On February 2, in the 170,000-square-meter heavy equipment production workshop of Weihua Group, workers were dismantling and painting a giant crane to make final preparations for factory delivery.
This 180-ton metallurgical crane is a product specially customized for Shanghai Baosteel Group. After two and a half months of intense production, the crane will be officially delivered during the Lantern Festival.
"During the Spring Festival, our employees worked overtime to ensure the project execution, and now 100% of them are on duty. Now our production tasks in March are fully booked, and we are also arranging production in April. In order to ensure the timely delivery of customer products and increase production capacity, we will go all out." Dai Yanyun, deputy director of the Manufacturing Management Center of Weihua Group, told reporters.
Weihua Group is a leading enterprise in the Changyuan lifting equipment manufacturing industry. On January 28, the first day after the Spring Festival holiday, 17 heavy-duty trucks loaded with various lifting equipment drove out of the Weihua Intelligent Industrial Park amidst the roar of the vehicles and rushed to the construction sites of major projects across the country.
It is understood that after the Spring Festival this year, the group has signed orders worth hundreds of millions of yuan with customers such as Fujian Longgang, Sichuan Steel Structure, Shanxi Shangtai, etc. The products include new Chinese-style bridge cranes, explosion-proof bridge cranes, container gantry cranes and other types, successfully achieving a "good start" in the New Year.
"This year has made a good start. Since January, Weihua Group has successively signed multiple large orders exceeding 100 million yuan, making the entire team confident about this year's development pattern. Although we resumed work on the sixth day of junior high school, we started working on the second and third day of junior high school. "Li Guoqiang, executive chairman of Weihua Group, told reporters with confidence.
In addition to leading companies, some local crane companies in Changyuan that have achieved new breakthroughs and new drivers in scientific research and innovation have also experienced strong production and sales during the Spring Festival this year. Through technical cooperation between China and South Korea, Changyuan Giant Crane Group has developed and produced unmanned cranes. The products are sold well all over the world.The company has also become a leader in automation, intelligence, and unmanned operation in the national lifting industry and a national-level specialized and new key "little giant" enterprise.
"At the end of last year, we accumulated a large number of orders. The orders in January this year were double those in the same period last year. So far, all our front-line employees are working hard to meet the deadline. The human resources department is also vigorously recruiting front-line and management personnel to meet our growing order needs." Han Zhaopeng, chairman of Henan Giant Crane Group Co., Ltd., told reporters.
Lifting equipment manufacturing is a pillar industry in Changyuan City. Changyuan Crane currently accounts for more than 70% of the national market, and its marketing output value will reach 37.256 billion yuan in 2022. After the Spring Festival this year, the local government helped empower the city's crane industry to get off to a good start in the new year by organizing the Spring Breeze Action job fair, conducting "specialized, special and new" enterprise training, and implementing policies to help enterprises resume work and production.
"Starting from the seventh day of the first lunar month, we organized more than 400 cadres to go deep into 126 lifting companies to help them solve their difficulties and carry out the spring breeze warm-up campaign to solve the employment problems of lifting companies. In particular, we introduced an innovation-driven reward policy and improved it on the basis of the previous one. The annual fiscal cumulative budget is 100 million yuan to encourage companies to carry out innovation. New research and development activities. At present, the production and sales of the lifting industry are booming, the resumption rate of enterprises has reached 100%, and the production rate has reached more than 95%." Changyuan Mayor Deng Guoyong said that in order to enhance the international influence of Changyuan Hoisting, Changyuan will also hold the "China Changyuan International Hoisting Equipment Trade Expo" on March 24 this year, and friends from all walks of life are welcome to visit.
