Yantai Clock and Watch Research Institute

Yantai Clock and Watch Research Institute

Dazhong.com Poster News reporter Yu Fei, trainee reporter Li Hui, intern Miao Ludan, Yantai report

Polaris was founded in 1915 and is the only time-honored watch brand in China. With a history of a century, it has a rich heritage and numerous honors. As the technical development center of Polaris, Yantai Watch Research Institute Co., Ltd. has been committed to promoting Polaris time technology to stand at the top of the industry and the forefront of the world since its establishment in 1975, leading the new trend of cutting-edge time technology.

With a long history, it has become the pride of China's national industry

In July 1915, Li Dongshan, a national industrialist, founded Yantai Baoshi Clock Factory in Yantai. Polaris was born from this, opening the prelude of China's modern clock industry and becoming the pride of China's national industry. It has a history of more than 100 years. After several generations of efforts, Polaris has made brilliant achievements and won the highest award of national quality products four times. In the past ten years, Polaris has successively won a series of honorary titles such as the first ten "well-known trademarks" in China, "China famous brand products", "export famous brands that the Ministry of Commerce focuses on cultivating and developing", and "China time-honored brand", making outstanding contributions to the development of local economic development and China's clock and watch industry.

Yantai Clock and Watch Research Institute

Polaris is the only processing and manufacturing enterprise in China with comprehensive production capacity of clocks and watches, complete supporting facilities and a full range of varieties. It has strong technical development and complete mechanical, electronic and wood processing capabilities, and can mass-produce and process various clocks and watches and parts. Yantai Clock and Watch Research Institute Co., Ltd. was founded in 1975. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yantai Polaris Co., Ltd., the technical development center of Yantai Polaris State-owned Holding Co., Ltd., and the first special technical clock research and development base in my country.

As the technical research and development center of Polaris, the institute has always been committed to promoting the development of Polaris special technical clocks and promoting scientific and technological progress in the field of Chinese clocks and watches. Over the years, relying on the reputation of Polaris's century-old brand, guided by the business philosophy of "what others do not have, I have, others have, I am better, honest management, and serving the society", leading the market with innovation, and winning the praise and trust of customers with advanced technology, excellent quality products, and thoughtful and timely services. The company has successively won honors such as the National Light Industry "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" Science and Technology Innovation Advanced Collective, the National Light Industry Outstanding Performance Advanced Enterprise, and Shandong Province Innovation-Driven Development Advanced Enterprise. It has been rated as an excellent supplier many times and has been rated as a municipal and provincial contract-abiding and credit-worthy enterprise many times.

Adhere to independent innovation and lead the industry's technological progress

Since its establishment in 1975, Yantai Watch & Clock Research Institute Co., Ltd. has led the industry's technological progress with its strong independent innovation capabilities, created several firsts, possessed many patented technologies, and won scientific and technological awards at all levels. It was the first in China to successfully develop high-tech products such as ship master and slave clocks, large-area time systems, urban rail transit network central clock systems, high-speed rail passenger line time synchronization systems, and multi-level distributed time synchronization systems.

After continuous innovation and upgrading, the institute's products have developed into seven series of timing products centered on time synchronization systems, ship master and slave clocks, and large-scale building clocks, as well as intelligent time synchronization system solutions that meet personalized needs. They are widely used in various industries such as subways, high-speed railways, airports, ships, venues and buildings, and nuclear power.

Yantai Clock and Watch Research Institute

"In the past, time was for people to see, but now it is for equipment. If the equipment is to run in a unified manner, there must be a unified time instruction. What we make is not products, but time. Time is very abstract, but it is everywhere." Hu Jianfeng, chairman of Yantai Clock and Watch Research Institute Co., Ltd., said. It is reported that in order to ensure the accuracy of time, the institute's products are calibrated in nanoseconds.

During the research and development process, the institute has always adhered to the principle of "technology first, people-oriented". "The advancement of equipment is certainly important, but we believe that if an advanced equipment requires a very high technical threshold to operate, then it is meaningless. What we want to achieve is to use the simplest operation to achieve the most advanced functions." Hu Jianfeng told reporters that while they pursued product reliability, they did not relax their pursuit of maintainability.

Help Chinese creation and promote national brands to the world

As early as April 2009, the Polaris clock system was successfully applied to the high-speed railway project - Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan Passenger Railway. The completion and opening of Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan High-speed Railway marked the arrival of the "high-speed railway era" in China. Since then, Polaris has accompanied the development and rise of China's high-speed railway. Polaris clock systems have been applied in the Fuzhou-Xiamen High-speed Railway, Baocheng High-speed Railway, Hainan East Ring Line High-speed Railway, Tianjin-Qinhuangdao High-speed Railway, Jinshan High-speed Railway, Qingdao High-speed Railway Station, Jiaoji Passenger Railway, Beijing-Shijiazhuang-Wuhan High-speed Railway and other projects that have been put into construction. So far, Polaris clock systems have been provided for more than 300 stations and hub projects on domestic high-speed railway lines, becoming the largest clock system supplier for domestic high-speed railways. Polaris clocks have a stable market share in the domestic high-speed railway field and have become a leader in the industry. It can be said that Polaris has witnessed the development trajectory of China's high-speed railways and has become an excellent representative of the rise of traditional brands in the high-tech field.

With the continuous improvement of technological innovation and intelligence, the company's product application areas and customer trust are getting higher and higher. In the bidding for high-tech and high-standard engineering clock systems such as BYD Yun轨, Huawei Songshan Lake Industrial Park, the country's first independent intellectual property magnetic levitation rail transit Beijing S1 line, and Winter Olympics venues, the institute stood out among many manufacturers with its strong strength and won the bid in one fell swoop, fully demonstrating the effectiveness of technology leadership, innovation-driven, and service guarantee.

Yantai Clock and Watch Research Institute

In recent years, the institute has actively integrated into the overall economic and trade development of the “Belt and Road” countries with its keen perception. Many subways, high-speed railways, airports and other projects in countries along the “Belt and Road”, such as Iran, Vietnam, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Congo, etc., have applied the Polaris clock system, becoming the only one in the industry.

Hu Jianfeng told reporters that it is not always smooth sailing for national brands to go global. "African countries used to only recognize European brands when choosing time systems and did not give us any chances. In a bidding, we finally got an opportunity. Party A personally came to our country for inspection and review. It took half a year before we finally got their recognition." Hu Jianfeng said that with the continued advancement of the "Belt and Road" national strategy in the future, they will continue to give play to their own advantages and characteristics, constantly create and manufacture higher quality and more advanced products, and constantly look for new opportunities to make greater contributions to the development of China's national industry and the strengthening of economic and trade exchanges between China and other countries in the world.

There is a long way to go in the future. We will carry forward the spirit of innovation, boost China's creation, and write a new chapter for the century-old glory of Polaris. Yantai Watch Research Institute Co., Ltd. is moving forward along this road full of hope and dreams.