On September 25, inside the cleanroom of Jiangsu Yaohong Electronics Co., Ltd., a high-performance chip packaging substrate moved slowly along the production line. This type of packaging substrate, featuring ultra-low CTE and high thermal conductivity, was long dependent on imports, with supply chain leverage held by others. Now, it is produced in Yancheng. With ultra-low CTE high thermal conductivity chip packaging substrates as its main focus, Yaohong Electronics has gradually achieved localization of IC substrate packaging materials and supply chains, optimizing the stability control system for key processes in HTCC ceramic copper-clad substrate production. With this step forward, a "Yancheng solution" now exists for strengthening and supplementing the supply chain in key core areas of the communications industry.
Currently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is promoting the integrated advancement of "seed selection, seedling cultivation, and refinement" for quality SMEs, strengthening the identification of promising startups and proactively discovering quality enterprises that keep their heads down working on technology and focusing on products, shifting cultivation services from "waiting for applications" to "proactively reaching out." Policies have moved from paper to practice, and Yancheng has delivered a solid report card. Over the past three years, the city's cultivation of specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative enterprises has reached a new level each year, achieving a great leap over three years. From 2023 to 2025, newly created provincial-level specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative SMEs reached 266, 502, and 736 respectively, totaling 1,762 and ranking fifth in the province; newly created national specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative "Little Giant" enterprises reached 33, 35, and 50 respectively, totaling 146 and ranking seventh in the province, achieving full county-level coverage of "Little Giants." Behind these numbers lies a city's long-term commitment to nurturing fertile industrial soil and patiently waiting for "Little Giants" to flourish.
The city places the cultivation of specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative enterprises in a prominent position, incorporating it into the "three key things for enterprise development" for focused advancement, regularly listening to reports and coordinating to resolve major issues; writing cultivation work into the city's high-quality development assessment for counties (cities, districts), with responsibilities pressed down layer by layer, forming a pattern of party committee and government attention, industry and information technology leadership, full implementation by districts and sectors, and coordinated support from departments.
Turning attention to another track. The high-performance low-noise ceramic brake pads for passenger vehicles produced by Jiangsu Fangyi Friction Materials Co., Ltd. may look unremarkable, but they are full of expertise—friction performance must be sufficient, noise must be low, and heat fade resistance must hold up, three requirements that often conflict with one another. Fangyi pioneered an environmentally friendly formula, innovating a "blending mechanism + volume molding + hot-press densification" process, turning three difficult problems into one integrated solution, with all key indicators reaching internationally advanced levels. With this capability, the company broke into the supply chains of leading automakers such as SAIC and became a core supplier of Asia-Pacific Mechanical & Electronic.
One makes substrates, the other makes brake pads. Different industries, same approach—repeatedly drilling deeper where others cannot or will not do well. Such enterprises do not lack drive; what they often lack is someone to lend a hand along the way. Yancheng has successively issued documents including the three-year action plan for cultivating specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative enterprises and several measures for high-quality development, compiled "one enterprise, one policy" improvement plans, and provided targeted help to enterprises in shoring up shortcomings in innovation, intellectual property, finance, and management, using policy dividends to stimulate enterprise motivation for brand creation.
The lushness of a forest depends on year after year of tending and protection. Yancheng has built a full-chain gradient cultivation system spanning innovative SMEs—provincial-level specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative enterprises—national "Little Giants"—manufacturing single champions, with a rolling cultivation database of over 2,000 quality enterprises; frequently inviting experts and professional institutions from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology to Yancheng to conduct "one-on-one" diagnosis, policy interpretation, centralized training, and on-site coaching, forming a virtuous cycle of reserving a batch, cultivating a batch, applying a batch, and certifying a batch.
Services are delivered at every step of enterprise growth. Yancheng makes good use of the "Yan Qi Tong" service platform and the "1+11+N" three-tier service system, with regular government-enterprise-bank matchmaking, resolving enterprise financing, talent, innovation, intellectual property, and other challenges one by one. For newly approved key "Little Giant" enterprises, "point-to-point" tracking is implemented to ensure rapid project implementation and early achievement of performance targets. Enterprises are guided to deeply cultivate niche fields and tackle key technologies, accelerating the cultivation of more single champions and leading enterprises.
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