In 2025, Pingle County's regional GDP reached 15.497 billion yuan, up 4.5% year on year, ranking fifth in the city.
Behind these impressive figures is Pingle County's focus on building itself into an industrial powerhouse featuring deep integration of primary, secondary and tertiary industries, adhering to a model of government building the platform, school-enterprise collaboration, demand-driven development and industry-education integration, pushing scientific and technological talent to cluster at the front lines of industry, breaking down barriers between university research outcomes and actual corporate production, and truly turning the "primary resource" into the "primary driving force".
The government builds the platform and "plays matchmaker", with school-enterprise cooperation moving from "gazing across the river" to "joining hands in tackling challenges". In response to the structural contradiction of enterprises having application scenarios but lacking technology, and universities having research outcomes but lacking carriers, Pingle County has proactively served as the "matchmaker" for school-enterprise cooperation, established a regular mechanism for surveying enterprise technological needs, sorted out technological bottlenecks in leading industries such as industrial manufacturing, specialty agriculture and food processing, precisely matched expert resources from universities and research institutes, and promoted industry-university-research cooperation from scattered contacts to institutionalized coordination. At Great Wall Power Technology (Guangxi) Co., Ltd., an expert team from Guangxi Normal University went deep into workshops and R&D centers, conducting on-site "diagnosis and prescription" around process optimization and intelligent upgrading of equipment, and reached consensus on joint technological research and targeted talent cultivation.
Demand-driven efforts "break barriers", with research outcomes moving from "laboratory bonsai" to "production line scenery". Pingle County has deepened the closed-loop model of "enterprises pose the questions, universities answer them, and production lines grade the results", guiding experts to go to the front lines and write their papers inside workshops and on the ridges of fields. Professor Liu Dewu's team from South China University of Technology connected with Guilin Daxin Modern Agriculture Co., Ltd., focusing on pain points such as precision feeding, intelligent environmental control and full-process data monitoring in smart pig farming. After the technology was implemented at the Changchong pig farm, it will effectively increase the scale of market-ready hogs. Guilin University of Technology carried out order-based talent cultivation with Guangxi Kaisuo Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., and Guilin Tourism University trained cultural tourism practitioners for Pingle Hongrun Company. Cooperation has extended from single technological research to joint talent cultivation, turning scientific and technological achievements from "laboratory bonsai" into "scenery" on the industrial front lines.
Special commissioners "sink to the front lines", with experts and enterprises moving from "general contact" to "precise pairing". Pingle County has proactively aligned with the working mechanism of enterprise science and technology special commissioners (teams) of the autonomous region. In 2026, four university experts were included in the recognized list of Guangxi enterprise science and technology special commissioners and special commissioner teams, and key enterprises achieved "one-on-one" precise pairing with university experts: tackling intelligent manufacturing and product inspection algorithms for Guilin Aisheng Technology Co., Ltd., providing technical guidance on improving quality and efficiency of specialty agricultural products for Guilin Xuteng Agriculture Technology Co., Ltd.; helping Guilin Yangfa Food Co., Ltd. carry out deep processing of agricultural products and optimization of food processes, and assisting Great Wall Power Technology (Guangxi) Co., Ltd. in solving difficulties in upgrading electronic manufacturing equipment and production processes. Alongside technological research, expert resources are used to promote the joint building of practical training and internship bases by schools and enterprises and to carry out targeted skills training, opening a channel for talent to move from campuses to production front lines, making the special commissioner team both a "task force" and a "talent cultivation camp".
Service guarantees "enrich the soil", with innovative momentum moving from "single-point breakthroughs" to "full-area activation". Pingle County continues to improve service guarantees, carries out follow-up coordination for science and technology special commissioners and teams, and pushes experts to go down to enterprises to solve practical problems; at the same time, it helps enterprises refine technological needs, improve R&D systems and jointly apply for science and technology projects, shoring up the innovation shortcomings of small and medium-sized enterprises and helping market entities upgrade in a tiered manner toward technology-based enterprises, high-tech enterprises and gazelle enterprises. From "government building the platform" to "school-enterprise joining hands", from "special commissioners sinking down" to "industry-education integration taking root", Pingle County is embedding scientific and technological talent into key nodes of the industrial chain, making county-level innovation more confident and the foundation of an industrial powerhouse more solid, contributing Pingle's scientific and technological innovation strength to the high-quality economic development of Guilin.
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