Domestic construction machinery industry development leapfrog

The 4th International Infrastructure Investment and Construction Summit Forum was recently held in Macau. This forum is jointly organized by the China Overseas Contracting Engineering Chamber of Commerce and the Economic Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR Government. The 4th Summit will discuss hot topics such as new opportunities for international cooperation under the background of diversification of investment and financing entities. Lu Shan, vice chairman and deputy general manager of China Road and Bridge Engineering Co., Ltd. delivered a speech and made some pertinent suggestions to the Chinese construction machinery industry.

In the context of low global economic demand, this year's summit brought together engineering contractors and equipment manufacturing alliances to discuss development issues. Lu Shan believes this platform is very valuable. When talking about China's Luqiao's internationalization strategy, Lu Shan said that China's roads and bridges were the earliest participants and witnesses of Chinese companies going abroad, including China and Turkey, and were one of the four earliest enterprises approved by the State Council. The development of China's roads and bridges has benefited from the country’s strategy of going global, benefiting from the country’s strong economy and supporting many large government framework projects. China Luqiao, like its counterparts, has offices in more than 50 overseas countries and has developed from traditional African, Asian, and Southeast Asian markets to Central Asia, and has achieved breakthroughs in Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America in recent years. Thanks to our national policies and the company itself continues to grow.

Lu Shan recalled that China's roads and bridges have used equipment for more than 30 years in the past, early development in the Middle East, and in the early 1980s in Iraq. At that time, almost all the equipment used to build bridges and roads was imported. At that time, the bulldozers used were Komatsu Japan, and the heavy trucks were also useful for Volvo. Almost all of them were well-known construction machinery manufacturers in the world. Beginning in the mid-1990s (1996), China Road and Bridge began to try to use domestic equipment. After the inspection by Xugong, the first batch of Xugao road rollers and bulldozers were used in Bangladesh, and domestic equipment was used since then. After entering the new century, the company has used more and more domestic branded equipment. The proportion of domestically-made equipment used has reached over 70%, and it is not only used by itself but also purchased by the owner and the owner. In 2008, we purchased 40 million U.S. dollars for Angola, mostly from XCMG. Last year, Belarus purchased a large number of equipment worth more than RMB 30 million. This shows that China's construction machinery companies have absorbed and digested through technological introduction and continued to innovate. They have made great strides in all aspects of reliability and operability at the technological level. At present, trucks have basically all used Sinotruk and Shaanxi Auto. Chinese construction and engineering companies are also proud to go abroad and lead domestic equipment out of the country.

Lu Shan said that at present, there are still 30% of the company's equipment is still using world-class brands, such as graders, are generally used by Carter and Volvo. Domestic counterparts should also recognize some gaps in this respect, and there is room for improvement in key technologies, including operational friendliness or diversity. China's road and bridge equipment procurement is basically centralized procurement of headquarters. Can be a better intensive force, reduce procurement costs, through the regional control of equipment, equipment management. China Luqiao has several equipment centers overseas, such as management companies in East Africa, West Africa, and Central Asia, where large-scale equipment is maintained and used. Nowadays, equipment management has also increased the strength of science and technology, through information management, to improve management.

Finally, Lu Shan proposed several suggestions for domestic construction machinery counterparts. As a construction contractor, he was very pleased to see the rapid development of the domestic construction machinery industry. Especially in the past few years, domestic construction machinery has acquired world-class brands and technologies through international mergers and acquisitions, and has achieved high recognition from the engineering companies with their high quality products. , including China's construction machinery operators and maintenance teams, has made great progress over 10 years ago. He puts forward three suggestions from the perspective of engineering machinery contracting industry: 1. Establish the company's core technological advantages and avoid product homogenization competition. Each enterprise has played a unique skill on the basis of products, and there is no winner only in the price war. Chinese companies have very difficult living conditions in foreign countries in recent years, and the production environment is very poor. Therefore, enterprises must aim for profit, and must reverse prices. The vicious competition situation. 2, services and sales services. Some domestic manufacturers are indeed less in service than foreign brands, and he thinks it needs further strengthening and improvement. 3, improve product details, to create more competitive domestic machinery products, emphasizing product innovation, to a machine with more energy, high reliability, friendly operation, environmental friendly development. As an international contractor pays more attention to corporate social responsibility, it is necessary to introduce products that are beneficial to environmental protection in some developing countries. The same is true for engineering equipment, and more attention should be paid to environmental protection factors in terms of operability.