The integrated reform of the educational science and technology talent system and mechanism is the key to activating hard science and technology and cultivating new quality productivity. Based on the overall window advantage of Qinchuang’s original new drive platform, Shaanxi focuses on the development of hard technology industries such as photonics, high-end scientific instruments, and new energy equipment. Universities have laid a solid foundation in disciplines, scientific research teams have focused on solving technical problems, and a large number of engineering and technical talents have been continuously sent to the front lines of the industry. The innovation chain, industrial chain, and talent chain are deeply intertwined. The scientific research results of the laboratory have been accelerated and transformed into hard-core products, and the momentum of industrial development has been continuously accumulated, which vividly illustrates the Sanqin practice of this reform empowering the high-quality development of Shaanxi.
Gathering advantageous tracks, the rise of photonics and high-end instrument industry clusters
The photonics industry is Shaanxi’s advantageous track in the field of hard science and technology. In the past five years, the number of photonics companies in the province has increased from 191 in 2021 to 409, and the industry scale has climbed from 15 billion yuan to 41 billion yuan in 2025, achieving an important leap from a single point of technological breakthrough to the development of industrial clusters.
Behind the accelerated rise of the industry, it is inseparable from the strong support of public innovation platforms. As the core support carrier of the province’s photonics industry chain, Shaanxi Optoelectronics Pilot Institute targets the pain points of mass production transformation for start-up enterprises and builds a professional public service system for pilot testing and tape-out. “The investment in photonic chip production lines is huge, and it is difficult for start-ups to build independently. They are often stuck in the key link of converting R&D to mass production.” Fu Peng, deputy general manager of the Optoelectronics Leading Institute, said. Relying on Qinchuang’s original new platform layout, the Leading Institute has invested a total of approximately 1.5 billion yuan to build a core process platform for 6-inch compound chips and 8-inch silicon photonic chips. At the end of 2025, the platform was selected into the first batch of “National Manufacturing Pilot Platforms” by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. It is the only photonic integration pilot platform in the country and has provided technical support to more than a hundred scientific research units and market entities.
The open sharing of public platform resources can effectively reduce the R&D and production costs of scientific and technological innovation enterprises, and greatly speed up the industrialization process of scientific and technological achievements. Xi’an Tangjing Quantum relies on the platform of the Leading Institute to achieve rapid incubation. It does not need to bear high equipment purchase costs and skips the long production line construction cycle. It only took five months to complete the production line construction and produce samples. The company’s domestic market share of lidar epitaxial materials exceeds 70%. Hou Hongbo, deputy general manager of corporate operations, said that test feedback results can be obtained in a week with the help of the Pilot Institute platform. If the processing is entrusted to an external wafer factory, it often needs to queue up for several months or even half a year. The platform enables local products to be iterated more efficiently than similar overseas products.
The integrated reform of the educational science and technology talent system and mechanism continues to break down the barriers between industry, academia and research, and fully activates the province’s scientific and technological innovation resources. Shaanxi has implemented a science and technology innovation voucher policy. The province’s 18,891 large-scale scientific research instruments and equipment are open to the public for sharing. The province has 81 proof-of-concept centers and 148 pilot bases to fill in the key shortcomings in the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. 31 undergraduate universities in the province have optimized the layout of optoelectronics disciplines in line with the development needs of the photonics industry, and hired 3,371 part-time industry teachers to deeply participate in talent training to accurately match the actual needs of industrial employment.
The development model of platform sharing and industry-university-research linkage has also yielded fruitful results in the field of high-end scientific instruments, with a number of domestic precision instruments achieving key technological breakthroughs. The “Chasing Light” 200 picosecond gated camera developed by Xi’an Zhongzhi Keyi can capture picosecond-level ultra-fast transient physical phenomena. The company spent six years concentrating on solving key problems and completed the technology research and development path that took more than ten years abroad. This product has a domestic market share of over 70%, and the delivery cycle is only one month, which is far better than the half-year to two-year delivery cycle of similar overseas products. It is widely used in diverse scenarios such as industrial inspection, fire search and rescue, and traffic inspection.
The supply of talents injects lasting impetus into industrial development. Shaanxi Province has promoted the recruitment of more than 1,000 “vice presidents of science and technology” by enterprises, facilitated the flexible flow of more than 4,000 scientific and technological talents between universities and enterprises, promoted the scientific research results of universities to the production line, established a virtuous cycle of “disciplinary education, scientific research problem-solving, industry improvement, and feedback on disciplines”, and continued to expand the size of the photonics and high-end scientific instrument industry.
Attack core technologies and break through the hard core of equipment manufacturing industry
New energy equipment and intelligent connected vehicles are the core tracks for promoting the transformation and upgrading of Shaanxi’s manufacturing industry. Relying on the advantages of in-depth collaboration between industry, academia and research, the province has worked together to conquer a number of key core technologies and promote the high-end equipment industry to move in the direction of independent controllability, quality and efficiency improvement.
The advantages of the high-end mining equipment industry are highlighted, and the production and sales situation is improving. Tongli Heavy Industry, founded in 2005, is the developer of the world’s first wide-body off-highway dump truck. It pioneered the domestic off-highway wide-body dump truck industry and is also the main drafter of national and industry standards in this field. The company was listed on the Beijing Stock Exchange in 2021. Its domestic market share has ranked first in the industry all year round, and its cumulative product sales have exceeded 70,000 units. According to the company, on average, one of every three wide-body dump trucks on the market is made by Tongli Heavy Industry.
Entering the company’s assembly workshop, the intelligent production line left a deep impression on the interview group. The flexible assembly line that will be put into operation in 2022 can roll off a dump truck every 12 minutes; the two manufacturing bases in Xi’an have an annual production capacity of more than 10,000 units. The products cover multiple tonnages from 30 tons to 110 tons, widely serve open-pit mining and major infrastructure construction, and are exported in batches to Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa, South America and other overseas regions.
A major breakthrough has been achieved in the field of independent and controllable power core equipment. UHV bushing is a key core component of power equipment. Xi’an Xidian High Voltage Bushing and the scientific research team of Xi’an Jiaotong University have continued to tackle key problems for more than 20 years, overcoming the key bottlenecks of UHV bushing materials and processes, and realizing the localization of million-volt dry bushings. Many technologies have reached the international leading level, breaking foreign long-term technology monopoly, and building a solid national power equipment safety barrier.
The 100 school-enterprise innovation consortiums created by the Western Science and Technology Innovation Port are an important carrier for industry-university-research collaborative efforts. They have assisted companies in solving 3,124 technical problems and trained 2,326 engineering masters and doctoral students. The enterprise-based talent training model opens up the connection between university talents and industrial needs, and consolidates the talent foundation for the upgrading of the equipment industry.
This collaborative innovation system also empowers the automotive industry and helps iterative upgrades of intelligent connected cars. The Xi’an Intelligent Connected Automotive Industry Innovation Center has linked up with 32 units including Shaanxi Automobile, BYD, and Chang’an University to implement the mechanism of “enterprises setting questions, universities answering questions, and unveiling lists to tackle key problems” and implemented more than 20 core technology research projects.
“We integrated multiple resources to build a virtual simulation and wire-controlled chassis laboratory, and relied on the closed test field of Chang’an University to build a three-level test service system of ‘virtual simulation-closed site-open road’.” said Zhang Wu, deputy director of the Innovation Center. Qingniu Intelligent Driving, a company incubated in the center, focuses on the EMB braking system of commercial vehicles, breaks overseas technical barriers, and overcomes core technical difficulties such as algorithms, drives, and actuators. It achieves product weight reduction, cost reduction, and noise reduction. It successfully supports mainstream car companies such as Shaanxi Automobile and forms a complete chain of localized achievement incubation, verification, and mass production, helping the province’s automotive industry to strengthen and strengthen the chain.
Deepen the reform of institutional mechanisms and four-chain coupling to empower the development of science and technology innovation
The leap-forward development of the hard technology industry is inseparable from the precise configuration and efficient linkage of innovative elements. Shaanxi takes the integrated reform of the education, science and technology talent system and mechanisms as the starting point to break down institutional barriers, unblock the circulation channels of innovative elements, promote the deep coupling of the four chains of education, science and technology, talents, and industry, and transform the unique endowment of science and education resources into practical advantages for the development of new productive forces.
Shaanxi continues to improve the service system for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, builds a strong team of professional technical managers, makes good use of the “use first, pay later” and “invest first, then share” innovation model to clear the innovation and development blockages of small and medium-sized enterprises. At present, the province has trained more than 5,300 technical managers, certified 1,292 provincial technical managers, and 1,500 people have obtained professional titles related to technology transfer and transformation; it has promoted the implementation and transformation of 432 scientific and technological achievements, completed equity financing for 60 projects, and released 1,054 scientific research results on the platform. A total of 30 scientific and technological innovation projects in Xi’an and Xianyang have received social capital support of 178 million yuan, effectively reducing the cost of enterprise R&D and incubation.
The dividends of reform continue to be released, and the majority of scientific and technological innovation entities benefit from it. Shaanxi Jinxintian Titanium Materials seized the policy opportunity and cooperated with Xi’an University of Technology to complete product iteration and put it into production. Mi Tianjian, chairman of the company, said: “The ‘use now, pay later’ model provides reassurance for innovation cooperation. Companies can conduct on-site verification of technology without bearing high initial patent buyout costs.” A series of reform measures have promoted the patent industrialization rate of universities in the province from 3.9% in 2023 to 12% in 2025, and the quality and efficiency of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements have been significantly improved.
A complete technology and finance ecosystem provides long-term growth nourishment for hard technology companies. The Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Fund of Funds has established 18 sub-funds, with a total subscription scale of 8.15 billion yuan, and a social capital leveraging ratio of 1:3.2. By implementing reform measures such as long-term fund assessments and industrial returns to feed early-stage venture capital, capital will be guided to abandon the short-term profit-seeking orientation and accompany the iterative growth of hard technology companies in the long term.
Shaanxi continues to optimize the orientation of scientific research and education in universities and anchors the actual needs of industrial development. The province has established 12 collaborative innovation alliances for industrial chains and discipline chains, setting scientific research topics around the actual needs of the industry and iteratively improving the discipline system. With the implementation of the “Guidelines for the Performance Evaluation of the Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements in Colleges and Universities”, technological research, achievement transformation, and industrial service effectiveness have been included in the core assessment indicators of colleges and universities, effectively reversing the inherent scientific research tendency of “emphasis on papers and light application”. Kong Chuncai, deputy director of the Industry-education Integration and Achievements Transformation Department of the Research Institute of Xi’an Jiaotong University, said that the new assessment system breaks traditional evaluation barriers and guides the scientific research work of universities to closely follow the needs of the industrial chain, achieving two-way mutual promotion of technological breakthroughs, achievement transformation, and talent training.
Based on the new stage of development, Shaanxi will continue to deepen the integrated reform of the educational science and technology talent system and mechanism, rely on the Qin Chuangyuan General Window and the Western Science and Technology Innovation Port to replicate and promote mature reform experience, focus on the hard science and technology field and continue to make efforts, further strengthen the status of corporate innovation entities, cultivate compound scientific and technological innovation talents, produce more original hard-core achievements, promote more “Shaanxi R&D” to accelerate the transformation into “Shaanxi Made”, and accumulate strong scientific and technological innovation power for the province’s high-quality development.
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