Lovol Smart Agriculture Intelligent Tractor Manufacturing Base put into operation

On May 18th, Weichai Lovol Smart Agriculture, a subsidiary of Shandong Heavy Industry Group, held the first batch of value customer delivery activities for its intelligent tractor manufacturing base, marking the official launch of the first "smart factory" in the domestic agricultural machinery industry. Chen Zhi, President of the China Agricultural Machinery Industry Association, Zhang Hongqi, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Agriculture and Rural Department of Shandong Province, Secretary and Director of the Party Committee of the State owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Shandong Province, Man Shengang, Secretary and Chairman of the Party Committee of Shandong Heavy Industry Group, and Liu Yun, Secretary of the Weifang Municipal Party Committee, attended the event and delivered speeches. Li Weiguo, President of China Agricultural Mechanization Association, Fan Jianhua, President of China Agricultural Machinery Circulation Association, Yang Baolong, General Manager of Beidahuang Group, and Li Yuxia, President of Shandong University of Technology, attended the event.

Chen Zhi stated that the Lovol Intelligent Tractor Manufacturing Base is the modern tractor manufacturing factory with the largest investment scale and highest construction level in the history of China's agricultural machinery industry. The production of the base is a great joy for China's agricultural machinery and equipment industry, with symbolic significance. We hope that Lovol Smart Agriculture will continue to take on the role of the "chain leader" of China's agricultural machinery and equipment industry chain, take the completion and operation of the new factory as a new starting point, continue to provide advanced, practical, reliable, and durable agricultural machinery products for farmers and new business entities, and provide more advanced equipment support for national food security, rural revitalization, and the strategy of building a strong agricultural country.

Zhang Hongqi stated that Shandong is a major agricultural and agricultural machinery province, and the provincial party committee and government attach great importance to the development of agricultural mechanization. The agricultural machinery and equipment industry has been included in the province's 11 iconic industrial chains, and the Weilin Ri National Advanced Manufacturing Cluster for Intelligent Agricultural Machinery and Equipment is the largest intelligent agricultural machinery and equipment cluster in the country. The delivery of the first batch of valuable customers to the Lovol Intelligent Tractor Manufacturing Base marks a new step forward in Shandong's agricultural machinery and equipment manufacturing. The Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Shandong Province will further support the promotion of high-end intelligent agricultural machinery equipment and technology applications, making due contributions to the development of agricultural machinery in the province and even the whole country.
Man Shengang stated that Shandong Heavy Industry is accelerating the construction of a high-tech, green development, and world-class high-end equipment multinational group. Lovol Smart Agriculture is one of the six major business segments of Shandong Heavy Industry, and also a strategic growth pole with great innovation vitality and growth potential. Shandong Heavy Industry Group will gather the resource advantages of the entire group, fully support Lovol's smart agriculture to become stronger, better, and bigger, and move towards world-class status. We will cooperate with upstream and downstream partners in the industrial chain to achieve win-win results, and jointly shoulder the responsibility of "leading the way and shouldering the big beam" of agricultural machinery and equipment, making new and greater contributions to safeguarding national food security and promoting rural revitalization.
Liu Yun expressed gratitude to Shandong Heavy Industry Group for its contributions to the development of Weifang City. He said that Weifang is the Agricultural Machinery City of China, with the most complete product range and the most complete industrial chain of agricultural machinery manufacturing industry cluster. As a local enterprise in Weifang, Lovol Smart Agriculture is a benchmark enterprise and "chain owner" of agricultural machinery and equipment in China. The commissioning of the Lovol Smart Agriculture Intelligent Tractor Manufacturing Base will have a positive impact on leading the development of intelligent agricultural machinery in China, ensuring national food security, and empowering the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.

At the event, leaders such as Chen Zhi, Zhang Hongqi, Man Shengang, and Liu Yun jointly pressed the start button, and the first product of the base slowly rolled off the production line, marking the official launch of the Lovol Smart Agriculture Intelligent Tractor Manufacturing Base.
Wang Guimin, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Lovol Smart Agriculture, delivered the first product to Guo Ping, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Hulunbuir Agricultural Reclamation Group. Domestic and international sales representatives of Lovol Smart Agriculture delivered the first batch of value customers.
The production of the Lovol Smart Agriculture Intelligent Tractor Manufacturing Base is a specific action to implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on strengthening agricultural science and technology and equipment support. The base covers an area of 776 acres and has a total investment of 3 billion yuan. It has an annual production capacity of 100000 power shift and CVT tractors with over 100 horsepower, and can produce a high-end intelligent tractor every 4 minutes. With multiple "superpowers" such as innovation, intelligence, efficiency, and greenness, it redefines the new height of intelligent manufacturing of Chinese agricultural machinery and becomes a model for China's agricultural machinery to move towards the era of "intelligent manufacturing", filling the gap in high-end intelligent agricultural machinery manufacturing in China.



From intelligent production to digital management, from precision craftsmanship to high-end products, this' green smart factory 'comprehensively benchmarks against world-class standards, pioneering the' smart manufacturing 'of the domestic agricultural machinery industry. The "5G+Industrial Internet" platform seamlessly connects machining, assembly, logistics and other links. The production line has achieved a high degree of intelligence from the first process to the final detection through intelligent management systems and digital equipment - machining automation rate of 93%, welding automation rate of 72%, coating automation rate of 95%, assembly automation rate is at the leading level in the industry, and product consistency reaches the international top level.

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, attended the event. Leaders from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Shandong Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Weifang City, industry associations, research institutes, and agricultural reclamation systems in various provinces; More than 500 customers, partners, domestic and foreign distributors, agents and representatives of Lovol's smart agriculture strategy participated in the event and visited the manufacturing base.