According to the website of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, on April 24, the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, the Shanghai Defense Industry Office, the Development and Reform Commission of Shanghai Municipality, and the Shanghai Finance Bureau issued the "Several Measures for Accelerating the Cultivation of a Commercial Aerospace Advanced Manufacturing Cluster in Shanghai".
Among them, it was proposed that in terms of commercial satellites, key supporting equipment such as satellite-borne phased array antennas, inter-satellite laser communication terminals, satellite-ground communication payloads, integrated electronic systems, and flexible solar wings would be prioritized for development, accelerating the research and development of direct mobile phone-to-satellite connections and promoting the iterative upgrade of commercial satellites; building a commercial satellite super factory to continuously enhance satellite intelligent manufacturing capabilities.
In addition, the "Several Measures" also proposed supporting the enhancement of the R&D capabilities of symbolic products. Leveraging the collaborative support role of special funds for municipal science and technology major projects, strategic emerging industries, high-quality industrial development, and industrial collaborative innovation, a certain proportion of funding subsidies will be provided for the R&D of commercial rockets, satellites, terminals, and key core products, with a maximum of up to 300 million yuan, to accelerate the enhancement of industrialization scale. Support enterprises for high-end and intelligent upgrades, enhancing batch manufacturing capabilities, providing support at 10% of the total investment in purchasing equipment and software by enterprises, with a maximum of up to 100 million yuan. For bank loans used by enterprises for scientific and technological breakthroughs and industrialization project construction, interest rate subsidy support of up to 50% of the paid interest will be provided, with a maximum of up to 15 million yuan. Support the enhancement of smart factory levels in areas such as rockets and satellites, providing categorized support based on the determined level, with a maximum of up to 10 million yuan.
Several Measures for Accelerating the Cultivation of a Commercial Aerospace Advanced Manufacturing Cluster in Shanghai
In order to serve the national strategies of space power and manufacturing power, actively implementing the government work report, Shanghai will fully utilize the foundational advantages of its aerospace base, considering commercial aerospace as an important focus point for advancing new industrialization and cultivating new quality productivity, comprehensively promoting the strengthening, supplementation, and extension of the commercial aerospace industry chain, creating a new engine for economic growth, and formulating these measures specifically.
I. Main Objectives
Systematically optimizing the layout of the commercial aerospace industry, constructing a full-industry-chain agglomeration development ecosystem of "rocket-satellite-terminal-service", transforming the commercial aerospace industry chain into a representative hallmark chain of new quality productivity, comprehensively building a reusable rocket innovation highland, a low-cost commercial satellite mass production highland, and a key industry application service highland, accelerating the cultivation of a national-level commercial aerospace advanced manufacturing cluster, and striving to build a globally influential commercial aerospace city.
By 2027, the scale of Shanghai's commercial aerospace industry is expected to reach approximately 100 billion yuan. Symbolic product industrialization scale will expand, with an annual total assembly and manufacturing capability of 100 rockets for commercial rockets, an annual intelligent manufacturing capability of 1000 satellites for commercial satellites, and an annual batch manufacturing capability of 1 million terminals. The degree of industrial chain agglomeration will increase, with complete support systems for arrows, stars, networks, and terminals, gathering main players in rockets, satellites, constellations, and terminals, driving the cultivation of around 300 specialized and new small and medium-sized enterprises, focusing on building distinctive industrial parks for commercial rockets and commercial satellites and terminals, forming a linked development pattern of "arrows-stars-network-terminals". The constellation networking application effect will become prominent, completing a global coverage low and medium orbit satellite communication network system, achieving all-time domain accessibility for space-based, airborne, ground-based, and marine-based systems, leveraging Shanghai's advantage of gathering large-scale national heavy machinery equipment and its huge consumer market potential, creating over 100 distinctive application scenarios such as large aircraft, cruise ships, low-altitude air connectivity, and personal communications, forming a scale promotion effect. The industrial ecology will continue to optimize its layout, with platforms such as satellite supercomputing, data services, maritime launches, and rapid recovery being rapidly constructed, basically completing a supporting capability system integrating control centers, maintenance centers, and data centers, forming an industrial ecology with reasonable and sufficient spatial development, ample professional talent echelons, continuous financial capital empowerment, and fruitful international cooperation results.
II. Development Focus Areas
(1) Commercial Rockets. Prioritize the development of key supporting equipment such as liquid oxygen methane/kerosene engines, return control systems, sensing components, structural segments, and composite materials, forming a series of reusable commercial rocket products with a gradient of carrying capacity; promoting the iterative upgrading of commercial rocket technologies to further enhance the comprehensive efficiency of rockets, meeting the needs of large constellation network construction.
(2) Commercial Satellites. Focus on developing key supporting equipment such as satellite-borne phased array antennas, inter-satellite laser communication terminals, satellite-ground communication payloads, integrated electronic systems, and flexible solar wings, accelerating the research and development of direct mobile phone-to-satellite connections, promoting the iterative upgrading of commercial satellites; building a commercial satellite super factory to continuously enhance satellite intelligent manufacturing capabilities.
(3) Smart Terminals. Focus on developing key supporting equipment such as multi-frequency terminal modules, researching and developing a series of products including communication terminals compatible with high, medium, and low-orbit satellites, integrated navigation and communication terminals, and direct mobile phone-to-satellite terminals, enhancing the batch manufacturing capabilities of smart terminals.
(4) Application Services. Implement scenario-specific policies to achieve large-scale applications in six major fields: intelligent driving, urban governance, emergency rescue, smart agriculture, personal consumption, and communication, promoting domestic pioneering demonstration applications in four major fields: aircraft, cruise ships, low-altitude air connectivity, and polar deep-sea scientific expeditions.
III. Supporting Measures
(1) Strengthen Enterprise Integration and Development
1. Support the growth of advantageous enterprises. Support leading enterprises in commercial rockets, commercial satellites, and constellation construction to take the lead in undertaking national and municipal major projects, developing a batch of high-performance, internationally advanced symbolic products, enhancing industrialization scale capabilities, product market competitiveness, and supply chain security and controllability. Encourage chain main enterprises to integrate upstream and downstream industrial chain resources, strengthen the formulation of industrial technical standards, accelerate the construction of distinctive industrial parks, create an ecological environment led by "chain main enterprises," and promote the cluster development of the commercial aerospace industry (Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, Shanghai Development and Reform Commission, Shanghai Defense Industry Office, Shanghai Planning and Resource Bureau, Shanghai Market Supervision Administration, relevant districts).
2. Encourage chain main enterprises to open up their needs. Promote chain main enterprises to release their research and development needs, establish a "chain main enterprise question-setting" mechanism, release technical research, product development, and industrialization matching needs in forms such as "challenge awards," driving upstream and downstream supporting enterprises in the industrial chain to enter the commercial aerospace industry chain, encouraging key districts to provide rewards. Encourage chain main enterprises to jointly conduct new scene application arguments and new business model studies with relevant professional institutions (Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, Shanghai Defense Industry Office).
3. Attract and cultivate small and medium-sized supporting enterprises. Leverage the order-pulling role of chain main enterprises, promote coordinated development among arrow-star-network-terminal enterprises, and drive continuous cost reduction and efficiency improvement in commercial constellation construction. Support small and medium-sized specialized and innovative "giant" enterprises to grow stronger, with the municipal government giving a 500,000 yuan reward to specialized and innovative "giant" enterprises whose two-year average growth rate of output value (revenue) reaches 20% or more; providing 30% interest subsidies for loans taken by specialized and innovative enterprises in Shanghai, with a maximum per enterprise of 1 million yuan. Relevant districts should, based on actual conditions, give rewards to newly recognized national specialized and innovative "giant" enterprises and municipal "specialized and innovative" enterprises (Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, Shanghai Defense Industry Office, Shanghai Finance Bureau, Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, relevant districts).
(2) Enhance the Industrial Scale Level
4. Support the enhancement of标志性product R&D capabilities. Utilize the collaborative support of special funds for municipal major science and technology projects, strategic emerging industries, high-quality industrial development, and industrial collaborative innovation, providing a certain percentage of funding subsidies for the R&D of commercial rockets, satellites, terminals, and key core supporting products, with a maximum of up to 300 million yuan, to accelerate the enhancement of industrialization scale. Support enterprises for high-end and intelligent upgrades, enhancing batch manufacturing capabilities, providing support at 10% of the total investment in purchasing equipment and software by enterprises, with a maximum of up to 100 million yuan. Provide interest rate subsidy support of up to 50% of the paid interest for bank loans used by enterprises for scientific and technological breakthroughs and industrialization project construction, with a maximum of up to 15 million yuan. Support the enhancement of smart factory levels in areas such as rockets and satellites, providing categorized support based on the determined level, with a maximum of up to 10 million yuan (Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, Shanghai Defense Industry Office, Shanghai Development and Reform Commission, Shanghai Finance Bureau, relevant districts).
5. Support the application of first-of-a-kind innovative products. Promote the commercial application of innovative products, providing funding subsidies at a certain percentage of the contract amount for the first unit (set), with a maximum of up to 20 million yuan. Key districts support single satellite application terminals that obtain international classification society certification, civil aviation airworthiness certification, and other domestic and international market access certificates for the first time, with a maximum single certification support of 1 million yuan and an annual support per enterprise of up to 10 million yuan (Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, Shanghai Finance Bureau, relevant districts).
6. Provide comprehensive subsidies for commercial launches. Provide premium subsidy support for commercial aerospace launch insurance, subsidizing 50% of the premium total, encouraging key districts to provide matching subsidies at a certain ratio, with a maximum per project of up to 10 million yuan. Key districts support enterprises in investing in the construction of safe and stable global satellite communication, navigation systems, and remote sensing constellations, providing certain ratio subsidies for the initial commercial insurance costs of constellation construction enterprises, with a maximum per satellite of up to 2 million yuan and an annual support per enterprise of up to 30 million yuan (Shanghai Defense Industry Office, Shanghai Finance Bureau, relevant districts).
(3) Build High-standard Agglomeration Areas
7. Build a distinctive commercial rocket industrial park. The Minhang District plans dedicated development space, constructing a municipal-level distinctive commercial rocket industrial park, encouraging chain main enterprises to strengthen their traction role, conducting construction of a river-sea linkage rocket transport wharf, clustering upstream and downstream supporting enterprises of the rocket engine, subsystems, parts, etc., achieving door-to-door supply, further enhancing the overall assembly efficiency of commercial rockets. Support the Minhang District in formulating special policies and accelerating the establishment of a commercial aerospace industry fund (Minhang District, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, Shanghai Planning and Resource Bureau, Shanghai Defense Industry Office).
8. Build a distinctive commercial satellite and terminal industrial park. The Songjiang District plans dedicated development space, constructing a municipal-level distinctive commercial satellite and terminal industrial park, encouraging chain main enterprises to strengthen their traction role, promoting the clustering of upstream and downstream supporting enterprises in star-borne power supplies, communication payloads, attitude and orbit control, etc., accelerating the construction of satellite and terminal intelligent manufacturing factories, promoting the construction of shared technology public service platforms, enhancing the overall service capacity and supporting level of the park, supporting the cultivation and expansion of the satellite internet future industry. Support the Songjiang District in formulating special policies and accelerating the establishment of a commercial aerospace industry fund (Songjiang District, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, Shanghai Planning and Resource Bureau, Shanghai Defense Industry Office).
9. Encourage differentiated development based on local conditions. Support the Lingang New Area in building a commercial satellite intelligent manufacturing concentration zone, achieving low-cost batch production of satellites, promoting innovations in star-ground integration communication, and supporting the validation of key technologies for satellite internet. Encourage the Pudong New Area, Qingpu District, Hongkou District, Yangpu District, Jiading District, etc., to combine with the resource endowment of the commercial aerospace industry, promote enterprises to strengthen the R&D and industrialization of key products, and accelerate the expansion of new scenario applications. Support distinctive development zones in formulating special policies (relevant districts, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, Shanghai Defense Industry Office, Shanghai Planning and Resource Bureau, Shanghai Development and Reform Commission).
(4) Optimize the Industrial Development Ecology
10. Build industrial innovation service platforms. Support upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain to jointly establish collaborative innovation centers and laboratories, pilot validation, inspection and testing services, and other common service platforms with universities and research institutes, strengthening collaborative innovation in the industrial chain and accelerating the engineering application of scientific and technological achievements. Recognized platforms will receive support at up to 50% of the verified R&D expenditure from the previous year, with a maximum of up to 50 million yuan annually. Encourage participation in standard formulation and revision; for units that take the lead in formulating national or industry standards, support of up to 300,000 yuan will be provided according to regulations (Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, Shanghai Market Supervision Administration, Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, Shanghai Finance Bureau, relevant districts).
11. Improve industrial supporting service facilities. Encourage enterprises to construct satellite network ground stations domestically and internationally, including them in the scope of information infrastructure support, promoting the standardized and orderly development of commercial aerospace telemetry. Ensure land use for infrastructure such as satellite network ground stations, steadily advancing planning and construction work. Strengthen the guarantee of satellite frequency and orbit resources. Expand maritime-launching resources, promoting the research and development of maritime launch and recovery platform equipment, studying and planning maritime mobile dedicated launching positions (Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, Shanghai Development and Reform Commission, Shanghai Planning and Resource Bureau, relevant districts).
12. Strengthen the introduction and cultivation of commercial aerospace talents. Support high-quality enterprises in the commercial aerospace industry chain to be included in our city's key talent introduction institutions. Support commercial aerospace enterprises in introducing high-level talents from home and abroad, allowing eligible high-level talents to directly proceed to the final review stage of the "Eastern Talent" program. Implement special rewards for key enterprise talents in commercial aerospace, providing individual rewards up to 300,000 yuan. Support vocational and technical colleges in collaborating with key enterprises to cultivate highly skilled talents. Provide commercial aerospace talents with socialized professional technical level evaluation and career advancement channels. City and district coordination will provide high-quality talent apartments and other housing services, as well as key guarantees such as children's school enrollment for high-precision, high-end, and scarce talents. Support vocational and technical colleges in collaborating with key enterprises to cultivate highly skilled talents (Municipal Talent Bureau, Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, relevant districts).
IV. Working Mechanism
(1) Carry out city-district collaboration. Fully leverage the role of the municipal high-quality manufacturing development mechanism, with the industry department taking the lead, establishing a commercial aerospace industry promotion task force to comprehensively advance industrial policies and major project implementation, strengthening regular communication and coordination, and steadily and orderly conducting related work on industrial development. Relevant departments of the city and districts will implement policy details and specific tasks according to their respective responsibilities.
(2) Strengthen central-local linkage. Vigorously seek support from national ministries and commissions, providing support in areas such as satellite launch resources, frequency and orbit resources, constellation operation qualifications, and major project approval. Strengthen coordination and collaboration with central enterprises in the commercial aerospace field, coordinating and ensuring the layout and aggregation of central enterprises in Shanghai, expanding new businesses and functions.
(3) Solidify the integration of investment promotion and service. Increase the management level and investment promotion capabilities of parks, forming professional and market-oriented investment promotion teams, and strengthening investment promotion evaluations. Promote synergy between chain main enterprises and park investment promotion, jointly driving upstream and downstream key projects in the industrial chain to develop within the park, encouraging support for newly registered headquarters enterprises. Optimize and improve the exclusive "service package" for commercial aerospace enterprises, perfecting the rapid response and resolution mechanism for enterprise demands.
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