Lei Zhang: "Winner" of China Wind Power Industry Innovation

In Lingang New City low-carbon industrial park in Jiangyin City, a young person under 35 years of age led an international team of elites and spent less than three years developing a wind power design with Chinese characteristics. Industrial development.

He is the chairman and general manager of Jiangyin Vision Energy Technology Co., Ltd. Zhang Lei.

In foreign countries, although Zhang Lei is doing a financial industry that is completely different from new energy, he firmly believes that low-carbon energy is a historical development trend and he has consciously contacted and understood the most advanced wind power technologies in the world.

To this end, he consulted experts in the wind energy industry, consulted wind power engineers about technology, conducted in-depth analysis of the market, carefully recruited talents, established technology and operating structures, and raised overseas capital.

Everything is ready to go, Zhang Lei is waiting for an opportunity.

In 2006, Wuxi City took the lead in launching and implementing the “530 Plan” in China, prompting Zhang Lei, who is waiting for a decision, to set a decision to return to China. Zhang Lei took a 10-person Haigui entrepreneurial team and built up the “Vision” flag in the economic development zone.

With the full support of the government of Jiangyin, in April 2008, Jiangyin Vision first offlined the 1.5 MW wind turbine with independent intellectual property rights. The US energy investor Mei Teng Energy immediately signed 200 wind turbines with Vision Energy, worth 20 Billion export agreement.

“The key core technology depends on foreign countries, which has always been the heart of domestic wind power companies. However, with the rapid industrialization of our 1.5 MW wind turbines, the company has quickly become China’s first self-developed wind power core control technology and load optimization technology. The wind power companies have also made China an important R&D and production base for wind power in the world,” said Zhang Lei.

The 1.5 MW wind turbine is the most authoritative German Lloyd's Register of Shipping design certification in the industry. As a result, it became the first wind power company in China that does not rely on foreign consulting agencies and has completely passed its own R&D capability.

In 2009, Vision achieved the technological breakthrough in the world's first 87-meter large impeller 1.5 MW unit and completed the research and development and industrialization of series of new products such as offshore tidal inter-zone units. This year, the second-generation 2.5 MW high-power unit was introduced.

Currently, Vision is the first wind power company in China to set up a global R&D center in Aarhus, Denmark, the world wind power base. At the same time, it established a North American office in Chicago, USA, and established an international market development team based on American native talents.

With the development of the enterprise, Zhang Lei paid more attention to the investment in technological innovation and paid more attention to the introduction of talents for scientific and technological innovation.

Not long ago, Zhang Lei proposed to Jiangyin City Party Committee and Municipal Government to open up a place to be set up as a “professional zone”. In this “special zone”, a set of facilities and environment including work, R&D, living, and leisure are included. Zhang Lei believes that to give full play to the "intelligence" of talents, we must not only make them work smoothly, but also make them comfortable.

Introducing a talented person, bringing in a team, creating a company, and giving birth to an industry has become Jiangyin City's successful experience in accelerating the advancement of an innovative economy. Zhang Lei and his team are a vivid expression.