Since 2025, Jiahe County of Chenzhou City has adhered to “promoting industrial development through technological innovation”, focusing on key indicators, deepening the industry-academia-research integration, optimizing policy supply to solidly promote the cultivation of new quality productive forces. It has achieved significant results in various work.

In the conference room of Hunan Jiaqi New Material Technology Co., Ltd., an online negotiation with a certain university was underway. Enterprise leaders and university representatives had in-depth discussions on the research and development direction of new materials, talent cultivation, and transportation mechanisms, jointly planning new paths for university-enterprise cooperation.

“Universities have strong scientific research capabilities, cutting-edge theoretical knowledge, and abundant talent resources, which are urgently needed by enterprises. Through cooperation with universities, we can directly connect to the most advanced scientific research achievements, inject new vitality into the R&D of new materials, greatly shorten the R&D cycle, and reduce R&D costs,” Zeng Li, head of Hunan Jiaqi New Materials Technology Co., Ltd., said.In recent years, Jiahe County has achieved outstanding results in the field of sci-tech innovation. Multiple key indicators have ranked among the top in the city, providing strong empowerment and assistance for the industrial upgrading in the county.

In 2025, it has successfully promoted demonstration cooperation between dozens of enterprises and universities inside and outside the province.

At present, the registration of technology contracts in universities for the whole year has reached 56.5 million yuan, with a completion rate of 282.5%. The cutting-edge innovative achievements of universities can be developed in enterprises as quickly as possible, truly achieving mutual benefits between universities and enterprises.

Talent is undoubtedly the core driving force for enterprises's continuous growth. At the beginning of 2025, as a leading enterprise in the Jiahe Foundry industry, Hunan Xinquan Technology Co., Ltd. was once faced with talent shortage, which became a great headache for the business leaders.

Kan Weiliang, director of the R&D Center of Hunan Xinquan Technology Co., Ltd., said: “Talent shortage is like an insurmountable obstacle that stands in the way of the enterprise development. Enterprises are in bad need of various professional and technical talents to promote the research and development of new products and the improvement of production processes. However, it is so hard to recruit or retain suitable workers. The orders are increasing, but we are unable to deliver them on time due to the lack of workers, which makes me extremely anxious.”

Faced with the common talent shortage faced by enterprises, Jiahe County has taken multiple measures to tackle the problem. On the one hand, it has adopted a flexible introduction strategy, gathering more than 10 professional talents such as overseas returnees with master's degrees and senior engineers.

On the other hand, by combining the “targeted talent introduction” mechanism, it has accurately attracted talents according to enterprises’ demand.

At the same time, it has improved the incentives for technological innovation, with over 6 million yuan in technological rewards granted, implemented supporting policies to stimulate the innovation vitality of enterprises, helping them enhance technology and quality, and seize market opportunities.

Up to now, Jiahe County has achieved significant results through university-industry cooperation to carry out targeted research and development.

The 26-meter ultra-large double-column gantry machining center independently developed by Hunan Daqian Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. has been launched, breaking through the technical barriers in the field of ultra-large high-precision machine tools and filling the gap in related industries in China.

This marks a new level in the equipment manufacturing industry, injecting strong momentum into the transformation of regional sci-tech achievements into real productivity.

Chinese source: hunantoday