Weichai Lovol Smart Agriculture 2025 Global Supplier Conference held, attended by Man Shengang and delivered a speech


On January 6th, the Weichai Lovol Smart Agriculture 2025 Global Supplier Conference with the theme of "Never slack off, always stand at the forefront, and always strive for first place" was held. The Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Shandong Heavy Industry Group, Man Shengang, and the Standing Committee Member and Deputy Mayor of Weifang City, Yang Shengyan, delivered speeches. Wang Zhijian, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of Shandong Heavy Industry Group, and Ma Changhai, Member of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager, attended the meeting. More than 500 global supplier partners of Weichai Lovol attended the meeting.


In his speech, Man Shengang said that Shandong Heavy Industry has maintained a good trend of high-quality development in the past year, with major business indicators reaching new highs. Weichai Lovol shoulders the glorious mission of safeguarding the food security of the country and securing China's rice bowl. It also shoulders the important responsibility of leading the transformation and upgrading of agricultural machinery and equipment in China, cultivating a smart agricultural innovation ecosystem, and building an internationally renowned agricultural machinery brand. Shandong Heavy Industry will continue to increase investment in resource factors, enhance Weichai Lovol's core competitiveness, international influence, and brand soft power, and accelerate the process of strengthening, optimizing, and expanding. We will establish a closer community of values, interests, and destiny with our global partners, and jointly create a new ecology of China's agricultural machinery industry chain that is technologically advanced, of excellent quality, efficient in service, and transparent and honest.


Yang Shengyan said in his speech that Shandong is a major and strong agricultural province in China, and Weifang's agricultural level ranks first in the province. Currently, it is committed to leading the development of new quality productivity through technological innovation, cultivating and strengthening advanced manufacturing clusters such as power equipment and intelligent agricultural machinery. Weichai Lovol is the top brand of agricultural machinery in China, and its business performance will once again lead the country's agricultural machinery industry in 2024, maintaining a good momentum of rapid development. We will provide the best service and strongest guarantee, fully support Weichai Lovol to focus on its main business, persistently pursue innovation, and fully support Weifang's intelligent agricultural machinery industry cluster to achieve higher quality and higher level development.


At the meeting, Weichai Lovol commended outstanding suppliers for 2024 and released its business plan and supply chain strategy for 2025. In order to further strengthen deep cooperation with global supplier partners and jointly build a more high-end, efficient, and competitive global supply chain system, Weichai Lovol has officially launched the "R&D Community" plan for global supplier partners, accelerating the promotion of agricultural machinery technology innovation and enhancing the international competitiveness of the enterprise. Weichai Lovol has also launched the "Integrity, Diligence, and Honesty" campaign, signing integrity agreements with supplier representatives to jointly create a transparent, honest, and efficient procurement ecosystem.


Weichai Lovol, as the "chain owner" enterprise of China's agricultural machinery and equipment industry chain and the largest agricultural machinery and equipment enterprise in China, with the strong support of global partners, will rise against the trend and stride forward in 2024. Faced with the severe situation of industry decline, it will achieve a revenue of 17.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18%; The export revenue was 1.83 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 38%, setting a new industry high. In the past year, Weichai Lovol has continued to innovate and climb new heights, establishing industry-leading advantages in power shifting and CVT tractors. It is the only enterprise in China to achieve product series and commercial mature application; Leading the way in launching China's first harvesting machinery with a feeding rate of 18 kg/s and releasing the "Lovol Smart Agriculture Cloud" full scenario solution, pressing the "acceleration button" for China's agricultural machinery to move towards higher and smarter development; Weichai Lovol, as the "chain leader", and Weilin Ri Intelligent Agricultural Machinery Equipment Cluster have been selected as advanced manufacturing clusters by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2024.

Article source: Reprinted from Weichai Information