On September 24, during their inspection tour in Shandong Province, Liu Guozhong, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, and Han Jun, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, made a special trip to conduct research at WEICHAI LOVOL Intelligent Agricultural Technology. They highly affirmed the enterprise’s achievements in adhering to scientific and technological innovation, developing complete sets of high-end intelligent agricultural machinery and smart agriculture solutions, and gave relevant instructions.
Vice Premier Liu Guozhong stated that high-performance intelligent agricultural machinery is an important guarantee for significantly increasing per unit yield and ensuring national food security. He encouraged WEICHAI LOVOL Intelligent Agricultural Technology to benchmark against world-class standards, further increase investment in scientific and technological innovation, give full play to the exemplary and leading role of a leading enterprise, drive the transformation of China’s agricultural machinery industry towards high-end, green, and intelligent development, and support the enterprise in making full use of the financing advantages of the capital market to grow stronger.
As the "chain leader" enterprise in the agricultural machinery equipment industry chain, WEICHAI LOVOL Intelligent Agricultural Technology firmly undertakes its "chain leader" responsibilities. Guided by scientific and technological innovation and taking intelligent agricultural machinery as a key driver, it has continuously made breakthroughs in a number of "chokepoint" technologies in the industry, particularly in cutting-edge fields such as high-horsepower CVT intelligent tractors, large-scale high-efficiency harvesting machinery, and new energy agricultural machinery.
On the basis of having invested 3 billion yuan to build China’s first smart factory for high-horsepower tractors in the domestic agricultural machinery industry, WEICHAI LOVOL Intelligent Agricultural Technology will further invest 1.5 billion yuan in building a large-scale harvesting machinery factory. It will deepen the integrated application of new-generation information technologies such as industrial internet, big data, and artificial intelligence, continuously advance the intelligent upgrading of the production and manufacturing system, and accelerate the leadership of China’s agricultural machinery manufacturing industry towards high-end development, thus fulfilling the solid commitment of "securing China’s food supply" with a sense of responsibility.
The instructions from Vice Premier Liu Guozhong have greatly inspired all cadres and employees of WEICHAI LOVOL Intelligent Agricultural Technology. They have all expressed their determination to anchor the goal of becoming a world-class enterprise, take a higher stance, show greater resolve, and adopt more practical measures to accelerate the R&D of core technologies and the upgrading of intelligent manufacturing. They will bravely undertake the era mission of safeguarding national food security, strive to write a new chapter in the high-quality development of China’s agricultural equipment, and contribute more to accelerating the building of a strong agricultural country.