Hailiya Marine Special Ropes Achieve Four "China Firsts"

Since 2009, Hailiya Group has successively developed specialized ropes for major national scientific research projects such as China's oceanographic research vessels "Dayang Yihao", "Kexuehao" , "Xuelonghao" , and the manned submersible "Jiaolonghao" . The performance of its products has reached internationally leading levels. They have been designated as Qingdao's "Specialized, Refined, Unique, and Innovative" products and included in the National Science and Technology Innovation Fund project. The company's special ropes have thus achieved four firsts in China's rope industry: China Depth (ropes suitable for depths of 8000 meters underwater), China Strength (rope strength is 2-5 times that of steel cables of the same diameter), China Temperature (ropes do not decompose or melt in environments from -196°C to 560°C), and China Precision (zero slippage between the rope sheath and core).

Hailiya Group was established in 1922, starting with a national capitalist producing hair ties, and has a history of 95 years. During the textile industry's heyday of "Shanghai, Qingdao, Tianjin," the company enjoyed the reputation of being the "Number One in Northern China" in its industry. In the 1990s, as industry competition intensified, the company's orders shrunk, the economy declined, and the company was on the verge of bankruptcy. "We used to make drawstrings for padded jackets, selling for only 0.36 RMB each, making it difficult for the company to survive," a staff member told reporters. The embarrassment brought by the "0.36 RMB" price made the company determined to transform and develop. After restructuring in 2004, the company, through technological innovation, extended its low-profit ribbon products into the higher, deeper, more refined, and domestically field of special ropes. It also strengthened industry-university-research cooperation, establishing partnerships with research institutions such as the State Oceanic Administration, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, UK's TTI, and Tsinghua University.

Building on traditional ribbons, the company developed and produced high-value-added products such as marine special ropes, military special ropes, and industrial safety ropes. Products developed by the company, such as marine life-saving ropes, yacht floating ropes, and vehicle emergency ropes, are exported to the United States; rescue bracelets and parachute cords developed in 2005 were exported to UN peacekeeping forces. Simultaneously, the company provided supporting R&D and technical support for intercontinental missiles, mobile hangars, anti-riot steel forks, large spacecraft return capsules, and became the first domestic supplier of training and rescue ropes for the National Earthquake Emergency Rescue Training Base. Currently, the company is developing a special rope for use in the space environment—a fiber rope resistant to space radiation, high temperature, with high breaking strength, light weight, and small volume—which can break the limitations of traditional steel cables, solve technical problems difficult for the US and Russia to tackle, and fill the domestic gap in ropes for deep space applications. The company has realized the dream of "reaching for the moon in the sky and capturing turtles in the deep sea" (idiom meaning achieving great feats).

Currently, the company offers over 1000 products, holds more than 1600 patents, and has been awarded titles such as National High-Tech Enterprise, Top 50 in China for Patent Applications, National "Top 100" Safety Production Technology Innovation SME, one of the first batch of national "Industrial Enterprise Intellectual Property Application Capacity Cultivation Project" enterprises, and the China Management Science Award.