On December 31, Xu Zhou Municipal Party Secretary Song Leweiconducted an in-depth survey at XCMG Groupto understand the company's production and operations, hear plans for next steps, study and resolve current difficulties and problems, and mobilize XCMG to strengthen confidence and work hard in the new year, better promote high-quality corporate development, and provide solid support for expanding and strengthening the construction machinery "No. 1 Industry" and building a world-class advanced manufacturing cluster. Xu Zhou Municipal Standing Committee member and Executive Vice Mayor Wang Xianzheng, Standing Committee member and Secretary-General Wu Weidong, Vice Mayor Guo Xiaomin and other leaders participated in the activity. XCMG Group and XCMG Machinery Party Secretary and Chairman Yang Dongsheng, XCMG Group General Manager and Deputy Party Secretary Sun Lei, XCMG Machinery President and Deputy Party Secretary Lu Chuan and other leaders accompanied and reported.

Survey site

Arriving at XCMG Earthmoving Machinery BusinessDivision, various types ofloaderswere neatlyarranged. Song Lewei learned in detail about product performance, market application, technical level and other conditions, and encouraged the enterprise to stay firmly anchored to high-end, intelligent, green, service-oriented and international development, and to focus on enhancing brand influence and market reputation. At XCMG Special Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., Song Lewei carefully asked about enterprise operations, technology research and development and other conditions, and expressed the hope that the enterprise would rely on integrated R&D through multi-field collaboration, continue to build its own core technologies and components, and continuously improve the core competitiveness of its products.

Symposium

Subsequently, Song Lewei chaired a symposium at XCMG Group and listened to XCMG Group's report on its 2024 operating situation and 2025 work plans. He said that since the beginning of this year, XCMG Group has earnestly implemented the deployment requirements of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, worked hard on internal strength and forged ahead, and delivered a substantial and inspiring scorecard. The hard-won achievements were obtained because XCMG Group has always kept its instructions in mind and forged ahead with gratitude, thoroughly implemented the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping during his inspection of Xu Zhou, and, with the mission and responsibility of expanding and strengthening the national industry and state-owned enterprises, deepened its main business and strengthened its real economy, withstood downward pressure amid fierce market tides, and played the leading and driving role of the construction machinery "No. 1 Industry"; persisted in Party building leadership and kept the direction firmly, focused on building a "red engine" for state-owned enterprise development, and continuously enhanced the enterprise's cohesion, solidarity and combat effectiveness; stayed anchored to strategic goals and major layouts, scientifically assessed the industry development situation, carried out systematic planning and layout around basic technology, application products, R&D capabilities, reserve talent and other areas, and accelerated the pace of transformation toward high-end, intelligent, green, service-oriented and international development; deepened integrated innovation and reform and opening up, insisted on seeking vitality from innovation and momentum from reform, continuously deepened the construction of the "1+6+N" technological innovation system, and used reform and opening up to open new development space and create new development advantages; consciously united in practical work and forged ahead, giving play to the unique advantages of the state-owned economy while also forming a flexible and efficient operating mechanism, working with one heart from top to bottom, overcoming difficulties and making persistent efforts, effectively promoting steady and long-term high-quality development of the enterprise.

Song Lewei pointed out that next year the construction machinery industry will face both challenges and opportunities. He expressed the hope that XCMG Group will thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech on Jiangsu work, earnestly implement the deployment requirements of the Eighth Plenary Session of the 13th Municipal Party Committee, stay anchored to the strategic goal of "building a world-class enterprise and climbing the global industrial Everest," insist on putting action first, strengthen confidence, face difficulties head-on and work hard, build an innovative XCMG and an open XCMG with a stronger sense of responsibility, and build a XCMG of China and a XCMG of the world with a broader vision.

Song Lewei emphasized that it is necessary to conform to development trends, thoroughly implement the "No. 1 Project" of intelligent transformation, digital transformation and networked connectivity, plan ahead for the direction of embodied intelligence + construction machinery, use digital empowerment to enhance "leadership," use forward-looking layout to seize "new tracks," use low-carbon transformation to improve "green content," use brand building to increase "added value," and continuously enhance product competitiveness. It is necessary to bravely climb the peak of science and technology, deepen the reform of the "1+6+N" innovation system, strengthen integrated innovation practices, high-level platform construction, breakthroughs in bottleneck technologies, and the introduction of top-tier talent, and actively seize the industry's commanding heights. It is necessary to actively seize opportunities, act in response to trends and follow the general trend, further consolidate the domestic market, open up international markets, tap potential markets, and focus on increasing market share.

Song Lewei pointed out that XCMG Group, as a state-owned enterprise with red genes, a profound history and the sentiment of serving the country through industry, must unswervingly uphold the overall leadership of the Party, take new steps in high-quality Party building, demonstrate new results in further deepening reform, make new progress in improving the modern enterprise system, and accelerate the realization of modern management. The Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government will, as always, support XCMG in strengthening its main business, expanding its scale and improving its efficiency, and make new and greater contributions to building a world-class advanced manufacturing cluster.

As the chain-leading enterprise of Jiangsu Province's "1650" modern industrial system and the "No. 1 Industry" of Xu Zhou's "343" innovative industrial clusters, XCMG Group will, with a more confident posture and high morale, firm up confidence, boost vigor, put action first and bravely shoulder major responsibilities, comprehensively promote the chairman's No. 1 Project of "intelligent transformation, digital transformation and networked connectivity," turn the "blueprint" and "planning drawing" into a "construction drawing" and "realistic scene," lead the building of a world-class advanced manufacturing cluster, accelerate the construction of a world-class enterprise, bravely climb the global industrial Everest, and make new contributions to the new practice of Chinese-style modernization in Jiangsu!