High-speed railway

2014-05-02

The New Great Party’s Mass Line Education and Practice Campaign Officially Kicks Off

Xindafang News: At the end of April, Tan Qinglu, Deputy Director of the Management Committee of the Mazhai Industrial Cluster Zone, and Guo Sheng, Deputy Director of the Party Affairs Office, together with a delegation, convened a mobilization meeting for the “Party Mass Line Education and Practice Campaign” at Xindafang. Zhang Qinghe, General Manager of the Company’s Comprehensive Management Center, and Zhang Hongjun, Secretary of the Company’s Party Branch, attended the meeting. Zhang Hongjun, Secretary of the Company’s Party Branch, delivered the opening address, emphasizing the significant importance of the “Party Mass Line Education and Practice Campaign.” He called for the formulation of a detailed study plan, extensive solicitation of public opinion, organization of democratic life meetings, identification of key problems, and leveraging the campaign to further enhance the company’s production and business operations. As the guiding body for the company’s “Party Mass Line Education and Practice Campaign,” the Party Working Committee of the Mazhai Management Committee, represented by Deputy Director Tan Qinglu, delivered an important speech on the campaign’s objectives, goals, and principles. He urged all Party members to earnestly implement the overarching requirements of “holding up a mirror, straightening one’s attire, taking a thorough wash, and curing ailments,” focusing on resolving prominent issues related to the “Four Winds” and those in the construction of the “two foundations,” thereby ensuring the effective implementation of the campaign. Finally, Zhang Qinghe delivered a concluding address, stating that the company would make every effort to allocate resources rationally and ensure practical implementation. He emphasized the need to overcome any misconceptions, align learning about the Party’s mass line with the specific characteristics of the enterprise, integrate it with daily business operations, achieve seamless integration, promote performance in one’s own duties, and prevent the campaign from becoming a mere formality or existing in isolation from actual work. All Party members of the company, along with representatives of key personnel, attended this mobilization meeting for the Party Mass Line Education and Practice Campaign and carefully completed

2014-04-08

Xin Dafang Successfully Wins Bid for 1,800-Ton Bridge Construction Complete Equipment Package for Hyundai’s Kuwait Gulf Bridge Project

In January 2014, at the dawn of a new year and amid widespread renewal, Xindafang confidently kicked off the year with a strong start, securing the top technical score in a highly competitive international bidding process. The company successfully won the contract to supply a complete set of bridge-construction equipment—totaling 1,800 metric tons—for Hyundai’s Kuwait Gulf Bridge project, with a contract value of RMB 240 million, thereby drawing widespread admiration and attention from the global bridge-building community. Hyundai is ranked 36th on the Fortune Global 500 list and is one of South Korea’s five major conglomerates. As a globally renowned enterprise, Hyundai imposes extremely stringent requirements on its partners, conducting comprehensive assessments across all dimensions, including corporate philosophy, reputation, production qualifications, manufacturing capabilities, product quality, and after-sales service. In 2010, Xindafang’s self-developed series of high-speed railway bridge-construction equipment—including 1,000-ton girder-lifting cranes, girder transporters, and bridge-erection machines—secured a contract with Hyundai, marking the first time that China’s high-speed-rail construction equipment had been exported abroad. This milestone not only laid the foundation for Xindafang to enter the international high-end bridge-construction market but also represented the first overseas deployment of “Made in Zhengzhou” products, earning recognition for China’s specialized construction-equipment sector on the global bridge-building stage and underscoring its significant historical importance. The Kuwait Gulf Bridge is located in an inland gulf in Kuwait, in the Middle East; it features a 60-meter span and a design length of 34 kilometers, and is hailed as the world’s fourth-longest sea-crossing bridge, following the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in the United States, the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in China, and the Hangzhou Bay Bridge in China. The region is characterized by a severely polluted desert environment, with intense heat and aridity, where summer temperatures can soar as high as 60 degrees Celsius.

2014-03-20

Xin Dafang Proudly Awarded the Title of “Henan Provincial Innovation Demonstration Enterprise” in 2013

Xindafang News: Recently, the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology and the Provincial Department of Finance jointly announced the list of Henan Province’s 2013 Demonstration Enterprises for Innovation, and Xindafang Heavy Industry Technology Co., Ltd. was among those recognized. According to reports, enterprises designated as provincial demonstration units for innovation must meet several stringent criteria, including maintaining a certain scale of production and operations, possessing a provincially recognized or higher-level enterprise R&D center, and allocating at least 3% of their annual sales revenue to R&D. Xindafang has always regarded innovation as the soul of the enterprise, adopting the guiding principle of “promoting development through innovation and driving innovation through development.” Leveraging its robust R&D capabilities, the company has achieved one breakthrough after another in the field of heavy-duty specialized construction technologies and equipment, positioning itself as a leader in specialized construction equipment and setting an outstanding example for technological innovation among private enterprises nationwide. The company has established an academician workstation and a postdoctoral research station, and has been recognized as a “National-Level Enterprise Technology Center.” To sustain its momentum and vitality for continuous innovation, the company allocates no less than 5% of its annual sales revenue to research funding, ensuring that technological innovation can be steadily advanced. As a result, while consolidating its foothold in traditional markets, the company has also made new breakthroughs in emerging fields such as coal mining, port and terminal operations, civil aviation and aerospace, offshore oil exploration, desert and shallow-water rescue, and fire protection for high-rise urban buildings. Provincial demonstration enterprises for innovation are selected and certified annually through a joint review process conducted by the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology and the Provincial Department of Finance. This designation serves as an important benchmark for assessing the overall strength of enterprises across the province and, more broadly, for measuring the level of industrial development in each prefecture-level city. The ultimate goal is to enable these enterprises to play a demonstrative, leading, and catalytic role, thereby supporting the adjustment and upgrading of the industrial structure throughout the city.

2014-03-04

Lu Yongxiang, Vice Chairman of the National People’s Congress, Visits Xin Dafang for Research

Xin Dafang News: At the end of 2013, Lu Yongxiang, Vice Chairman of the 11th National People’s Congress and former President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with experts from the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering and other relevant organizations, paid a field visit to Xin Dafang during an inspection tour in Henan Province on the “Strategy for Developing Design Innovation.” As an internationally renowned hydraulics expert, Chairman Lu, accompanied by Chairman Zhang Zhihua, first visited the Production and Manufacturing Center, where he inspected a range of new products resulting from the company’s transformation and upgrading—namely, the aircraft container handling platform, aircraft tug, hydraulic support vehicle, segment transport rubber-tyred vehicle, and tidal-flat vehicle—all developed independently by the company. He carefully inquired about the design and operational performance of these products’ braking and hydraulic systems. At the production site, Chairman Lu also listened to a briefing by Zhang Zhihua on the company’s operations, innovation, R&D capabilities, and manufacturing qualifications, expressing great satisfaction. He noted that China’s manufacturing sector is globally leading, yet there are still relatively few enterprises that rely on independent innovation; most are merely processing-oriented firms lacking core technologies of their own. In contrast, Xin Dafang, as a private enterprise, demonstrates an exceptionally strong commitment to science and technology, leveraging independent innovation to fill domestic gaps and break foreign monopolies across numerous fields—a truly remarkable achievement. During the subsequent symposium, Lu Yongxiang showed keen interest in the company’s current operating conditions and the challenges it faces, while also voicing his hopes for its future development. He praised Xin Dafang for two outstanding strengths: first, its contribution to national prestige and public benefit. He stated that through technological innovation, Xin Dafang has elevated China’s level of specialized construction equipment to a new height, undertaking tasks that large state-owned enterprises are reluctant to take on and assuming responsibilities that state-owned enterprises

2014-02-16

Four MQ4040 gantry cranes have been successfully installed at Dafeng Port.

Xin Dafang News: Recently, the four MQ4040 gantry cranes—equipment for Phase III of Dafeng Port—undertaken by our company have been successfully installed at the Dafeng Port terminal. Electrical system commissioning is now proceeding in an orderly manner; two of the cranes completed commissioning on January 15 and were delivered to the customer for operation, while the remaining two were delivered on February 15. The MQ4040 gantry crane integrates multiple functions—including hook lifting, grab handling, and container spreader operations—making it, to date, the highest-duty-class, largest-lifting-capacity, and fastest-operating gantry crane in China’s port fleet. In addition to the four gantry cranes, the project also includes four large rail-mounted hopper units, with the gantry cranes and hoppers forming the terminal’s bulk cargo unloading system. This project marks our company’s first full-package port equipment contract and serves as a flagship product symbolizing the company’s transformation and upgrade. Its successful completion will not only earn our company high market recognition within the port equipment industry but also stand as a landmark project in our ongoing efforts to upgrade, transform, and expand our market presence. In line with the company’s “One Project, One Plan” operational management model and under the guidance of the company’s sound strategic vision, Project Manager Li Gang has organized the project team into ten specialized groups—project management, design and technical support, quality control, and others—to ensure coordinated project execution. Every stage of the project is rigorously monitored and controlled, with timely identification and resolution of any issues to maintain full quality oversight and ensure that production schedules stay on track. Through the concerted efforts of all parties involved, we ultimately met the customer’s specific delivery deadline, earning their recognition and high praise. The smooth delivery of the MQ4040 equipment at Dafeng Port,

2014-02-12

Xin Dafang Secures Sales Contract for Its First 2,000-Ton Self-Propelled Modular Transporter

Xindafang News: Recently, Xindafang successfully secured a contract for its independently developed 2,000-ton self-propelled modular transporter (SPMT), marking the company’s entry into both the domestic and international markets for heavy-lift transportation equipment. The 56-axle SPMT, also developed in-house by Xindafang, is one of the company’s new products driving its transformation and upgrade, with broad market prospects. The DCMZ40 self-propelled modular transporter is a high-end, “mechanical–electrical–hydraulic integrated” heavy-duty transport vehicle equipped with onboard power, multi-mode steering, advanced safety control, platooning networking, and fault-diagnosis capabilities. It supports independent multi-mode steering and platform elevation, and allows remote-control-based flexible configuration and platooning of transport units according to the characteristics of the cargo—such as external dimensions and tonnage. An embedded networked platooning control system enables synchronized operation of the modular train, including simultaneous forward motion, reversing, turning, and lifting, thereby facilitating the integral transport of ultra-large-tonnage objects. Moreover, the DCMZ40 can address the challenges of relocating, short-haul transporting, and roll-on/roll-off operations at ports and terminals for large, monolithic, difficult-to-disassemble, and exceptionally long, wide, and heavy cargoes. It also meets the heavy-load transportation needs of projects in shipbuilding, offshore engineering, wind power, nuclear power, high-speed rail, chemical industry, road and bridge construction, metallurgy, water conservancy, and other sectors, while being capable of handling short-haul transport of large objects weighing over ten thousand tons, thus laying a solid foundation for enhancing efficiency in the manufacturing industry. The successful development of the self-propelled modular transporter will significantly enrich our company’s portfolio of specialized vehicles, optimize our product mix, and provide a robust foundation for expanding into both domestic and international markets, for the public

2014-01-27

The 2013 Work Summary and 2014 New Year Gala of Xindafang Were Solemnly Held

The silver snake dances as it bids farewell to the old year, while ten thousand horses gallop forward to welcome the New Year. As Xindafang enters the twelfth lunar month, the intermittent bursts of firecrackers rise and fall one after another, heralding the arrival of the New Year. On January 25—the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month—more than a thousand employees of Xindafang Group, including those from Xindafang Heavy Industry Technology Co., Ltd., Xindafang Equipment Leasing Co., Ltd., Xindafang Stork Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd., Xindafang Saifull Technology Co., Ltd., Xindafang Microfinance Co., Ltd., and the Xindafang Feather Club, gathered together to celebrate the Spring Festival. The “Xindafang 2013 Work Summary and 2014 New Year Gala” officially kicked off with the chorus of the Production and Manufacturing Center leading the singing of the Xindafang anthem, “Let Our Dreams Soar.” Following this, Chairman and President Zhang Zhihua delivered an enthusiastic New Year address, extending the Group’s most sincere New Year greetings to all Xindafang employees and their families, and wishing them good fortune and success in the Year of the Horse! Zhang Zhihua noted that over the past few years, Xindafang has weathered a once-in-a-century global economic upheaval and crisis, experienced the rapid development and subsequent sharp stagnation of China’s high-speed rail market, endured the severe impact of volatile monetary policies on the real economy, and faced a serious shortfall in both domestic and international market demand. Despite this challenging market environment, Xindafang employees have persevered with tenacity and diligence, steadfastly focusing on innovation and unwaveringly adhering to the company’s strategic vision. By strengthening marketing externally and enhancing internal management, keeping pace with the times, and boldly pursuing reform, Xindafang has nonetheless achieved remarkable results. Zhang Zhihua emphasized that these achievements were earned through the wisdom and hard work of Xindafang employees, attained through their tireless efforts and sweat, and expressed his deep appreciation for their resilience and dedication.

2014-01-02

The National On-Site Conference on the Safety Monitoring and Management System for Large-Scale Crane Installation, hosted by Xindafang, along with the Annual Summary Meeting, was successfully held.

Xindafang News: From December 20 to 21, the “National On-site Conference on the Safety Monitoring and Management System for the Installation of Large Lifting Equipment, Together with the Annual Summary Meeting,” hosted by Xindafang, was successfully held in Zhengzhou. Leaders from eight ministries and commissions, including the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the State Administration of Work Safety, and the Ministry of Railways, attended the meeting. More than 130 representatives from over 20 R&D institutions—such as CSSC No. 9 Metallurgical Construction Company and the China Railway Engineering Machinery Research Institute—and over 20 user pilot units—including China Railway Tenth Bureau and China Railway Bridge Bureau—also took part. Zhang Zhihua, Chairman and President of the company, Chen Hao, Executive Vice President, and key personnel from the company’s Division for the Safety Monitoring and Management System for the Installation of Large Lifting Equipment were among those who participated. At the conference, Shang Hong, a researcher from the Special Equipment Bureau of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, delivered a summary report on the 2013 pilot demonstration work related to the safety monitoring and management system for the installation of large cranes. He noted that, over the past four consecutive years, the number of accidents, fatalities, and injuries involving lifting equipment nationwide has steadily declined, attributing these achievements to the continuous improvement of the regulatory framework for lifting equipment and the ongoing promotion of safety monitoring and management systems. However, he emphasized that significant challenges still remain in advancing the installation of safety monitoring and management systems, underscoring the need to raise awareness, intensify publicity efforts, implement targeted measures, increase investment, ensure thorough inspection and testing, and steadfastly push forward with this initiative to achieve standardized and routine implementation. The ultimate goal is to institutionalize and normalize the deployment of safety monitoring and management systems for the installation of large lifting equipment, thereby elevating lifting equipment safety to a new level. Following this, Zhang Zhihua, as the host of the event, delivered a speech.

2013-12-04

Vice Mayor Ma Jian Visits Xindafang to Inspect and Provide Guidance

Xindafang News: On the afternoon of December 2, Vice Mayor Ma Jian paid a visit to Xindafang to inspect and provide guidance on the company’s work, gaining an understanding of its current development status and the pressing challenges it faces. Chairman Zhang Zhihua accompanied the vice mayor. Regarding the company’s present operational and developmental situation, Chairman Zhang Zhihua briefed Vice Mayor Ma Jian and his delegation. Vice Mayor Ma expressed great appreciation for the company’s innovative philosophy of “promoting innovation through development and promoting development through innovation,” and put forward several recommendations: First, while innovation is indispensable, it is essential to strengthen awareness of intellectual property protection and safeguard the company’s independently developed technological innovations; second, the company should actively explore international markets, expand its export trade volume, and grow in scale and strength by aligning its product design, R&D, manufacturing processes, production, packaging, and other aspects with international standards, thereby laying a solid foundation for becoming a globally competitive enterprise; third, the company must firmly hold its existing market positions and refine and perfect its products—specifically, by continuously pursuing deep and sophisticated processing to steadily enhance product added value; and fourth, the company should continue to expand its independent innovation, explore new avenues for development, and seize opportunities while meeting challenges in the rapidly changing market environment. Deputy Secretary-General Zhang Ji, along with heads of the Municipal Commission of Industry and Information Technology, the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, the Municipal Finance Bureau, the Municipal Statistics Bureau, and other relevant departments, accompanied the inspection. Wang Yuhong, a member of the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee and Head of the United Front Work Department, Si Wenyi, a member of the Party Leadership Group of the District Government, and heads of related district-level units also attended the inspection.

2013-09-15

Chairman Zhang Zhihua Once Again Honored as One of Zhengzhou’s Top Ten “Outstanding Private Entrepreneurs”

Xindafang News: On the morning of September 13, the “Zhengzhou City Private Economy Commendation and Financial Support Mobilization Conference for the Development of Small and Micro Enterprises” was solemnly held at the Municipal Youth Palace. Ma Yi, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, attended the conference and delivered an important speech. Also in attendance were municipal leaders Sun Jinxian, Liu Quanxin, Ma Jian, Cui Fan, and Wang Chushan, Secretary-General of the Municipal Government. At the conference, 20 “Outstanding Private Enterprises,” 20 “High-Growth Private Enterprises,” and 10 “Outstanding Private Entrepreneurs” for 2012 were commended on the spot. Zhang Zhihua, Chairman and President of the company, once again received the honor of being among Zhengzhou’s Top Ten “Outstanding Private Entrepreneurs,” marking his second such recognition following his award in 2011. In recent years, the entire city has thoroughly implemented the state and provincial policies and arrangements for accelerating the development of the private economy, strengthening policy support, improving service systems, and fostering an entrepreneurial atmosphere, thereby maintaining a robust growth trajectory for the private sector. Currently, the city is home to 83,000 private enterprises; in 2012, the added value of the private economy reached RMB 399.4 billion, accounting for 72% of the city’s GDP, while tax revenues from the private sector totaled RMB 57.6 billion, representing 74% of the city’s total tax revenue. Moreover, 96% of the city’s “high-tech enterprises” are privately owned, and over 90% of the city’s “China Well-Known Trademarks,” “China Famous Brands,” and “Henan Provincial Famous Brands” have been created by private enterprises. In addition, private enterprises have actively assumed social responsibility and pursued initiatives that benefit the people’s livelihoods, playing a vital role in expanding employment, invigorating the market, and meeting the needs of the general public! As the private economy soars…