On October 16, during a news conference in Harbin focused on “Promoting High-Quality Development,” reporter Liu Xiju learned that the city is prioritizing its strategic emerging industries. Authorities are emphasizing technological innovation, cultivating quality enterprises, and enhancing the attraction of industrial projects. As a result, significant progress has been made in the development of six key strategic emerging industries, with Harbin’s strategic emerging industries projected to contribute 53.9% of the province’s total revenue in 2023.

During the conference, He Jingrong, a member of the Harbin Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, highlighted the formation of industry clusters based on key enterprises. For example, a high-end equipment industry cluster has emerged around boiler factories, motor manufacturers, and turbine plants in the Xiangfang District. In the Pingfang District, the aerospace industry cluster has been centered around major players like Aviation Industry Corporation of China and Aero Engine Corporation of China. The advanced metal materials industry cluster is taking shape in the Harbin New Area, supported by companies like Northeast Light Alloy and Aerospace Haiying. Additionally, the biopharmaceutical industry cluster is developing around the Limin Biopharmaceutical Park, led by firms such as Sanlian Pharmaceutical and Harbin Pharmaceutical Group.

Harbin has successfully nurtured a total of two hundred-billion-yuan enterprises, seventeen ten-billion-yuan enterprises, and five hundred thirty-nine large-scale enterprises in its strategic emerging industries, with leading companies driving industrial growth.

The city is also strategically aligning innovation resources with industrial demands, enhancing the interaction between the innovation chain and the industrial chain. So far, Harbin has established fifteen national-level enterprise technology centers, one hundred twenty provincial-level centers, and eight national champion enterprises. Furthermore, it boasts fifty specialized and innovative “little giants,” while supporting the research and development of one hundred four provincial-level first products over the past three years.

In a bid to gather new momentum for industrial development, Harbin is deepening external cooperation. In the past three years, leveraging platforms such as the Yabuli Annual Conference, Harbin Economic and Trade Fair, Sun Island Annual Conference, World 5G Conference, and the New Expo, the city has signed 150 strategic emerging industry projects, securing a total of 14.5 billion yuan in funding. At the 2024 China Industrial Transfer Development and Docking Activities in Heilongjiang, 47 projects were signed, with over 50% classified as strategic emerging industries.

He Jingrong expressed the city’s ambitious goals: “We aim for a double-digit annual increase in revenue from the strategic emerging industries by 2028, elevating their contribution to over 55% of the province’s total.”