The first project of the company has been approved as a key R&D project in Henan Province
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2022-08-30
Recently, the Department of Science and Technology of Henan Province issued the Notice on the Initiation of Key R&D Projects in Henan Province in 2022. According to the notice, the project Development and Application of 1300MPa Ultra High Strength Protective Steel Plate of Wuhan Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. was successfully approved by the Department of Science and Technology of Henan Province.
In recent years, Henan Provincial Party Committee and Government have attached great importance to scientific and technological innovation, placing innovation at the core of modernization, and taking the implementation of the strategy of innovation driven, science and education to revitalize the province, and talent to strengthen the province as the first of the "top ten strategies", striving to build a first-class innovation ecology and a national innovation center. The key R&D projects in Henan Province are based on vigorously implementing the innovation driven development strategy, improving the overall efficiency of industrial chain innovation, focusing on the innovation needs of the economic and social development of our province, and carrying out the collaborative innovation of "production, learning, research and use" for the R&D and transformation of key technologies.
This approval for the establishment of key R&D projects in Henan Province is a recognition of Wugang's innovation and R&D capability, which will play a positive role in further exploration and practice of Wugang and stimulate innovation motivation. Wugang will take the approval of key R&D projects in Henan Province as a new starting point, take technological upgrading as the guide, adhere to the working idea of promoting technological progress through scientific and technological innovation, further strengthen the core competitiveness of the enterprise, and make greater contributions to the development and progress of the special steel industry through the innovation and promotion of new products, new technologies and new models.
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