The deputy director of the Industrial Development Bureau of Xi'an Hi-tech Comprehensive Bonded Zone has received a lot of companies visiting Xi'an High-tech Zone. The other person's first sentence is often: 'I heard that Samsung has voted you here, and we also want to see it'.
From the Xi'an High-tech Zone in 2012, it successfully introduced the Samsung Electronics Memory Chip project, and it was officially put into production in May 2014. The second phase of Samsung Semiconductor's memory chip project started in Xi’an in the near future. More than 100 supporting companies in Xi’an have now followed up. Formed a complete industrial chain from R&D and production of raw materials and equipment, to design, manufacturing, packaging, testing and system applications. A semiconductor industry cluster of 100 billion RMB is emerging in Xi’an. Some analysis points out that this will help Xi’an To further consolidate the status of the global semiconductor industry base, advance the pace of construction of an international metropolis, and promote the development of the global semiconductor industry in Shaanxi.
Not just Samsung, In recent years, leading companies in the industry such as Micron, Huawei, ZTE, Alibaba, JD have continued to invest in Xi’an. 2017 alone, including Samsung II, Geely, China Resources, OCT, Alibaba, Tencent, Amazon Thirty-six well-known enterprises have settled in Xi'an, and 847 projects have been contracted and introduced. The investment scale has reached 2.35 trillion yuan, which is the highest in the calendar year. The international competitiveness and influence of this fertile land for investment in Xi’an is gradually emerging.
This also caused South Korea's ambassador to China Lu Ying to be sensitive: 'South Korea has a saying that we want to see the Chinese millennium culture going to Xi'an. But I think that if we want to see China's future, we must come to Xi'an.'
From single project to 100 supporting enterprises
In fact, from the 1960s, Xi'an was an important semiconductor base, and the earliest first integrated circuit in New China was also born in Xi'an Microelectronics.
However, the semiconductor industry in Xi'an is mainly a private enterprise. Its scale has been relatively small, leading backbone enterprises have not been formed, and there is a big gap between world advanced level in product technology and core technologies.
In 2012, Xi'an High-tech Zone successfully introduced Samsung Electronics' storage chip project. The total investment of the first phase of the project reached US$10 billion. This project is the largest project in the history of Samsung’s overseas investment and the largest foreign investment project in China’s electronic information industry since the reform and opening up. Two years later, the first phase of the Samsung Electronics' storage chip project was completed and put into operation, creating 'Shaanxi Speed' and 'Xi'an Efficiency'. The project led more than 100 supporting companies to settle down.
He Xiaoning, executive director of the Shaanxi Semiconductor Industry Association, told reporters that before Samsung came, Xi'an had about 6 to 70 semiconductor companies, and now there are more than 200. These companies not only have offices or sales companies in Xi’an, but It is a company that has R&D and production in Xi'an. This is the change that Samsung has brought to the semiconductor industry since it settled.
He Xiaoning gave an example. Before that, Xi'an had two 6-inch lines for semiconductor manufacturing. One was Xiyue Electronics and the other was Weiguang Semiconductor. Before Samsung came, all the necessary raw materials they needed came from outside the province, and even packaging. The boxes need to be pulled from the coastal areas. Since the arrival of Samsung, the support of these companies will not even be used in Xi'an High-tech Zone.
At present, Xi’an has formed a complete industrial chain from R&D and production of raw materials and equipment, to design, manufacturing, packaging, testing, and system applications. Not only that, it has played a huge role in the upstream and downstream agglomeration and talent cultivation of the semiconductor industry in Shaanxi Province. With action.
According to statistics, the Samsung Xi'an Semiconductor project led to the deployment of hundreds of supporting companies, including a large number of domestic and foreign companies such as American Air Chemicals, Sumitomo Japan, and China Electronics Microelectronics. In addition, many electronic information and scientific research institutions and enterprises in Shaanxi were put into production by the Samsung project. After the lead and radiation effects, upstream and downstream companies can enjoy more convenient supporting services, thereby reducing costs and improving processes.
Meimei disclosed that at the beginning, all the equipment of the Samsung factory was imported. However, there are several devices that are domestic manufacturers. Among them, a semiconductor equipment company in Shanghai has tried the equipment at the Samsung Semiconductor Factory in Xi’an, which is China’s The affiliates of the semiconductor industry brought opportunities. In addition, the high-tech zone also introduced Samsung's local enterprises to Samsung. Samsung also sent technical teams to communicate with them.
'Many domestic semiconductor companies, especially equipment manufacturers, particularly want to be able to enter such international companies as Samsung, Hynix, and TSMC to be in line with international standards, which can improve the quality of their equipment. But semiconductors are very delicate products and The price is high, and the use of equipment is very rigorous, because it will affect the quality of semiconductor products. 'With Yumi said that it can enter the Samsung factory, indicating that domestic companies have also been driven.
Taking the Samsung Xi'an Semiconductor Factory as a leader, and the collective rise of local brands in the industrial chain, a 100 billion-level semiconductor industry cluster is emerging in Xi'an.
Previously, the integrated circuit output value of Shaanxi was more than 10 billion yuan. In 2016, the output value of the semiconductor industry in Shaanxi Province was more than 50 billion yuan. 'What is the concept of this 50 billion? China ranks fourth in the entire semiconductor industry in Shaanxi, in front of Shanghai, Beijing, and Jiangsu. It turned out that our scale is ranked eighth. ' He Xiaoning said.
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Why is Xi'an?
In fact, prior to the introduction of Samsung, Chongqing, Sichuan, and Hubei all proposed semiconductors. However, He Xiaoning believes that it is implemented very rarely. The leaders of several provinces in Shaanxi have steadfastly seized semiconductors as provincial key industries. The landing of the Samsung project.
As the team leader of the provincial negotiation team, the mayor of Xi’an, who directly participated in the second round of Xi’an-Samsung two-stage project negotiation, was summed up as 'hard condition' and 'soft power'. On the one hand, Xi’an was in a strategic position, urban energy level. On the other hand, Xi'an has continued to improve its 'soft power' in the business environment, government services, and cadre work style.
In the past two years, the cost of the eastern region in particular has increased rapidly. However, Shaanxi, especially Xi'an, has a relatively large cost advantage. For example, the cost of water and electricity is about 30% lower than that of the eastern part, and the labor cost is about 40% lower.
In addition, for foreign companies, the number of universities and colleges in Xi'an ranks the third in the country after Beijing and Shanghai. Each year, college graduates approach 300,000 and can provide sufficient talents.
From the perspective of the chip market, the investment of the Samsung Semiconductor memory chip in the second phase of Xi’an has also had a profound impact on the Chinese semiconductor industry.
China is the world’s largest chip consumer market, and gathers together the world’s major mobile phone and IT vendors. However, according to statistics from the China Semiconductor Industry Association (CSIA), the demand for integrated circuits in China reached RMB 1.40 trillion in 2017, and domestic self-sufficiency rates It was only 38.7%. In the same year, China's IC import volume exceeded US$260 billion, which has replaced crude oil as China’s largest import commodity.
He Xiaoning commented that the Shaanxi semiconductor industry indirectly promoted the development of the national semiconductor industry. After the Samsung project was settled, it attracted the attention of the semiconductor industry on the entire level of China. Samsung just put into production in 2014 the country introduced the development outline of the integrated circuit industry, followed by 2014 In September, IC Fund was established.
On the road to manufacturing a powerful country, the state has supported IC industry support policies. The electronics industry chain including mobile phones and chips has begun to collectively awaken and strive to catch up. For example, Huawei Hass has accumulated a lot on artificial intelligence chips. The market was technically contested. In the fight for industry discourse power, the outside world saw more figures from Chinese companies.
Miao Miao, Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said: 'China, as the world's largest and fastest growing integrated circuit market, will continue to maintain its vigor. IC companies can do a lot. 'He also said, 'As an industry authority, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology continues Promote the opening up of the manufacturing industry to the outside world and provide more opportunities for foreign companies to invest in advanced manufacturing fields such as integrated circuits.
Samsung's expansion of investment also further demonstrated Samsung's will to contribute to the development of China's semiconductor industry.
This large-scale investment has also led to a certain degree of enthusiasm for the development of the semiconductor industry in the central and western regions. Before that, the proportion of China’s semiconductor output value has always been in the coastal areas such as Jiangsu, Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangdong, but now, around the Shaanxi The central and western provinces have taken the semiconductor industry as the top priority. This enabled the Yangtze River Storage to settle in Wuhan, the Groveland to settle in Chengdu, and Powerchip to settle in Hefei. Today's semiconductor industry in the Midwest is becoming an increasingly important one.