In 2005, Dongfeng Forging Company decided to take high-tech crankshaft forgings as the main attack direction according to the business development direction of corporatization mode and the strategic positioning of product market, and determined the goal of making Dongfeng Forging a million crankshaft production jobs during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period. In order to achieve this grand goal, the forging company objectively analyzed and predicted the development trend of the domestic automobile crankshaft market and the potential demand of high-horsepower engines for the large crankshaft market, and constantly increased the research and development of crankshaft products and market development. In the past five years, the varieties of crankshafts produced by forging companies have expanded from 43 to 70, and the maximum unit weight of crankshafts has increased from 125kg to 175kg. Product users have developed from Dongfeng Company to many automobile crankshaft market users such as Ford, Mitsubishi, Great Wall, Jiangling, Chang 'an, BYD, Chery, etc., and the sales proportion of high-tech products mainly crankshaft is increasing.
According to the business plan, Dongfeng Forging Company will build an annual production capacity of 5 million crankshafts during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period.