Workers transport wind power equipment at Taiyuan Heavy Industry Group's new energy industrial park located in Shanxi Comprehensive Reform Demonstration Zone.
Rolling mills rumble as coils of finished products are neatly arranged, quiet yet brilliant. In the workshop of China Baowu Taigang Group's precision strip steel company, reporters encountered the renowned "hand-tear steel."
"The thickness is 0.015 millimeters, equivalent to one-fourth of a hair strand," said a staff member, gently lifting a roll of nickel-based alloy hot coil as thin as cicada wings with a cold metallic sheen. "Previously, we relied entirely on imports. Now even aircraft engine sealing rings use our products."
This exemplifies how the province uses technology as a brush to inject new genes into traditional industries.
**1. Technology Empowerment: Activating Industrial Vitality**
Technological innovation is becoming the "igniter" for the province's industrial upgrading. Under policy guidance strengthening enterprises' innovation leadership role, the province has cultivated 39 national-level enterprise technology centers, 553 provincial-level enterprise technology centers, and 64 technology innovation demonstration enterprises. These innovation platforms act like sparks, igniting a prairie fire of industrial transformation.
Inside Taigang Group's R&D center, dozens of researchers are tackling aircraft engine blade materials. Last year, they successfully rolled out N06625 nickel-based alloy hot coils, filling a domestic gap. Today, Taigang possesses 18 domestically pioneering products, holds the top market share nationwide for 26 products, has achieved import substitution for 40 key materials, and sees high-end products account for over 50% of its portfolio.
At Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Group's workshop, a giant mining excavator three stories tall undergoes testing. This "steel behemoth" incorporates "ten-million-ton open-pit mining excavator design and control key technology," breaking foreign technical monopolies spanning 30 years.
"Previously, core controllers relied entirely on imports. Now even South African mines purchase our equipment," said a staff member proudly, pointing at data flickering on the control screen.
Technological innovation brings not only order growth but also helps Shanxi equipment gain voice in international markets.
**2. Digital Intelligence Empowerment: Creating New Engines for Smart Manufacturing**
Entering Taiyuan Heavy Industry's rail transit equipment company's wheel-axle production line, mechanical arms trace precise arcs in the air while AGV vehicles shuttle materials, with real-time data from each process displayed on central screens—this world's first "lighthouse factory" in rail transit has improved wheel-axle production efficiency by 30%.
The province's industrial digital transformation is flourishing everywhere: In Jinneng Holding Coal Industry Group's Tashan Coal Mine, 300 meters underground, 5G private networks provide full coverage, with inspection robots automatically identifying equipment failures and coal mining machines starting and stopping remotely. The province has built 289 intelligent coal mines, leading the nation in underground 5G application scale.
At Shanxi Jinnan Iron & Steel Group's coking control center, technicians tap the "one-click coking" button, automatically starting and stopping the entire coking process. This system, selected as a Ministry of Industry and Information Technology典型案例, reduces per-ton coking energy consumption by 15%.
Water pump enterprises in Yuncheng City's Yanhu District achieve full-process digitization from design to after-sales through industrial internet platforms, shortening delivery cycles by 40%.
Supporting these transformations are the province's accumulated 109,000 5G base stations (first in central China per 10,000 people), 1.133 million standard rack computing power scale (eighth nationally), and 16 industrial internet identification and resolution nodes connecting industries.
When Taiyuan's national-level internet backbone direct connection point expanded bandwidth to 2100G, provincial enterprises' data lifeblood flows at unprecedented speeds.
**3. Green Empowerment: Laying Foundations for Sustainable Development**
During midsummer at Datong Qinhuai Data's zero-carbon data center park, cave-style buildings cleverly utilize terrain for natural cooling. Rooftop photovoltaic panels and hillside wind power installations jointly supply electricity, giving this national green data center project a PUE value as low as 1.15.
Green manufacturing systems are taking root across Shanxi: At national-level green factory Shanxi Jianlong Industrial, steel slag becomes eco-friendly building materials after processing, rooftop photovoltaics generate 40 million kWh annually, and wastewater recycling reaches 98%.
Lu'an Chemical Group recovers 360 million kWh of waste heat power generation annually through cascaded energy utilization.
The province has cumulatively established 133 national-level green factories, 8 national-level green industrial parks, with 6 enterprises selected for national-level green supply chain management, 11 enterprises on national energy efficiency leader lists, 3 enterprises selected as water efficiency leaders, and 6 data centers selected as national green data centers.
Deeper transformation appears in development methods. Over the past four years, provincial GDP energy intensity cumulatively decreased 13.1%, equivalent to saving 46 million tons of standard coal. In coking hub Linfen, all 4.3-meter coke ovens have been eliminated, with newly operational 7-meter top-charging coke ovens equipped with dry quenching devices reducing dust emissions by 12,000 tons annually.
As technology blue, digital intelligence silver, and ecological green blend across Shanxi, a new landscape of high-quality development becomes increasingly clear. Taigang's "hand-tear steel" reaches space, Taiyuan Heavy Industry's intelligent equipment ventures overseas, Jinnan Iron & Steel's "one-click coking" reshapes tradition, and data centers' green computing power enables the future—three major drivers, like three primary colors, are painting Shanxi's industrial system's most distinctive contemporary spectrum.
On this land once prosperous due to coal, an industrial revolution centered on innovation, powered by intelligence, and grounded in green development is reshaping Shanxi's economic fabric with unprecedented depth and breadth, writing resilient and vibrant Shanxi annotations for Chinese-style modernization.
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