On March 5, Shandong Province accelerated the development of advanced manufacturing cluster training and work exchange meeting was held in Jinan. The meeting thoroughly implemented the deployment requirements of the provincial Party Committee and the provincial government on accelerating the cultivation and development of advanced manufacturing clusters, actively promoted the construction of provincial, national, and world-class echelon cultivation patterns, and provided solid support for the high-quality economic development of the province. The implications of this meeting for manufacturing companies are as follows:

1. ‌ clear strategic positioning and integrate into the echelon cultivation system ‌

The meeting proposed to build a "provincial-level - national-level - world-class" advanced manufacturing cluster echelon development pattern ‌. Manufacturing enterprises should combine their own advantages, take the initiative to benchmark the cultivation standards of clusters at different levels, formulate phased development goals, and strive to enter the list of provincial or national clusters for cultivation, in order to obtain policies, funds and other resources inclined ‌.

2. ‌ Strengthen innovation-driven efforts and enhance industrial chain collaboration ‌

Shandong Province emphasizes the promotion of the scientific and technological level of clusters through the action of "strong foundation and tough chain", supports manufacturing enterprises to jointly research basic technologies and build patent pools ‌. It is suggested that enterprises should increase R&D investment, strengthen collaborative innovation with universities and research institutes, and actively participate in the industrial chain cooperation network led by the "chain master" enterprises in the cluster, and promote the transformation of technological achievements and product iteration and upgrading ‌.

3. ‌ take advantage of policies and platforms to optimize resource integration ‌

‌ Shandong Province provides up to 10 million yuan in capital rewards to designated world-class and state-level clusters, and encourages enterprises to make use of supply chain finance, innovative smes financing and other tools ‌. Manufacturing enterprises should pay attention to policy dynamics and actively declare financial support projects. Enterprises can join clusters to promote organizations or industry alliances, share public service platform resources (such as testing and verification, market docking), and reduce operating costs ‌.

4, ‌ pay attention to open cooperation and brand building ‌

National-level clusters need to have international competitiveness ‌. Enterprises should speed up their international layout, deepen cooperation with the upstream and downstream of domestic and foreign industrial chains, and participate in the formulation of international standards and brand promotion.

5. ‌ Seize the opportunities of digital and green transformation ‌

Shandong Province proposed to promote the smart and green development of clusters ‌. Manufacturing enterprises need to speed up digital transformation, and apply industrial Internet, intelligent manufacturing and other technologies to optimize production processes; At the same time, the layout of new energy equipment, ecological environmental protection and other strategic industries, seize the new track ‌.

Manufacturing enterprises need to take cluster development as an opportunity to realize the transformation from single competition to ecological co-construction through strategic synergy, innovation-driven, resource integration and open cooperation, and enhance core competitiveness in policy dividends and industrial upgrading.