People's Digital Network News: In the clean workshop of Xi'an Lixin Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., a number of high-precision and advanced instruments are operating with low hum. After multiple precision processes such as wafer fabrication, coating, and cleaving, batches of high-power single-mode semiconductor laser chips are successively rolled off the production line...

These vivid scenes are a vivid microcosm of Shaanxi Investment Emerging Industry Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shaanxi Investment Xinxing") laying out and nurturing strategic emerging industries. In recent years, with innovation-driven development as the engine, chain-based layout as the thread, and precise empowerment as the means, Shaanxi Investment Xinxing has built a development path of "technological breakthroughs - industrial agglomeration - global expansion" in cutting-edge fields such as high-power lasers, semiconductor chips, satellite communications, and composite materials. It has helped build Shaanxi's trillion-yuan strategic emerging industry cluster and accelerated the formation of new quality productive forces.

State-owned Capital Empowers Innovation-driven Development

Strategic Emerging Industries "Forge Ahead with Innovation"

The market is the primary driving force for innovation.

Back in 2017, when Shaanxi Investment Xinxing acquired Xi'an Lixin Optoelectronics, this start-up enterprise engaged in the R&D and production of high-power semiconductor laser chips had a single product structure and a small market share. "How to break through the predicament and achieve growth against the trend?" became the core issue facing the enterprise.

With the injection of state-owned capital, Lixin Optoelectronics ushered in a turning point. Shaanxi Investment Xinxing introduced market mechanisms, further releasing the vitality and improving the efficiency of Lixin Optoelectronics. Meanwhile, relying on the integration of innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, talent chain, and policy chain, it empowered the enterprise to restructure its development model, governance structure, operational mechanism, and industrial chain towards "innovation".

Driven by a series of "combined measures", superior resources have accelerated their concentration in Lixin Optoelectronics, further expanding the enterprise's scale and industrial concentration. At the same time, the continuous increase in profits has enabled the enterprise to invest more in R&D and accelerate the transformation of innovative achievements.

Strong all-factor and full-chain support has given Lixin Optoelectronics solid confidence to forge ahead in the photonics industry track. Up to now, Lixin Optoelectronics has accumulated R&D investment of 200 million yuan. It has successively overcome a number of advanced "bottleneck technologies" related to domestic substitution. Among them, the independently developed core facet coating equipment has filled the gap in China's P3 process manufacturing, and a number of "flagship products" have competed with world-class enterprises on the same stage. In 2025, the enterprise's 1550nm semiconductor laser ranging module was selected into Shaanxi Provincial Key New Product Development Project.

Attracting Talents to Release Creative Vitality

Strategic Emerging Industries "Boom with Vitality"

Talent is the key to technological innovation. Since acquiring Lixin Optoelectronics in 2017, Shaanxi Investment Xinxing has given full play to the advantages of state-owned capital in strategic leadership, resource integration, and platform empowerment, significantly enhancing the enterprise's internal motivation in talent agglomeration and innovation-driven development. Through institutional reform and multi-level resource introduction, Lixin Optoelectronics has not only expanded talent introduction channels but also built a high-level R&D team covering interdisciplinary backgrounds such as semiconductor physics, optoelectronic devices, materials science, and packaging testing. It possesses core technical capabilities from chip design to mass production.

To further stimulate the innovation vitality of scientific and technological talents, under the promotion of Shaanxi Investment Xinxing, Lixin Optoelectronics has vigorously promoted in-depth integration of industry, university, and research, and actively expanded the breadth and depth of cooperation with universities and research institutes. It has jointly established a "scientist + engineer" team for III-V compound semiconductor laser chips with Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, jointly tackling key technologies of high-quality epitaxial materials and high beam quality chips. In 2023, as a co-construction unit, the two parties jointly established Xi'an Key Laboratory of Compound Semiconductor Materials and Devices, and the Shaanxi University Engineering Research Center of Photonic Materials and Devices successfully selected as a provincial-level platform. In addition, Lixin Optoelectronics has built a postdoctoral innovation base with Xi'an Jiaotong University to jointly cultivate high-end technical talents, continuously injecting new momentum into innovative development.

The continuous empowerment of state-owned capital has further opened up the channel for transforming innovative resources into industrial entities. Through policy connection, capital support, and service guarantee, Shaanxi Investment Xinxing has built an efficient transformation mechanism of "laboratory - production line - market" for the enterprise, promoting the transformation of technological achievements from "bookshelves" to "shelves". With strong platform and resource support, Lixin Optoelectronics' R&D team upgraded the chip facet coating process by two generations in only six months, increasing the light output facet's laser power density tolerance from 2.5 MW/cm² to 16 MW/cm², reaching the internationally leading level. It has successfully developed a series of high-power single-mode semiconductor laser chips, realizing full independent control and mass production of epitaxial materials and chip technologies.

Today, Lixin Optoelectronics has leaped from a start-up with a single product structure and limited market scale to a leader in China's high-power semiconductor laser chip field, becoming a vivid practice of state-owned capital empowering the innovative development of technology-based enterprises.

Chain-based Empowerment for Industrial Agglomeration

Strategic Emerging Industries "Gather Momentum"

Developing strategic emerging industries, building an ecosystem of industrial agglomeration is crucial. Shaanxi Investment Xinxing's strategic layout has not stopped at the "single-point breakthrough" of Lixin Optoelectronics.

Integrating the "chain leader system" thinking into the entire process of industrial layout, Shaanxi Investment Xinxing has promoted in-depth integration of innovation chain and industrial chain through mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and cooperation.

In the photonics industry field, Shaanxi Investment Xinxing has taken Lixin Optoelectronics as a fulcrum to build a full-chain ecosystem of "epitaxial wafers - chips - devices - medical equipment". In 2023, Shaanxi Investment Xinxing established a joint venture Lingsu Medical with a laser medical terminal enterprise, laying out segments such as skin beauty and oral treatment in laser medical care.

"Merger to strengthen the chain - joint venture to supplement the chain - ecosystem to expand the chain", Shaanxi Investment Xinxing has further optimized and upgraded the industrial chain around supplementing and extending the chain. Upstream, Lixin Optoelectronics provides core support from epitaxial wafers to laser modules. Midstream, high-reliability modules are manufactured through advanced packaging processes. Downstream, Lingsu Medical develops high-end domestic medical equipment, forming a development pattern of "chip-chain synergy". Currently, Lingsu Medical has reached strategic cooperation with a number of leading enterprises in the industry.

At present, the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, and strategic emerging industries have become the core track of regional competition. To accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system and develop new quality productive forces, Shaanxi proposed in 2024 to build a gradient development new pattern of strategic emerging industries and future industrial chains with "10-billion-yuan growth, 100-billion-yuan leap, and trillion-yuan expansion".

Based on "what the country needs, what the industry trends, and what state-owned enterprises can do", in the past 10 years, Shaanxi Investment Xinxing has made precise layouts in fields such as high-power lasers, semiconductor chips, satellite communications, and composite materials, emerging a number of core technologies and products that fill domestic gaps. These breakthroughs have not only enhanced the enterprise's own competitiveness but also strengthened China's technological autonomy in related fields.

Aiming at vigorously cultivating new growth poles, Shaanxi Investment Xinxing is advancing in depth into many fields such as new-generation information technology, new energy, high-end equipment manufacturing, aerospace, and military industry. From the laboratory to the production line, from technological breakthroughs to industrial agglomeration, from domestic leadership to global competition, Shaanxi Investment Xinxing, with the mission and responsibility of state-owned capital, is writing a new chapter in the high-quality development of strategic emerging industries.

Riding the momentum, setting sail again. On this land of innovation, the in-depth integration of state-owned capital and technological innovation is nurturing stronger development momentum, injecting a steady stream of "Shaanxi Investment Power" into the construction of a modern industrial system.