On August 29th, the 2024 China · Dezhou New Energy and New Materials Industry Development Conference was grandly held in Dezhou. Focusing on technological innovation and industrial collaboration in the field of new energy and new materials, this conference attracted a large number of top industry experts, enterprise representatives, and government officials. Among the attendees were two academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Li Yongfang, a researcher at the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a professor at the Department of Chemistry of Soochow University; and Gao Deli, a professor and doctoral supervisor at China University of Petroleum (Beijing). Their presence injected strong intellectual resources into the conference.

A particularly significant unveiling ceremony at the conference attracted wide attention – leaders from the Dezhou Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology and relevant universities jointly unveiled the Academician Workstation of Shandong Shengtuoke Solar Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shengtuoke Group"). This marks a crucial step for Shengtuoke Group in deepening industry-university-research collaborative innovation and tackling cutting-edge technologies in the solar energy field. After the unveiling ceremony, participating experts and leaders also visited Shengtuoke Group's production and R&D bases to gain an in-depth understanding of the enterprise's achievements in the R&D, production, and application of flat-panel solar systems, and highly praised the enterprise's technical strength and industrial layout.

As a technology-based group enterprise headquartered in Dezhou, Shandong, Shengtuoke Group has always focused on the R&D and production of flat-panel solar systems. After years of in-depth development, it has grown into a leading enterprise in the industry. Currently, the group has seven subsidiaries including Shengtuoke, Jinheng, and Feitian, and has laid out six major production bases, forming a complete industrial chain covering the R&D, production, sales, and service of flat-panel solar products. In terms of production capacity, the group's annual output of flat-panel clean thermal energy equipment reaches 3.7GWth. This production scale not only leads domestically but also ranks second globally, fully demonstrating the enterprise's strong strength in the flat-panel solar field and providing a solid guarantee for meeting the demand for clean energy equipment in domestic and international markets.

Technological innovation is the core driving force for Shengtuoke Group's development. The group has always placed R&D investment and talent cultivation at the top of its strategic priorities, and built a sound innovation system. In terms of R&D platform construction, the group has established 5 professional R&D departments, 1 academician workstation, 1 flat-panel research institute, and 1 flat-panel testing center. These multiple platforms work in synergy to provide strong support for technological R&D and product innovation. Among them, the newly unveiled academician workstation is an "upgraded version" of the group's innovation system. By introducing top-tier research teams led by academicians such as Li Yongfang and Gao Deli, it focuses on conducting joint research on a number of cutting-edge technologies in the solar energy field. The aim is to break through key technological bottlenecks restricting industry development and promote the advancement of flat-panel solar technology towards higher efficiency and wider application scenarios.

Shengtuoke Group has also achieved remarkable results in talent team construction. The proportion of R&D personnel in the group reaches 16%. This team not only has a considerable scale but also possesses profound industry experience and professional competence – 50% of the R&D personnel have more than 20 years of experience in the solar energy industry. They are familiar with the development context of industry technologies and can accurately grasp market demands and technological innovation directions. At the same time, the group actively carries out industry-university-research cooperation and has established stable cooperative relationships with well-known domestic R&D institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing University of Technology, Shandong Academy of Sciences, Qilu University of Technology, and Shandong Jianzhu University. Through the "enterprise + university + research institute" cooperation model, it integrates innovation resources from all parties to jointly carry out technological R&D and product iteration.

Relying on its strong R&D capabilities and talent reserve, Shengtuoke Group has achieved a series of breakthrough results in technological innovation and product development. The group has focused on the core direction of converting solar "hot water" to flat-panel clean "thermal energy", increased investment in technological R&D, and successfully developed a series of innovative and distinctive products that lead the industry development, such as flat-panel collectors for urban heating, flat-panel collectors for distributed heating, flat-panel air collectors, and double-pass tube air collectors. These products not only improve thermal energy conversion efficiency but also expand application scenarios, capable of meeting the diverse needs for clean energy in different fields.

Up to now, Shengtuoke Group has accumulated 117 core patent technologies and supporting industry solutions. These intellectual property rights cover multiple key areas of flat-panel solar systems, including core components, system integration, and control technologies, providing solid intellectual property protection for the enterprise's technological innovation and market competition. With advanced technologies and products, the group has expanded its business to various fields such as heating for various buildings, energy supply for military facilities, industrial heating, temperature control for agricultural planting and breeding, and agricultural product drying. It provides customers with high-quality comprehensive clean energy utilization services such as thermal energy supply, heating, refrigeration, and heat supply, playing a positive role in promoting the optimization of energy structure and helping to achieve the "dual carbon" goals.

The unveiling of this academician workstation is an important opportunity for Shengtuoke Group to deepen technological research and enhance scientific research capabilities, and more importantly, a strategic measure to promote the enterprise's development towards higher quality. In the future, relying on the top-tier intellectual support of the academician team and combining with the enterprise's own industrial advantages and innovation foundation, Shengtuoke Group will continue to make efforts in the field of cutting-edge solar energy technologies, constantly break through technological bottlenecks, develop more high-performance and cost-effective flat-panel solar products, and further consolidate its leading position in the global flat-panel solar field. At the same time, the development of the enterprise will also inject new impetus into the high-quality development of Dezhou's new energy and new materials industry, drive the coordinated development of upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, and help Dezhou build an important national new energy industry base.