Since the reform and opening up, the lifting equipment industry has gradually emerged in Changyuan, and by the beginning of this century it occupied half of the national gantry crane market. Today, an average of 3.2 sets of lifting supporting products are produced every minute, and 38 complete cranes are rolled off the production line at the Changyuan factory every hour. They are sold across the country and even around the world, and are exported to more than 100 countries in Africa, South America, the Middle East, and Europe. countries and regions.
The largest gantry crane production base in the country "grew" from the saline-alkali land
Weizhuang Street (formerly Weizhuang Town) and Nili Town, Changyuan City, were once the The famous salt-alkali land. This saline-alkali land is the birthplace of Changyuan Crane.
In the 1980s, the spring breeze of reform and opening up made Han Xianbao realize that the spring of the private economy had arrived. In 1988, Xinxiang Weihua Crane Factory was established. Han Xianbao led six workers in a 1,300-square-meter workshop, starting from the simple maintenance of electric hoists and the production and sales of drum covers, starting the entrepreneurial journey of Weihua Group.
In 1996, the company invested more than 6 million yuan to build a new factory in the Weizhuang Town Industrial Park; in 1998, it began to build a crane production line, with the scale continuing to expand and benefits doubling year by year; in 2002, it acquired 500 acres of land in Changyuan Industrial Zone Yu Mu was used to build a new factory area and a 60,000-square-meter production workshop was built, which became the largest factory in the Asian lifting industry at that time. In 2004, Weihua Group Co., Ltd. was established, achieving a major breakthrough in the operation and management system. At present, Weihua Group has total assets of 7.076 billion yuan, a brand value of 7.19 billion yuan, and more than 6,800 employees. Its products are sold throughout the country and exported to large enterprise groups in 130 countries including the United States, Russia, and Australia.
The development of Weihua Group is only a microcosm of the rise of Changyuan's lifting equipment industry. After more than 30 years of development, Changyuan Crane has gradually formed a development trend with centralized layout, complete categories and wide market coverage, becoming the most important pillar industry in Changyuan City.
At present, Changyuan City has 126 complete crane manufacturing companies and nearly 1,000 related supporting companies. It employs more than 80,000 people and its products cover more than 10 series and more than 200 varieties, all over the country. It has more than 2,600 sales outlets abroad; the domestic market share of cranes below 200 tonnage reaches more than 70%, and it is the largest gantry crane production base in the country.
Behind Changyuan Lifting’s “everlasting success” is “constant newness”
There is a popular saying in the lifting industry - Changyuan has stopped production and the country is out of stock.
Changyuan City has become the distribution center for major lifting equipment in the country and the "barometer" of the industry.
Why is the market so dependent on Changyuan Crane? What makes Changyuan Crane achieve long-term prosperity? According to Hao Daoxing, director of the Changyuan Municipal Bureau of Science, Industry and Information Technology, behind “everlasting prosperity” is “everlasting newness”. This "new" includes four aspects: new technology, new products, new fields and new talents. Based on the above standards, we tried to "dissect" Weihua Group in order to achieve the effect of "seeing the whole thing at a glance".
New technology is the "magic weapon" for Weihua Group to occupy new heights in the market. The crane electrical anti-sway automatic positioning control system independently developed by the company can reduce the swing amplitude by 95% and has a control accuracy of 2 mm. This world-first technology has filled the technical gap in this field and has successfully served four major domestic companies. Satellite launch base. Up to now, Weihua Group has certified 82 scientific and technological achievements and has obtained 734 patents, ranking first in the domestic industry.
Changyuan City, which is already "proficient" in lifting equipment, has begun to target new areas of lifting equipment - the intelligent three-dimensional parking equipment independently developed and produced by Weihua Group is one of the representatives. "We have independently developed five types of smart garages, including three-dimensional circulation, double-layer plane shifting, and lifting and lateral shifting, and have applied them in many places such as hospitals, communities, and bustling streets." said Li Hu, director of the Weihua Group Research Institute .
Talents are the intellectual support for enterprise development. In 2004, while Weihua Group was developing rapidly, Han Xianbao put forward the slogan of transforming into a modern enterprise system. A large number of external senior talents, including current group president Yu Youfei, joined Weihua Group.
So far, Weihua Group has a scientific research team of more than 600 people, which is the largest scientific and technological R&D team in my country's lifting industry; more than 80% of senior management and technical cadres come from other places.
If the market wants to be "sustainable", it needs to be "hard" enough.
On June 28, 2017, the State Administration for Market Regulation (formerly the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine) special equipment The Changyuan Hoisting Machinery Industry Quality Improvement Activity carried out by the Bureau was launched.
Two years have passed. What results have the quality improvement activities achieved? According to Lu Yansheng, the city has explored a quality improvement experience that can be replicated and promoted around four aspects: quality management, technological innovation, standard leadership, and brand value.
Numbers are the best annotation for development. In 2017, the qualification rate of Changyuan lifting products reached 98.3%, which was 4.59 percentage points higher than the national level; in 2018, the random inspection qualification rate reached 100%. In 2017, the added value was 8.43 billion yuan, the main business income was 36.54 billion yuan, and the total profit was 2.73 billion yuan; the growth rates in 2018 were 9%, 16.9%, and 34% respectively.
In terms of innovation, Changyuan City currently has 58 national-level high-tech enterprises, ranking first among counties (cities, districts) in the province. Since 2017, 33 have been newly recognized, an increase of 132%. ; The number of authorized patents reached 7,134, with 2,717 new authorized patents; the number of R&D centers at or above the provincial level reached 28, ranking first among counties (cities, districts) in the province in number.