Sany Heavy Industry spans 37 meters to 72 meters

("People's Daily" on January 8, reporter Lu Mingjun, Wang Weijian) In the museum of Changsha Sany Heavy Industry, there are two things that record the history of independent innovation of this enterprise.
One is the "ancient" 37-meter boomPump trucksThis is the first 37-meter boom pump truck independently developed by Sany Heavy Industry in 1998; The other is that the 72-meter boom pump truck developed by Sany Heavy Industry has obtained the certification of the world's longest boom pump truck.
"The history of 37 meters to 72 meters condenses the 12-year history of Sany Heavy Industry." Yi Xiaogang, executive president of Sany Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. and scientist of Sany Heavy Industry Co., Ltd., said with emotion: "It is independent innovation that has created Sany Heavy Industry. "Over the past 12 years, Sany Heavy Industry has relied on independent innovation and rapidly grown from a little-known private enterprise to a leading enterprise in China's construction machinery industry.
12 years ago, as the general person in charge of the R&D project, Yi Xiaogang personally drove the first domestic 37-meter boom pump truck off the assembly line. Yi Xiaogang, who has presided over the research and development for many years, said frankly: "Everyone knows the importance of independent innovation, but the difficulty of independent innovation*5655 comes from the recognition and persistence of this concept. ”
In Yi Xiaogang's view, the innovation ability of Chinese enterprises is not inferior to that of foreign enterprises, but they lack self-confidence, and always think that after hundreds of years of development, multinational enterprises have strong capital and technical strength, and it is impossible to catch up, let alone surpass.
The reasons for not being confident are understandable. In the 90s of the last century, foreign brands entered the Chinese market in a big way. Due to backward technology and the traditional system is not adapted to the market environment, the entire domestic construction machinery industry once fell into the dilemma of being passively beaten. Yi Xiaogang recalled: "The excavator is known as the 'construction machinery', and foreign brands once occupied a relative monopoly position of more than 90% in this market. In 2005, foreign brands joined hands to 'raise prices', and at that time, local companies had no ability to fight back, and their survival was in question. ”
Yi Xiaogang said that at that time, it was actually to take other people's prototypes, imitate and produce them after surveying and mapping, "which is contrary to the original intention of innovation and has taken a long detour." ”
Insisting on independent innovation has not only enhanced the competitiveness of Sany Heavy Industry, but also greatly benefited domestic users. "Before Sany Heavy Industry's 37-meter boom pump truck rolled off the assembly line, foreign brands dominated the world, and a piece of equipment was priced at five or six million yuan. After that, in the face of competition from independent brands, foreign brands had to give up monopoly profits and cut prices significantly. Nowadays, on domestic construction sites, almost all of the domestic brand construction machinery can be seen. ”
Looking back on the development of independent innovation in the past 12 years, Yi Xiaogang believes that policy support and government support are important, but the key lies in the determination of enterprises to promote independent innovation. He said: "Enterprises must take independent innovation as a development strategy. Once we position ourselves as an independent innovation enterprise, we must get rid of our dependence on imported technology, and we can't simply imitate it, let alone simply 'copy homework'! ”
Yi Xiaogang said that Sany has 32,000 employees, as many as 5,000 R&D personnel, and one of less than seven employees is engaged in R&D, and R&D expenditure accounts for 5% to 7% of sales revenue, "far exceeding the average level of domestic enterprises."
In response to the question of whether Sany Heavy Industry can surpass multinational giants, Yi Xiaogang asked: "Our R&D talents are several times that of theirs, and the working hours are several times that of theirs, is it impossible to achieve transcendence?" ”