinations is serious. Intelligent manufacturing in real industries, industrial interconnection, cross-border trade, and artificial intelligence are all high-quality tracks that the country is focusing on developing. Young people are pragmatic and deeply involved in industry, and continue to learn and improve their abilities. They also have broad development prospects.

Q4: With fierce market competition and severe industry involution, what is the core way for your company to achieve long-term stable profitability?

Answer: We insist on independent research and development of iterative products, do not follow the low-price competition route, and rely on our own patents and R&D technologies, global market layout, and improved supporting services to establish differentiated competitive advantages.

Q5: AI and the Internet of Everything have become industry hot spots. What are the future development opportunities for the manufacturing industry?

Answer: In the future, the manufacturing industry will develop toward automation, AI intelligence, unmanned operations, and globalization; domestic equipment will gradually replace imported equipment, the Industrial Internet of Things will be fully implemented, and the export of domestic products overseas will be a long-term development opportunity.

Q6: We are deeply engaged in the research and development of targeted drugs in life sciences. Why do we need to carry out industry-university-research exchanges and cooperation with equipment manufacturing companies?

Answer: Universities have cutting-edge theories and scientific research talents, and companies have industrial implementation scenarios and equipment research and development capabilities. The two-way complementation of industry, academia and research can not only help the implementation of supporting packaging technology for biopharmaceuticals, but also allow young students to enter the real industry and combine theory with practice.

Yi Zhengfang is a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Life Medicine, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University. She is also the co-founder of a biomedical company and has been deeply involved in the cutting-edge biomedical field for many years.

The main research directions are the research and development of new anti-tumor targeted drugs and the development of new medical medical devices, focusing on the research of tumor-targeted small molecule drugs such as breast cancer, prostate cancer, and gastric cancer.

He has presided over the National 973 sub-project and several National Natural Science Foundations; published more than 100 SCI papers in authoritative international journals such as "Nature Communications", applied for more than 100 domestic and foreign patents, completed the transformation of dozens of patents, and many independently developed anti-cancer targeted drugs have entered the clinical stage.

He concurrently serves as a reviewer for a number of international academic journals and a national-level scientific research project reviewer. He has long-term led the master's and doctoral research team to carry out industry-university-research implementation research, and continues to promote the integration and innovation of biomedical technology and real industries.

The visit of researcher Yi Zhengfang and the master's and doctoral research team from the School of Life Sciences of East China Normal University was a wonderful cross-border dialogue between cutting-edge life sciences and intelligent equipment manufacturing.

Professor Yi Zhengfang is deeply engaged in the research of targeted anti-tumor drugs, biomedical materials, and cutting-edge medical devices, and has achieved fruitful scientific research results. The two parties fully communicated and reached a consensus on in-depth cooperation around the intelligent packaging of biological preparations , research and development of freshness preservation technology, talent exchanges between industry, academia and research institutes, and the implementation of scientific research results .

Chairman Yang Zhiguo said that Qindian Machinery will continue to open a school-enterprise cooperation platform in the future:

Adhere to innovation-driven industrial upgrading, continue to deepen the linkage between industry, academia, and research in universities, and promote the industrialization of scientific research results; at the same time, we will build a high-quality platform for young people to learn, communicate, and practice to help young talents grow.

In the future, Qindian Machinery will continue to adhere to its original intention of industry, delve into the field of intelligent manufacturing, and write a new chapter of school-enterprise collaboration and domestic products exporting overseas with a high-quality development layout of professional, innovative, hard-working, and efficient private real economy + industrial Internet + global market layout!

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