The production workshop of Dafang Heavy Machinery.
"Nagagaki Zuo" crane is hoisting rockets.
Henan Giant Crane Group *** Crane Production Base Mapping Guo Han.
Editor's note. Promote the transformation of Chinese manufacturing to Chinese creation, China's speed to China's quality, and China's products to China's brand", in May 2014, the general secretary of the first inspection in Zhengzhou China Railway Engineering Equipment Group, Henan put forward ardent expectations.
Since then, it has been ten years since the implementation of the important instructions of the general secretary. What kind of answer sheet has Henan's industry handed over to the "three transformations"?
On March 5, 2024, Premier Li Qiang proposed in his work report: vigorously promote the construction of a modern industrial system and accelerate the development of new quality productivity.
How should Henan shape its advantages and move forward in the direction of new quality productivity?
During the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress, Henan Business Daily launched a special report "Single Champion Witnesses New Quality Productivity", through interviews and research of national and provincial individual champion enterprises in Henan Province, to witness their "new quality productivity content" and "three transformations" of upgrading and evolution of the answer sheet.
Co-ordination: Top News Henan Business Daily reporter Yang Guifang Hou Jianxun.
Execution: Top News Henan Business Daily reporter Wang Wanxian, Song Hongsheng, Wen Song Yameng.
There is a popular saying in the lifting industry - Changyuan is out of production, and the country is out of stock.
This is because for every 10 gantry cranes in the country, 7 are from Changyuan. Changyuan City, known as the "hometown of lifting in China", is the crane manufacturing base with the largest industrial scale, the highest concentration and the most complete industrial chain in China.
At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation in the industrial field is booming, and the wave of digitalization, greening and intelligence is coming. Changyuan City has made in-depth layout and extensive cultivation of new quality productivity, and has taken out the courage and determination of "second entrepreneurship", so that the traditional lifting industry can burst out with new momentum for economic development.
The annual output value of the lifting industry is nearly 40 billion yuan.
The Yellow River has nine bends and eighteen bends, and the last bend is in Changyuan. Changyuan is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. "The land is not fertile, there are no mineral deposits underground", and the name of "China's Lifting Township" was bred on such a land.
The lifting industry is "knocked" out by Changyuan people with a hammer.
Han Hongjun, 58 years old this year, is the founder of Henan Giant Crane Group. Since he was a child, he has followed his father to set up a stall to sell chain hoist (a crane component) accessories, and is one of the witnesses and witnesses of the difficult entrepreneurial stage of the Changyuan lifting industry. "When I was in high school, my father bought an old lathe and hired a Shandong master to produce accessories for chain hoists. Han Hongjun recalled that this family-style production unit was the predecessor of the Giant Crane Group.
In the seventies and eighties of the last century, in the two towns (streets) of Changyuan and Weizhuang, the family workshop-style crane parts factory began to sprout. In the 90s of the last century, there was a qualitative leap in the scale of the crane industry, Henan Giant Crane Group Xinxiang Weihua Crane Factory (now Henan Weihua Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd. and other more than 30 machine manufacturers, more than 500 accessories production enterprises (stores), laying the foundation for the formation of industrial clusters.
After 40 years of cultivation and development, the lifting industry has become one of the pillar industries in Changyuan City, with an annual output value of nearly 40 billion yuan. Lu Yansheng, director of the Changyuan Municipal Bureau of Science, Industry and Information Technology, told the top news Henan Business Daily reporter that the city has 114 production enterprises above designated size and 1,042 supporting production enterprises, including 1 enterprise with an annual output value of more than 10 billion yuan, 1 enterprise with an annual output value of more than 5 billion yuan, and 27 enterprises with more than 100 million yuan.
These enterprises have an annual output of 300,000 sets of lifting machines and 1.7 million sets of spare parts. This means that an average of 34 cranes roll off the assembly line in Changyuan every hour, going to more than 170 countries and regions across the country and even around the world. Lu Yansheng said that Changyuan City has successfully cultivated 11 national specialized, special and new key small giants and small giant enterprises, 71 national science and technology small and medium-sized enterprises, and 28 provincial specialized, special and new small and medium-sized enterprises in the field of crane industry.
It is understood that Henan Giant Crane Group, Henan Dafang Heavy Machinery, Henan Weihua Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd. and many other crane manufacturing enterprises have also been rated as provincial and national manufacturing individual champion enterprises.
The lifting industry has entered the competition in the subdivided field.
If Han Hongjun represents the generation of Changyuan lifting industry that is difficult to start a business, Han Zhaopeng, the current chairman of Henan Giant Crane Group, is a generation that has witnessed the vigorous development of Changyuan lifting industry and promoted the technological change and brand quality improvement of Changyuan lifting industry.
In Han Zhaopeng's view, in the past 10 years, the focus of competition in the lifting industry has been on quality improvement, enterprise cost reduction and efficiency increase. Nowadays, the lifting industry is competing fiercely in various subdivisions of scene applications.
In recent years, there are more and more application scenarios of cranes, and there are more and more needs for customization, which not only have technical requirements for products in terms of hoisting capacity, anti-sway ability, automatic control ability, etc., but also put forward higher requirements for hoisting accuracy, applicability of scenes, life cycle stability, etc. Han Zhaopeng said.
Since 2019, Giant Lifting has taken the lead in developing the "Heavy Truck Battery Swapping Robot", which is mainly used in the hoisting of batteries in the battery swapping scenario of new energy heavy trucks. In May 2023, a leading enterprise in the battery swap station industry from Shanghai found that only the heavy truck battery swap robot developed by Giant Lifting could meet the needs of scene applications after investigating and inspecting crane factories in many places across the country.
Han Zhaopeng also mentioned that at present, convenient, reliable, less or unmanned operation, has formed an international consensus in the lifting industry, whether it is a complete machine manufacturer or accessories production enterprises, need to invest a lot of manpower, material resources to focus on key research, through the introduction of international professional and technical personnel and domestic scientific research institutions to cooperate, to explore the industry's cutting-edge technology, is committed to providing more industries and companies with professional and intelligent material handling system solutions.
These space heavyweights have their figures.
In 2006, he entered the lifting industry, and Hu Xu, the current deputy secretary of the Party Committee and president of Dafang Holding Group, is also deeply touched by the development and reform of the industry.
Hu Xu mentioned that Dafang was established in 2006, and has achieved rapid accumulation and growth of the enterprise by virtue of its high starting point and low-cost enterprise advantages.
On July 12, 2023, at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, the Suzaku 2 Yao-2 liquid oxygen methane carrier rocket was successfully launched, becoming the world's first liquid oxygen methane launch vehicle to be successfully put into orbit.
In the rocket launch mission, the electrical anti-sway automatic positioning micro-motion control system independently developed by Henan Dafang Heavy Machinery, a subsidiary of Dafang Holding Group, provides high-precision hoisting and transfer guarantee for the rocket.
At present, Dafang Heavy Machinery has established good cooperative relations with the four major satellite launch centers in Jiuquan, Wenchang, Xichang and Taiyuan in China, and has successively successfully helped the Shenzhou series spacecraft, Tiangong series space laboratory, Chang'e series lunar probes, Long March series carrier rockets, etc.
Internationalization, digitalization, intelligence, and green.
In the field of lifting equipment manufacturing, Changyuan has been in the forefront of the world.
At present, Weihua Group has become the largest industrial crane manufacturer in China and the second largest in the world, creating a complete range of lifting products in the industry, and the products are exported to more than 170 countries and regions.
In 2019, Weihua Group creatively proposed the concept of "new Chinese" cranes, and under the guidance of China Heavy Machinery Industry Association, it took the lead in releasing the standards of "New Chinese General Overhead Crane" and "New Chinese General Gantry Crane".
At present, the height of the "new Chinese" crane produced by Weihua Group is reduced by 15% and 30% compared with the traditional crane, the weight is reduced by 10% and 25%, and the comprehensive energy consumption is reduced by 10% and 20%, and the performance indicators are higher than or equal to international standards, which greatly improves the competitiveness of China's lifting products in the international market.
After entering the new era, how to embrace the wave of intelligence is the focus of attention of all lifters.
Ding Haiyang, vice president of Henan Weihua Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd., introduced that in recent years, Weihua Group has continued to make efforts in the digital, intelligent and green development direction of lifting equipment, and its independent innovation ability and industrial chain modernization level have been at the forefront of the industry, and it has won the "National Manufacturing Single Champion Demonstration Enterprise" for two consecutive times, leading the development of the industry in terms of scale, products and technology.
For the future, Ding Haiyang is full of confidence: Weihua will continue to strengthen the five core competencies of "R&D, manufacturing, marketing, service, and first-class chain", and take "internationalization, digitalization, intelligence, and greening" as the main line to promote the high-quality development of enterprises, build a global modern industrial system, and create a world-class brand for the high-end equipment manufacturing industry.
The entire Changyuan lifting industry, in the face of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, is also extensively cultivating new quality productivity.
The traditional lifting industry is bursting out with new momentum for economic development.