Weichai 2025 Global Supplier Conference Takes Place, and Man Shengang and Liu Yun Attend and Address the Conference

On the afternoon of December 12, the Weichai 2025 Global Supplier Conference themed on "Never Slacken, Always Stand at the Forefront, Always Strive for the First" was held. Man Shengang, secretary of the Party Committee and director of Shandong Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission and secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of Shandong Heavy Industry Group, and Liu Yun, secretary of CPC Weifang Municipal Committee, delivered speeches at the conference, which was also attended by Wang Zhijian, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and general manager of Shandong Heavy Industry Group, Ye Jianjun, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and director of Shandong Heavy Industry Group, Ma Changhai, member of the Party Committee and deputy general manager of Shandong Heavy Industry Group, secretary of the Party Committee, chairman, and general manager of Weichai Group, and Yang Shengyan, member of the Standing Committee of CPC Weifang Municipal Committee and deputy mayor of Weifang City. More than 700 global supplier partners of Weichai participated in the conference all told.

In his speech, Man Shengang said that since this year, Shandong Heavy Industry has actively worked with all parties to promote the orderly and strong implementation of various tasks, maintaining a good development trend featuring progress in stability and improvement amid progress, with main business indicators have reaching the highest level in history. According to Man, Weichai, as the core business segment of Shandong Heavy Industry, boasts the largest scale, the strongest sci-tech strength, and the highest degree of internationalization. With the solicitude and support of the CPC Weifang Municipal Committee and Municipal Government and the strong support of global partners, Weichai has developed into a leading enterprise in China's power equipment industry and a well-known brand in the global equipment manufacturing field, and has cultivated a world-class sci-tech innovation strength that is independent and self-reliant. Man noted that looking ahead, we will advocate win-win cooperation, chained innovation, coordinated overseas expansion, and in-depth integration, focus on the core business, and hold true to the blueprint, and quicken the pace to grow into a transnational high-end equipment group that is leading in science and technology, green in development, and best-in-class throughout the world. By upholding the concept "One family, One Heart, Working Together, Sure to Succeed", we will work with all cooperative partners to build the industrial chain into a cooperation chain, an innovation chain, a green chain, and a win-win chain, move ahead together, fight side by side, share success, and win the future together.

Liu Yun said in his speech that Weifang enjoys a strong agricultural strength, a solid industrial foundation, developed science and education resources, prominent opening-up advantages, and time-honored and prosperous cultural deposits. Currently, Weifang is committed to leading the development of new quality productive forces through sci-tech innovation, promoting the industry’s chained development, clustered layout, and integrated upgrading, and expediting the industrial transformation towards high end, intelligence, and green, and building a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone. Liu hoped that Weichai Group would keep firmly in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest instructions, focus on the core business, dare to be the first to explore new paths, deepen reforms to promote development, accelerate the building of a world-class strong enterprise, and keep playing a vanguard and leading role on the path of new-type industrialization. He noted that the vast number of suppliers would be both "Good Partners" of Weichai and "Co-partners" of Weifang, strive to achieve complementary advantages and strong-strong union, empower each other, and achieve mutual success. Weifang will provide the best services and the strongest guarantees, fully supporting Weichai Group to continue creating new legends and realizing its centenary dream, and helping more enterprises with dreams and strength like Weichai to invest and start businesses in Weifang and develop at ease and without worries, Liu was quoted as saying.

The conference announced the decision of Weichai Group on commending Gold Medal suppliers of 2024, and presented awards to representatives of 23 gold medal suppliers. Some representatives of gold medal suppliers gave exchange speeches.

Before the conference, Man Shengang also met with representatives of Weichai's gold medal suppliers such as Bosch, BYD, Woodward, and Garrett. The suppliers said that by integrating global resources, increasing investment in scientific research, making breakthroughs in key and core technologies, leading the industry's transformation and upgrading, Weichai has created a new global record for the thermal efficiency of diesel engines, built a power system platform in multiple clean energy forms, and satisfied the needs of global customers in different user scenarios. On the journey towards the world’s first class, Weichai, as a “Chain Master" enterprise with the passion "Never Slacken, Always Stand at the Forefront, Always Strive for the First" and the concept "One Family, One Heart, Working Together, Sure to Succeed", shares opportunities, makes joint improvements, and creates value together with its partners, in an effort to build an efficient, win-win, safe, and sustainable new supply chain system.

During the event, Weichai organized a new product exhibition, displaying more than 150 high-end products on site and releasing dozens of new products in one go, demonstrating Weichai's leading position and strong development momentum in the equipment manufacturing power domain.

In 2024, amid the backdrop of severe and complex competition, Weichai joined hands with global partners, coordinated the entire chain, seized opportunities, and rose against the trend, achieving brilliant results! It maintained steady growth in engine sales, niche market presence, and product export, further shoring up its position as the industry leader. Particularly, the sales of the M series high-end large-bore engines grew rapidly, supporting the data center business to achieve strategic breakthroughs and high-speed growth in high-end markets such as Europe, America, and Southeast Asia. Accordingly, Weichai’s global brand influence has been enhanced in an all-around manner.