Pujiang County, Zhejiang Province: "Learn From Others And Imitate Others" Helps Small And Medium-Sized Textile Enterprises To Move Towards A New Track

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that building a modern industrial system, sticking to the focus of economic development on the real economy, promoting new industrialization, and accelerating the construction of a manufacturing power, a network power, and a digital China. Zhejiang Province also regards enterprise digital transformation as a core content of building an upgraded version of "No.1 Project" of digital economy.

In view of the problems of unclear direction, weak ability and insufficient support in the transformation of large and extensive SMEs, Jinhua City focuses on key industrial chains to build new quality productivity, deeply implements the "N+X" digital reform model, and takes benchmark enterprises as the guide to promote SMEs to carry out sample imitation, so as to achieve "trial and drive".

From point to line and from line to surface, the pilot project will be turned into a demonstration, and the "bonsai" will be turned into a "landscape". The "ten chains and ten thousand enterprises" imitating Jinhua model will be nominated for the 2022 Zhejiang Provincial Reform Breakthrough Award.

Zhejiang Juyitang Garments Co., Ltd., located in Pujiang County, is a comprehensive enterprise integrating research and development, textile, production and sales. Since 2020, it has invested more than 30 million yuan in digital transformation, and has been awarded as Zhejiang Intelligent Factory, Jinhua Digital Demonstration Enterprise, etc.

Through the window of Juyi Hall, you can enjoy the scene of "ten chains and ten thousand enterprises" imitating Jinhua model ".

　　 "Point" power up

Juyi Hall mainly produces yoga clothes. Thanks to digital transformation, it now has a super productivity of 120000 to 150000 pieces per day. The reporter saw in the production workshop that more than 40 three-dimensional flow production lines were in order, and the production processes of cutting, sewing, finishing and packaging were all connected together, so that the clothes would not fall on the ground in the whole process.

Wang Zhihua, the director of Juyitang Intelligent Factory, described the changes before and after the transformation as "earth shaking". "Even a novice can be competent only by mastering one of the links, which greatly alleviates the difficulty of finding skilled workers in the garment industry".

Recalling the process of digital transformation, Lv Yonggui, the head of Hangzhou Maide Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., felt "not easy". As a digital transformation service provider of Juyitang, Midea Smart has followed up and provided in-depth services in the whole process. Within two years, there were more than 600 optical technology development points. "It means that we have encountered more than 600 stuck points and blocked points." Lv Yonggui said that Juyitang introduced the "soft and smart cloud" integrated software and hardware solution, which not only realized the automation and intelligent transformation of the production process, but also strengthened the data collection and analysis capabilities through the construction of a digital management platform to promote high-quality development of enterprises.

Limited capital investment capacity, lack of professional high-end talents, and difficulty in large-scale scene application... Like Juyitang, there are many "pain points" in the digital transformation of SMEs, and they are similar. In this regard, Jinhua City solved the key problems in the transformation through innovative models and guaranteed services.

For example, efforts should be made to solve the problem of high transformation costs and "dare not transform" of SMEs. Jinhua City has increased policy support, concentrated resources to promote rapidly, and policy support ranks first in the province. In recent three years, the city's average annual funds for enterprise digital transformation is nearly 1.5 billion yuan; Promote platform based services, take the industrial Internet platform as the core, vigorously promote cloud based services, innovate services and charging modes, and reduce the cost of enterprise transformation; For the regular "physical examination" of the digital transformation of enterprises, the Detailed Rules for the Evaluation of the Digital Transformation of Small and Medium sized Enterprises in Jinhua City was formulated, the evaluation index data management mechanism was established, and the digital transformation service providers and third-party evaluation and consulting institutions were organized regularly to carry out "one-to-one" services in small and medium-sized enterprises.

　　 "Line" drill down

In recent years, Midea Intelligence has provided services for the digital reform of many small and medium-sized enterprises in the province, and has accumulated a large number of cases. "Practice has proved that digital whole plant planning is the only way for SMEs to transform and upgrade and enhance their competitiveness," said Lv Yonggui. For example, after the completion of Juyitang Intelligent Factory Project, the per capita efficiency will increase by about 30%, the production capacity will increase by more than 15%, and the order growth will increase by about 20%. In just one year, Juyitang's output value will double.

Jinhua has a developed county economy, which is the experimental field of the "Zhejiang Plan" for the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises in the province. In recent years, Jinhua has taken the "N+X" digital transformation mode of small and medium-sized enterprises as the starting point, first tried "one chess game for the whole city, one county and one industry" to implement the "ten thousand enterprise digital transformation" campaign, enabled the overall upgrading of industrial clusters, created a reproducible, easy to promote, low-cost digital transformation path for small and medium-sized enterprises, and basically achieved the coverage of "N+X" digital transformation in the whole city, It has contributed a number of "Jinhua experience" to the digital transformation of SMEs in Zhejiang Province.

By the end of 2023, the city has carried out digital transformation in 16 sub industries, basically achieving the effect of "trial and drive". Seven counties (cities and districts), including Yiwu, Dongyang, Yongkang, Lanxi, Jindong, Wuyi, and Pujiang, have been awarded special financial incentives for digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises in provincial sub industries, ranking first in the province.

Take the clothing industry of Juyitang as an example. Jinhua City strives to solve the problems such as the difficulties in traditional hanging data connection, the confusion in edition room style management, the difficulty in order tracking management, the confusion in warehouse management, and the difficulty in controlling the production process. It encourages conditional enterprises such as small and medium-sized enterprises in the clothing industry that are "specialized, special, and new" to carry out in-depth digital transformation, focusing on promoting the production process, product life cycle Digitization of the industrial chain supply chain and intelligent management decisions will promote the optimization and upgrading of the industrial chain supply chain and establish a green, low-carbon and circular clothing industry system.

By the end of 2023, the development benefit of the textile and clothing pilot enterprises in the city has increased by 12.3% on average, the weaving efficiency has increased by 5% at the highest level, the networking rate of production equipment has reached 98%, and the average consumption of water, electricity and steam per 10000 meters of cloth has decreased by 9.8%, 4.1% and 5.6% respectively, setting a sample for the digital transformation of enterprises and stimulating the transformation power of enterprises.

　　 "Face" expansion

Through digital reform, Juyitang has also strengthened the construction of the supply chain collaboration management platform to further optimize the supply chain collaboration efficiency. However, Juyitang Chairman Zhang Binjie has a higher goal, "We need to build a real 'future factory', and the next step will be to work hard on the construction of intelligent storage".

It is reported that Jinhua City promotes the digital transformation of SMEs in accordance with the gradient path of "digitalization of industrial enterprises above designated size - digital workshops - intelligent factories - 'future factories'". Up to now, our city has built 7 "future factories", ranking the fourth in the province; Totally 12 provincial "future factories" have been piloted and built; 65 provincial intelligent factories (digital workshops) have been built. For example, Juyitang will be rated as Zhejiang Intelligent Factory in 2023.

On the other hand, Jinhua supports the promotion of online SaaS application for key enterprises under the planning. Enterprises can flexibly use SaaS based applications or low code tools of industrial Internet platform, industrial brain and professional service cloud platform to realize basic digital applications such as collaborative office and fiscal management, and gradually extend to key links such as production, sales, quality and supply chain.

Jinhua also issued the Action Plan for "Full Coverage" of Digital Transformation of Industrial Enterprises above the Designated Size in Jinhua City, which aims to achieve early and high standards, and innovatively establish an evaluation mechanism for digital transformation of SMEs with Jinhua characteristics.

The Evaluation Report on the Digital Transformation Level of Industrial Enterprises in Zhejiang Province in 2023 shows that the basic network coverage rate of industrial enterprises in Jinhua City reaches 98.03%, and the penetration rate of MES system in the production and manufacturing links of enterprise workshops ranks first in the province.

The pace of digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises in Jinhua will continue to accelerate. In late June, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China announced the list of pilot cities for digital transformation of SMEs in 2024, and Jinhua was on the list. "The central government will give 100 million yuan of award and subsidy funds to the selected cities to support the digital transformation of enterprises and the improvement of service capabilities." The relevant person in charge of the Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology said that in terms of the use of award and subsidy funds, it will promote the chain transformation of enterprises that have reached the national digital level and above, and accelerate the promotion of high-quality "small, fast, light and accurate" products, Foster high-quality service providers and increase support.

It is reported that the pilot construction period of the project is two years. Jinhua City will deepen the digital transformation of three industries, including electric tools, magnetic materials and clothing, to promote the transformation of traditional manufacturing industry to digital, and set Jinhua as a model for the construction of new industrialization nationwide.

　　 [Expert's advice]

E Shiju, Dean of the School of Engineering/Xingzhi College of Zhejiang Normal University, and Dean of Jinhua Intelligent Manufacturing Research Institute: Jinhua is a big manufacturing city with a large number of industrial enterprises and obvious characteristics of industrial clusters. Manufacturing enterprises have become an important support force for high energy level industrial transformation and high-quality economic development. It is an important starting point for the city to explore "expansion", "improvement" and create an olive shaped industrial structure to improve the efficiency and core competitiveness of manufacturing enterprises through digital empowerment.

With the in-depth implementation of the "No. 1 Project" of digital economy, the digital transformation of manufacturing enterprises in the city has accelerated, the application level of industrial Internet in industrial clusters has significantly improved, and the digital level of leading enterprises has significantly improved. At present, the city has more than 60000 manufacturing enterprises, and has formed 18 manufacturing industry clusters of more than 10 billion yuan around Jinhua's ten major industrial chains. The city's small and medium-sized enterprises' digital transformation work has many indicators in the forefront of the province, which is worthy of praise.

There are three suggestions for future development: 1. Establish a digital implementation expert consultation team to regularly and quantitatively guide the digital construction of enterprises; 2. Strengthen policy supply, speed up the introduction and cultivation of digital application talents and build a digital talent training base in central Zhejiang based on Jinhua Intelligent Manufacturing Research Institute and other platforms with digital technology development and training capabilities; 3. The service capability evaluation standards of digital service providers were introduced, and the digital service providers participating in the digital transformation of Jinhua City were rated regularly to promote the improvement of service levels.

(Source: Jinhua Daily)