Kunming ranks first in Yunnan in developing service-oriented manufacturing

Thirteen enterprises from Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan province have been added to the national list of demonstration firms for service-oriented manufacturing, accounting for 86.67 percent of the total number in the province.

In addition, 42 enterprises, or equivalent to 80.77 percent of Yunnan's demonstration firms for service-oriented manufacturing, hail from Kunming.

Service-oriented manufacturing is of vital importance for the manufacturing industry to facilitate its transformation and upgrading, strengthen core competitiveness of relevant firms, and achieve high-quality and leapfrog development. 

The transformation of service-oriented manufacturing will further bolster enterprises' market competitiveness, better align their production and manufacturing capacity with market demand, improve users' experience, raise the value of their products, expand their presence in the market and enhance their economic benefits.

Kunming has attached great importance to the development of customized services, full-life-cycle management, testing and certification credentials, and the supply of total integration, as well as contracting services in the selection and cultivation of service-oriented manufacturing enterprises.

Kunming has taken the lead in Yunnan to provide national-level and provincial-level service-oriented manufacturing enterprises with a maximum of 500,000 yuan ($80,645.2) and 300,000 yuan respectively as incentives to further spur innovation .

So far, Kunming has allocated 22.3 million yuan to support the development of service-oriented manufacturing enterprises at different levels. 

Duobao Cable Group, a national-level high-tech and green enterprise, promotes full-life-cycle management, customized services, sharing manufacturing, testing and certification services, and energy-saving services in the development of service-oriented manufacturing as well as industrial chains over the past few years.

With fresh and intelligent production lines, Duobao Cable Group is capable of simultaneously producing multiple types and standards of commodities in a highly efficient way to meet the diverse demands of its customers.

Duobao Cable Group registered high-speed growth in the delivery of its products to business partners in the first quarter of this year. Statistics show that the company witnessed a six-fold increase in its supply to China Southern Power Grid and State Grid during the same period.