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2016-07-08

“Stay True to Our Original Aspiration and Keep Moving Forward”: Xindafang Commemorates the 95th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party

Xindafang News: At 10:00 a.m. on July 1, the majestic and unified strains of the national anthem rang out in the final assembly workshop of the Xindafang Industrial Park. Today marks the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, and more than 30 Party members from the Xindafang Party branch, together with nearly 100 frontline workers, gathered at their workplace to celebrate this momentous occasion. At the event, the veteran Party members reaffirmed their oath of admission, once again deeply appreciating the responsibilities, mission, and honor that come with being a Party member. They pledged to hold themselves to the highest standards of Party membership in both their work and daily lives, thereby upholding the vanguard nature of the Party. They vowed to carry forward the Party’s fine traditions, remain steadfast in their ideals and convictions, and, with renewed vigor, faithfully fulfill their solemn commitment to the Party. Following the ceremony, participants watched a video commemorating the 95th anniversary and carefully studied President Xi Jinping’s important address, finding it highly inspiring. The event also drew the attention of the “News Broadcast” program team at Henan Television, which dispatched reporters to the scene for an interview. The resulting report was broadcast on the evening edition of “News Broadcast” on Henan TV on July 2.

2016-06-24

Warm congratulations to Xindafang on being awarded the titles of “Outstanding Enterprise for Transformation and Innovation in Zhengzhou” and “Best Employer in Zhengzhou”!

Xindafang News: On the morning of June 16, the “2016 Zhengzhou Entrepreneurs’ Day,” jointly organized by the Zhengzhou Enterprise Federation, the Zhengzhou Entrepreneurs Association, the Zhengzhou Industrial Economy Federation (collectively referred to as the “Three Associations of Zhengzhou”) and the Zhengzhou General Trade Union, was held at the Yellow River Welcome Hotel. Zhang Zhihua, Chairman and Vice President of the “Three Associations of Zhengzhou,” attended the event by invitation. The theme of this year’s “2016 Zhengzhou Entrepreneurs’ Day” was “Stimulating the Entrepreneurial Spirit and Harnessing Entrepreneurial Talent.” Hao Jiansheng, Director of the Standing Committee of the 12th Zhengzhou Municipal People’s Congress and President of the “Three Associations of Zhengzhou”; Zhang Wentian, Executive Vice President and Chairman of the Board; Xue Jingxia, Vice Chairwoman of the Municipal Political Consultative Conference and the Federation of Industry and Commerce; Lin Zengzhi, Vice Chairman of the Municipal General Trade Union; along with more than 300 heads of Zhengzhou-based enterprises, attended the event to jointly study and discuss the essence of the entrepreneurial spirit and how best to put it into practice, with the aim of making greater contributions to Zhengzhou’s economic development. At the event, awards were presented on-site to outstanding organizations and individuals for 2015, including the “Zhengzhou Outstanding Enterprise for Transformation and Innovation,” the “Zhengzhou Outstanding Entrepreneur for Transformation and Innovation,” and the “Zhengzhou Best Employer.” For Xindafang, 2015 was an extraordinary and unusual year. As the traditional equipment market gradually became saturated and market demand declined, the company faced entirely new requirements and challenges. To cope with the harsh market environment, Xindafang relied on technological innovation, continuously optimized its product mix, explored new business areas, developed new products, and strived to achieve corporate transformation and upgrading, thereby maintaining a sustained, healthy, and stable growth trajectory. Consequently, the company was awarded

2016-06-07

Xin Dafang’s newly designed and manufactured largest girder-erection machine successfully completes the first lift for the Sanmen Bay Bridge.

Xindafang News, June 2 afternoon: Two 650-ton girder-erection machines designed and manufactured by Xindafang steadily lifted a 40-meter-long, over-1,200-ton box girder at the precast girder yard for Section TJ8 of the Sanmen Bay Bridge and Connecting Roads Project, marking the successful first lift with these machines. These two 650-ton girder-erection machines were designed and manufactured by Zhengzhou Xindafang and feature several innovative technological advancements. Notably, the rigid-plus-semi-rigid outrigger design and the automatic steering-and-centering technology for the gantry travel are both national patents held by Xindafang. In addition to these two girder-erection machines, Xindafang also provides other equipment such as a 650-ton girder-lifting machine and a 60-ton gantry crane to support the construction of the Sanmen Bay Bridge. This first lift serves as a formal inspection of the two 650-ton girder-erection machines and their tracks, and represents another milestone for the Sanmen Bay Bridge and Connecting Roads Project. It signifies that the superstructure construction of the approach spans of the Liyang Port Bridge and Qingshan Port Bridge has officially commenced, laying a solid foundation for the on-time completion of the Sanmen Bay Bridge.

2016-05-04

Two Frontline Employees of Xindafang Featured on CCTV-1’s “News Broadcast”

Xindafang News: To mark the upcoming International Labor Day on May 1, China Central Television launched a nationwide interview campaign titled “I Work, I Am Happy—Labor Is the Most Glorious.” The interviews primarily featured grassroots workers on the front lines of society, such as farmers and factory laborers, and our company was honored to be one of the interviewees. On the afternoon of April 26, a CCTV team visited our production floor and conducted random interviews with workers actively engaged in their daily tasks. The interviews focused on how labor has impacted and transformed their personal lives and what they feel is the greatest sense of fulfillment and accomplishment derived from their work, with more than ten frontline employees being interviewed in succession. Among them, Zhao Yande, on-site supervisor of the Structural Workshop in the Production and Manufacturing Department, and Gong Zhanbin from the Bridge Crane Division, stood out during the interviews by drawing on their own experiences, speaking in simple, heartfelt language with confident poise, and thus emerged as winners in the national open-air interview event (it is reported that over a thousand people across the country were interviewed during this campaign). Their contributions were first selected for broadcast on the “Morning News” program on CCTV-1 on the morning of April 30, and subsequently featured on the evening edition of CCTV-1’s “News Broadcast,” appearing in the very first segment. Through their performances, Zhao Yande and Gong Zhanbin effectively showcased the strong ethos at our company’s production front line—that “labor is the most glorious, the most noble, the most great, and the most beautiful”—and vividly embodied the spirit of “I work, I am happy” among frontline employees, thereby enhancing the company’s positive social reputation and public image.

2016-04-20

Warm congratulations to Xindafang on winning the First Prize of the 2016 Zhengzhou Patent Award!

Xindafang News: On the eve of International Labor Day, Xindafang Company once again announced good news: its core technology—the invention patent for “a self-propelled mobile formwork system for the construction of double-rectangular hydraulic aqueducts”—has been awarded the First Prize of the 2016 Zhengzhou Patent Award. In view of environmental protection, water-diversion safety, and land conservation, Xindafang has proactively assembled a research team to tackle key technological challenges arising from the extensive use of thousand-ton-class thin-walled concrete hydraulic aqueduct structures in water-diversion projects. Through its participation in the national “10th Five-Year Plan” major project for the development of critical technical equipment—“Research and Development of Complete Sets of Construction Technologies and Equipment for Large-Scale Hydraulic Aqueducts in the South-to-North Water Diversion Project”—as well as the Ministry of Water Resources’ “948” promotion project—“Application of New Heavy-Lifting and Handling Machinery in Water Conservancy Projects and the South-to-North Water Diversion Project”—the company has, over more than a decade of relentless effort and technological innovation, invented “a self-propelled mobile formwork system for the construction of double-rectangular hydraulic aqueducts” (Patent No.: ZL201310505509.7). This invention is pivotal to the successful implementation of large-scale hydraulic aqueduct construction using specialized fabrication machines; it represents a major breakthrough in new aqueduct-construction technologies, processes, and equipment, and is a world-first. The project has successfully resolved the critical technical and equipment challenges associated with the construction of large, thin-walled hydraulic aqueducts for China’s Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. It has now been successfully applied to the Shuangji River section of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, making China the first country, both domestically and internationally, to employ this technology and equipment in the construction of large hydraulic aqueducts—a pioneering achievement in global water-diversion engineering. The overall technology has reached an internationally leading level, delivering significant economic and social benefits.

2016-01-09

Zhang Liyong, Secretary of the Party Group and President of the Provincial Higher People’s Court, Visits Xindafang to Conduct Research and Provide Guidance

Xindafang News—At the start of the new year, Zhang Liyong, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and President of the Henan Provincial Higher People’s Court, visited the Xindafang Industrial Park for a research tour, accompanied by Huang Baowei, Secretary of the Provincial Political and Legal Committee; Yu Donghui, President of the Provincial Intermediate People’s Court; Li Xiaolei, Deputy Secretary of the Erqi District CPC Committee, and other leaders. During the visit, he held a symposium with Zhang Zhihua, a deputy to the Provincial People’s Congress and Chairman of the company. Zhang Zhihua began by providing President Zhang and his delegation with a detailed briefing on the company’s approach to technological innovation, its innovative achievements, and its vision for future development. He emphasized that, at the end of the day, corporate competition is ultimately a contest of innovative capacity—a principle of market competition that has been repeatedly validated by history. As a homegrown private enterprise, Xindafang has resolutely adopted an innovation strategy of “pursuing development through innovation and driving innovation through development” in order to prevail in the fiercely competitive market. The company has made it its R&D priority to fill domestic gaps and break foreign monopolies, thereby providing specialized construction technologies and equipment worth over RMB 7 billion for more than 500 major key projects at home and abroad, including high-speed rail, wind power, intercity rail transit, and water-diversion projects. Its technologies have reached internationally leading levels. In addition to meeting domestic demand, its products are exported to over 30 countries and regions, including Russia, South Korea, Brazil, Bulgaria, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Taiwan, establishing the company as a leader in China’s specialized construction-equipment sector. Furthermore, the company allocates more than 5% of its annual profits to reward employees for patent inventions, academic papers, and scientific-research achievements, thereby motivating R&D personnel to work even harder on developing new products. It is precisely this passion and dynamism for innovation that has enabled Xindafang to thrive despite the global economic downturn and the nation’s

2015-10-28

Xindafang’s independently developed 1,800-ton beam transporter and girder launcher—the world’s largest in terms of tonnage—have been put into operation.

Xin Dafang News: Recently, news emerged from the construction site of the Kuwait Trans-Sea Bridge project that Xin Dafang’s independently developed world’s largest 1,800-ton girder transporter and girder launcher have been officially assembled and put into operation. The Kuwait Trans-Sea Bridge has a total length of 36.14 kilometers, making it the fourth-longest bridge in the world. The bridge employs 60-meter spans and single-box girders weighing 1,800 tons each—currently the heaviest precast box girders in the world to be constructed using bridge erectors and girder transporters. Given Kuwait’s location in a hot, arid desert region, the local construction environment is extremely challenging, with complex conditions such as multiple spans, tight curves, and offshore operations. Consequently, the project design adopts a precast erection construction approach, making it one of the most technically demanding landmark projects in the industry. In early 2014, Xin Dafang secured the contract by outperforming leading international firms from Europe and North America, achieving the highest overall score in the technical bid. The company was awarded the contract to supply a complete set of equipment for the Kuwait Gulf Bridge project, including one 1,800-ton bridge erector, two 1,800-ton girder transporters, two 1,800-ton girder launchers, and 16 gantry cranes, with a total contract value of approximately RMB 260 million. As stipulated in the contract, this batch of equipment began arriving in Kuwait in late September last year. Notably, the first 16 gantry cranes to arrive have already been delivered and put into service for nearly a year, operating smoothly; the girder launchers and transporters, upon completion of assembly, were promptly commissioned. In addition, the final 1,800-ton bridge erector is now ready for assembly and is expected to be fully assembled and commissioned by March 2016.

2015-09-29

Xin Dafang Completes Assembly of Malaysia’s Largest-Tonnage Tire-Guided Gantry Crane

Xindafang News: At the end of September, Xindafang’s independently developed 300-ton tire-mounted gantry crane was fully assembled at the Malaysian customer’s site and successfully passed the special inspection and certification conducted by DOSH. To date, this unit is Malaysia’s first large-capacity tire-mounted crane. The equipment is capable of lifting and transporting heavy components as well as turning and repositioning segmented sections, primarily supporting segmented transportation and lifting operations. It was delivered to the Malaysian customer’s site in mid-June, and from the start of assembly through completion of the heavy-load test, the entire process took three months. The Malaysian client highly commended and affirmed the company’s assembly expertise, assembly speed, and the overall quality of the equipment.

2015-08-12

Warm congratulations to Chairman Zhang Zhihua on being honored with the title of “Outstanding Builder of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in Henan Province.”

Xindafang News, August 6: At the grand Fourth Henan Provincial Commendation Conference for Outstanding Builders of the Socialist Cause with Chinese Characteristics from the Non-Public Sector, held at the Henan Provincial People’s Hall, Chairman Zhang Zhihua was proudly awarded the honorary title of “Outstanding Builder of the Socialist Cause with Chinese Characteristics in Henan Province.” Following the ceremony, Zhang Zhihua delivered a keynote address on behalf of the other 99 distinguished recipients, entitled “Be Honest and Trustworthy, Work Diligently to Become Wealthy, and Serve the Motherland.” In his speech, Zhang Zhihua stated that every achievement, every breakthrough, and every accomplishment attained by Xindafang as a private enterprise has been made possible thanks to the strong support of the Party and the government as well as all sectors of society. To express gratitude for the Party and the government’s support and nurturing of private enterprises, Xindafang will, in its future development, continue to proactively fulfill its social responsibilities, uphold honesty and trustworthiness, relentlessly pursue innovation, strive for progress, give back to society, and make new and even greater contributions to the rise of the Central Plains, the revitalization of Henan, and the goal of making the province prosperous and strong. Attending the conference were Tao Minglun, Member of the Standing Committee of the Henan Provincial Party Committee and Head of the United Front Work Department; Chu Yaping, Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the Henan Provincial People’s Congress; Wang Yanling, Vice Governor of the province; Liang Jing, Vice Chairperson of the Henan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and Chairwoman of the Henan Federation of Industry and Commerce; Meng Lingfeng, Executive Deputy Head of the United Front Work Department of the Henan Provincial Party Committee; and leading officials from relevant provincial departments. More than 100 representatives from 27 counties and cities across the province attended the conference and jointly issued the initiative titled “With a Long Road Ahead and Heavy Responsibilities, We Must Dare to Take On the Challenge and Help Make the Central Plains Even More Brilliant.”

2015-07-18

2015 graduating class successfully onboarded

Xindafang News, July 10: The 46 newly hired graduates of the class of 2015 have successfully completed their pre-job training and have now entered the workshops to begin a four-month internship in frontline positions. These 46 graduates come from nearly ten prestigious institutions, including North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Henan University of Science and Technology, and Henan Polytechnic University, covering specialties such as mechanical manufacturing and its automation, electrical engineering, and mechatronics. Their arrival will inject fresh energy and new vitality into the company. To help the students quickly familiarize themselves with the work environment and integrate into the company as soon as possible, the company has meticulously planned and organized the pre-job training program. This training comprises three components: physical fitness training (military training), classroom instruction, and lectures, which are alternately conducted by relevant departments. The training content focuses primarily on the company’s development history, business areas, product R&D and design, production and manufacturing processes, as well as the company’s rules and regulations and Culture. In addition, the Human Resources Department has arranged training on professional ethics, team collaboration, and how to become a qualified employee, laying a solid foundation for the students’ smooth transition from school to the workplace. Onboarding Meeting, Military Training