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Shaoguan Customs actively supports local industrial upgrading and sci-tech innovation, opening a green channel for tax-reduced equipment imports. Recently Guangdong Omat Advanced Materials received a 5.5-million-yuan tax rebate, further energizing production. Omat is a high-tech firm dedicated to R&D and production of high-end sputtering targets and a second-batch national "little giant" specialized enterprise. Yet the relevant national policies that bring such benefits...

On June 30, 2022, Houjie Town mayor Chen Shangrong, Economy Bureau chief Fang Weichao, and Houjie Statistics Office chief Fang Zhichao visited Omat’s Dongguan Houjie base — Dongguan Omat Sputtering Target Co., Ltd. Omat vice general manager Li Zhengchang and quality manager Guo Wenming warmly welcomed them and introduced the company’s history, product applications, and R&D strength. Mayor Chen learned about the firm’s...

On June 23, 2022, Bank of China Shaoguan Branch deputy president Huang Ganhuaind and his team visited Omat’s headquarters and presented Chairman Wen Hongfu with a "Strategic Cooperation Client" plaque, further affirming the "strategic partnership" between the bank and Omat. Omat focuses on semiconductor-display target R&D and production, is growing fast, and has large funding needs.

To deepen the "quality-strong city" strategy, implement the quality-award system, and promote advanced quality management, on the morning of May 18, 2022, the Shaoguan Municipal Government held the 2nd Shaoguan Government Quality Award ceremony. Vice mayors Li Zaifeng and Luo Haijun, deputy secretary-general Jin Xiaobing, Industry Bureau chief Ouyang Quan, and Market Regulation Bureau chief Ou Xinquan attended with enterprise representatives.

Guangdong Shaoguan: tax cuts and rebates help "little-giant" firms. This high-tech materials company mainly makes and sells high-purity sputtering targets and is a national "little giant" specialized enterprise. With large-scale tax relief, it has increased R&D investment and developed new technologies, raising product quality and international competitiveness. Chairman Wen Hongfu: "Now we are in full swing expanding our plants and R&D buildings."

— Promoting deep school–enterprise cooperation and sharing talent resources. On the afternoon of April 14, 2022, Shaoguan University Party secretary Kong Yunlong visited Guangdong Omat Advanced Materials; Chairman Wen Hongfu warmly welcomed him and accompanied Secretary Kong through the showroom, detailing the company’s history, product applications, R&D strength, and honors.

Promoting Shaoguan–Dongguan coordinated regional development. On April 6, 2022, Guangdong CPPCC standing committee member and Economy Committee director Liang Weidong visited Guangdong Omat Advanced Materials, accompanied by provincial CPPCC research committee deputy director Wang Jun, Shaoguan CPPCC chair Hu Haiyun, vice chair Liu Daji, and Industry Bureau deputy director Huang Yu. Omat chairman...

On October 29, our association’s executive deputy secretary-general Jin Hongchun led a delegation to Shaoguan for a visit and exchange, warmly received by municipal leaders. Heads of the NDRC, industry bureau, commerce bureau, science bureau, new-area administration, and South China Equipment Park, along with Shaohua and Omat leaders, joined the forum. Our leader thanked the city and hoped to learn about its investment policies and resources for the semiconductor-display industry.

Today Municipal Party Secretary Wang Ruijun led a team to Shaoguan Beifang Zhizao Technology and Guangdong Omat Advanced Materials to research operations and listing work, stressing the need to keep improving the business environment, accelerate the cultivation of high-growth high-tech enterprises for listing, and build innovative leading firms. At Beifang Zhizao in Qujiang district, he learned about operations and listing progress and heard the firm’s appeals.

On October 26–27, the provincial Foreign Affairs Office organized a foreign consular corps in Guangzhou and Chinese and foreign media to visit Shaoguan, to learn about its economic, social, trade, cultural, and investment situation and seek win-win cooperation. On the 27th, the city held a "Northern Guangdong Tour" Shaoguan city promotion for the consular corps and media; Municipal Party Secretary Wang Ruijun and provincial Foreign Affairs Office director Chen Qiuyan attended and spoke, as did the Mexican consul-general in Guangzhou.

On August 17–18, Guangdong Industry and Information Technology Department discipline-inspection leader Lin Hanwen led officials to Shaoguan to guide fiscal special-fund management. Deputy secretary-general Long Xianshun and Industry Bureau chief Ouyang Quan and deputy director Huang Lixia accompanied. Lin Hanwen chaired a bureau members’ forum and visited Guangdong Omat Advanced Materials, Guangdong Shuocheng Technology, and Ruyuan Dongyang.

To implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on "cultivating a batch of ‘little-giant’ SMEs" and enhancing their innovation, and to carry out the guideline on promoting healthy SME development, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology launched the third batch of "little giant" cultivation; provincial reviews, recommendations, and industry-association argumentation have been completed.