Shandong Heavy Industry: Riding the East Wind of the Two Sessions, Forging New Glory for Major National Equipment

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  In the springtime of China, the east wind is blowing, and everything is full of life. The National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (NPC and CPPCC) in 2025 have completed all their agendas and have successfully concluded.

  In this crucial year marking the completion of the 14th Five-Year Plan and the commencement of the 15th Five-Year Plan, the 2025 NPC and CPPCC have strengthened the confidence of the people nationwide for the future and sounded the clarion call for progress.

  As a leading state-owned enterprise in Shandong Province, Shandong Heavy Industry Group actively implements the spirit of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (NPC and CPPCC), earnestly implements the spirit of the Provincial Conference on Promoting High-Quality Development through Reform and Innovation, develops new productive forces according to local conditions, cultivates and expands emerging industries, promotes the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, stimulates the innovative vitality of the digital economy, and promotes high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement.

  Since the beginning of the year, Shandong Heavy Industry Group has worked together with one heart and one mind, striving for a successful start to the first quarter, achieving growth in both revenue and profit, and making steady progress in its journey to firmly serve national strategies, shoulder the mission of building a strong manufacturing country, and strive to become a world-class enterprise.

Taking Strong Steps   Reaching New Heights with Intelligence

Implementing the spirit of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (NPC and CPPCC), and bolstering the momentum of practical work—

  At a meeting with Weichai Group's scientific and technological personnel, Man Shengan, Party Secretary and Chairman of Shandong Heavy Industry Group, proposed that we should thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and directives to the Group, keep the entrustment in mind, shoulder our responsibilities, focus on research and development for technological self-reliance and self-improvement, focus on national strategies, industrial bottlenecks, and the forefront of science and technology, continue to innovate, and strive for the peak, contributing wisdom and strength to the construction of a strong science and technology country and a strong manufacturing country.

  There is direction in progress, and strength under our feet. Riding on the spring breeze of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (NPC and CPPCC), Shandong Heavy Industry Group is actively promoting its “12345” development strategy, making every effort to accelerate the transformation of its three major strategic areas: new energy, digital intelligence, and after-sales service, promoting the innovation and upgrading of traditional drivers and the accumulation of new drivers.

  Weichai took the lead and stood at the forefront of the tide, immediately implementing the policy, successively launching promotion meetings for strategic transformation in new energy, digital intelligence, and after-sales services, clarifying the goals and tasks of strategic transformation, and outlining a clear development blueprint.

  Recently, Weichai ushered in a milestone moment—the 800,000th gas engine rolled off the production line, and the all-new generation WP16NG4.0 gas power product was strongly launched in Chengdu. From 1.0 to 4.0, the product iteration cycle has become shorter and shorter, and the iteration speed has been continuously accelerated. Now Weichai holds over 60% of the gas power market share, firmly holding the leading position. The achievement of a series of results is inseparable from the core driving force of technological innovation.

  New energy is booming and leading strongly. Shandong Heavy Industry Group's new energy is accumulating strength and showing a strong development momentum in the first quarter. Recently, Sinotruk delivered the first batch of 50 new energy pure electric tractors to a major customer in Qingdao and signed a strategic cooperation agreement with several leading enterprises in Qingdao for 100 pure electric tractors. Sinotruk is accelerating its leading position in the new energy commercial vehicle track with surging momentum, and by virtue of technological breakthroughs, it has become the champion in new energy heavy truck sales for a single month in February for the first time. The month-on-month growth of Shaanxi Automobile's new energy heavy trucks increased by 766%, and Shandong Heavy Industry Group's market share of new energy heavy trucks further expanded its leading advantage.

  Spring returns to the earth, and wisdom ushers in a new chapter. Coinciding with the spring ploughing season, Shandong Heavy Industry Group's smart agriculture has attracted the frequent attention of mainstream media such as CCTV and provincial television stations. Weichai Lovol uses a "smart brain" to subvert traditional agricultural production methods, using AI large models to connect agricultural data with artificial intelligence decision-making, intelligent agricultural machinery operations, and field management, building a full-chain ecological system for smart agriculture, making spring ploughing production "new" and "digital". At the Weichai Lovol production site, the smart production line is bustling with activity, with a daily production capacity of over 400 tractors. Compared with last year, the demand for power-shift tractors has risen rapidly, and the proportion of high-end intelligent tractors such as CVT and power-shift on the production line exceeds 80%.

  Serving the western development strategy and accelerating the green and low-carbon transformation, Shandong Heavy Industry Group's engineering machinery is busy working across the country. Shantui leads the development of new productive forces with technological innovation and strives to build a new benchmark for green intelligent manufacturing. The independently developed pure electric bulldozers, pure electric loaders, and other new energy products have achieved large-scale production, covering multiple fields such as earthmoving machinery, road machinery, and mining equipment. Recently, Shantui delivered the first batch of SE1000EV electric excavators to the Northwest mining area, continuously providing new vitality for the intelligent construction and green transformation of the engineering machinery industry.

  On March 8, the High-Quality Development Forum for Tourism Passenger Transport (Liaocheng) and the Zhongtong Bus 2025 Travel Group New Product Launch Conference opened in Liaocheng, Shandong Province. At the conference, Zhongtong Bus launched the H13Pro ultra-high-horsepower travel group new product and the Navigator M5 new generation wide-body light commercial vehicle product. Understanding the times and understanding the situation. Under the new era background, Zhongtong Bus deeply explores the market, proactively plans, opens up a new situation with new products, and continuously injects new impetus into the industry.

  Since the beginning of the year, Shandong Heavy Industry Group has been vigorously promoting the transformation to new energy and digital intelligence with a sense of urgency, and both complete vehicle and machinery and parts businesses have achieved significant year-on-year growth.

  Whether it is clean energy power or the new energy field, whether it is mining sites or vast fields, the figure of Shandong Heavy Industry Group is fighting in every corner of China's socio-economic development.

Focusing on Project Promotion   Planning and Accumulating New Momentum

Implementing the spirit of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (NPC and CPPCC), maintaining the determination to work diligently—

  Since the beginning of this year, Shandong Heavy Industry Group, guided by the new development concept, has strongly promoted the construction of major projects around "building, extending, supplementing, and strengthening the industrial chain", supporting the stability of high-quality development with the progress of project construction.

  At the construction site of Sinotruk's intelligent and connected (new energy) heavy truck Phase I project, the country's first single-line production line with an annual capacity of 200,000 longitudinal beams—the "Zhisu" longitudinal beam roll-pressing and cutting production line—has been put into full production. As its name suggests, "Zhi" represents the intelligent genes running through the entire production and manufacturing process, and "Su" represents a new breakthrough in production efficiency. This production line will build a "golden triangle" of Chinese heavy truck manufacturing through three innovations: technological revolution, quality revolution, and efficiency revolution.

  As a key equipment manufacturing project in Shandong Province, the Weichai (Qingdao) High-end Marine Equipment Manufacturing Center project has entered a crucial stage. At present, the steel and aluminum boat production workshops and supporting facilities of the first-phase land-based project have been basically completed, and will be officially ready for boat construction project production by the end of March; in terms of water projects, the shoreline transformation and lifting platform construction are proceeding in an orderly manner, and are expected to be completed and put into use before June this year. After the completion of the project, it will build a new industrial cluster sector for high-end manufacturing along the Shandong Peninsula coast by integrating upstream and downstream resources, promoting the high-quality development of the regional economy.

  At the Weichai (Yantai) New Energy Power Industry Park construction site in Yantai's Fushan District, there is a flurry of activity. This industry-leading park will cover the entire industrial chain of new energy commercial vehicle power batteries, motors, electronic controls, and electric drive assemblies, with an annual production capacity of 50 GWh battery packs, 500,000 flat-wire motors, 400,000 electronic controls, and 50,000 electric drive assemblies. In the critical process of transforming new energy commercial vehicles, Weichai, with its profound technological accumulation and continuous investment in innovation, has fully mastered the core technologies of "three electricity" batteries, motors, and electronic controls, as well as key technologies such as vehicle control units (VCU) and intelligent driving, accelerating the breakthrough of core technology bottlenecks in new energy commercial vehicles and striving to create a golden industrial chain for new energy commercial vehicles.

  At the Weichai Lovol high-horsepower tractor factory project site, staff are accelerating efforts to finalize preparations for factory production. As the first green and intelligent factory in the domestic agricultural machinery industry, upon completion, the project will have an annual production capacity of 100,000 power shift and CVT tractors with more than 100 horsepower, filling a domestic gap while accelerating the transition of China's agricultural machinery industry towards high-end and intelligent development.

  Spring has arrived early in the East, striving towards the future. Planning projects is planning for the future.

  The rapid advancement of these major projects not only provides a solid foundation for the future development of Shandong Heavy Industry Group, but will also further enhance its ability and confidence to better serve national major strategies.

Continuously opening up market space Domestic and international markets in full bloom

Implementing the spirit of the National Two Sessions, delivering a well-done answer -

  The market is the stage for enterprise development, and market development is the only way for enterprises to achieve growth. Since the beginning of the year, various subsidiaries of Shandong Heavy Industry Group have actively expanded domestic and international markets, continuously improving market share, and opening up new space for enterprise development.

  In the domestic market, China National Heavy Duty Truck Group, with its excellent product quality and precise market strategy, continues to lead the heavy truck market. In January, when the heavy truck market saw a double decline in month-on-month and year-on-year growth, China National Heavy Duty Truck Group broke through the downturn with extraordinary product strength, achieving heavy truck sales of 21,200 units in January, with a market share of 29.4%, a year-on-year increase of 2.5%, winning the "double championship" of industry sales and market share at the start.

  Meanwhile, there has been frequent good news about the delivery of Weichai products: 1,192 logistics vehicles equipped with Weichai WP15NG-4.0 shone in Ningxia, the "Serene Land on the Border"; 110 Weichai WP14T mining truck power products strongly entered the Ordos mining area in Inner Mongolia; batch after batch of heavy trucks equipped with star products such as Weichai WP13NG, WP12H, and WP15NG-4.0 drove to various parts of the country. Recently, dozens of Yaxing new energy buses equipped with Weichai blade batteries were delivered to Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province, successfully withstanding the low-temperature test. These battery technologies, which represent the leading level of the commercial vehicle industry, have carved out a new world in the market.

  Zhongtong Bus has also achieved remarkable results in the domestic bus market. In the first two months of 2025, Zhongtong Bus's cumulative sales increased by 7.98% year-on-year, reflecting signs of industry recovery.

  In February, more than 100 Shantui excavator products set off for the market. From the Qilu Land to the Yangtze River Economic Belt, Shantui is connecting China's infrastructure pulse with its iron body. Nearly 100 Lovol LT110H mining trucks were delivered in bulk to a large open-pit mine in Inner Mongolia, supporting the construction of green and intelligent mines and contributing Lovol's strength to the high-quality development of customers.

  In the international market, the subsidiaries of Shandong Heavy Industry Group have also achieved remarkable results.

  In January 2025, China National Heavy Duty Truck Group's export market share reached 45.9%, demonstrating its strong competitiveness in the international market. Shantui also blossomed in multiple global markets. In the Central Asian market, Shantui, with its excellent product solutions, once again successfully won a large project in Kyrgyzstan worth 100 million yuan, totaling more than 400 units of equipment; it also signed orders for wide-body mining trucks and road machinery projects in Uzbekistan. In Africa, more than 300 units of road integrated equipment for a major project in Burkina Faso have been shipped, marking a key breakthrough in Shantui's deep cultivation of the African market and laying a solid foundation for the next leap in the African market.

  Zhongtong Bus continues to make breakthroughs in overseas markets. From February 23rd to 25th, Man Shengang went to Saudi Arabia to investigate the development of export business and attended the "Hand in Hand for Two Decades Breakthrough of 10,000 Vehicles - Zhongtong Bus & Saudi Arabia Abu Sahadeh Group 10,000-vehicle Strategic Partnership Signing & Awarding Ceremony," witnessing the signing of a new round of cooperation between the two parties. In addition to the Saudi Arabian market, Zhongtong Bus also uses large customers and large orders as "pioneers," continuously driving global sales, seizing market dominance, promoting the Brand to the high end, and exporting products to many countries such as Russia, Mexico, Israel, Kazakhstan, and Chile. Large orders witnessed by leaders of several countries have further enhanced the international Brand influence of Zhongtong Bus.

  The start concerns the overall situation, and the initial momentum determines the future momentum. This spring, the blossoming delivery boom has brought together the vigorous and upward momentum of Shandong Heavy Industry Group.

  In 2024, facing industry pressure, Shandong Heavy Industry Group maintained a high-quality and stable development momentum, with profitability ranking among the top in Shandong's state-owned enterprises. In 2025, Shandong Heavy Industry Group is once again leading the way, showing a vigorous momentum of high-quality development, making its mission of "walking in the front, shouldering the burden" more solid, stronger, and more substantial.

  Next, Shandong Heavy Industry Group will actively explore new tracks in strategic transformation areas such as new energy, digital intelligence, and after-sales markets, implementing the spirit of the National Two Sessions in vigorous practice, tenacious struggle, and continuous efforts. Laying a good foundation for high-quality development in the 15th Five-Year Plan, and bravely moving forward towards the grand goal of firmly serving national strategies, bravely shouldering the mission of building a strong manufacturing nation, and striving to become a world-class enterprise.