On April 10, Shandong Heavy Industry Group and the People’s Government of Xinxiang City, Henan Province signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement. Man Shengang, Party Secretary and Chairman of Shandong Heavy Industry Group, and Wei Jianping, Mayor of Xinxiang, attended the discussion session and witnessed the signing ceremony.
Man Shengang extended a warm welcome to the Xinxiang delegation and provided an overview of the Group’s recent developments. He noted that, despite fierce market competition and a complex external environment in the first quarter, Shandong Heavy Industry had remained focused on its goals. Through strengthened internal management and quality enhancement, as well as proactive market expansion and brand building, the Group achieved growth in both revenue and profit—securing a strong start to the year and continuing its momentum of steady, high-quality development. He emphasized that there is substantial potential for collaboration between Shandong Heavy Industry and Xinxiang in areas such as agricultural machinery, commercial vehicles, and construction equipment. He expressed the hope that both parties would work in concert to achieve synergy in industrial and supply chains and share broader markets. Together, they aim to lead regional cooperation between Shandong and Henan, contributing to ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin.
Mayor Wei Jianping thanked Shandong Heavy Industry Group for its strong support for Xinxiang’s economic and social development. He praised the Group as a leading high-end equipment manufacturing multinational, with globally and nationally prominent operations in commercial vehicles, engines, and agricultural machinery. Currently, Xinxiang is accelerating its push toward agricultural and rural modernization and making extraordinary efforts to build the Central Plains Agricultural Valley, while shouldering the national responsibility for food security. He sincerely welcomed Shandong Heavy Industry to leverage its core technological strengths in intelligent agricultural machinery and smart agriculture, actively participate in Xinxiang’s modernization of agriculture, and jointly advance the construction of an agricultural powerhouse.
According to the agreement, the two sides will cooperate in areas such as the R&D and manufacturing of intelligent agricultural machinery and smart agriculture demonstration zones, working together to implement the national strategy for ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin. The partnership aims to deepen Shandong-Henan cooperation and promote the development of a nationally influential, innovation-driven smart agriculture industry cluster in Central China.
The agreement was witnessed by Chen Jianhong, Vice Mayor of Xinxiang, and Wang Zhijian, Deputy Party Secretary and General Manager of Shandong Heavy Industry. Qi Wenhua, Member of the Standing Committee of the Xinxiang Municipal Party Committee and Head of the United Front Work Department, and Liu Huisheng, Senior Director of Shandong Heavy Industry, signed the agreement on behalf of both parties.
On April 11, the Xinxiang delegation visited the Weichai Lovol Intelligent Agriculture production base, a subsidiary of Shandong Heavy Industry. During the visit, Xinxiang Pingyuan Urban-Rural Integration Demonstration Zone signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with Weichai Lovol Intelligent Agriculture.