China News Service, Changsha, May 27 (Reporter Fu Yu) The four-day 2021 Changsha International Construction Machinery Exhibition was held in Changsha a few days ago.
This unprecedented world-class "Mecha Feast" not only set the Guinness World Record for the "Most People in Mechanical Engineering Conference", 300,000 square meters of exhibition area, more than 10,000 exhibited products, 32 global top 50 construction machinery and The participation of 6 Fortune 500 companies and the on-site turnover of more than 40 billion yuan all confirmed their popularity.
This is the first time the world's construction machinery giants have assembled in Changsha again two years later.
As the world's only city with 4 of the world's top 50 construction machinery companies, the industrial chain army of "Construction Machinery Capital" Changsha shined at this exhibition, demonstrating its hard power and industry influence.
Through the exhibition, we can also gain insight into Changsha's strength in sprinting into a world-class construction machinery cluster.
Hitachi Construction Machinery brought a large-tonnage excavator with "a bucket of 10 tons" from Japan to the exhibition.
Photo by Yang Huafeng
The scale of the industry ranks first in China for ten consecutive years
There are 32 of the top 50 construction machinery companies in the world. International giants such as Liebherr of Germany and Hyundai Group of South Korea have brought their head products to debut; 6 companies including Mercedes-Benz heavy trucks, Japan Isuzu, Weichai Power, Shell China, and Exxon Mobil Fortune 500 companies attended the meeting for the first time.
In the exhibition hall, "iron armored warriors" from all over the world, and foreign merchants pacing back and forth without words make this exhibition full of international scope.
During this period, the "drifting trip" of a super-large hydraulic excavator was widely focused by the media.
In order to transport this large-tonnage excavator with a capacity of 10 tons from Japan to China for the exhibition, Hitachi Construction Machinery first departed from Japan to Tianjin Port, and then was loaded by 4 flatbed trucks and transported by land to Changsha.
Such a lot of setbacks show that it values the exhibition.
Since participating in the Changsha Exhibition two years ago, the Changsha Representative Office of Korea Trade and Investment Promotion Corporation “attracted” 8 Korean companies to participate.
According to Jin Haojun, the person in charge of the representative office, through the exhibition platform, there was no opportunity to contact South Korean spare parts companies, which are the leading companies in China's construction machinery industry, and had opportunities for communication and even cooperation.
"Enterprises have high expectations, because Changsha has many well-known construction machinery companies and is the center of China's construction machinery."
Construction machinery has become a beautiful business card of Changsha.
At present, Changsha has a total of 6 large-scale mainframe enterprises including Sany Group, Zoomlion, China Railway Construction Heavy Industry, Sunward Intelligent, and a large number of small and medium mainframes and supporting enterprises. It has become the world's No. one after Illinois, USA and Tokyo, Japan. The three major construction machinery industry clusters.
The Changsha construction machinery industry cluster has 12 categories, more than 100 sub-categories, and nearly 500 models and specifications of products, covering 70% of the national construction machinery varieties.
In the list of “Top 50 Global Construction Machinery Manufacturers in 2021” released not long ago, Changsha has four companies including Sany Heavy Industry, Zoomlion, China Railway Construction Heavy Industry, and Sunward Intelligent on the list. The total sales of these four companies exceed The sum of the remaining 7 domestic companies on the list.
Changsha is still the only city in the world that has 4 of the world's top 50 construction machinery companies.
In 2020, overcoming the adverse effects of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Changsha's construction machinery industry bucked the trend and its total output value exceeded 250 billion yuan, an increase of nearly 30% year-on-year, and its scale ranked first in the country for 10 consecutive years.
The driver remotely controls the excavator.
Photo by Yang Huafeng
"Intelligence" creates new advantages and "chain" reaches new heights
The exhibition with the theme of "Intelligent New Generation Construction Machinery" is full of technological sense.
Actively embracing digital technology and intelligent applications, the "legion" of the Changsha construction machinery industry chain has unveiled its latest achievements, showing new heights in the industry.
Sany Group's 65 newest and most cutting-edge concrete machinery, excavating machinery, hoisting machinery, piling machinery, and mining machinery were all unveiled, including the world’s only "licensed" pure electric truck crane STC250BEV; Sunward Intelligence brought it The first domestic 5G scissor-type aerial work truck SWSL1412HD, can control aerial work platforms thousands of miles away in real time without leaving home; ZOOMLION exhibited 50 sets of equipment, covering nine product categories, including the world’s longest Boom pump truck 101-meter carbon fiber boom pump truck, thousand-ton crawler material products, etc.
With the empowerment of 5G, big data centers, artificial intelligence, and industrial Internet, the Changsha construction machinery industry is accelerating its transformation towards intelligence, networking, and digitization.
The Zoomlion Excavator Intelligent Manufacturing Park, planned and designed according to the world's highest standards, has the industry's most intelligent, flexible, and highly accurate smart factory and unmanned "black light production line".
As a representative of the company's digital transformation, Sany Group has installed more than 100 intelligent machinery and equipment in the "Factory No. 18".
Here, for the first time in the field of construction machinery, fully automated and intelligent production from "a steel plate" to "a pump truck" appeared, and the overall efficiency was doubled.
Many "high-precision" construction machinery products were born in Changsha. Behind this is the active and active pursuit of change by companies, and the vivid practice of accelerating intelligent and digital transformation in the field of core technology research and development. It is also inseparable from the foresight of local decision-makers. Top-level design and policy support.
Faced with the challenges and opportunities of the new round of industrial revolution, in recent years, Changsha has insisted on taking construction machinery as one of the 22 industrial chains to focus on development, and has formulated a series of policies and measures to support the transformation and upgrading of enterprises and innovation and development.
At the same time, efforts are made to promote the coordination of the main distribution of industrial clusters, with city leaders serving as the "chain length" of the construction machinery industry chain, focusing on chain investment, cluster cultivation, and problem solving.
Large-scale leading companies are becoming bigger and stronger, and leading companies are actively constructing upstream and downstream innovative cooperation systems, forming a collaborative, open and integrated industrial cluster.
Statistics show that by the end of 2020, the Changsha construction machinery industry cluster has 416 mainframe and component companies.
Among the 23 types of core components, the provincial matching rate reached 32.3%, of which the provincial matching rate of 6 types of components exceeded 50%, and the 5 types of core components could be purchased in the province.
"Changsha has a good social foundation for construction machinery, and has established a coordinated development mechanism for the main distribution to drive the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to make efforts in multiple directions to achieve high-quality development of the industry." said Wang Liming, assistant general manager of Zoomlion Engineering Crane Company.
The driver stood under the excavator to "compare".
Products cover 180 countries and regions around the world
Changsha clearly stated that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the construction machinery industry will be built into a 500 billion-level world advanced manufacturing cluster.
The outstanding performance of construction machinery equipment in overseas markets has made Changsha's dream of building a world-class industrial cluster more "shine into reality."
In recent years, the "brand fleet" of Changsha construction machinery has accelerated its expansion in overseas markets. Currently, its products have covered 180 countries and regions around the world. Sany Group's concrete machinery, Zoomlion construction cranes, Sunward Intelligent Static Pile Drivers, Iron & Steel The market share of large-diameter full-face hard rock tunnel boring machine of Jianhe Heavy Industry ranks first in the world.
In 2020, under the unfavorable situation of weak global economic recovery caused by the epidemic and a 27% decline in demand for overseas construction machinery and equipment, Sany Heavy Industry still achieved international sales revenue of 14.1 billion yuan, of which excavators increased sharply against the market, and overseas market sales exceeded 10,000 Taiwan, the year-on-year growth rate exceeded 30%.
Xiang Wenbo, president of Sany Heavy Industry, said that the internationalization of Sany Group has entered a stage of rapid growth, and he hopes to "create another Sany" overseas in the next three to five years.
From the Turkish International Financial Center project, the tallest building in the Mediterranean region, to the main stadium of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, since this year, Zoomlion’s construction machinery and equipment have shown a healthy posture in a number of world-class projects, and staged a “package” at the Shanghai Port Terminal. The spectacular scene of the "ship" heading towards Southeast Asian countries.
At the beginning of May, Zoomlion's new European factory built in Mantua, an important town in northern Italy, was officially completed, which will create high-quality "European version" products.
From the initial level of product export, it has leapt to in-depth integration of overseas mergers and acquisitions, localized production, joint ventures, etc., embedding overseas genes into its own system, and the construction machinery Hunan army has become more and more calm and determined in its overseas expansion, and has become a powerful player in the global market. competitor.
More than 30 international high-end forums and 100 business summits shared cutting-edge views and wisdom, and promoted industry docking and cooperation.
With the conclusion of this top-level industry event integrating high-end forums, international competitions, industry-leading technology exchanges, and global corporate demeanor, the Changsha construction machinery industry is taking advantage of the trend and speeding up to the center of the world market.
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