Xiamen, holding the gate of the Fujian Sea, the advantaged geographical position makes it become an excellent export base. At the same time, as a strategic fulcrum city of "One Belt And One Road", Xiamen Pilot Free Trade Zone and other prominent policy advantages, which provide an excellent development environment for Xiamen photoelectric display industry.
"At present, the electronic information manufacturing industry is the key pillar industry in Xiamen, among which, the photoelectric display industry has a prominent position, accounting for about 60% of the city's electronic information manufacturing industry." Recently, Xiamen Industry and Information Bureau Deputy Director Li Jianming in an interview with the "China Electronic News" reporter said.
Reporters learned that in 2020, Xiamen's electronic information manufacturing industry will overcome the impact of the epidemic and maintain a steady development. In 2020, the total output value of the city's electronic information manufacturing industry is 271.58 billion yuan. Among them, the output value of the optoelectronic display industry reached 150.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.6%. From January to April 2021, the total output value of the electronic information manufacturing industry above designated size in the city reached 97.524 billion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 19.3%. The output value of photoelectric display industry reached 51.265 billion yuan, up 15.0% year on year.
At present, Xiamen is actively building an industrial ecosystem integrating "core-screen-end-software-intelligence-network" to continuously promote the integrated development of new display and intelligent terminals, integrated circuits, software information and other industries. "By 2025, Xiamen strives to achieve an output value of over 250 billion yuan in the optoelectronic display industry and build a world-class demonstration area for the new display industry." Li Jianming emphasized.
"One enterprise one policy" to build a nest to attract the phoenix, the industrial chain gradually complete
As a bridge for the cooperation between Fujian and Taiwan, Xiamen has laid a foundation for the optoelectronic display industry by attracting investment and providing "one enterprise and one policy" policy based on its unique regional location. After years of development, Xiamen has formed a relatively complete industrial chain layout covering LED, glass substrate, panel, module, LCD, complete machine and so on. At present, the photoelectric display industry has become the largest industry in Xiamen's industrial field, with 162 enterprises above the regulation, and its scale and growth rate rank at the forefront of 12 industrial chains worth over 100 billion yuan in the city.
"Xiamen has continuously promoted the strong chain complement of photoelectric display industry by vigorously attracting investment and attracting strong enterprises. It has gradually expanded from the downstream of the industry to the upstream and gathered a number of well-known enterprises. From the initial terminal manufacturing, the industry has gradually expanded to display modules, LCD screens, glass substrates, filters, and promoted the development of AMOLED, Mini-LED/Micro-LED, laser display and other new display technologies, and the industrial chain layout has been gradually improved." Li Jianming told reporters.
The reporter learned from the interview that Xiamen has planned and constructed information photoelectric park, Torch (Xiang 'an) Industrial Zone and Tongxiang High-tech City, to promote the photoelectric display industry to reach a scale of 100 billion yuan gradually.
From Xiamen Technology, founded at the beginning of reform and opening up, to Chenhong Technology in 2004, AUD Optoelectronics in 2006, TPV Technology in 2009, and Tianma Microelectronics in 2011, Xiamen now has a good foundation for the development of optoelectronic display industry. It has gathered many famous enterprises such as Chenhong Technology, Auda, TPV, Tianma Microelectronics, Electric Nitrate, San 'an Photoelectric, Dry Photoelectric, Fastening Crystal, Powerfully Jucai, etc.
Specifically, in terms of upstream glass substrate and backlight, NIE Glass (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. 8.5 generation or above liquid crystal glass substrate has become the most core part of the upstream of the optoelectronic display industry. San 'an Photoelectric Co., Ltd., Xiamen Ganzhao Photoelectric Co., Ltd., etc., mainly engaged in all-color ultra-high brightness LED epitaxial wafers, chips, etc., which can be used as the back light of display screens.
In terms of midstream panels and modules, Xiamen Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. specializes in medium and small size LTPS TFT-LCD panels and AMOLED panels. In addition, Xiamen also has TFT-LCD module manufacturers represented by Au Optoelectronics (Xiamen) Co., Ltd., touch panel manufacturers represented by Chenhong Technology (Xiamen) Co., Ltd., backlight module manufacturers represented by Dayun Precision Industry (Xiamen) Co., Ltd., and accessory manufacturers represented by Junling Electronics (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
In terms of downstream complete machine application, Xiamen has display complete machine manufacturers represented by TPV Display Technology (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. and IT terminal manufacturers such as Dell (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
"One project and one dedicated person" to enhance the competitiveness of the industrial chain
Xiamen has become one of the regions with relatively rapid development of TFT LCD industry in mainland China, the world's largest research and development and production base for touch screen modules, and the world's largest manufacturing and export base for high-end LED chips and light sources. In addition, a national LED application product quality supervision and inspection center and a national flat-panel display industry measurement and testing center have also been established.
Xiamen's achievement is closely related to accelerating project investment and constructing the mechanism of "one project and one dedicated person".
"We have set up a system for tracking and coordinating major projects in urban areas, and a 'one-project-one-person' mechanism has helped speed up investment in projects. In 2020, the 50 electronic information industry support projects will have completed investment of 14.1 billion yuan, accounting for 45.4 percent of the city's industrial investment." Li Jianming told "China Electronics Daily" reporter.
Through the implementation of the project, Xiamen Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. has built the world's largest LTPS monolithic factory, and has its own core technology in the field of LTPS display, leading the world. On May 18, 2020, Xiamen Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. 's 6th generation flexible AMOLED production line project was fully started in Torch High-tech Zone, Xiamen. The project investment of 48 billion yuan is the largest single high-tech manufacturing project in the history of Xiamen, and it is expected to be put into production in 2022.
The SNW conductive film production project of Chen Mei Technology, with an investment of 1.2 billion yuan, aims to build a research and development and production platform for touch display, touch control system and touch technology application software, and the project is still in implementation.
The third phase project of NEC Glass (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. with a total investment of 2.1 billion yuan, aims to produce 8.5 generation and above liquid crystal glass substrates and next-generation display glass substrates by introducing equipment capable of producing 10.5 generation TFT liquid crystal glass substrates as well as LTPS and OLED glass substrates for next-generation display devices. At present, the main construction of the plant is under way.
Through the docking and introduction of new display projects such as HuXing Micro-LED Display Technology Research Institute and Taiwan Anderson Mini-LED backlight display, the company focuses on the key technology of MINI /Micro-LED display engineering manufacturing, and predominate the commanding height of the future display industry.
Of course, the successful introduction and development of the project is inseparable from the support of the policy. In terms of enterprise financing and industry and finance cooperation, Xiamen has formulated industrial policies and technological innovation awards and subsidies policies covering integrated circuits, software information, artificial intelligence and digital economy. In 2020, a total of 240 million yuan of industrial support funds and 420 million yuan of subsidies and rewards for technological upgrading will be cashed out. A technology upgrading service fund with an initial scale of 3 billion yuan will be set up to help enterprises achieve low-cost financing for technological upgrading and capital and production expansion projects through fund lending and discount interest support, and help enterprises speed up the construction of technological upgrading projects. In addition, the city has a total of 22 electronic information industry investment funds, with a total scale of 200 billion yuan. Municipal financing risk compensation will be set up, and industry-finance matchmaking meetings will be held regularly to meet the financing needs of enterprises through multiple channels. In strengthening the talent security, xiamen has staged a series of led to retention policy, involving talents such as housing, their children's education, tax incentives, support xiamen university, huaqiao university, xiamen jimei university, institute of technology and other colleges and universities to carry out the industry-university-institute cooperation and personnel training, continue to provide a steady stream of talent support for industry development. It is worth mentioning that, in terms of strengthening enterprise services, Xiamen has also established a system of enterprise linkage, in which one municipal, municipal and district leaders are linked to each of the enterprises above the regulation and the "three high" enterprises, who regularly visit and understand the production and operation conditions of the enterprises and help coordinate and solve the existing difficulties and problems.
Breaking through the bottleneck to the high-end, the strong chain into the fast track
At present, Xiamen optoelectronic display industry has entered a new stage of development and is facing new demands. On the one hand, with the intensification of regional competition, Xiamen needs to consolidate and maintain its existing advantages; On the other hand, with the rapid development of display technology and changing scene requirements, Xiamen urgently needs to break through new display core technology and cultivate new advantages. Strong chain complement has become an important means.
The so-called "strong chain" means to further forge the long board and make it longer and longer to strengthen the initiative of development. Li Jianming told reporters that Xiamen will maintain the vitality of the industry through innovation, promote the existing projects to expand production capacity according to market demand, strive to introduce large-size panel enterprises and related enterprises, further improve the industrial chain, consolidate the existing advantages of the industrial chain. In addition, Xiamen Optoelectronic Display Industry Chain will strive to introduce consumer electronics manufacturers, expand the local market demand capacity, with downstream demand to drive upstream innovation.
The so-called "complementary links" is to fix the weak links and make sure that the key time does not "drop the link". Specifically, Xiamen will further extend the industrial chain to the upper reaches and tackle core technologies. On the one hand, we will accelerate the cultivation of upstream optical film, polarizer and other key links, actively develop new high-resolution semiconductor display devices, and attract a new generation of touch IC projects. Actively docking with target manufacturers in Japan and South Korea, vigorously developing core materials and key components supporting the manufacturing of new display screens, and accelerating the construction of Xiamen's new flat-panel display industry ecosystem. On the other hand, we will strengthen research on cutting-edge technologies, and work hard to conquer key technologies such as new display and photoelectric display membrane materials such as Mini-LED and Micro-LED. Accelerate the R&D layout of 3D display, laser display and other new display technologies, integrate competitive innovation resources in the industry, and promote the incubation and transformation of innovation achievements. In addition, Xiamen will also take the whole machine leading product demand as the core, linkage flat panel display, integrated circuit, software information and other industry leading enterprises, forming a mutually dependent, integrated development pattern, to help the integration and upgrading of the flat panel display industry.
"In the next step, Xiamen's optoelectronic display industry will focus on AMOLED, MINI /Micro LED and other new display technologies, and continue to strengthen the technology upgrading and increase capital and production of existing enterprises. We strive to form a batch of world-class flagship products in the fields of LTPS TFT-LCD panel, AMOLED, MINI /Micro LED, flexible screen, touch screen, etc., and build a leading and world-class new flat panel display industry base in China." Li Jianming emphasized.
