The equipment manufacturing industry is on the rise in Kunshan. According to statistics from relevant departments in the city, more than 30 equipment manufacturing companies with a total investment of 4 billion yuan have gathered in Kunshan, mainly focusing on engineering machinery and papermaking machinery. , textile machinery, forging equipment, and analytical equipment in five major fields. Kunshan equipment manufacturing industry has three major characteristics. First, the products are high-end and all have their own brands. Voith (Kunshan) Paper Co., Ltd., invested by the world-famous papermaking machinery manufacturer Voith of Germany, is currently the company's headquarters in China and consists of three factories manufacturing paper machines, rollers and gauze. The paper machine it produces has a paper production speed of 2,900 meters per minute, which is the fastest in the world. The main parts of the paper machine, rollers and gauze, are also best-selling products in Southeast Asia. The "Huachen" brand high-performance fully automatic CNC roll grinder manufactured by Huachen Machinery has filled a number of domestic gaps. Second, it has strong R&D capabilities. Kunshan Sany Heavy Machinery is a company mainly engaged in R&D and sales of excavators. It is invested by Hunan Sany Group. There are more than 70 people in its research institute, one-third of whom are PhDs. So far, *** has more than 300 national patents. At the beginning of this year, it successfully developed Asia's largest crane and my country's largest backhoe excavator. Kunshan Miyou Group has invested in establishing cooperative laboratories at Nanjing University of Technology, Shandong University, and the German Institute of Occupational Safety Medicine. The seals and jet mills it produces for kettles are designated by American International Resources, Swiss ABB, and Siemens respectively. Products, there are currently 4 national-level industrialization and demonstration bases located in the company. Third, it has strong market expansion capabilities. Last year, Kunshan Tianrui Instrument Co., Ltd., which mainly produces spectral analysis equipment, accounted for two-thirds of the global market and was known as the leader in the small industry. According to industry insiders, an important reason for the rise of the equipment manufacturing industry in Kunshan is the increasingly prosperous Yangtze River Delta equipment market, as well as the industrial environment and good government services composed of local basic industries such as electronic information, precision machinery, and special automobile manufacturing. Dai Jinghua, vice president of Sany Heavy Machinery, said that Sany Group chose to establish an excavator manufacturing enterprise in Kunshan at that time, mainly considering the local developed electronic information industry and the emerging Yangtze River Delta market.