Hainan Province is steadily advancing the tiered cultivation of high-quality small and medium-sized enterprises, having nurtured 1,329 innovative SMEs, 600 specialized and sophisticated SMEs, 17 national-level "little giant" enterprises specializing in niche sectors, and one single-product champion enterprise. It has promoted deep integration of industry, academia, and research, establishing six national-level scientific research platforms, 17 modern industrial colleges, and 42 jointly built postgraduate workstations with enterprises. Vocational colleges have been guided to engage in deep cooperation with over 1,800 enterprises, covering 11 key industrial parks and supplying high-quality skilled talent to businesses. These impressive figures demonstrate the tangible achievements Hainan Province has made in advancing its quality-driven development strategy, particularly through its intensive enterprise quality enhancement initiative, which has laid a solid foundation for the high-quality development of the Free Trade Port.

Hainan Province has consistently and fully implemented the decisions and deployments of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council. Following the requirements of the State Administration for Market Regulation, the province has deeply promoted the enterprise quality enhancement action. This effort focuses on strengthening high-level coordination, policy synergy, technical support, integrated services, and brand empowerment centered on enterprise development, continuously expanding, strengthening, and optimizing business entities.

High-level promotion acts as the "leading goose" guiding the flock. After the Spring Festival, industrial enterprises in Haikou City are striving for a strong start to the year. Hainan Jinpan Smart Technology Co., Ltd. (Jinpan Tech) has taken swift action, operating at full capacity to seize the opportunities of spring, transforming technological innovation into competitive strength for Haikou's high-quality development. Inside Jinpan Tech's Haikou high-end dry-type transformer digital factory, equipment runs efficiently, producing dry-type transformers orderly through multiple processes. In recent years, the company has consistently focused on the intelligent and green upgrade of power equipment, investing a fixed proportion of its annual revenue into research and development, driving the simultaneous advancement of technological innovation and quality improvement. Innovation is the eternal theme for Jinpan Tech's development, encompassing both incremental and leapfrog innovation. Incremental innovation involves gradually deepening and broadening product domains, while leapfrog innovation involves moving upstream in the manufacturing industry chain and innovating in manufacturing models, transitioning from digital manufacturing to smart manufacturing. The matrix of "standardized basic products + high-end customized products," built through technological innovation, has injected continuous momentum into the company. Quality innovation has not only continuously improved Jinpan Tech's product quality, gaining recognition in the global market, but also helped the company enter the national cultivation pool for leading enterprises in quality power construction, making it a benchmark for quality enhancement in Hainan.

In the province's enterprise quality enhancement action, "strengthening high-level coordination and improving policies and systems for quality enterprises" is the primary driving force. The Hainan Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government have issued a series of policies and held a high-profile provincial quality conference. The Provincial Leading Group for Coordinating and Promoting Quality Development issued several measures to deepen the quality strategy. Companies like Jinpan Tech serve as the second driving force. The Hainan Provincial Market Supervision Administration formulated cultivation guidelines for leading enterprises in quality power construction, guided 26 enterprises in adopting these guidelines, and organized a province-wide competition to compare the effectiveness of quality enhancement in enterprises, industrial chains, and counties, fostering a strong atmosphere of competition and excellence.

As a key node in the West-to-East Power Transmission project, the Hainan Interconnection System, operated and maintained by the Haikou Branch of the Extra High Voltage Power Transmission Company, Guangzhou Bureau, China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd. (Haikou Branch), is China's first 500 kV extra-high voltage, long-distance, large-capacity submarine cable project. Spanning the Qiongzhou Strait, the 31-kilometer project faces an average water depth of nearly 100 meters, along with challenges from over 140,000 vessel transits annually and a complex marine environment. With no prior experience to reference domestically or internationally, and given the high technical requirements for submarine cable equipment, breaking through technical bottlenecks and ensuring cable safety became critical challenges. To address these, the Haikou Branch focused on four dimensions to build a closed-loop quality control system. It reformed organizational models, established a production command center, and created a lean and efficient production organization model. It built a professional system focused on intrinsic safety, establishing three lines of defense. It innovated training mechanisms to build a high-quality, composite team. It broke through in original technology, tackling 12 industry challenges and developing eight core technologies. In 2025, the branch's submarine cable operation and maintenance team won a nomination award at the 5th China Quality Award.

Now, with China Quality Award winners, Hainan Provincial Government Quality Award winners, and nationally recognized leading enterprises in quality power construction acting as "leading geese," and high-quality SMEs being cultivated in tiers, Hainan has formed a favorable situation where the "leading geese" guide the "flock" to fly together. The province is promoting quality improvement in 17 industrial chains on a "one county, one chain" basis, cultivating 79 chain leader enterprises and 4,845 chain member enterprises. It has nurtured 16 provincial characteristic industrial clusters, including four at the national level, continuously amplifying the agglomeration effect of enterprises. 110 enterprises have been authorized to use the "Hainan Fine Products" brand, with 61 regional public brands, 65 enterprise brands, and 75 product brands released.

Targeted support fuels intense competition among enterprises. By next year, nuclear power is expected to account for over 50% of Hainan's electricity supply, providing solid support for the province's comprehensive green, low-carbon, and high-quality development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period and beyond. This confidence was expressed by Wei Zhigang, a deputy to the Hainan Provincial People's Congress and Party Secretary and Chairman of Hainan Nuclear Power Co., Ltd. (Hainan Nuclear Power). His confidence stems from the company's innovative differentiated development, continuous self-improvement of its management system, and its commitment to green development. Established by joint investment from China National Nuclear Power Co., Ltd., Huaneng Nuclear Power Development Co., Ltd., and Huaneng Power International, Inc., Hainan Nuclear Power is fully responsible for the construction, operation, and management of the Hainan Changjiang Nuclear Power Project. From commencement of operation until the end of 2025, its two units achieved over 2,500 days of continuous safe operation, cumulatively generating over 90 billion kWh of electricity. They maintained a perfect composite index score from the World Association of Nuclear Operators for six consecutive years, placing them at the world's advanced level. In 2025, Hainan Nuclear Power successfully entered the public nomination list for the 3rd Hainan Provincial Government Quality Award. This award is the highest quality honor established by the Hainan Provincial Government to recognize organizations and individuals with outstanding achievements in quality management, independent innovation, brand building, and economic and social benefits. To better guide enterprises on a quality-driven path and support high-quality economic development, Hainan revised its quality award management measures and implementation rules last year, organizing the 3rd award selection which recognized 6 organizations and included 105 enterprises in a cultivation pool, incentivizing the pursuit of excellence.

Behind the optimization of the government quality award is Hainan's focus on targeted support, nurturing, assisting, and strengthening enterprises. By enhancing enterprise quality, the province aims to help businesses expand, strengthen, and optimize, thereby activating development momentum. On one hand, Hainan strengthens financial incentive support, infusing "living water" into quality enhancement. Four departments jointly launched a dedicated "Quality Loan" financial product, disbursing a cumulative 17.2 billion yuan, promoting the integrated development of quality enhancement and financial benefits for enterprises. The market supervision authority also promoted innovative insurance products like quality guarantee insurance and engineering insurance to provide risk protection for enterprise production and operation. In 2025, the province disbursed 656 million yuan in reward funds for enterprise expansion investment and technical improvement, and supported 141 biomedical research voucher projects, providing tangible financial support for quality and efficiency improvement. On the other hand, Hainan strengthens technical empowerment to enhance core enterprise competitiveness. The province established 15 quality technology innovation consortiums, solving 81 quality bottleneck problems and empowering collaborative innovation within industrial chains. It built 27 "one-stop" quality infrastructure service platforms, serving over 5,000 enterprises, and established instrument sharing platforms. It regularly carried out reward application work for various initiatives, fully utilizing existing policy tools to guide increased R&D investment and facilitate technological innovation and成果转化.

Furthermore, Hainan improved service quality to optimize the environment for enterprise quality development. The market supervision authority improved the corporate chief quality officer system, built a "Home for Corporate Chief Quality Officers," and created a training system. In 2025, it launched 10 courses and held online and offline training activities with over 1,200 participants. It conducted "Quality Empowerment Island Tours," holding 18专题讲座 and resolving 361 quality issues. It organized "Metrology Services for SMEs" activities, assisting 536 SMEs and helping reduce metrology verification and calibration costs by 2.79 million yuan in 2025. It optimized the business environment by launching 39 key initiatives for "Efficiently Handling Matters," achieving average reductions of 74.73% in required materials, 82.8% in procedures, 83.61% in processing time, and 98.03% in physical visits, with integrated handling accounting for over 95%.

The head of the Hainan Provincial Market Supervision Administration stated that this year marks the beginning of the 15th Five-Year Plan period. Hainan will focus on implementing the Outline for Building a Quality Nation, base its efforts on local realities, innovate working methods, actively cultivate, establish, and promote benchmarks, help enterprises advance through innovation and strengthen through quality, provide quality support for the high-quality development of the Hainan Free Trade Port, and contribute to a successful start for the province's 15th Five-Year Plan.