Bowang town, Dangtu County, Anhui Province, known as "The township of China's machine tools", this covers an area of 133 square kilometers, jurisdiction over 28 villages (residential), the population of nearly 100 thousand (township population of 30 thousand) town, there are more than 30 machine tool enterprises, tool enterprises more than 200. In 2007, the industrial output value reached more than 4 billion yuan, with profits and taxes of more than 800 million yuan. The export of products earned more than 50 million US dollars. Machine tool industry here so developed, not only anhui unique, in the country is also rare.

Start in the manufacture of self-use simple machine tools

Borwang town is located in the eastern end of Dangtu County, Maanshan City, within the one-hour metropolitan area of Nanjing, with a long history and culture, known as the "Famous Blade town in China" reputation.

The machine tool industry of Bowang town has developed for a long time. As early as in the 1970s, some simple machinery parts factory to solve the problem of production equipment, began to manufacture simple machine tools, and gradually developed for the shearing machine, bending machine, after being put on the market is very popular. In order to open the market and expand the sales, the enterprise employs local smart and diligent personnel to help the sales. These people, with product manuals or even samples, go to all parts of the country to publicize the products and connect the enterprises and users. In order to get faster development, the enterprises in Bowang Town at that time put the sales in **** position in accordance with the order of "selling and supplying production". The enterprises employed a large number of sales personnel, usually 100 people for production, with 1000 people for sales outside.

The enterprise executes flexible sale policy to sales personnel, sales personnel does not take fixed salary, take sale commission only. This kind of practice, mobilized the enthusiasm of sales personnel greatly, some people describe them as "run thousands of mountains and rivers, into thousands of households, say thousands of words, eat thousands of hardships", not too much. Flexible sales policy so that part of the sales staff rich, after the capital they also run their own factory engaged in the production of machine tools, cutting tools, so that the machine tools, tools industry soon prosperous.

The town of machine tools has begun to take shape

Enter Bowang town, **** impression is that here is full of enterprises, in addition to the blade production factory, there are machine tools and road construction machinery parts industry. It is understood that in recent years, the town around to build Anhui province private economy *** town, the national economy thousand strong town and the regional center small city goal, seize the opportunity, the industrial construction has achieved remarkable results. At present, Bowang Town has formed three pillar industries of blade mould, machine tool and road construction machinery parts production. There are more than 470 industrial enterprises, among which 60 have an annual sales income of more than 5 million yuan, 39 enterprises have the right to export, and nearly 20 enterprises earn foreign exchange through direct export. The comprehensive strength of the town has been significantly enhanced.

Entering the period of "the tenth five-year Plan" and "the eleventh five-year Plan", the machine tool enterprise of Bowang town carries out the scientific development view and takes the new industrialization road seriously. Some have invested heavily in new plants, upgrading equipment and adopting advanced technologies. For example, Central Asia and China and Germany have built factories of thousands to tens of thousands of square meters, purchased advanced production equipment and developed CNC machine tools. The cutting machine produced by the alliance company, the blade produced by Jinhai Company and the blade mould produced by Techco Company have all reached the leading level in China. A total of 8 products in the town were rated as inspection-free products, 3 products were rated as provincial famous brand products, more than 40 enterprises through the ISO9000 quality system certification, more than 20 enterprises have been self-export management rights.

The government takes advantage of the situation to create an environment for development

At the same time, the county and town governments take advantage of the situation to give strong support and create a good environment for the development of enterprises. A large amount of funds will be invested in road construction, water supply and drainage, afforestation, and construction of public facilities such as communications and ventilation. To formulate and implement preferential policies to attract investment, refund of value-added tax, and guarantee for farmers who have lost their land, and encourage the development of enterprises; In order to help enterprises to solve the problem of insufficient funds, the town government also took the lead to set up the Economic development credit financing Co-guarantee Center in Bowang Town, which won hundreds of millions of yuan for enterprises. In order to support the technological progress of enterprises and provide better services for enterprises, it also supports the establishment of machinery research Institute, wear-resisting alloy research institute, heat-resisting tool steel research Institute, heat treatment center; In order to regulate the business behavior of enterprises and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises, the town government also took the lead in establishing the federation of Industry and Commerce.

Industrial cluster drives economic development of Bowang Town

The machine tool industry in Bowang town has been maintaining a good development momentum in recent years due to both internal and external factors. A large number of enterprises, such as Central Asia, China and Germany, Jinhai, Weston and so on, are developing economies of scale. Many enterprises in short supply of products, users often urge to wait for goods, and sometimes even can not wait for paint will be pulled away. The formation of the industrial cluster of machine tools and cutting tools drives the development of the whole town's economy and becomes the pillar of the town's financial revenue. It has promoted the employment of labor. At present, the number of employees in this industry has reached 15,000.

Age today, the town has a burst of energy, highlighted in the ancient new, from the cutting of the township to the entire province machinery manufacturing industry cluster, from the national township enterprises cooperation demonstration zone to the national spark science and technology concentration areas, from the small town construction ShiFan Town to the national civilized villages and towns, DangTu bo hope town already took a linkage between urban and rural areas, a win-win development of the new road.

Industrial cluster is a symbol of the rapid development of China's industrial economy. How to seize the opportunity, seize the momentum and achieve the healthy development of the machine tool industry cluster in Bowang Town? Ma 'anshan city government officials told reporters that the following points need to be addressed:

First, we will further expand core enterprises. Through our own efforts, we will increase support to further expand and strengthen the several large-scale enterprises, and focus technology research and development and product innovation on the core enterprises to give full play to the radiation role of the core enterprises.

Second, we will further make overall planning and do a good job in division of labor and coordination. At present, the enterprises in the cluster are basically fighting on their own, with more repeated products and few interconnections. To further help the planning, each enterprise product focus, expand variety, series, facing a wider range of users; We should also do a good job in technological cooperation and develop specialized production. For example, machine tool enterprises consume a large amount of steel every year. At present, all enterprises purchase by themselves. If unified procurement can be carried out, centralized cutting can greatly reduce consumption.

Third, we will actively help solve the talent problem. Because of the gap between town and city life, it is difficult for enterprises here to attract talents, especially college graduates to come here for employment and entrepreneurship.