The highly anticipated bauma CHINA 2024 has come to a close!

After a four-year absence, this industry grand event gathered more than 3,500 exhibitors from around the world and over 2,800 new products, attracting more than 280,000 professional visitors from home and abroad.

bauma CHINA 2024 exhibition site

When the "world's No. 1 crane,"XCMGXCA4000 wheeledcrane, the 26-ton world's largest hybridloaderin its class,Zoomlion's 82-meter world's talleststraight-boom aerial work platform,SANY's unmanned intelligentexcavatorand other world-leading products all took the stage; when new energy power products such as hydrogen and methanol competed to appear; when excavators of over one hundred tons became standard equipment at major booths... this industry grand event, with Chinese manufacturing as the protagonist, showed the world the abundant achievements of Chinese construction machinery brands in their arduous exploration of the tracks of large-scale, high-end, intelligent and green development.

bauma CHINA 2024 exhibition site

Yet the vastness of the ocean is by no means the destination of a single stream.

China's construction machinery industry has grown from small to large and from weak to strong, undergoing earth-shaking changes and achieving leapfrog development. This is a glorious achievement forged through the collective efforts of the entire industrial chain, including OEMs and component enterprises.

Breaking bottlenecks, building high-end domestic large-scale equipment

Once upon a time, domestic high-end and large-scale equipment faced foreign technological monopolies, with most core components relying on imports, which seriously hindered Chinese construction machinery enterprises from moving toward the high end and into international markets. In high-profit fields such as large mining excavators and rigid trucks, huge market shares could only be conceded.

At the bauma CHINA 2024 exhibition site, a large number of large mining equipment emerged, such as XCMG XE3000, SANY SY2000H,ShantuiSE2000LCW, Zoomlion ZE1650G, TZCO TZ1600EM methanol range-extender, XCMG XE1600H hybrid and other models of mining excavators; XCMG XDE260, SANY SET240S, Shantui TEH160 mining trucks; XCMG XC9260 hybrid loader... letting the world feel the innovative development and extraordinary strength of high-end domestic large mining machinery.

XGMAXG955KM methanol loader

Shantui SE2000LCW mining excavator

XCMG XDE260 mining truck

Zoomlion hydrogen energy power chassispump truck

SANY SET240S mining truck

XCMG Qingshan Green series new energy products

SANY SW956E electric loader

XCMG XC9260 hybrid loader

TZCO TZ1600EM methanol range-extender mining excavator

And a large portion of the core components in these machines have already achieved domestic production. Represented by Hengli Hydraulic's super cylinders,WeichaiPower'senginesand Shantui's undercarriage, domestic components solidly support the pace of Chinese manufacturing toward the world and have become an indispensable strong backing.

At the Weichai booth, China's first 120–400-ton class electric drive mining truck power product was unveiled, marking another breakthrough in a technology previously monopolized abroad; Weichai, together with its subsidiaries Fast and Zhuzhou Gear, brought a full-series, full-domain construction machinery power solution, with more than 20 engines, transmissions, power batteries and other diversified power matrices stunning all around.

China's first 120–400-ton class electric drive mining truck power product

Weichai booth

And tire brands, as an important part of the equipment travel system, also delivered many impressive performances at this exhibition. Techking, the only Chinese tire brand that simultaneously supplies the three leading OEMs—XCMG, SANY and Zoomlion—forall-terrain cranes, fully demonstrated its advantages at this exhibition. Popular products at the show, such as the XCMG 9260 hybrid loader, the SANY 250-ton all-terrain crane and Yimu Technology's 42-ton underground truck and other super-large-tonnage products, were all fitted with domestic Techking tires.

XCMG XC9260 hybrid loader fitted with Techking tires

Yimu Technology 42-ton underground truck fitted with Techking tires

According to on-site technical personnel, Techking focuses on the R&D of scenario-based tire products, delves deeply into the needs of OEM brands and end users, and creates value for customers through strong sales and service system support.

Looking across bauma China 2024, led by well-known domestic brands such as XCMG, SANY Heavy Industry and Zoomlion, the industry is guiding the coordinated development of tens of thousands of supporting forces across the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain and industrial clusters, breaking the bottleneck of core technology monopolies and opening up a new situation for the comprehensive development of the industrial chain.

Drawing a new chapter, seizing the beachhead of green new energy

In response to the dual carbon strategic goals, China's construction machinery industry dares to explore and continues to innovate in the field of new energy technologies, embarking on a promising path of transformation starting from user needs and usage scenarios.

XCMG's 10-ton class XC9108-EV electric loader, Zoomlion's hydrogen energy chassis pump truck, Shantui's RE22-X pure electricroad roller, SANY's SY215E electric excavator, XGMA's XG955KM methanol loader... at the bauma China 2024 site, a series of domestic new energy products made a cool appearance, including many hybrid, methanol and hydrogen new energy equipment. The innovation and exploration of Chinese brands in the new energy field have set a new benchmark for the green transformation of global construction machinery.

Lanli battery swap truck

CATL booth

Boretonpure electric mining truck

As a leader in power batteries, CATL has signed strategic cooperation agreements with a number of leading construction machinery enterprises in recent years to jointly explore the green development path of construction machinery. At present, CATL has captured a 30% market share in the construction machinery field.

At this exhibition, CATL grandly released the Tianxing series batteries, a series of new products developed for construction machinery and heavy trucks, featuring high energy density, high safety and improved durability, which will bring new prospects for the development of electrified construction machinery products.

In addition, numerous component enterprises have spared no effort in the R&D of energy-saving and emission-reduction products, successively exhibiting their energy-saving and environmentally friendly technologies and products, providing key support for reducing overall energy consumption and improving environmental performance in the construction machinery industry, and driving the industry to accelerate toward a green and sustainable direction.

This time, the wind vane is led by domestic brands!

Chinese strength, a window to the world!

bauma CHINA 2024—the extraordinary strength and innovative momentum of Chinese manufacturing converge here. With the development of new quality productive forces at the core and continuous layout and optimization of the industrial chain, China's "intelligent" manufacturing has risen strongly and become an important force in global construction machinery. This time, the wind vane of the construction machinery industry is undoubtedly led by Chinese brands, shining brightly and full of hope.