XCMG frontend loaders

Major continuous positive strides made by the government and people of China have contributed immensely to global development. In spite of the fact that China is the most populated country in the world with nearly 1.4billion people, the government has been able to put in place positive measures that have led to a stable and sound economic footing.

One of the sectors that continue to serve as the economic basket of the People’s Republic of China is the machinery and construction sector, in which the Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group (XCMG) continues to take the lead.

XCMG was founded in 1943 and incorporated in 1989. It has always kept its vanguard role in Chinese construction machinery industry for 24 years. At present, it ranks 5th in world construction machinery industry, 122nd among Top 500 Chinese enterprises, 49th among Top 100 enterprises in Chinese manufacturing industry, and 1st among Top 100 enterprises in Chinese machine-building industry, being a large enterprise group with the largest scale, the most complete product type and series, and the highest competitiveness and influence in Chinese construction machinery industry.

Brand new machines on display

XCMG’s vision is to become a world-class enterprise with high international competitiveness that the Chinese people feel proud of. The company’s products and services have become a global brand. They include hydraulic cranes, road compaction and surfacing machinery, earth moving and loading machinery, concrete equipment, aerial firefighting trucks, etc.

It continues to make greater impact in the global economy with the supply of quality and reliable machines. It produces over 24, 000 cranes and 30, 000 loaders annually. Recently, it has supplied the largest crawling crane with a load capacity of 1250 tons, to Dangote Company in Nigeria.

The company can boast of over 30, 000 employees in 177 countries across the globe.

Liu JianSen, the company’s Assistant President told journalists on March 21, 2017, that being a 100% Chinese government owned company, XCMG is currently operating in major economies in the world, and is poised to establish a manufacturing plant in Africa, where it has been exploring possibilities of bringing XCMG to the door-steps of countries in the continent.

“As a government owned company, we are looking at existing regulations on investments, which we hope to implement so as to enable our company to spread out its manufacturing industry,” he said, and added that they are hopeful that by 2025 XCMG will be in the top three in global ranking. “We are ready to invest in any market with good opportunities,” he assured.

Liu JianSen, XCMG’s Assistant President

XCMG has paid attention to technical innovation by establishing a R&D system with a nation-level technology center (“XCMG Technology Center”) and Jiangsu Xuzhou Construction Machinery Research Institute (“XCMG Research Institute”) as the core, and the XCMG technology center has ranked 1st in the industry consecutively in the evaluation by National Enterprise Technology Center. Relying on XCMG Research Institute, XCMG Nanjing Research Institute, as well as XCMG Shanghai Research Institute and XCMG Europe Research Institute under construction, XCMG has launched a batch of products representing Chinese and even global advanced level in recent years, including 2000-ton-level all-terrain crane, 4000-ton-level crawler crane, 12-ton-level large loader as the largest one in China, 100-meter-level aerial platform fire truck as the highest one in Asia, and the fourth generation of smart pavement construction equipment, which has had subversive influence on global construction engineering industry and has broken global monopoly of foreign enterprises.

XCMG has established a marketing network covering the whole nation, and over 280 XCMG overseas agents have been set up to provide global users with all-round marketing service, so that XCMG products have been exported to 177 countries and regions around the world. 

Abu Bakarr Kargbo is a Senior Staff Writer of Standard Times Newspaper in Sierra Leone and an intern at People’s Daily Online.