Shandong Heavy Industry Climbs to the Peak of “Innovative Heavy Industry”, Empowering High-Quality Development with New Quality Productivity
Introduction: July 18, the people's network focus on Shandong Heavy Industry in the first half of the year to adhere to the chain of innovation, the courage to climb the peak of science and technology, accelerate the new energy, digital intelligence and other strategic transformation, the introduction of a series of landmark scientific and technological achievements, exemplary solutions, and continue to cultivate and strengthen the new quality of productivity, the full text is reproduced below.
Plow the sea! Equipped with Weichai 16M55 high-end marine power the world's first self-propelled water body natural exchange type aquaculture vessel “Bay Area Lingding” successfully launched in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province.
Weichai Leiwo! Weichai Leiwo's first unmanned 3WP-4000 large self-propelled sprayer was delivered to the black land in Northeast China;
Prime Mountain! Shantui SE900LC hydraulic excavator reshapes the efficiency benchmark with hard-core technology, and shows the kingly style of destroying and destroying in heavy-duty operation.
The road of independent innovation must be taken one step at a time before landmark innovations continue to emerge. In the first half of the year, Shandong Heavy Industry continued to increase investment in scientific and technological research and development, strategic transformation speed up the promotion, gathering energy to start, the new quality productivity has become a strong engine of high-quality development.
Time back to October 2024, in the third quarter of the economic operation analysis meeting, Shandong Heavy Industry Group party secretary, chairman of the board of directors Man Shengang issued a mobilizing order, “new energy, digital intelligence, after-market three major business transformation is the key to win the future of the group, is the cultivation of the new quality of productivity of the center of gravity, to speed up and speed up again, and increase the force and increase the force.”
Since then, Shandong Heavy Industry has opened a green to the new, enlightenment climb to the top of the road.
Climbing to the top of green development: building a strong engine of new energy drive
March 28, Weichai (Yantai) New Energy Power Industrial Park, the first battery products off the line, which is one of the world's largest production base of new energy products, the annual output of the base can reach 50GWh, which marks the new energy development of Shandong Heavy Industry has entered the stage of advancement and take-off.
Since last year, Shandong Heavy Industry set up a new energy and digital intelligence transformation and development department, the new energy transformation as a major strategy to promote the level. In the first half of this year, the group's new energy investment to increase again.
When a child falls, the whole disk is alive. As the front-runner of scientific and technological innovation of Shandong Heavy Industry, Weichai has established industry-leading advantages in clean energy, new energy and diversified power systems, which has become a powerful “green heart” driving the development of the Group's entire vehicle and machine.
Weichai's new energy products cover four major segments: components, systems, assemblies and complete machines. Meanwhile, Weichai has more than 100 types of battery products, with power ranging from 2 to 1,000kWh; more than 30 types of motor products, with power ranging from 60kW to 600kW; and more than 20 types of electronic control products, with rated power ranging from 100kW to 350kW and peak power ranging from 200kW to 550kW, which can be widely used in a wide range of applications. More than 20 types of electronic control products, with rated power covering 100kW-350kW and peak power covering 200kW-550kW, can be widely used in the fields of heavy trucks, light trucks, buses and construction machinery.
Playing the group industry chain vehicle machine traction, power system driven by the chain of innovation advantages, the group vehicle machine new energy business, ran out of development acceleration.
In the first half of the year, Shandong Heavy Industry's new energy heavy truck sales of 24,000 units, an increase of 232% year-on-year, market share to maintain the industry's first. China National Heavy Duty Truck Corporation (Sinotruck) has realized the full range of new energy commercial vehicle product coverage, including traction, dumping, mixing, sanitation, cargo and light trucks, etc., and has laid out multiple technology routes such as rechargeable, power exchange, hybrid, hydrogen fuel cell, etc., to build a globalized brand advantage of new energy commercial vehicles.
Weichai's first methanol mining excavator power delivered to a local customer in Xinjiang, opening up new space for local development of green methanol industry “chain development”; Zhongtong Bus won the order of 895 pure electric buses exported to Chile, which is the largest order for a single batch of China's buses exported to Chile in recent years; in the core battleground of Southwest China's ore transportation, Shantui electric excavator delivered an excellent answer of environmental protection and efficiency. Excavators delivered an extreme answer of environmental protection and efficiency .........
Now, the green wind is blowing vigorously in heavy industry, and the surging kinetic energy is shaking the future.
Climbing the pole of intelligent transformation: opening up a new path of scientific and technological imagination
Painting robots waving robotic arms to work accurately, intelligent logistics robots shuttling to deliver materials, 5G + intelligent factory multi-scene applications ...... This is the intelligent picture of the intelligent tractor manufacturing base of Leiwo Intelligent Agriculture, which has an annual production capacity of 100,000 units of high-end intelligent tractors of 100 horsepower or more " The base has an annual production capacity of 100,000 high-end intelligent tractors of more than 100 horsepower, and is a model for China's agricultural machinery to move from “manufacturing” to “smart manufacturing”.
And like this intelligent manufacturing factory, Shandong Heavy Industry Group has four, in the first half of the year was selected by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the country's first batch of excellence level intelligent factory list. At the same time, Weichai Power high-end engine intelligent factory construction standards application pilot project was selected as the national intelligent manufacturing standards application pilot.
In the first half of the year, “wisdom” became the hot word of Shandong Heavy Industry. A series of intelligent products, intelligent solutions, intelligent sample projects matured and landed, for the construction, farming, logistics equipped with “intelligent” brain. Science and technology are full of imagination, and the enterprise has also inserted the wisdom wings to take off.
In the field of Telematics and intelligent driving, China National Heavy Duty Truck (CNHTC) has developed a number of technologies such as domain control integration technology and intelligent control platform, ADA-M intermediate and advanced intelligent driving, which have won important awards in the industry, and unmanned electric collector trucks and intelligent mining trucks have been continuously realized for demonstration and application in specific scenarios. China National Heavy Duty Truck (CNHTC) maintains the first market share of unmanned container trucks in domestic ports, and has set up a “Chinese model” for the intelligent upgrade of the world's ports in conjunction with Ningbo Port.
Weichai Leivo Smart Agriculture released the “Smart Farm Overall Solution”, which builds a digitalized agricultural production system covering the whole cycle of cultivation, planting, management and harvesting, and is the first overall solution in China to open up the whole chain of smart agricultural data. Through the integration and innovation of “agricultural machinery + agronomy + agricultural services”, Weichai Leivo has built more than 60 smart farms in different agricultural regions such as the dry fields of the Yellow River and Huaihai Sea, the paddy fields of the South, and the hilly and mountainous areas, etc., and the service area of Leivo's smart agricultural management platform has exceeded 8 million acres, which has practically implemented the strategy of “storing grain in technology” in practice. This has effectively put the strategy of “storing grain in technology” into practice, and scientifically answered the questions of “who is going to plant the land” and “how to plant the land well”. At present, Lovol's intelligent agricultural machinery ranks first in national sales.
Focusing on the direction of “high-end equipment + artificial intelligence”, Shantui released the first AI intelligent bulldozer, using more than a decade of accumulated construction data on the construction of engineering vehicles to carry out the secondary development of deepseek basic model, the product covers two modules of intelligent machine and AI intelligent assistant, and builds nine intelligent systems around the needs of customers, covering the core scenarios of power optimization, construction safety, cooperative work and so on. The products cover the two modules of intelligent machine and AI intelligent assistant, and nine intelligent systems are built around the needs of customers, covering the core scenarios of power optimization, construction safety and cooperative operation. Shantui technology has reached the L3 level, is committed to building “AI intelligent assistant + construction machine group” synergistic ecology, to promote the industry to say goodbye to the era of inefficiency, towards an intelligent future.
Climbing the peak of the big country's heavy equipment: interpreting the new height of hard-core heavy industry
Once, in the equipment manufacturing industry, high-end, large-scale equipment is the world of foreign brands. Because the more high-end, larger equipment means higher R & D investment, more complex technical performance, more scarce industrial chain support, which is the core source of profit, but also the key to industrial upgrading. The demand of the country and industry is the direction of science and technology innovation of Shandong Heavy Industry.
On May 9, Weichai Mining Power released the second generation of new products, marking the breakthrough of Weichai's international monopoly on key core technologies of large-scale mining equipment, and pressed the “accelerator button” for the process of industry autonomy and control. The release covers the M series of large-bore mining products suitable for mining excavation and rigid mining trucks, and the H/T series products supporting mining excavation and wide-body trucks. The M platform products have the competitive advantages of 5000 meters plateau adaptability, 5% lower overall fuel consumption than competitors, 20000h overhaul cycle, and multi-fuel adaptability, etc. Currently, they have supported more than 1700 sets of large mining equipment, and have been used for more than 1700 sets of large mining equipment. At present, they have been equipped with more than 1,700 operating vehicles, with a batch running time of more than 24,000h.
Upgrade and cultivate new strategic growth poles. In the field of tractors, Weichai Lovol is leading China's agricultural machinery from “manual gear” to “automatic gear” era. As the brand of power shift tractor with the highest sales volume and the most mature technology in the domestic market, Weichai Laval power shift tractor has also realized the commercialization of products in the 80-320 horsepower range. Compared with traditional tractors, Weichai Lovol power shift tractors have obvious advantages in vehicle performance, comfort and economy.
Innovation, continue to seize the high point of the value chain. In recent years, the cultural tourism market has been booming, and the tourist passenger transportation market has generated new demands. Zhongtong Bus has leveraged the group's resources for collaborative research and development, and its bus products have covered different models ranging from 8 to 14 meters and various power forms such as oil, electricity, hydrogen, etc., providing customers with diversified and full-scene product customization service solutions. With hardcore product power and value creativity, in the first half of 2025, Zhongtong Bus's domestic H-series high-end bus sales accounted for 88%, and high-end travel group buses have become an important segment driving Zhongtong Bus's revenue growth.
“We should continue to adhere to the high level of scientific and technological self-reliance, adhere to the integration of industry, academia, research and application, and promote the energy upgrading and upgrading of the innovation matrix centered on the national scientific and technological innovation platforms, overseas innovation centers, and R & D and application communities”, in the first half of the year, Shandong Heavy Industry signed strategic cooperation agreements and deepened the strategic cooperation agreements with ZF, Toyota, AVL, FEV, BOEV, CSCL, China Logistics Group, and other Shandong Heavy Industry signed strategic cooperation agreements with ZF, Toyota, AVL, FEV, Jingdong, China CNR, China Logistics Group, etc. to deepen strategic cooperation and win-win development, and continue to link the top resources of the global industry, collaborate with upstream and downstream industry chain and industry partners, and jointly enhance the level of scientific and technological innovation and product market competitiveness.
To reach the top, there is no need to make an effort. Shandong Heavy Industry Group always insists on the high level of self-reliance and self-improvement, facing the world's scientific and technological frontiers, facing the main battlefield of the economy, facing the major needs of the country, never slacking off, always standing on the tide, always competing for the first, and being a tireless climber, striver, and attacker, continuing to innovate, scaling the peaks, and contributing to the scientific and technological power to the country of Heavy Industry.
We believe that in the future, Shandong Heavy Industry will climb up one mountain top after another and achieve one victory after another.
