On the northern bank of the Songhua River, a wave of scientific innovation is surging forward. Inside the Shenzhen-Harbin Industrial Park, precision joint motors developed by Hangwei Intelligent are driving the dexterous finger movements of humanoid robots, with core products securing 4,000 orders this year alone. At the "Intelligent Robot Island" in Harbin New District, laser weeding robots produced by Huagong Zhiyun are being exported in bulk, marking a breakthrough in the batch export of domestically-made high-end intelligent agricultural machinery for physical weeding. The rapid transition of hard-core technologies from laboratory settings to production lines is becoming a vivid testament to the cultivation of new quality productive forces in this region.

In line with national directives to develop new quality productive forces tailored to local conditions, Harbin New District has leveraged its rich scientific and educational resources in recent years. By implementing strategies for invigorating the country through science and education, strengthening the nation with talent, and driving innovation-led development, the district has tapped into the high-quality scientific innovation assets of universities and research institutes. It has deepened school-local collaborative innovation, streamlined the integrated transformation pathway for government, industry, academia, research, and application, and continuously fostered the growth of new quality productive forces, thereby building up scientific innovation momentum for high-quality regional development.

Harbin New District boasts a vibrant scientific innovation atmosphere. Focusing on core tracks of new quality productive forces, such as commercial aerospace, intelligent robots, and new materials, the district has precisely deployed industrial carriers and reinforced the leadership of key chain enterprises. It has coordinated the construction of 15 specialized industrial parks, promoting the clustering and agglomeration of emerging industries through targeted investment attraction. Driven by the leading role of Gongda Satellite, the district has established a commercial aerospace industrial park, attracting 23 supporting enterprises including Xingwang Power and Hangwei Intelligent, and building a complete upstream-downstream commercial aerospace industry chain. As the core area for the province's robot industry spatial layout, the "Intelligent Robot Island" fully utilizes local scientific and educational advantages to construct a full-lifecycle innovation service system encompassing "concept validation, pilot-scale maturation, and embodied intelligence training." Linking with backbone enterprises like Boshi Automation and SIASUN Robot, it has cultivated a robot industry cluster covering fields such as aerospace exploration and special operations. Notably, the towed laser weeding robot developed by park enterprise Huagong Zhiyun has successfully achieved exports, marking a zero-to-one breakthrough.

Meanwhile, the district's Advanced Equipment Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park has achieved full occupancy upon opening, thanks to its "customized construction plus early investment attraction" model. Park enterprise Bingxue Huan teng successfully transformed aerospace material technology from Harbin Institute of Technology academicians, becoming the sole domestic supplier of high-end snow equipment for the Asian Winter Games and Winter Olympics, effectively breaking international technological monopolies. Cichuang New Materials has overcome key technologies for ceramic processing in extreme environments, becoming the only domestic enterprise capable of mass-producing aerospace-grade ceramic end mill blanks, successfully achieving import substitution for high-end consumables. The Shenzhen-Harbin Industrial Park is thriving with vitality.

To effectively dismantle barriers between schools and localities and remove bottlenecks in achievement implementation, Harbin New District has continuously optimized its scientific innovation service model. It has innovatively implemented an on-campus professional technology manager service mechanism, forming a composite service team that integrates science and technology departments, state-owned investment enterprises, and venture capital institutions. The district established the province's first technology manager firm, which routinely stations personnel at the Harbin Institute of Technology Advanced Technology Research Institute, providing "one-on-one" precision empowerment services to research teams in key laboratories. This year, the district has further upgraded its scientific innovation and investment attraction service system, dispatching six technology specialists to regularly station at the technology transfer departments of six key universities, including Harbin Institute of Technology and Harbin Engineering University. These specialists delve into the front lines of scientific research to identify cutting-edge technologies, high-quality teams, and industrializable achievements, providing full-process tracking services for project implementation, technology transformation, and enterprise development, and striving to accelerate the rapid deployment of laboratory achievements into production. To date, they have connected with over 20 advantageous university research teams, unearthed more than 60 high-value scientific innovation achievements, and facilitated the implementation and production of over 40 high-precision industrial projects. In the past six months alone, two provincial-level sole national scientific innovation benchmark projects have been consecutively launched, steadily improving the quality and efficiency of regional achievement transformation.

Based on the construction of a scientific innovation ecosystem, Harbin New District adheres to platform empowerment and echelon cultivation, continuously enriching the fertile ground for all-factor innovation development and striving to create a "tropical rainforest-style" innovation ecosystem. China's first major scientific facility in the aerospace field – the Space Environment Simulation and Research Infrastructure – is operating stably and efficiently. After nearly 20 years of concentrated research and development, its overall technology has reached internationally advanced levels, with some key technologies leading globally. It can simulate and replicate nine major categories of extreme space environments, continuously providing ground verification support for key components of national major aerospace projects. To date, it has served over 700 units and teams, including China Aerospace, becoming the core magnet for the district's aerospace industry agglomeration. The industrial innovation base of the Harbin Institute of Technology National Key Laboratory of Materials Precision Welding and Joining has also been successfully established. As the first off-campus national-level R&D platform industrialization base since the university's founding, it marks a historic breakthrough in the transformation and landing of top-tier university major scientific research resources. Currently, the district hosts 260 innovation platforms at or above the provincial level, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the provincial total, with regional R&D investment intensity reaching 3.8%, leading the province for many consecutive years.

Gongda Satellite has become a backbone force driving the development of new quality productive forces in the district. Relying on a systematic cultivation mechanism, the district has built a progressive cultivation echelon for technology-based SMEs, high-tech enterprises, and high-growth enterprises. The number of high-tech enterprises has tripled compared to 2020, accounting for over 40% of the city's total. A group of leading scientific innovation enterprises with independent core technologies, such as Gongda Satellite and Hua'ao Intelligent, continues to grow, becoming the mainstay in driving the development of new quality productive forces in the district. Looking ahead, Harbin New District will continue to focus on the efficient transformation of scientific and technological achievements, continuously improve the district-wide scientific innovation service system, strengthen advantageous leading industries such as robotics, commercial aerospace, and advanced equipment manufacturing, and fully consolidate the foundation for innovation-driven development. By fostering new quality productive forces through a high-quality scientific innovation ecosystem, it aims to empower regional high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and high-quality development.

Walking through Harbin New District, from production workshops in industrial parks to bustling project construction sites, one can feel the surging pulse of innovation everywhere. Here, new quality productive forces are no longer a concept on paper, but rather the flexing mechanical arms of robots, the continuously iterating equipment on production lines, and the brand-new factory buildings rising from construction sites. In the workshop of Dapeng Industry, witnessing the cylinder head warehouse cleaning machine complete the entire unmanned operation of grabbing, cleaning, and drying, one truly appreciates that the birth of a first (set) piece of equipment represents years of dedicated research and development by scientific personnel, repeatedly breaking through technical barriers and firmly grasping key equipment once monopolized by foreign countries. At the New Materials Industrial Park, the Jingshuo Intelligent project site is filled with the sparkle of welding and busy workers, striving towards the goal of mass-producing large-size electrochromic glass. Customized factory carriers ensure that cutting-edge scientific research achievements do not have to worry about space for implementation, making the path from laboratory to production line smoother.

Visits to numerous enterprises and parks reveal that the district's innovation vitality stems not only from enterprises' dedicated research and daring experimentation, but also from the support of a well-established industrial ecosystem. Specialized industrial parks provide a stage for development, while technology managers and specialists delve into universities to unblock bottlenecks in achievement transformation, continuously converting scientific and educational resources into industrial momentum. Seeds of innovation are taking root and sprouting here. In the tracks of intelligent robots, commercial aerospace, and new materials, a batch of scientific innovation enterprises are growing vigorously. The vibrant scene of practical work before us heralds the upward momentum accumulating in this development hotspot, and the wave of new quality productive forces is injecting a steady stream of confidence into the region's high-quality development.