Interview with Enterprise Observer | Li Zhiming, Chairman of Luobo Group: Continuously Innovating Genes to Shoulder the Mission of the Times

In 2021, Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council made a government work report. In the People's Daily (excerpt) page, "innovation" appeared 45 times and "technology" appeared 24 times. The frequency of occurrence is the highest in the past three years.

As a subsidiary of China National Building Materials Group, Luobo Group has always taken "serving the national strategy" as its own responsibility, grasping the pulse of the times, bravely undertaking its mission in the field of scientific and technological innovation, and both internal and external. In 2020, the Group achieved a year-on-year growth of 53.68 in operating income and a 23.7-fold increase in total profit. Li Zhiming, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Luobo Group, said that technology opens dreams and innovation lights up life. Behind this beautiful performance are the important achievements of corporate technological innovation, industrial innovation and cultural innovation. Luobo Group is guided by party building. With Kaisheng Technology Group as a strong backing, it has achieved a "reborn" change. A few days ago, with the theme of innovation leading the transformation of enterprises, he accepted an exclusive interview with the Enterprise Observer, and talked about the bit by bit on the road of development.

Incentive "tool" is the key to ensure the continuous power of scientific and technological innovation.

It is understood that Luobo Group, as the birthplace of "Luoyang Float Glass Technology", one of the three major float methods in the world, has successively won the "National Float Glass Quality Award-Silver Award", "Golden Invention Award", and "National Science and Technology". First Prize for Progress "and other honors. Luobo Group has developed into an important R & D and manufacturing base for ultra-thin float glass for electronic information display and photovoltaic glass in the field of solar energy industry in China through "subtraction" of traditional industries and "addition" of strategic emerging industries. and in product research and development, process technology improvement, quality control and other aspects of training and creating a core technical team.

Enterprise Observer: As the backbone of innovation and development, state-owned enterprises, especially central enterprises, are responsible for leading the high-end development of China's industry. As a leader in the glass industry, Luobo Group has actively explored high-quality development led by innovation and achieved fruitful results. Please tell us about Lobo's achievements in innovation in recent years. What is Lobo's own scientific and technological innovation system? How to use the mechanism to ensure the continuous power of scientific and technological innovation?

Li Zhiming: Luobo Group was established in April 1956 and is a key project of the national "First Five-Year Plan. At the end of the 20th century, enterprises were on the verge of extinction because they did not adapt to changes in the market environment and suffered losses year after year. Mao Wanchun, then secretary of the Luoyang Municipal CPC Committee, said with emotion: Luobo was once the pride of Luoyang people, but now it is the heartache of Luoyang people. In 2007, China National Building Materials Group carried out a strategic reorganization of Luobo Group with the "big country" in mind. In 2014, Luobo Group was classified as a whole into Kaisheng Technology Group. Kaisheng Technology Group implemented industrial innovation and cultural innovation to Luobo Group, which enabled Luobo Group to achieve "rebirth" and "reborn" changes. It was praised by the leaders of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission as "a model for central enterprises to save local state-owned enterprises". Luobo Group has three main manufacturing business sectors: photovoltaic glass, ultra-thin glass and high-quality float glass, which has become the transformation base of photovoltaic glass and display glass innovation achievements of Kaisheng Technology Group and even China National Building Materials Group.

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the scientist symposium that "it is necessary to give full play to the main role of enterprise technological innovation, promote the agglomeration of innovation elements to enterprises, and promote the deep integration of industry, university and research." The technological innovation of Luobo Group is integrated into the innovation system of Kaisheng Technology Group, aiming at the main battlefield of economic construction, and providing technical support for manufacturing enterprises. To give full play to three functions-overall planning of resources, accurate development and effective innovation, we coordinate the use of the R & D resources of the group's technology center and the subsidiary's technology center, and work closely with the "scientific research" institutions of Kaisheng Technology Group to carry out effective innovation and provide valuable services in view of the "stuck neck" problem in the field of new glass materials and the need of "iterative" innovation of enterprise technology and products.

In my opinion, facing the needs of development and making good use of incentive "tools" is the key to ensuring the continuous driving force of scientific and technological innovation. At the beginning of this year, Kaisheng Science and Technology Group was listed as a "Science Reform demonstration Enterprise" by the State-owned assets Supervision and Administration Commission. As one of the backbone enterprises of Kaisheng Science and Technology Group, Luobo Group should take the initiative to participate in the "Science Reform demonstration Action". Improve standardized governance, implement contractual management, and establish a market-oriented mechanism. The essence of marketization is "supply and demand price trading". The innovation power of Luobo Group comes from market demand, and the innovation results are written on "commodities" rather than "papers. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the 19th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the 14th Academician Conference of the Chinese Academy of Engineering: "The only way to innovate is to get people." Luobo Group should let scientific and technological personnel get corresponding remuneration and steadily improve their self-worth, and constantly realize the progress of the enterprise with the times, and the common growth of employees and enterprises.

Transformation of scientific and technological achievements is the key link connecting innovation chain and industrial chain

Enterprise Observer: How is Luobo's scientific and technological achievements converted into actual productivity? Are there any difficulties?

Li Zhiming: Premier Li Keqiang pointed out in the "Government Work Report" that "strengthen the leading role of innovation and inject strong impetus into development." Luobo Group, as the birthplace of "China Luoyang float glass technology", has the "gene" of scientific and technological innovation and achievement transformation ". Zhou Yuxian, chairman of China Building Materials Group, pointed out when investigating and guiding the work in Luobo last year: It is not easy to name a process technology after the location of an enterprise. We must polish this "gold-lettered signboard".

Needless to say, Luobo Group has experienced a "survival crisis" for more than ten years. The important reason why it can "Phoenix Nirvana" is that Kaisheng Technology Group continues to inject scientific and technological innovation achievements. For example, Bengbu Zhongxian Materials Co., Ltd. and Hefei New Energy Company of Bengbu Hospital are loaded into Luobo. Bengbu Zhongxian Materials Co., Ltd. is the only strategic emerging enterprise in China that can produce a full range of 0.12-1.1mm ultra-thin float electronic glass. The complete set of technology and equipment has completely independent intellectual property rights, and the overall reached the international advanced level. It has successfully realized the production of Chinalco ultra-thin glass, of which 0.2mm Chinalco glass fills the gap in international products. The 650-ton/day five-line photovoltaic glass production line of Hefei New Energy Company adopts the international leading all-oxygen combustion technology independently developed by Kaisheng Technology Group to achieve clean production. In recent years, we have added ultra-thin glass and photovoltaic glass production lines through capital operation and achievement transformation, and eliminated 7 traditional float glass production lines, making Luobo Group successfully transformed into a new glass industry platform dominated by new energy glass, information display glass and high-quality float glass. In 2019, the listed company of Luobo Group achieved its first operating profit in 8 years. Last year, it reached a new level, achieving operating income of 3.712 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 54.79; the profit attributable to the parent was 0.272 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15.47 times, and its operating performance reached a record. The best level. Song Zhiping, the old chairman of China Building Materials Group, said excitedly when he learned the news: "I finally turned over and struggled for 14 years".

General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that it is necessary to "deploy the innovation chain around the industrial chain and lay out the industrial chain around the innovation chain". In my opinion, the transformation of scientific and technological achievements is the key link connecting the innovation chain and the industrial chain, and this link is precisely the difficulty of transforming scientific and technological achievements into actual productivity, which is a common phenomenon. Specifically, the transformation of every forward-looking and "stuck neck" scientific and technological innovation achievement has a certain "incubation period", which requires entrepreneurs and scientists to endure loneliness and pressure.

Establishment of State-level Enterprise Technology Center

Enterprise Observer: How does Lobo participate in the national science and technology system, and what kind of leading role can Lobo play in it?

Li Zhiming: We have the scientific and technological innovation system of Kaisheng Technology Group led by Academician Peng Shou. Luobo Group is integrated into it and closely cooperates in the innovation chain. In August last year, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected in Anhui, he gave an evaluation of Kaisheng Technology Group's ultra-thin glass technology as "achieving and leading results. On June 18, 2019, Academician Peng Shou led a scientific and technological team to successfully ignite China's first 8.5-generation TFT-LCD glass substrate production line in Bengbu, marking that the high-generation TFT-LCD glass substrate has broken the foreign monopoly, filled the domestic gap, and solved the major "stuck neck" problem of information display glass.

Enterprises are the main body of innovation. In order to strengthen the ability to undertake national scientific research and innovation, Luobo Group has established a national-level enterprise technology center, and built China Building Materials (Hefei) New Energy Co., Ltd. technology center, China Building Materials Tongcheng New Energy Co., Ltd. technology center, China Building Materials Bengbu Display Materials Co., Ltd. technology center and relying on China Building Materials (Yixing) New Energy Co., Ltd. to build 4 provincial-level engineering technology research centers including Jiangsu Photovoltaic Glass Engineering Technology Research Center, relying on Longhai Company, Luoyang Electronic Information Display Glass Substrate Engineering Technology Research Center has been built. Through the construction and operation of these scientific research and innovation platforms, we can focus on the continuous innovation and improvement of "China Glass Technology", and develop high-end, intelligent, green and high-quality development of new energy materials. On May 23, 2018, our China Building Materials (Yixing) New Energy Co., Ltd. completed and put into production the light and high-permeability photovoltaic glass intelligent production line. The production line adopts the most advanced all-oxygen combustion photovoltaic glass furnace in the world, which is environmentally friendly and efficient. The 1.5mm series of light, thin and high-permeability photovoltaic glass has filled the international gap and created a new era of lightweight photovoltaic glass. In May 2020, our 400-ton/day ultra-white thermal glass production line of China Building Materials (Puyang) Photoelectric Materials Co., Ltd. was completed and put into operation, and its products provide material support for the development of photothermal power generation technology and market.

30 grass-roots party branches set up 37 innovative projects

Enterprise Observer: It is understood that Luobo Group has carried out in-depth innovation and efficiency activities of the Party branch, please tell us what results have been achieved with Party building empowering innovation and efficiency? Next, how to use Party building to lead innovation and efficiency to help enterprises develop with high quality?

Li Zhiming: Luobo Group continues to carry out in-depth innovation and efficiency activities with the Party branch "increasing, saving and reducing" as its brand. In 2020, in the face of the double test of the sudden prevention and control of the new crown epidemic and the severe situation of production and operation of enterprises, the Party Committee of Luobo Group will take the innovation and efficiency creation activities of the Party branch as the starting point, organically combine stimulating the vitality of the majority of Party members, giving full play to the vanguard and exemplary role of Party members with breaking through the "bottleneck" of production, operation and management development, promoting innovation and efficiency, efficiency, quality improvement, and efficiency, and management efficiency, in the face of the difficulties and weaknesses in the actual work, each grass-roots party branch "establishes a project, solves a difficult problem, and promotes a work", and effectively transforms the political advantage of the party organization into a competitive advantage to promote the innovation and development of enterprises. Thirty-seven grass-roots party branches have set up innovative projects, with a project rate of 100 percent and fruitful results. The innovative and efficiency-creating project "Andon System Based on Intelligent Manufacturing" of the Party branch of Yixing New Energy Company has played an important role in production and operation, improving the accuracy of data collection and analysis. In view of the continuous high-level operation of inventory glass, the Party branch of Longhao Company has established the innovative and efficiency-creating project of "Reducing Inventory Loss under High-level Inventory" in a targeted manner, reducing inventory consumption, ensuring safe production and improving economic benefits, improved the appearance of warehouse management; The Party branch of Bengbu Zhongxian Company made great efforts on the fuel consumption of different varieties through follow-up observation, analysis and summary, reducing consumption by 500 cubic meters per day and saving more than 500,000 yuan in costs. According to conservative estimates, the 37 innovative projects established have saved tens of millions of yuan in annual expenditures and created benefits, which played an important role in Lobo Group's best performance in history last year.

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the National State-owned Enterprise Party Building Work Conference: Adhering to the leadership of the party and strengthening party building is the glorious tradition of my country's state-owned enterprises, the "root" and "soul" of state-owned enterprises, and the unique of my country's state-owned enterprises. Advantage. Last year, under the guidance of inner-party politics and corporate culture, we vigorously implemented the genetic optimization project, which greatly optimized Luobo's corporate culture and effectively guaranteed the development of productive forces. In the next step, Luobo Group will continue to strengthen the deep integration of party building work and production and operation, and lead the high-quality development of the enterprise with high-quality party building. The party committee will continue to play a leading role in "directing the direction, managing the overall situation, and promoting implementation". In the pre-procedure, three dimensions are grasped: one is height, according to the requirements of "direction, in the implementation of the party and the state's line, principles and policies, and the implementation of the superior's strategic deployment; the second is the width, in accordance with the requirements of" managing the overall situation ", in the" three important and one large "decision-making; the third is the length, in accordance with the requirements of" promoting implementation ", we should check the far-reaching issues such as" two consistent "and" five development concepts. At the same time, in accordance with the provisions of the "six three" standard work law of Party building, standardize the three organizations and realize the standardization of organizational system setting; standardize the three tasks to realize the standardization of work operation mechanism; standardize the three meetings to realize the standardization of organizational life within the party; standardize the three activities to realize the standardization of work carrier construction; standardize the three management to realize the standardization of Party member education and management; standardize the three responsibilities and realize the standardization of responsibility implementation mechanism.

The current competition is ecological competition, including political ecology, industrial ecology, market ecology and so on. This is the important reason why we emphasize the political ecology of clean air. We will earnestly do a good job in the construction of political ecology in accordance with the spirit of the "five cattle" in the construction of party style and clean government, that is, through the bull's ear, pay close attention to the standardization of party management; through the morning glory nose, pay close attention to the institutionalization of supervision and assessment; through staring at the bull's eye, pay close attention to warning and prevention of normalization; through drilling the horn, pay close attention to discipline and accountability.

A new starting point to recreate a new shock

Enterprise Observer: Carbon peak, carbon neutral has been included in the "14th Five-Year Plan" key content. Please tell us about the deployment of Lobo Group's carbon peak and carbon neutral work.

Li Zhiming: In September last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping announced that China would increase its national independent contribution and adopt more powerful policies and measures to strive to peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. In December last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping further announced that by 2030, China's carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP will drop by more than 65% compared with 2005, and non-fossil energy will account for about 25% of primary energy consumption. The total installed capacity of wind power and solar power generation will reach more than 1.2 billion kilowatts. According to statistics, at the end of the third quarter of 2020, the cumulative installed capacity of wind power and photovoltaics in the country reached 0.223 billion kilowatts. It is preliminarily estimated that this year, China's new photovoltaic installed capacity will reach 35 million kilowatts, and the cumulative installed capacity will reach 0.24 billion kilowatts, which will surpass wind power to become the third largest power source in China. According to this calculation, the next annual new installed capacity of wind power and photovoltaic will be no less than 72 million kilowatts, while during the 13th five-year Plan period, the total annual new installed capacity of wind power and photovoltaic in China is about 62.63 million kilowatts.

Recently, Kaisheng Technology Group's new glass material 31 strategic implementation plan has been approved by China Building Materials Group, Lobo Group will become Kaisheng Technology Group's new energy materials business sector, which provides a broad stage for our development of carbon peak, carbon neutral business. Our general idea is to implement the strategic deployment of China National Building Materials Group and Kaisheng Technology Group and implement the "green plan", that is, green manufacturing, green products, and green applications. Green manufacturing is to start the "carbon capture" project in an orderly manner on the glass production line and turn carbon dioxide "waste products" into "commodities". Green products are the research and development and manufacture of photovoltaic glass and thin-film solar cells that continuously meet the needs of solar power generation, providing "high quality" for the market. Green application is to cooperate with Kaisheng Technology Group to promote the application of solar power generation building integration and build houses that can generate electricity.

Enterprise Observer: Standing at the new starting point of the "14th Five-Year Plan", what are the plans of Luobo Group?

Li Zhiming: General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the "three new" ideas of the new development stage, new development concept, and new development pattern at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee, which pointed out the direction and development orientation for Luobo Group. I summed up the development ideas of Luobo Group during the 14th five-year Plan as "new 1234", that is, one main line: high-quality development; two key points: resource integration and capital operation; three goals: to be stronger, better and bigger; four tasks: party building, reform and innovation, operation and management, and project construction.

To be based on the new stage of development. We should have a deep understanding of the strategic superposition period in which Luobo Group has entered opportunities. National strategies such as science and technology power, manufacturing power, sustainable development and rural revitalization, and group strategies such as the development of new energy materials all provide us with strong opportunities. We should have a deep understanding of the competitiveness of Luobo Group in the period of progressive accumulation and empowerment. At present, the foundations of the eight manufacturing enterprises are different. We should think about the problem dialectically, always grasp the main contradictions and the main aspects of contradictions, and use innovation power and reform vitality to make up for the strengths and weaknesses of the shortcomings; To deeply understand that Luobo Group has entered a heavy-duty forward period of leaping over and overtaking, it is necessary to find a right place in the strategic layout of Kaisheng Group's new glass material 31, shoulder the burden, earn more money, strive for face, consolidate the foundation, and realize the "five sons", we should be soberly aware that there are different degrees of gaps in the governance system and governance ability, management system and management ability, management system and management ability modernization. We should strengthen the weak points and make up for the weak points. We can make persistent efforts to recreate the "Luobo shock". If we relax our efforts, we may leave "Luobo regret". We must strengthen our confidence, determination and perseverance, and work hard to move forward courageously towards the set goals.

To implement the new development concept. General Secretary Xi Jinping demanded that "the whole Party must implement the new development concept completely, accurately and comprehensively". Luobo Group has comparative advantages in the production technology of ultra-thin glass and photovoltaic glass. It must carry out "value innovation" in various fields such as technological innovation, product innovation, management innovation, and brand innovation. All-ownership modeling companies must declare to become national high-tech within two years. Technology enterprise. The problem of unbalanced and inadequate development among enterprises within Luobo Group is still quite prominent, mainly due to the vertical comparison of "two benefits and four rates", the horizontal comparison has a gap, and the external comparison gap is large or small. We must focus on promoting the coordinated development of Lobo Group, as well as the coordinated development of Kaisheng Group and China Building Materials Group as a whole. In accordance with the thinking of "suitable for industry and good products for the benefit of mankind", we should strengthen the protection of the ecological environment and the construction of ecological civilization, promote green manufacturing, promote green products, and promote green applications, so as to show our skills in "2030 carbon peaks and 2060 carbon neutrality. We should have Lobo in mind, look at the world and open up to development. Luobo Group used to be Luoyang, is now China's and will be the world's in the future. It is said that the central enterprises have no family. I think the central enterprises have two families, one is the "mother's family"-the major shareholder, and the other is the "mother's family"-the resident government of the enterprise. Luobo Group's open development should be open to the "mother's family" and rely on the "mother's family" to give back to the "mother's family". The focus should be on integrating Dakaisheng and China Building Materials, and carrying out technical coordination, procurement coordination and sales coordination. We should also open up to the "in-laws" and actively contact the "in-laws" to contribute to the "in-laws" and solve problems in the development of enterprises by supporting local economic development. To implement the concept of shared development, the group must continue to realize "resource sharing", realize "value sharing" with customers in the market, and make good use of China Building Materials medium and long-term incentive "tools" to enable employees and enterprises to achieve "result sharing".

To integrate into the new development pattern. In the domestic large cycle, domestic and international double cycle to find a position, in the protection of the industrial chain supply chain stability to maintain the strength, work hard. We should focus on the strategic objectives and start again, implement the guiding principles of China Building Materials 4335 and the strategic layout of new glass materials of Kaisheng Science and Technology Group, and strive to become a world-class new energy materials science and technology enterprise group. Focus on ideological benchmarking and start again, enhance political judgment, political understanding and political execution, implement the strategic deployment and work requirements of China Building Materials Group and Kaisheng Science and Technology Group; Focus on development momentum and start again, in-depth study the spirit of the fifth plenary session, solidly promote the three-year reform action; focus on responsibility as a starting point, we must use the spiritual realm of "success does not have to be in me" and the historical responsibility of "success must have me", strive to promote high-quality development, and celebrate the founding of the Communist Party of China with outstanding achievements 100 anniversary.