Broadening horizons and innovating ideas: A side note on a thousand-billion-level enterprise's inspection and study tour to three places

From June 6th to 7th, the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government organized 14 enterprises targeting hundreds of billions of yuan in revenue, and invited 8 enterprises targeting billions of yuan in revenue, to visit Nanjing High-Speed Gear, Rainco Group, Jinling Petrochemical, Wuxi Hongdou Group, Suntech Group, Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Shipbuilding Base, Zhenhua Heavy Industries, and our city's Rongsheng Heavy Industries for observation and learning. Along the way, members of the inspection team carefully observed, actively asked questions, and diligently reflected. "Shocking" was a word frequently used by members of the inspection team during the visit and learning. The extraordinary development speed and tremendous achievements of the visited enterprises gave the inspection team a strong sense of crisis and urgency due to their backwardness, while also broadening their horizons, identifying gaps, liberating their thinking, and building confidence.
　　Learning from others' strengths is to make up for one's own weaknesses; learning from the advanced is to clarify goals and catch up with the advanced. "It's difficult for you, difficult for me, difficult for everyone; only by accelerating development can we solve the difficulties." Along the way, everyone expressed a strong desire to accelerate development.
　　These enterprises all have a development history from small to large, from nothing to something, eventually becoming enterprises with hundreds of billions or even thousands of billions of yuan in revenue. Seeing their present is seeing our future." Along the way, Ma Bin, chairman of Shenma Electric Power Technology Co., Ltd., felt deeply. He told reporters that, like these enterprises, Shenma Electric Power, established 13 years ago, has relied on independent technological innovation to develop rubber seals for power transmission and transformation equipment that fill domestic gaps and power composite insulators that fill international gaps, becoming the only company in the world that can provide hollow, pillar, and line series insulator products to power grids. According to the company's development plan, by 2017, it will achieve sales revenue of 5 billion yuan. Ma Bin said: "Looking vertically, our development is not slow, but looking horizontally, our pace is still slow. Although the visited enterprises are already very large in scale, their desire for development and entrepreneurial passion are still very strong, their development strategies are very clear, and their tactics are appropriate. This has given us great inspiration. I will bring back the concepts, ideas, spirit, and experience of these enterprises' accelerated scientific development to promote Shenma's accelerated development and achieve the goal of a 10-billion-yuan enterprise as soon as possible."
　　Guan Tongxian, president of Zhenhua Heavy Industries, resolutely went into business to establish Zhenhua Port Machinery at the age of 59, shortly before retirement. Although he is now in his seventies, he has maintained his entrepreneurial passion for more than 10 years, creating the world's largest heavy equipment manufacturing base. This is truly remarkable." Ni Zhanggen, chairman of Nantong Hengkang Sponge Products Co., Ltd., once worked for a software company in Shenzhen. In 2003, he resigned from his job, invested more than 400,000 yuan, and returned to his hometown to start a business. In just a few years, the company achieved rapid development, and in 2008, the company's sales revenue reached 280 million yuan. Ni Zhanggen excitedly stated that compared to Guan Tongxian's initial entrepreneurial efforts, he is still young, and the entrepreneurial environment is better than it was then. He can imagine how much room there is for future development.
　　Every enterprise's growth has a difficult journey." During the inspection, Mao Zhiyong, chairman of Nantong Liwei Machinery, took pictures constantly at every stop. "I have seen a benchmark for learning." Mao Zhiyong said that after several years of development, Liwei Machinery has grown from an unknown small enterprise into a professional company integrating R&D, manufacturing, sales, and service of winches and hoists. It is one of the domestic enterprises with the strongest R&D capabilities, the most product varieties, and the largest production and sales volume of winches and hoists. This inspection further strengthened his determination to become an industry leader by building product competitiveness. "In the future, we will definitely join the ranks of Rugao's 10-billion-yuan enterprises!" Mao Zhiyong is full of confidence in future development. Reporter Lu Ran