Chapter 3379

At the press conference announcing the successful development of the physical method for preparing polycrystalline silicon, Hanhai Technology also announced that it would invest 500 million yuan in Baozhou to build a factory specifically to manufacture high-purity polycrystalline silicon products to supply photovoltaic solar cell manufacturers across the country.

They announced that their polycrystalline silicon factory would have an annual output of no less than 10,000 tons, which was also explosive news.

What was the concept of 10,000 tons? At that time, the annual production capacity of ordinary polycrystalline silicon factories was calculated in the hundreds of tons, and the entire Chinese market demand per year was only a few thousand tons. 10,000 tons directly jumped several orders of magnitude, and at the market price of polycrystalline silicon at the time, 10,000 tons meant an annual output value of billions of yuan.

Having such a polycrystalline silicon factory with huge production capacity meant that domestic photovoltaic production enterprises at the time would have an abundant supply of raw materials, which would allow China's photovoltaic industry to flourish.

At that time, China's own polycrystalline silicon production was very low, and most of it needed to be imported. Once this technology was developed, China could completely transform from a polycrystalline silicon importer to an exporter.

Therefore, it was no exaggeration to call this technology developed by Hanhai Technology epoch-making at the time. This press conference attracted many media outlets to report on it, and even TV sent a camera crew; this press conference was also featured on that day's News Broadcast program.

The Baozhou municipal government also announced that it would apply to the provincial government to establish a new energy industrial park. If the application was successful, this would be Baozhou City's fourth municipal-level industrial park, and the possibility of their application being successful was very high, because Yanbei Provincial Party Committee Secretary Wu Jianbai and Governor Fang Zhonglin were very supportive of Baozhou City.

Moreover, this time Hanhai Technology had developed such an epoch-making technology and would set up a factory in Baozhou for production, which meant that Baozhou City was very likely to attract a batch of photovoltaic production enterprises to come here to build factories and produce photovoltaic cells. This indeed required the establishment of a special new energy industrial park to manage them centrally.

Centrally managing homogeneous enterprises had great advantages; it had significant benefits for enterprise management, market development, and environmental protection, and it could also generate agglomeration effects.