Why did the "golden egg" of the trillion-level geomagnetic industry fall into Deqing, Zhejiang?

Huzhou, Feb. 6 (China News Service) (Hu Fengsheng, Wang Lizhong) Installing magnetic shielding devices, adding semiconductor lasers, completing high-performance magnetic alloys... After the Spring Festival, in the production workshop of Zero Magnetic Equipment (Deqing) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zero Magnetic Equipment") in Moganshan High-tech Zone, Huzhou, Zhejiang, the workers were concentrating and constantly debugging. One after another, the independently developed magnetic cardiotonic imaging equipment was installed by technicians.

As an emerging industry that is "a national treasure", the geomagnetic industry, which has been newly settled in Deqing County, Huzhou City since 2024, has been attracting all kinds of talents with its magnetic effect, allowing each innovative "golden seed" to blossom and bear fruit.

"This year, we expect to produce 300 magnetocardiographic devices annually, with an output value of over 100 million yuan," said Wang Wei, general manager of Zero Magnetic Equipment. It can be used to diagnose difficult diseases such as myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction, and tumors. The company will also develop supporting detection systems and wearable monitoring equipment in the future.

In recent years, Deqing has taken the cross-border integration and development of the geographic information industry as an opportunity, aimed at the emerging field of "geoinformation + geomagnetism", seized the major project of "Earth Magnetic Field Simulation and Monitoring System" led by the academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and laid out geomagnetic navigation, geomagnetic prospecting, wearable medical equipment, magnetically controlled Internet of Things and other industrial directions to create another growth pole.

In 2024, the Zhejiang Moganshan Geomagnetic Large Science Facility Research Institute (hereinafter referred to as the "Institute") will be established in Moganshan High-tech Zone. With the extremely weak magnetic large science facility as the core, it will establish a resource element guarantee system of "scientific research-pilot production-industrialization" and become the "intellectual engine" and "source of innovation" for the development of the geomagnetic industry.

Guoqi (Deqing) Sensing Technology Co., Ltd. is an upstream company of zero-magnetic equipment, a major supplier of magnetocardiographic imaging equipment, and a pioneer in the design, development, and production of atomic magnetometers. Chen Haidong, general manager of the company, said that the company's R&D team currently has more than 40 people, and the first production line has been established, which is running stably.

The semiconductor laser products of the upstream enterprise Guangteng Laser Technology (Deqing) Co., Ltd. are used in the production of zero-magnetic equipment. Currently, the company's R&D team of more than 30 people is stepping up R&D and production.

Shengtai New Materials Company has completed the preparation of prototypes of small and large magnetic shielding devices independently developed by the company and has achieved mass production...

With the support of this group of core enterprises, domestic magnetoencephalography/magnetocardiography equipment has entered the joint verification stage, laying a solid foundation for the next step of clinical application of magnetoencephalography/magnetocardiography equipment.

Wang Wei introduced that compared with MRI machines that cost tens of millions of yuan, magnetocardiographic imaging equipment only costs a few million yuan, greatly saving medical costs.

Today, zero-magnetic medical equipment and applications have been included in the first batch of major scientific and technological projects coordinated by Zhejiang Province, and four of the seven projects are led by doctoral teams, which means that the cultivation of Deqing's geomagnetic industry is accelerating.

In the office of Zero Magnetic Equipment (Deqing) Co., Ltd., Liu Yi, an algorithm engineer who graduated from a graduate school, is using algorithms to carefully calculate the data provided by the supplier. He smiled and said, "The atmosphere of industrial development is strong here. I hope to contribute to the development of Deqing's geomagnetic industry together with like-minded friends."

Not only is it convenient to get to Deqing from Hangzhou by high-speed rail in just 13 minutes, but more importantly, "there is a team here that is willing to cooperate with our company, so we don't have to worry about anything," said Li Xuewen, general manager of Guangteng Laser Technology (Deqing) Co., Ltd.

Thanks to the advantages of industrial agglomeration, in less than a year, the Zhejiang Moganshan Geomagnetic Large Scientific Facility Research Institute has gathered more than 200 people, and nearly 80% of them have a master's degree or above. As the construction of the innovation ecosystem of large scientific facilities continues to deepen, the next 100 billion-level industrial cluster is emerging. (End)