On the morning of May 25, 2021, Weichai Power solemnly held the commencement ceremony of the Future Science and Technology Test Center project, and Tan Xuguang announced the official commencement of the construction project! The commencement of the project marks that weichai accelerates its step into the no-man’s land of scientific and technological innovation and opens a new chapter of scientific and technological innovation in the future.
With a total investment of 2 billion yuan, the test and testing center plans to build more than 150 laboratories, covering cutting-edge basic research, advanced components, new energy, new technology, new materials, intelligent manufacturing, hydraulic powertrain, CVT powertrain and other test and testing capabilities. By the end of 2021, the main project will be completed, and the test equipment will be put into use successively. By the end of 2022, all projects will be completed and put into use. After its completion, it will become the world’s top technology and equipment, world-class comprehensive multi-power system advanced science and technology research and testing base, providing a solid technical support for the implementation of Weichai 2030/2060 strategy.
Self-reliance and self-improvement, so that the power of China’s equipment pentium
On March 8, 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions on the development of Weichai, highly affirming its achievements in the past decade and demanding that “Weichai climb to the top of the world in science and technology without any other focus”. This important guiding spirit guides the people of Weichai to forge ahead. On May 24, 2019, Premier Li Keqiang inspected Weichai and spoke highly of it. He pointed out that “Let the power of Weichai and the power of Chinese equipment run continuously!”
Over the past ten years, weichai people have been self-reliant and self-reliant, making great efforts on the journey of being a strong technology enterprise and achieving a series of achievements that attract the attention of the whole industry. In 2020, Weichai released the world’s first commercial diesel engine whose thermal efficiency exceeded 50.26%, setting a new benchmark for the thermal efficiency of commercial vehicle diesel engines around the world. The project of “Key Technology and Application of High Efficiency and High Reliability Diesel Engine” won the Special Prize of Science and Technology Progress of China Machinery Industry in 2020. The high-horsepower CVT powertrain project has made a major breakthrough, carrying the banner of China’s agricultural equipment modernization…
Weichai, meanwhile, continue to accelerate the new energy, new technology, new materials, research and development of new forms and industrialization progress, and strive to win on the starting line, successfully build “battery + + motor control” as one of the new energy of multiple power system integration advantages, grip the “pure electric fuel cell + + hybrid” a variety of technical route; It has built a production base for 10,000 sets of fuel cell engines, and formed the capability of covering key generic technology breakthroughs of fuel cells, technological innovation support of the whole chain of application and verification, and independent industrialization.
On April 16, 2021, the National Fuel Cell Technology Innovation Center led and contracted by Weichai Power was officially approved, which is the only national innovation center in the field of fuel cell technology in China.
By upgrading from traditional manufacturing to high-end manufacturing and moving forward from traditional energy to new energy, Weichai Power, as the largest equipment manufacturing enterprise in Shandong Province and the vanguard of China’s industry, has an important influence in the global industry. Taking advantage of the major opportunities of the transformation of old and new driving forces, it is sure to accelerate Weichai’s progress toward becoming a world-class enterprise.
Innovation-driven transformation from “bottleneck” to “mace”
The Future Science and Technology Test and Testing Center is a scientific and technological innovation “incubator” established by Weichai Power for the 2030/2060 strategy. It is committed to original innovation and positive development and will help Weichai Power achieve new breakthroughs from 0 to 1 in frontier technologies and basic research fields.
Over the past 20 years, Weichai has been guided by science and technology and driven by innovation, unswervingly taking the road of independent innovation, and established a new scientific and technological innovation system featuring “independent innovation, open innovation, craftsman innovation and basic research innovation”. In the past 10 years, more than 30 billion yuan has been invested in engine research and development alone, and many top innovation platforms such as the “State Key Laboratory of Internal Combustion Engine Reliability” and the “National Intelligent Manufacturing Demonstration Base” have been established.
Huge investment spurred major development, and Weichai quickly unleashed its technological innovation power, turning every “bottleneck” into a “trump card” and demonstrating its core strength to the world. It has built the world’s first heavy-duty commercial vehicle powertrain, which supports the self-owned brand heavy-duty commercial vehicle to occupy the leading position in the domestic market. In 2018, it won the first prize of National Science and Technology Progress. Fully control the engine “brain” electronic control ECU core technology and achieve one million batch industrialization, changed the history of China’s heavy commercial vehicles without “China core”; Breakthrough high-end high-speed large-diameter engine research and development technology, break the foreign monopoly; To achieve the commercial vehicle powertrain, CVT powertrain, hydraulic powertrain core technology “three carriages” at the same pace, to promote the Chinese diesel industry chain to the high-end……
By making breakthroughs in independent innovation, innovating boldly in institutional reform and cultivating talents in the same frequency, Weichai has broken through a benign “great circle” of innovation and become an industry-leading and aspirational innovation Mecca. For many years, the company has introduced outstanding college graduates and global middle and high-end talents on a large scale. The number of technical personnel in the engine sector alone exceeds 5000, which has built a high concentration of global engine talents. In 2020, Weichai Power was rated as a national demonstration base for talents and talents.
The key to scientific and technological innovation is to stimulate the creativity of human resources to overcome obstacles and tackle hard challenges. Weichai has worked hard to remove the ideological barriers and institutional barriers that impede scientific and technological innovation, deepened reform of the scientific and technological management system, boldly experimented with the mechanism of “placing priority” on research projects, and flexibly adopted such means as project dividend sharing, upfront incentives and equity incentives. Focusing on ecological construction, encouraging innovation and tolerating failure, we will encourage all R & D personnel to boldly venture into no man’s land and make contributions in professional fields, thus gathering the mighty power of scientific and technological innovation in the new era.
The Weichai Power Future Technology Test and Testing Center project was launched, sounding a new horn for scientific and technological innovation and once again pressing the key of accelerating the development of science and technology to transform old drivers of growth into new ones in Shandong. Looking forward to the future, Weichai will make great strides on the road of high-quality development of China’s equipment manufacturing industry with higher ideals and convictions, stronger mission and greater wisdom and capability.
Weichai staff will keep in mind the inculcations of the general secretary, focus on the main business, and climb the new peak of science and technology with the spirit of “driving nails”!
Post time: Jun-12-2021