Heilongjiang State-Owned Conglomerate Drives New Quality Productive Forces via Tech, Digital and Green Overhaul

Heilongjiang New Industrial Investment Group follows guidance issued by Heilongjiang Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission to steer its subordinate enterprises along three development trajectories: intelligent manufacturing, low-carbon operation and industrial integration. The group rolls out targeted industrial upgrades suited to local industrial foundations, unlocking new quality productive forces and accelerating the transformation of traditional manufacturing sectors across the province.

Sustained technological research and development underpins long-term industrial competitiveness for all subsidiaries under the group’s oversight. Independent innovation sits at the heart of corporate strategy, with consistent investment poured into proprietary core technologies to carve out differentiated market positioning. Mudanjiang Hengfeng Paper has built a multi-layered research framework centred on in-house development, complemented by university-industry collaboration and company-wide employee innovation participation. The firm has rolled out tiered reward schemes that disburse incentives immediately upon project approval and deliver staged payouts as milestones are met. Dual career ladders for management and technical staff have been fully opened to nurture technical talent, driving industrial progress led by technological breakthroughs. Its self-developed 19-gram ultra-thin printing paper and 0.025-millimetre extra-thin printing paper hold world-leading technical standards within the paper manufacturing sector.

Digital transformation acts as a core growth catalyst for the group’s portfolio businesses. All subsidiaries align with the global shift towards smart manufacturing, forging deeper integration between production hardware and digital information systems to optimise legacy industrial workflows. Mudanjiang Hengfeng Paper initiated digital infrastructure planning as early as 2001, marking digital and intelligent upgrading as core annual corporate targets embedded within departmental performance appraisal systems. Senior group executives oversee every critical stage of the digital overhaul, while cross-departmental consultation mechanisms are established to unify group-wide data protocols and system integration standards. The unified framework enables full cross-site data sharing and end-to-end data connectivity across all production links, earning the enterprise accreditation as a State-owned Enterprise Digital Transformation Pilot in 2024. Regional industrial data collated by Heilongjiang industry authorities shows a rising provincial uptake of digital retrofits, with a growing number of manufacturing firms qualifying for national digital transformation demonstration status in the coming years.

Green and low-carbon governance shapes sustainable operational frameworks for every subsidiary under the group. Environmental priorities run through every segment of production and commercial activity, enabling firms to move from passive compliance with carbon rules to proactive industry leadership. Mudanjiang Hengfeng Paper has embedded green and low-carbon development clauses into its articles of association and medium-to-long term corporate strategy. A formal ESG and carbon management governance structure is in place, steered by the board of directors, led by senior management and delivered through coordinated cross-departmental teams, forming a closed-loop implementation system with top-down planning and bottom-line delivery. Rigorous energy-saving and emission-reduction targets are cascaded down to frontline workshop teams as mandatory performance benchmarks, creating binding operational constraints that push forward low-carbon technical retrofits. Cumulative comprehensive energy consumption per unit of finished product has fallen by 12.78 per cent over the past five years. Digital monitoring platforms will continue to support refined carbon accounting and real-time energy efficiency tracking across all production lines in the years ahead.

The group will keep rolling out tailored support schemes for its industrial subsidiaries, expanding investment in proprietary lightweight paper technologies, upgrading unified digital management platforms and scaling up green process renovation projects. Integrated progress across technological self-reliance, full digital connectivity and low-carbon manufacturing will raise overall operational efficiency for the province’s state-owned industrial assets.