On August 14, the Second Academic Committee Meeting of the Guangxi Low-Carbon Intelligent Power Laboratory was successfully held at the Yuchai Wuxi R&D Center. Top experts and scholars in the industry, including Huang Zhen, Member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Chen Xuegeng, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, attended the meeting and offered advice and suggestions for further promoting the construction and development of the Guangxi Low-Carbon Intelligent Power Laboratory. Leaders including Wu Qiwei, President of Yuchai Co., Ltd., Zhong Yuwei, Senior Vice President, and Lin Tiejian, Chief Engineer, attended the meeting.

As the highest-level R&D platform in Guangxi, the Guangxi Low-Carbon Intelligent Power Laboratory is built under the leadership of Yuchai Co., Ltd. Based on the national "dual carbon" strategy, it continuously pursues technological innovation, promotes the transformation and upgrading of enterprises in conventional power, and achieves innovative breakthroughs in new energy power.

This year, the National Key R&D Program project "Development and Application of Key Technologies for Dedicated Ammonia Internal Combustion Engines for Heavy Commercial Vehicles Hybrid Power," led by Yuchai, was officially launched. On the 530 Science and Technology Workers' Day, Yuchai released a full range of new methanol range-extender power products, adding a series of low-carbon intelligent products following hydrogen-fueled engines, ammonia engines, and fuel cells. Recently, Yuchai's hydrogen-fueled engines took the lead in entering operation in Cangzhou, Hebei, and Yunmeng, Hubei. Guided by the low-carbon strategy, Yuchai's engine sales growth led the industry in the first half of the year despite slight industry-wide growth.

The meeting reported on the laboratory's construction work over the past year and conducted academic research discussions centered on the laboratory's key research directions. Grounded in the frontier and aligned with practical needs, the experts put forward suggestions on technical pathways and platform construction directions, charting the course for the laboratory's next stage of development.

Academician Chen Xuegeng pointed out that the low-carbonization and intelligentization of power equipment are important supports for achieving agricultural modernization and the "dual carbon" goals. He encouraged the Guangxi Low-Carbon Intelligent Power Laboratory to strengthen cross-disciplinary technology integration, deeply combine low-carbon power and intelligent power technologies with specialized fields such as agricultural equipment, create more innovative achievements in the dedicated power field, and use technological breakthroughs to support the green transformation and efficient development of agriculture and other industries.

Academician Huang Zhen emphasized that the energy and power industry is currently undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, and direction is more critical than effort. He suggested that Yuchai, as a leading enterprise in the industry, strengthen strategic research and accurately grasp future development trends. Speaking of the national "dual carbon" strategy, Academician Huang Zhen pointed out that the rise of green fuels has brought new development space for internal combustion engines. Internal combustion engines are high-quality equipment for consuming green fuels, and green fuel engines will usher in vigorous development in the future. He called on Yuchai to focus on the R&D of green fuel engines, strengthen industry-university-research cooperation, and jointly support the development of the green fuel engine industry.

Wu Qiwei stated that over the past nearly two years, under the guidance of the Academic Committee, the laboratory has achieved phased results in low-carbonization and intelligentization, and through this meeting, the laboratory's future development path has become clearer. In the future, Yuchai will take the laboratory as its core support, comprehensively integrate industry resources, continuously strengthen talent team building, carry out original and leading technological research, and strive to build the laboratory into a domestically leading and internationally renowned innovation highland for low-carbon intelligent power, making new and greater contributions to serving the national strategy and local industrial development.