On February 2, 2024, Weichai Group's 2024 Annual Science and Technology Innovation Award Conference was held at the Weifang Grand Theater. The conference commended and rewarded major scientific research achievements and outstanding scientific and technological talents since 2022, arranged and deployed scientific and technological innovation work in the coming period, and called on vigorously promoting the spirit of engineers and accelerating towards a world-class scientific and technological enterprise.
Liu Yun, Secretary of the Weifang Municipal Party Committee, attended the conference, presented awards to the winners of the Science and Technology Special Award, and made a speech. He fully affirmed Weichai's development and scientific and technological innovation, and said that Weichai is an important engine for Weifang's progress, and shoulders the mission of leading the city's new industrialization and cultivating new quality productivity. Standing at a new historical starting point, Liu Yun put forward four hopes for Weichai, hoping that Weichai will build a benchmark for the AI application industry, build world-class product competitiveness, build a fission-like growth of competition and cooperation development advantages, and accelerate its progress towards a world-class science and technology powerhouse. The Weifang Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government will come up with the best resources, provide the best services, and fully support Weichai to continue to write a new legend and realize the century-old dream.
Tan Xuguang, Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman and General Manager of Shandong Heavy Industry Group, and Chairman of Weichai Group, made a report on scientific and technological innovation, and issued letters of appointment to the newly hired Weichai Outstanding Engineers and Weichai Young Outstanding Engineers.
More than 18,000 people attended the meeting, including relevant leaders of Weifang City, team members and technical personnel of Shandong Heavy Industry Headquarters and secondary ownership companies in the province, all leading cadres and R&D technical backbones of Weichai's ownership companies, and technical personnel of Shaanxi Heavy Truck, Fast and Hande Axle under Weichai Power.
Reward scientific and technological innovation workers and ignite the first engine of high-quality development
Science and technology are the primary productive forces, talents are the first resources, and innovation is the first driving force. Since 2022, Weichai has focused on its main business, firmly established self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology, continued to strengthen its independent innovation capabilities, deepened original, leading and disruptive technological research, and achieved a large number of landmark scientific and technological innovation achievements.
In order to commend the advanced, set up a model, and encourage Weichai scientific and technological workers to forge ahead in the new era and make contributions to a new journey, the conference rewarded scientific and technological innovation achievements and outstanding scientific and technological talents, and rewarded Weichai with more than 100 projects such as "Technological Invention Award", "Scientific and Technological Progress Award", "Continuous Improvement Award", "Unveiling Project Award" and "Craftsman Innovation Achievement Award", with a cumulative amount of 65 million yuan. Among them, the special prize of technological invention and the special prize of scientific and technological progress will be awarded 5 million yuan for each project.
Since 1998, Weichai has held a scientific and technological innovation incentive conference every two years, and has been held 11 times in a row. In the past three conferences, each time nearly 100 million yuan has been awarded to scientific and technological heroes, and the maximum personal reward is 10 million yuan, which has caused a sensation in the whole industry.
Over the years, Weichai has insisted on investing heavily in scientific and technological innovation to build the world's largest platform, the best policy, and the best ecology. In the past two years, the cumulative R&D investment has reached 17 billion yuan, and the R&D investment intensity of the engine sector has reached 7.4%; it has built a national strategic science and technology platform represented by the National Key Laboratory of Internal Combustion Engine and Power System, the National Fuel Cell Technology Innovation Center, and the National Internal Combustion Engine Industry Metrology and Testing Center; The global cutting-edge technology platform represented by the Lovol Osaka Science and Technology Innovation Center of Weichai and the industrial collaborative innovation platform represented by the "R&D and Application Community" are aggregated. More than 10 billion yuan has been invested to speed up major equipment upgrades, major process transformations, and major project construction, and build the world's leading high-end intelligent manufacturing capabilities. At the same time, Weichai adheres to the market-oriented orientation of "high goal + high competition + high salary", builds a dual-channel development mechanism, a market-oriented post value evaluation mechanism, a highly flexible assessment and incentive mechanism, and a normalized talent flow mechanism, and implements equity incentives on a large scale last year, with the core technical backbone accounting for 82%, creating a scientific and technological innovation ecology with thousands of horses galloping.
At present, Weichai has built a global concentric science and technology ecosystem with Weichai as the core, with a large number of platforms, strong strength and high level, which is unique in the whole industry, and the high-speed and high-quality expansion and convergence of scientific and technological talents. In China alone, Weichai has brought together 12,000 scientific and technological personnel, of which more than 50% are masters and 350 are doctors.
On the career stage built by Weichai, scientific and technological workers have created an industry-leading, world-first, and world-first model, and the thermal efficiency of Weichai's engine body has reached the pinnacle of world science and technology for four consecutive times, greatly enhancing the voice of China's internal combustion engine in the global industry. The new generation of H/T platform series products has led the market of heavy-duty tractors with more than 500 horsepower, and its market share has increased by three times in two years to 40%, and the supply of high-horsepower natural gas engines has exceeded demand, with a market share of nearly 70%. The M series large-bore high-power-density engine has achieved a historic breakthrough in the high-end market of the global data engineering center; The new generation of X6000, independently developed by Shaanxi Heavy Duty Truck, has led the continental tractor into the world's high-end ranks...... Scientific and technological innovation has become the first engine to promote the high-quality development of Weichai.
Vigorously promote the spirit of engineers and accelerate the development of a world-class science and technology enterprise
Engineering technology is a major force for changing the world. On January 19, 2024, the "National Engineer Award" commendation conference was held in Beijing, and 81 "National Outstanding Engineers" including Tan Xuguang were commended. This is the first time that the CPC Central Committee and the State Council have decided to carry out the "National Engineer Award", which is the highest honor in the field of engineering technology in mainland China.
The general secretary pointed out that the engineer team is an important force to promote engineering science and technology to benefit mankind and create the future, and is an important part of the national strategic talent force. It is precisely because generations of Weichai engineers have worked day and night to tackle key problems and make bold innovations and breakthroughs that Weichai has achieved the leap from small to large, from weak to strong, and climbed to the top of global science and technology.
At this conference, Weichai also hired Weichai Outstanding Engineer and Weichai Young Outstanding Engineer, aiming to further implement the innovation-driven strategy and the strategy of strengthening the enterprise with talents, further rationalize Weichai's academic job system, give full play to the leading and exemplary role of science and technology leaders, and build a leading talent team with a global open vision, cutting-edge scientific and technological thinking, and excellent innovation ability, so as to enhance the core scientific and technological competitiveness of the enterprise.
Engineers are the backbone of an enterprise and the hope of the future. Weichai's unique engineer spirit is not only a valuable asset for Weichai to achieve leapfrog development, but also an important magic weapon to move towards first-class. Tan Xuguang said that the spirit of Weichai engineers is to let the world use the dream of China's power heart, is the value pursuit of "not fighting for the first is in the mix", is the persistent belief of doing one thing in a lifetime, and is the overall awareness of open and collaborative team operations, so that the spirit of Weichai engineers should be integrated into the blood and inherited for a hundred years.
At the meeting, the representative of Weichai's young outstanding engineers read out the "Weichai Engineer Proposal", and launched an initiative to Weichai's 12,000 engineers, unswervingly self-reliance and self-improvement, serving the country with science and technology, unswervingly climbing the peak, always striving for the first, unswervingly down-to-earth, immersed in innovation, unswervingly rigorous and down-to-earth, dare to challenge, unswervingly embrace the world, open cooperation, create more world-shaking scientific and technological achievements, so that Weichai will always stand tall in the global scientific and technological changes.
In the face of great changes unseen in a century, Tan Xuguang called on us to keep in mind the important entrustment of the general secretary to Weichai to "build a national brand", "focus on the main business" and "actively contribute to the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance", and accelerate the development of a world-class scientific and technological enterprise.
Fully embracing the arrival of the era of artificial intelligence. An AI revolution was quickly set off in the whole group, reconstructing the thinking mode, R&D model, industry model, and management model. More than 30% of the future R&D investment will be used for new technologies such as artificial intelligence, and there is no cap or upper limit on the investment in the AI revolution!
Make every effort to build world-class product competitiveness. The power system should always maintain the world's first leading edge and enter the high-end market in Europe and the United States in an all-round way; comprehensively lay out the business sectors of commercial vehicles, agricultural equipment, construction machinery and other complete vehicles to further improve the industry position; and accelerate the improvement of the core competitiveness of the "three electrics" to support Weichai's complete vehicle to become the first in China. Create maximum value for customers with impeccable product competitiveness, so that customers can think of Weichai as soon as they have needs, and fall in love with Weichai as soon as they use products!
Make every effort to build a "double chain" global competitive advantage. Taking the road of globalization and cooperating with the world's best partners is the strategic choice that Weichai has always adhered to. In a larger scope, wider field and deeper level, we will cooperate with world-class scientific research institutions, colleges and universities, and leading enterprises, innovate in the chain and win-win in competition and cooperation. It has built a "China + Global" dual supply chain system to efficiently meet the differentiated needs of customers, support the high-end transformation of product technology, and ensure the first-class safety and resilience of the entire industry chain. By fully absorbing the world's top innovative nutrition, we will create a global chain of geometric growth and win-win road!
Gather the strongest brains to lead the future. In the next five years, we will build a team of 100 scientific and technological commanders and train a group of talented and outstanding engineers, and the number of backbone engineers in the fields of new technology, new industries and new forms of business will reach 5,000, and the development channel of skilled talents will be broadened, and the "new eight-level worker" system will be the first in the country to be implemented, and the number of craftsmen will exceed 3,000.
Tan Xuguang said that the spring of engineers is coming! The vast number of engineers should cherish the opportunity, cherish the platform, produce more results, and produce results quickly, and walk in the front, be pioneers, and make new contributions in the journey of Weichai to accelerate its march towards a world-class science and technology powerhouse, so that your name will shine in the annals of Weichai's science and technology! Come on, all the engineers of Weichai! A hundred years of Weichai, a trillion Weichai, and the world's Weichai will be created by you!