Food is the foundation of the people, agriculture is the foundation, and promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside and consolidating the foundation of food security in all aspects are the top priorities. Behind the stable and high yield of grain, it is inseparable from leading enterprises represented by Weichai Lovol, which adhere to scientific and technological innovation, focus on breakthroughs in intelligent agricultural machinery equipment and core technologies of smart agriculture, and continue to contribute to the "kinetic energy of China's agricultural machinery" to escort food security and empower rural revitalization.
Core research, to be the "navigator" of new quality productivity
In this year's government work report, it is emphasized that aiming at the major strategic needs of the country and the needs of industrial development, a number of major scientific and technological projects will be deployed and implemented. Integrate national strategic scientific and technological forces and social innovation resources, promote collaborative research on key core technologies, and strengthen research on disruptive technologies and cutting-edge technologies.
The sustained bumper harvest of grain requires unremitting core research, and the strength of the head agricultural machinery production enterprises is indispensable. In recent years, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, together with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, has vigorously promoted the shortcomings of agricultural machinery and equipment, and has achieved good results. With its strong advantages in technology, products and services, Weichai Lovol has further consolidated its leading position in the industry, and at the same time, it has continued to accelerate the iteration of the industry by opening a series of core research.
Recently, Weichai Lovol and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Mechanization Sciences jointly declared the agricultural robot project approved by the state, focusing on the collaborative technical research in the field of field harvesting robots, focusing on crop growth environment perception, online monitoring of operation quality, intelligent control of components and other agricultural robot field "stuck neck" problems, so that traditional harvesting machinery has the "sensible, adjustable, controllable" robotization characteristics, so as to achieve the improvement of the intelligent level and quality of agricultural machinery and equipment.
In order to focus on solving the problem of long-term dependence on imports of key core components of domestic agricultural machinery and leading the transformation and upgrading of agricultural machinery and equipment in the mainland, in January 2024, the national major basic parts research project of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology undertaken by Weichai Lovol was launched, and 16 domestic scientific research institutes, universities and parts enterprises jointly focused on the key core components of tractors, harvesting machinery and seeders to carry out technical research.
As the backbone of agricultural machinery that fully fulfills its responsibility, Weichai Lovol pursues not only "one branch outstanding", but "blossoming everywhere".
In order to ensure national food security, during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the state focused on promoting the unmanned production of the three major staple food crops of rice, wheat and corn, and successively issued the project guidelines for the creation and application of unmanned operation technology and equipment for the three major staple crops. In just last year, Lovol Weichai has launched the national key project of "Creation and Application of Unmanned Operation Technology and Equipment for Corn Production", and has been approved as "Creation and Development of Power Machinery for New Energy Horticultural Operations", "R&D and Demonstration of Intelligent Equipment for Green Production and Cultivation Management in Black Soil", "Creation and Application of Intelligent Equipment for Corn and Soybean Compound Planting", "R&D and Industrialization of Precise and Intelligent Fertilization Technology and Equipment", and other four major national scientific and technological projects, giving full play to the "chain master" of the national agricultural machinery and equipment industry chain Role, the chain promotes the development of the mainland's agricultural machinery and equipment industry, and provides strong equipment support for accelerating the construction of an agricultural power.
Improve quality and efficiency, and make every effort to protect the "food heart" of a big country
The ultimate goal of production, education and research is to use it better and improve the quality and efficiency of farming. There is no doubt that the main force of food production is agricultural machinery. At present, the hot spring plowing and sowing production is steadily advancing from south to north. It is reported that it is expected that more than 23 million tractors, land preparation machinery, seeding machines, rice planting machines and other agricultural machinery and equipment will be put into production this spring.
The improvement of production efficiency and food production requires smarter, more efficient and more energy-efficient agricultural machinery products. At this time, Weichai Lovol's production workshop is a busy scene, the production lines are in full swing, the workers are full of enthusiasm, only to ensure the quality and quantity of the products as scheduled to the majority of operators and farmers, on average every 3-5 minutes there will be a tractor off the assembly line, the daily production capacity has exceeded 400 units, more than 600 units of various agricultural machinery products are sent to all parts of the country every day, to ensure the demand for agricultural machinery for spring production.
In 2024, the first document of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs was issued, which clearly proposed to make every effort to seize a bumper grain harvest, solidly promote a new round of 100 billion catties of grain production capacity improvement actions, and put the focus of grain production increase on a large area to increase yield, so as to ensure that grain output remains above 1.3 trillion catties.
Cultivating agricultural "spark technology" and making breakthroughs in the fields of chassis technology and agricultural machinery and equipment in hilly and mountainous areas as soon as possible are the tasks of the times facing the modernization of agriculture and rural areas on the mainland. Weichai Lovol actively responded to the call of the state, according to the topography, ecological environment, agricultural needs, etc., focusing on key technologies such as "one large and one small" and "increasing production and reducing losses", developed applicable agricultural machinery and equipment, launched a series of technical products to break foreign monopoly and fill the gap in the industry, continued to lead the industry technology iteration, and carried a banner for the improvement of quality and efficiency of traditional agriculture.
As the only enterprise in China to realize the commercialization of a full range of high-horsepower CVT tractors, Weichai Lovol has achieved a continuous leap from "0 to 1" and from "1 to many". In 2021, China's first commercial CVT intelligent tractor, Lovol P7000 high-horsepower intelligent tractor, was released, breaking the long-term monopoly of foreign countries on high-horsepower CVT tractor technology and core components, filling the gap in domestic tractor continuously variable speed technology, and realizing the independent and controllable core technology and core components. The Lovol P2404-7V tractor launched at the 2024 National Agricultural Machinery Spring Exhibition has been iteratively upgraded in terms of intelligence, comfort and operation performance, which can achieve 0-40km/h stepless speed regulation, which can not only move forward, reverse and turn around with one key, but also realize unmanned driving, which increases the operation efficiency by 30% and reduces the comprehensive fuel consumption by 10% compared with traditional tractors.
In order to solve the shortcomings of agricultural mechanization development in hilly areas, Weichai Lovol also released a new F3000 tractor and a light and simple precision seeder at the 2024 China International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition. It is understood that Lovol F3000 tractor has broken through the "waist folding + waist twisting" technology, the adaptive control technology of machine attitude, can adapt to complex hilly and mountainous conditions, and can be flexibly applied to vegetable greenhouses, shed orchards and other scenarios;
Innovation-led, to create a competitive international "Made in China"
This year's government work report clearly stated that we should strengthen the stable production and supply of grain and important agricultural products, accelerate the promotion of agricultural science and technology innovation around the development of new quality productivity, and improve mechanisms and methods to promote the deep integration of agricultural science and technology and industry.
After the strategic reorganization in 2021, Weichai Lovol, which is empowered by both directions, focuses on the two strategic businesses of intelligent agricultural machinery and smart agriculture, and officially enters a new stage of development. Relying on Weichai Group's advantages in new technology fields such as hydraulic and electronic control, CVT powertrain, new energy, and intelligent driving, Weichai Lovol continues to break through the cutting-edge technology of agricultural modernization, promote the development of high-end and intelligent products and services, and continuously improve the core competitiveness of the agricultural equipment industry chain.
In the past two years, the state has actively laid out and built a number of scientific and technological innovation centers with regional leadership, supported the maturity of leading enterprises and new business entities, and accelerated the promotion of applicable technologies. As a leading agricultural machinery enterprise, Weichai Lovol has continuously increased R&D and innovation, and focused on building new quality productivity of modern agricultural machinery equipment.
In recent years, Weichai Lovol has focused on the three core capabilities of "intelligent agricultural machinery, precision agriculture and digital agricultural services", and has reached the leading domestic and international advanced level in terms of intelligent key core technologies such as intelligent rice and wheat harvesting key technologies with large feed volume, large-scale precision and high-speed seeding technology, agricultural machinery navigation and automatic operation technology, which has better driven the upgrading of high-end and specialized industrial chains and further consolidated the technological innovation foundation of the industry industrial chain.
Not only that, in order to meet the needs of innovation and development of large-scale high-end agricultural machinery and equipment, and further improve the research and verification level of key common technologies of large-scale agricultural equipment, Weichai Lovol is building a "high-horsepower agricultural machinery equipment transmission system application test and verification platform", which will have more than 200 horsepower power shift and CVT continuously variable tractors, as well as more than 12kg/s feeding large-scale harvesting machinery transmission system application verification capabilities, for the industry's large-scale agricultural machinery design and manufacturing units common technology development, The transformation of technological achievements provides support, and solves the problem of insufficient experimental verification ability of large-scale high-end intelligent agricultural machinery equipment in mainland China.
In the context of the current globalization and innovation, the agricultural machinery industry has shown new characteristics and trends in technological innovation, market demand and green development, and is experiencing unprecedented changes. Weichai Lovol is soberly aware that agricultural machinery enterprises need to keep up with the pace of the times in order to be invincible in the fierce market competition. In a country with a large population like ours, China's agricultural machinery enterprises must shoulder the responsibility of ensuring national food security, practice the concept of agriculture and food, and always hold the rice bowl firmly in their own hands.