Yongkang Mayor Jin Zheng (right) and Liang Hong, Executive Director of SANDI Printing Technology Co., Ltd. signed the framework cooperation agreement of "Yongkang 3D Printing Application Research Institute".

　　On August 28th, Yongkang Municipal Government signed a framework cooperation agreement with SANDI Printing Technology Co., Ltd. in Beijing on the project of creating "Yongkang 3D Printing Application Research Institute". Mr. Zong Guisheng, Chairman of the Board and Mr. Liang Hong, Executive Director of SANDIPRINT, Mr. Jin Zheng, Mayor of Yongkang, Mr. Lu Qunyong, Vice Mayor of Yongkang, and Mr. Li Xingzhou, Director of Yongkang Science and Technology Bureau, participated in the signing talks. This move will play a very positive role in promoting the upgrading of Yongkang City's industrial structure, boosting the development of strategic emerging industries, high-tech industries and the introduction of high-tech talents. At the same time, it has also become a model for domestic traditional industrial bases to innovate and seek changes under the background of accelerated upgrading of global industry and seeking breakthroughs in the development of domestic manufacturing industry!

　　The need for business innovation The need for industrial transformation

　　With the increasing international competition, increasing the independent innovation ability has become the core of enterprise and industrial competitiveness and realize the lasting power of enterprise innovation and development. Innovation is the vitality and soul of an enterprise. In an industry, innovation can almost decide whether an enterprise is a leader or an imitation follower. In order to make the enterprise really become the main body of independent innovation, we must vigorously enhance the independent innovation ability of enterprises, relying on independent innovation to improve independent research and development capabilities and innovation. There is no independent intellectual property rights of the high-tech industry, can only become a multinational corporations to do OEM, OEM brand processing and assembly type of industry. Only by combining the advantages of technology, innovation, resources and talents can enterprises truly realize independent innovation and long-term competitive advantage. In fact, many enterprises do not want to innovate, but are constrained by many factors. For example: institutional constraints, lack of motivation; lack of innovative environment; enterprise distribution system is unreasonable, incentives are not in place, the lack of technological innovation talent; lack of financial support and so on.

　　Yongkang City, located in the center of Zhejiang Province, China, is under the jurisdiction of Jinhua City. At present, it is the largest distribution center of hardware products in China, known as "Hardware Capital of China", and is one of the top 100 counties (cities) in China's comprehensive strength.In 2013, there were 500 industrial enterprises above the scale in Yongkang, with nearly 160 industrial enterprises above 100 million yuan, and 80 large and medium-sized industries. The total industrial output value of industrial enterprises above scale reached 81.1 billion yuan, an increase of 11.9% over 2012, and the proportion of the city's GDP accounted for as high as 62.7%. Although the growth rate is still high, the growth rate has shown signs of slowing down compared with the previous period, coupled with the fact that there are many industrial enterprises, which are extremely decentralized and lack of concentration. In the global industry continues to accelerate the upgrading of the domestic industrial transformation of the background, the traditional way of development leads to Yongkang industry's overall value-added is still at a low level, it is difficult to meet the development of industrial clusters and economic revitalization of the demand for Yongkang's economic growth again speed and the city's second takeoff urgently need the transformation and upgrading of the industrial system.

Government-enterprise cooperation to promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries

　　Since 2008, the U.S. Obama administration will be included in the 3D printing to stimulate the return of the manufacturing industry, accelerate U.S. economic growth, an important "weapon" and triggered the global 3D printing boom, China has also introduced a number of related policies and measures, 3D printing as an emerging industry to cultivate the focus of the strengthening of the main body of enterprise innovation, and to strengthen government guidance and support. Strengthen government guidance and support. Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has completed the preliminary formulation of the "National Additive Manufacturing Development Promotion Plan (2014-2020)" draft for comments, the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments have also launched various support funds to promote the innovation and upgrading of additive technologies. In addition, all levels of government and related departments have also been actively planning and implementing the introduction and application of 3D printing technology in various forms. For example, the Yongkang Municipal Government's strategic cooperation with SANDI Printing on the creation of the "Yongkang 3D Printing Application Research Institute" project reflects its firm determination and sincerity, and through active and effective measures to guide local enterprises to innovate and promote industrial transformation and upgrading of the plan into practice. 3D Printing Application Research Institute, after completion, will be dedicated to the development of 3D printing technology in the industry. After the completion of the 3D Printing Application Research Institute, it will be committed to the application of 3D printing technology in high-end industrial equipment manufacturing, aerospace, medical devices and other fields, as well as the enhancement of the technical level of local enterprises in Yongkang, and will also undertake the research and development of 3D printing equipment and 3D printing product design, development, printing services and other business functions.

　　In this cooperation, on the one hand, Yongkang Municipal Government has given all-round policy support to the R&D and industrialization of 3D printing technology, which provides strong support for the smooth establishment and operation of the institute. On the other hand, based on the high degree of compatibility with Yongkang's developed hardware manufacturing, the R&D and application expansion of 3D printing technology will also become a booster for Yongkang to realize industrial upgrading and secondary takeoff: the application of 3D printing technology on molds can help Yongkang's traditional hardware industry to realize industrial technology upgrading quickly; through the application research of 3D printing technology in the fields of medical care, aerospace, etc., it will also drive the birth and rise of new industries in Yongkang. The birth and rise of new industries in Yongkang.

　　Strong technical support 3D printing to promote the upgrading of traditional industries

　　3D printing is a set of optical/mechanical/electrical, computer, numerical control and new materials in one of the manufacturing technology, is based on the computer's data design files, through the layer-by-layer stacking accumulation of materials layer by layer deposition or adhesion in order to construct a three-dimensional object technology. Compared with the traditional subtractive manufacturing technology, 3D printing technology takes the route of additive manufacturing, in the process of product molding, 3D printing eliminates the complex process of traditional manufacturing, no need for molds, one-time molding. As a result, 3D printing can design and produce more complex structures.

　　The domestic 3D printing technology research began in the 1990s, compared with the world, the domestic 3D printing technology in some areas to seize the opportunity, but overall is still in the primary stage of development, the overall level of core technology and material resources and Europe and the United States and other developed countries there is still a large gap between the volume of the entire industry in China is small, the enterprise dispersion. 2012 statistics, China's 3D printing equipment ownership of less than 10% global total. In 2012, China's 3D printing equipment is less than 10% of the global total, which shows that there is still a huge industry space for domestic 3D printing technology to lead the industrial upgrading. Luo Jun, Secretary General of China 3D Printing Technology Industry Alliance, also said that China has the potential to become the world's largest 3D printing market, which is expected to grow at least twice as fast as the annual growth rate in the next 3-5 years. Therefore, in the early stage of industrial development, through the establishment of 3D printing application research institute and other initiatives to master the advanced 3D printing technology and seize the first opportunity, but also become the key to the future in the industry to take the lead.

　　As one of the main units of the Yongkang 3D Printing Application Research Institute project, SANDI Printing Technology Co., Ltd. has strong scientific research strength and a powerful 3D printing technology research and development team.

　　Chairman Zong Guisheng is one of the world's first PhDs in the field of 3D printing, with more than twenty patents. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991, specializing in 3D printing research. In 1993, he presided over the research and development of China's first industrial 3D printing equipment, which was named rapid prototyping machine and declared the national terminology recognition; and in 1994, he founded the Beijing Longyuan Automated Prototyping System Co.

　　Beijing Longyuan Automatic Forming System Co., Ltd. is now a subsidiary of SANDY Printing Holding, since the successful development of the first laser rapid prototyping machine in 1994, devoted to the development of the constituent laser powder sintering rapid prototyping machine, has mastered the AFS series of constituent powder sintering laser rapid prototyping technology and independent intellectual property rights, twenty years dedicated to the rapid prototyping application of the processing service is the earliest in China's development, production, It is the earliest enterprise in China to develop, produce and sell additive laser constituent powder sintering equipment, and is a high-tech enterprise in Beijing. In 2002, we passed the ISO9001 international quality system certification. Mature rapid casting process, for many enterprises in the trial production stage of new products, single-piece small batch production provides a mature mold-free production process solutions.

(Image source: Ryuen Molding)

　　With the continuous promotion of computing power, design software, new materials and Internet advancement, after more than twenty years of development, 3D printing technology has developed rapidly, the application fields are constantly broadening, and now it has been widely used in many fields such as aerospace, and weapons, automobile and racing car, electronics, biomedicine, jewelry, games, daily consumer goods, construction, education and so on. Yongkang has a good foundation of hardware industry, a strong manufacturing atmosphere, and a strong demand for 3D printing technology from enterprises. Through the application of 3D printing technology, it is expected to promote the successful completion of the local inefficient project technological transformation, and effectively drive the transformation and upgrading of the traditional hardware industry; through a strong scientific research team, assist local enterprises to enhance the ability of independent innovation; drive the smooth construction of a number of enterprise research institutes, and the formation of a number of industry-leading leading backbone enterprises and parts and components of the collaborative manufacturing of science and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises. In addition, in the process of transforming the high-tech achievements brought by the project implementation, it can also attract more high-tech talents to converge and provide more employment opportunities and tax revenues.

　　As Yongkang Mayor Jin Zheng said, Yongkang is a magical land and a hot spot for entrepreneurship, reform and opening up for more than 30 years, Yongkang people with hard work and wisdom, will be a small agricultural county to develop into the country's largest hardware production base, the achievement of the "National Top 100 Counties and Cities". At present, the small and medium-sized enterprise cluster developed by individual enterprises has the foundation for transformation and upgrading, and 3D printing conforms to the industrial characteristics of Yongkang, which is suitable for development on this piece of land in Yongkang. It is believed that the cooperation between 3D printing and Yongkang Municipal Government will realize complementary advantages and win-win cooperation, drive the development of Yongkang hardware industry, and contribute to the renewal of Yongkang hardware products and industrial transformation and upgrading.