On February 17, General Secretary Xi Jinping attended a symposium on private enterprises and delivered an important speech. The spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech was like a spring thunder, which quickly aroused enthusiastic response among the private enterprises in our province, injected strong impetus into the vast number of private enterprises in our province, greatly inspired their enthusiasm and confidence in development, and pointed out the direction for the future development of private enterprises in the province.
"Strong confidence and forge ahead in the spring"
The day after the private enterprise symposium was held, the Weihua Group Party Committee acted quickly to arrange and deploy the spirit of the study meeting as soon as possible.
On the morning of February 20, the Weihua Group Party Committee held an enlarged party committee meeting. The party committee leadership led the middle and senior managers of the group and each subsidiary to deeply study the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the private enterprise symposium and talk about their learning and insights.
“The spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech has greatly boosted our confidence in development! There will be new opportunities in the new era, and it is the right time for private enterprises to show their talents! We must cultivate the feelings of our family and country, concentrate on business operations, and contribute our Weihua strength in the process of assisting China’s modernization!” Li Guoqiang, chairman of Weihua Group, said straight to the point at the meeting.
In order to strengthen the confidence of more party members and employees of the group in development, on February 21, the Weihua Party Committee issued the "Notice on Carrying out In-depth Study of General Secretary Xi Jinping's Important Speech at the Private Enterprise Symposium" within the company, and arranged for the subsidiary party committees, general party branches, and party branches directly under each party committee to conduct special studies in an orderly manner and write down their experiences. On the same day, the Party branch of Zhengzhou Weilai Company took the lead in carrying out learning activities, setting off a learning craze.
"Intelligent manufacturing of lifting equipment is our 'special skill'. We will conscientiously study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, stick to the main business, strengthen industry, and stand up the backbone of the manufacturing industry! Continuously improve the quality, efficiency and core competitiveness of the enterprise, and unswervingly follow the path of high-quality development!" Xie Baohua, member of the Party Committee of Weihua Group and chairman of Henan Weihua, is full of confidence in the development of the enterprise.
“Our determination to adhere to the leadership of scientific and technological innovation will not change”
In mid-February, news came from the Henan Provincial Department of Science and TechnologyGood news: Weihua Group has been successfully selected into the list of leading innovative enterprises in Henan Province in the field of advanced manufacturing and automation.
"General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that private enterprises and private entrepreneurs must strengthen independent innovation, transform development methods, and continuously improve enterprise quality, efficiency and core competitiveness. After the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have adopted internationalization, digitalization, intelligence and greening as corporate strategies and transformation development directions. Last year, we invested more than 1 billion yuan in R&D." Li Guoqiang introduced.
In recent years, Weihua Group has made continuous scientific and technological achievements. In 2024, the company has 191 new authorized patents, 7 provincial and ministerial level scientific and technological progress awards, and more than 1,700 company authorized patents. "First sets" products are emerging in endlessly - the world's first set of cranes special for shaft construction with a lifting height of 658 meters and ultra-high lift, 3,600-ton gantry cranes, ultra-large tonnage 2,500-ton gantry cranes, domestic 3,000-ton gantry cranes, and 1,200-ton ship handling cranes.
In order to speed up the transformation of the enterprise, since 2018, Weihua Group has actively responded to the province's "three major transformations" call and has invested more than 10 billion yuan in the construction of Weihua Crane Intelligent Industrial Park, Weihua Low-carbon Intelligent Equipment Industrial Park, Zhengzhou Production Base, Jiangsu Offshore Engineering Equipment and Hainan Weihua Low-carbon High-end Technology Industrial Park.
"In this hot land of Henan, our hometown, Weihua's development and growth cannot be separated from the care and support of party committees and governments at all levels. There is the best business environment here. Weihua will not forget its original aspirations and bravely be the vanguard of high-quality development of private enterprises in the province!" Han Hong'an, chairman of Weihua Technology Group, said bluntly.
"Confidence to lead the healthy development of enterprises"
General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out at the private enterprise symposium that "it is necessary to improve the corporate governance structure and standardize the behavior of shareholders in accordance with the requirements of the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics" and "adhere to honest and law-abiding operations."
As early as 2010, Weihua Group had established an enterprise management system in accordance with the modern enterprise management system, vigorously introduced professional managers, and set up employee directors and supervisors respectively. In 2012, Weihua Group was awarded the "Henan Governor's Quality Award" by the Henan Provincial People's Government.
In recent years, Weihua Group has adhered to the leadership of party building, proactively improved the "two-layer and four-meeting" discussion and decision-making mechanism including the decision-making and monitoring level, operating management and shareholders' meeting, party committee, board of directors, and board of supervisors. It has established a "Weihua Party Building+" modern corporate governance model that features political guidance, strategic decision-making, efficient execution, comprehensive supervision and joint assessment, and continues to optimize the scientific governance structure and level of corporate governance. In the operation and management, we actively guide enterprises to achieve "three compliances", that is, in line with the party's principles and policies, in line with national laws and regulations, and in line with the interests of the broad masses of employees, so that the party's line, principles, and policies can be implemented, and the company's direction should be firmly controlled politically. Integrity and law-abiding operations and safe production should be regarded as the bottom line standards in the development process of Weihua Group to ensure that the nature of business operations is compliant and sunny.
In 2023, the Party Committee of Weihua Group established the "Four Leading and Four Pioneers" party building model, and wrote the above content into the interpretation of "Party building leads the corporate strategy and bravely serves as the pioneer of high-quality development." In January 2024, the list of suggestions for the fifth China Quality Award and the China Quality Award Nomination Award was announced. Weihua Group was selected for the China Quality Award Nomination Award, becoming a powerful witness to Weihua's healthy development.
The New Year begins a new chapter, and it’s time to make progress.
In 2025, Weihua Group will focus on the "Four Highs and Four Striving for the First", insist on strengthening and optimizing the main lifting equipment business, increase corporate R&D investment, enhance the company's market competitiveness, assist the construction of the "7+28+N" industrial chain cluster in our province, and bravely become a pioneer in the field of intelligent manufacturing of Henan's lifting equipment.
