Warm Congratulations: Han Rongtao, Chairman of Soletks Group, Included in the First Batch of “Clean Heating Expert Database”

On March 16, 2025, the "First Batch of Expert List for Admission to the Clean Heating Expert Database" was officially released. Han Rongtao, Chairman of Soletks Group, successfully made it into the first batch of experts by virtue of his in-depth dedication and contributions in the field of clean heating. This is not only a high recognition of Han Rongtao's personal professional capabilities, but also an authoritative proof of Soletks Group's technical strength and industry status, injecting new impetus into the high-quality development of China's clean heating industry.

I. Construction of the Expert Database: Aligning with National Strategies and Pooling Industry Wisdom

The establishment of the "Clean Heating Expert Database" stems from the dual needs of national new-type think tank construction and the "dual carbon" strategy. The General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of New-Type Think Tanks with Chinese Characteristics", which clearly defines the core position of social think tanks and provides policy guidance for the integration of industry intellectual resources. Against this backdrop, the Clean Heating Industry Committee (CHIC) — an authoritative industry organization under the guidance of the National Development and Reform Commission, covering enterprises, technology providers and financial institutions — takes the lead in collecting and selecting experts for the database. It aims to gather experts in multiple fields such as technology research and development, engineering design and policy research, provide professional support for government decision-making and enterprise innovation, and promote the industry to break through bottlenecks and move towards standardized development.

II. Personal Dedication: From Technological Breakthroughs to Industry Leadership

Han Rongtao's inclusion in the database is an inevitable result of his decades of focus on the clean heating field. As a senior engineer, he focuses on the core pain points of the industry, with research directions covering key areas such as the preparation of solar spectral selective absorption coatings, the design of vacuum coating equipment and high-temperature heat pump technology. Each achievement is closely aligned with the industrial needs.

In terms of academic and technological achievements, he has published 5 papers and 1 monograph, obtained 39 authorized patents (including 16 invention patents under examination and 15 utility model patents under examination), and participated in the formulation of 8 industry standards. His patented technologies have been successfully transformed into the enterprise's competitive advantages. Personally, he has won honors such as the Shandong Provincial Science and Technology Award and the May 1st Labor Medal, demonstrating his solid professional strength. Meanwhile, he holds concurrent positions as the President of the CCMSA Clean Energy Branch, a visiting professor at three universities and the director of an academician workstation. He not only promotes collaborative innovation in the industry, but also cultivates practical talents for the field, and his multiple roles highlight his influence in the industry.

III. Enterprise Leadership: Taking Innovation as the Core to Build a Global Benchmark

Under Han Rongtao's leadership, Soletks Group has grown into a global leader in the clean heating industry: it has 7 subsidiaries and 6 major production bases, with an annual output of 7.0GWth of flat-panel clean thermal energy equipment. It has ranked second in the world in terms of flat-panel collector output for two consecutive years, and its products are sold overseas.

"Innovation is the core competitiveness" is the cornerstone of the group's development. It has built a multi-level R&D system consisting of "7 R&D departments + 1 research institute + 1 academician workstation + 1 laboratory + 1 thermal energy college". The proportion of R&D personnel accounts for 16% (half of whom have more than 20 years of industry experience). It has carried out industry-university-research cooperation with 7 top institutions including the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University, and has accumulated 117 core patents. Among them, the solar spectral selective absorption coating technology has broken foreign monopolies, and the market share of core materials ranks first in the industry. With its strong strength, the group has successively obtained honors such as being recognized as a National High-Tech Enterprise, a "Little Giant" Enterprise of National Specialized, Refined, Peculiar and Innovative Enterprises, and a "Pioneer" in national solar thermal utilization products, becoming a model of innovation in the industry.

IV. Industry Responsibility: Empowering Industrial Collaboration and Promoting Healthy Development

As the President of the Clean Energy Application Branch of the China Construction Metal Structure Association, Han Rongtao actively fulfills his industry responsibilities: he builds a communication bridge between the government, enterprises and scientific research institutions, and organizes policy interpretation meetings and technical seminars; he takes the lead in formulating industry self-discipline standards, solves problems such as uneven product quality and chaotic market order, and enhances the brand recognition of the industry. At the same time, he promotes the sharing of enterprise technical experience, takes the lead in tackling common technical problems, accelerates the industrialization of new technologies, helps China's clean heating industry expand its market scale and improve its technical level, and provides support for the implementation of the "dual carbon" goal.

V. Future Outlook: Taking Honors as a Stepping Stone to Write a New Chapter of Development

Being included in the expert database this time is both an honor and a responsibility for Soletks Group. In the future, the group will take this as an opportunity to deepen exchanges and cooperation in the industry and participate in the technical consultation and policy research work of the expert database; it will continue to increase R&D investment, focus on cutting-edge fields such as solar spectral thermoelectric twin technology and new energy storage technology, and break through "chokepoint" technologies; it will consolidate its advantages in the domestic market, accelerate its international layout, and enhance the global discourse power of Chinese enterprises; at the same time, it will continue to participate in the formulation of industry standards, promote the in-depth development of industry-university-research collaboration, create more value for the clean heating industry, and contribute to the realization of the "dual carbon" goal.

From personal efforts in tackling key problems to enterprise leadership, from technological innovation to industry empowerment, the growth of Han Rongtao and Soletks Group is a vivid epitome of the development of China's clean heating industry. In the future, with the support of the expert database, both will surely contribute more to the high-quality development of the industry.