On June 24, the Sino-German Intelligent Manufacturing Integration and Innovation Cooperation Exchange Conference “Air Silk Road Hub Global” co-sponsored by Henan Zhengzhou Airport and China Association of Small and Medium Enterprises was successfully held in Zhengzhou Airport. With the theme of “Air Silk Road, Global hub, China-Germany hand in hand, ‘Smart’ future”, the cooperation and exchange meeting invited nearly 200 entrepreneurs from 28 German hidden champion enterprises, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises from all over the country, and Zhengzhou Airport specialized new enterprises to participate in the meeting and carry out docking cooperation on various aspects of intelligent manufacturing, enterprise development, exchange and cooperation.

Liu Shangjin, vice governor of the People’s Government of Henan Province, said in his speech that in recent years, Henan has taken the construction of the “air Silk Road” as the lead, promoted the integration of the “four Silk Roads” (air, land, online and maritime) and taken the development of the equipment manufacturing industry as the main direction. At present, Henan is actively promoting a new round of cooperation with Europe, hoping that the hidden champion theory can provide beneficial reference for nearly 3,000 specialized new enterprises and tens of thousands of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in Henan, and achieve more “little giant” and “single champion of manufacturing industry”.

The concept of Hidden champions, pioneered by Hermann Simon, refers to small and medium-sized companies that rank among the top three in a market segment, have an annual turnover of less than 5 billion euros, and are not well known to the public.

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“Zhengzhou Airport has many advantages, such as policy advantages, transportation hub advantages, market space advantages, open system advantages, industrial agglomeration advantages, and business environment advantages.” Tian Haitao, director of the Administrative Committee of Zhengzhou Airport Economic Comprehensive Experimental Zone, introduced in the introduction that Zhengzhou Airport has the “four ports linkage” of airport, high-speed rail port, international dry port and highway port, and has the “1+1+7” port system with the most complete functions and the highest efficiency in inland areas, and is building a trillion-level electronic information industry cluster. 100 billion new energy automobile industry cluster and 10 billion aerospace, biomedicine, new materials, new energy and other industrial clusters. In addition, Zhengzhou Airport is building four areas, including the Northern Future Digital Science and Education Area, the Central Air Railway Exhibition Area, the Southwest International Medical Science and Innovation Area, the Southeast Advanced Manufacturing and International Port Area, and 21 cities such as the Digital Future City, the North Port City, the Central Plains Window, the aviation hub port, the Ancient City area, the Creative Fashion City, and the Garden Expo Park International Ecological City.

As the key link of the exchange meeting, Zhengzhou Airport signed a tripartite memorandum of understanding with China Association of Small and Medium Enterprises and German Association of Hidden Champions on jointly building a “Sino-German Hidden Champion Enterprise Demonstration Park”. Zhengzhou Airport signed a cooperation agreement with China Association of Small and Medium Enterprises on the establishment of “China Association of Small and Medium Enterprises Henan Zhengzhou Airport Office”, and signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the German Federal Commission for Economic Development and Foreign Trade. In addition, 4 projects have been signed with German enterprises, and 7 projects have been signed with domestic enterprises, involving electronic information, new energy vehicles, aerospace, biomedics, modern logistics, modern service industries and other fields. At the scene, the Sino-German hidden champion Enterprise Demonstration Park, the Henan Zhengzhou Airport Office of China Association of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, and the China-Central and Eastern Europe (Zhengzhou) Aviation logistics cross-border trade and industry Innovation Park were inaugurated.