This year marks the tenth year that China has promoted the construction of pilot free trade zones. "Global Times" reporters recently followed the "Central Media-On-the-spot interview trip to the Pilot Free Trade Zone" media group and visited several areas in Guangdong and Fujian. The 21 pilot free trade zones that China has established so far are playing the role of exploring new paths for comprehensively deepening reforms and expanding opening up.
Guangzhou Nansha gathers "core" capabilities
As the United States and other Western countries adopt increasingly stringent unilateral restrictions on China's chip manufacturing equipment and raw materials, how China's chip industry can quickly form a supply chain ecology in various specific fields and better integrate industries is being increasingly discussed. people pay attention.
"Global Times" reporter visited Xinju Energy Semiconductor Co., Ltd. located in Nansha District, Guangzhou City on July 2. The company's main business is silicon carbide-based power semiconductor devices. Its main products are automotive-grade power and industrial-grade power modules, which are widely used in the field of new energy vehicle host drive and photovoltaic, wind energy, energy storage and other fields. At present, the company's silicon carbide power modules have been used in a variety of mass-produced new energy vehicles such as Mercedes-Benz Smart from 2022, and exported to the European market. At the same time, Core Energy has also entered the supply chain of multiple car companies, including local car companies in Guangdong.
At present, Xinjueng has received orders for 11 main engine drive silicon carbides for 11 new energy models that have been finalized by multiple car companies. In 2021, Xinjueng Semiconductor also invested in the establishment of "Guangdong Xinyueeng Semiconductor Co., Ltd." to establish a 6-inch/8-inch car-grade silicon carbide chip production line. The project will provide host-driven silicon carbide chips for new energy vehicles and provide core chips for the new energy field. At present, a series of products are forming an agglomeration ecology of the whole industry chain of the third-generation semiconductor chip.
Liu Cheng, director of the Information Development Division of the Nansha District Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, told reporters: Nansha has the most important new energy vehicle industry base in Guangdong Province, which provides a good foundation for the deep integration of new energy vehicles and the third-generation semiconductor industry. At present, Nansha District is strengthening policy support for third-generation semiconductors, vigorously developing advanced semiconductor industry technology research and development and industrial clusters for core components of new energy vehicles and artificial intelligence.
The reporter learned that in the field of chips, Nansha released the "nine measures" to support the semiconductor and integrated circuit industries. At present, Guangzhou has built an integrated circuit industrial park covering an area of about 1.97 square kilometers, covering the upstream silicon carbide single crystal substrate manufacturing, the midstream link chip manufacturing, and the downstream application end represented by the automobile industry, initially forming an integrated circuit industry ecology lock up.