On February 24th, Ruan Qing, deputy director of Shanghai Development and Reform Commission and executive deputy director of Yangtze River Delta Regional Cooperation Office, visited STEP Robot Co., Ltd. to inspect the progress of "whole Yangtze River Delta robot", inspected the manufacturing and testing situation of STEP "whole Yangtze River Delta robot" on the spot, listened to the progress of the project, and encouraged STEP to benchmark international first-line brands and strengthen scientific research. Improve the technical level, expand the market application, achieve a high level of domestic substitution, become an international first-class robot brand, and contribute to the economic development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the whole country.
In July 2022, the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology sent a letter to the Department of Industry and Information Technology of Jiangsu Province, the Department of Economy and Information Technology of Zhejiang Province, and the Department of Economy and Information Technology of Anhui Province to support the construction of the first "Whole Yangtze River Delta Manufacturing" robot and Promote Industrial Chain Collaboration, leading STEP as the "chain master" enterprise. Jointly with 12 upstream and downstream enterprises of the Yangtze River Delta robot industry chain, jointly build a "Made in the Yangtze River Delta" robot with all parts supplied by the Yangtze River Delta region.
As the chain master enterprise, under the guidance of the Third Office of the Changjiang Government, the Shanghai Development and Reform Commission and the Shanghai Economic and Information Technology Commission, STEP2022 will join 12 upstream and downstream enterprises of the Yangtze River Delta robot industry chain to jointly build a robot "Made in the Yangtze River Delta" with all parts supplied by the Yangtze River Delta region. The overall performance has reached the leading level in China after verification by third-party testing institutions and market applications. Close to the international first-class level, the sales volume of STEP's "whole Yangtze River Delta manufacturing robot" exceeded 700 units in 2022, and it entered the automotive complete machine production line, achieving the "zero breakthrough" of domestic brands entering the production line of automobile main engine factories.
STEP "Whole Yangtze River Delta Manufacturing Robot" for automobile production line
Deputy Director Ruan Qing pointed out that the three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta are the clustering areas for the high-quality development of China's robot industry. The robot production capacity accounts for more than 50% of the country, and the robot market ranks at the top of the country. It brings together the leading enterprise groups of key components, ontology and integrated applications of China's domestic robot industry, which has a good foundation for the development of the robot industry. Domestic robot brands are gradually gaining recognition from more enterprises. Robot enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta will make full use of the existing supply chain and the high-quality supply chain established by international brands in China through order pull, improve performance and production capacity, and effectively control costs. While serving manufacturing enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta and the whole country, they will go abroad while achieving a higher level of domestic substitution. And international first-line brands in a wider range, higher level of competition.
Ruan Qing, deputy director, asked that the third office of the Minister will combine the actual situation of the "whole Yangtze River Delta manufacturing robot" industrial chain enterprises, and introduce policies in terms of talent security and expanding market demand. To carry out the "whole Yangtze River Delta robot" industry chain cooperation as an opportunity to promote the key parts enterprises in the domestic mainstream robot machine factory to achieve application, promote the industry upstream and downstream mutual benefit and win-win situation; By increasing the technical reform of enterprises, let more scenes use robots made in the Yangtze River Delta, drive the high-quality and orderly development of the industrial chain of robots made in the Yangtze River Delta, and enhance the development resilience of the robot industry chain.
Deputy Director Ruan Qing said that the Yangtze River Delta should be a good leader, and better play the role of economic anchor, development source and reform test field in terms of high level of self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology, and build a world-class industrial cluster. It can better represent the country to participate in international cooperation and competition, and better show the bright prospect of Chinese modernization to the world.
The leaders of the Office of the Ministry of Commerce, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Commission of Economy and Information Technology and the Chairman of STEP Ji Yi, the general manager of STEP Jin Xinhai, the general manager of Robot Business Department Zhou Guangxing and the president of Shanghai Robot Industry Technology Research Institute Huang Huijie attended the meeting together.