Let BRICS shine brighter - Sany Group is deeply involved in BRICS cooperation

Global layout, and continue a new chapter. On November 15, the "Sany South Africa ABP" project broke ground in Johannesburg, South Africa. Positioned as a regional manufacturing center, logistics center and talent center, the project is expected to be completed in a year with an investment of R300 million, when it will be able to produce 1,000 excavators and other construction machinery and equipment per year.

The foundation stone of the "Sany South Africa ABP" project was laid

Sany has been operating in South Africa since 2005 and is expected to generate sales of RMB 800 million in 2023. In the 18 years since entering the South African market, Sany has participated in the construction of almost all major local infrastructure projects. In 2013, 60 Sany equipment was involved in the construction of the Kusile Power Plant, Africa's largest thermal power plant project in South Africa. Among them, Sany's 750-ton and 630-ton crawler cranes stand out from many international brands, undertake the most critical lifting work of thermal power stations, and also set a new record for China's domestic cranes exported to Africa.

Sany crawler crane under construction at Kusile Thermal Power Plant

In 2018, it was also in Johannesburg, South Africa, that President Xi Jinping proposed the "BRICS Partnership for a New Industrial Revolution" at the 10th BRICS Summit. The steady development of Sany in South Africa and the new launch of "Sany South Africa Headquarters Base" have laid a new footnote to this major initiative.

On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the "BRICS Partnership for the New Industrial Revolution", on November 17, Xiang Wenbo, the rotating chairman of Sany Group and vice chairman of the BRICS Innovation Base Industrial Innovation Alliance, said at the first BRICS Innovation Base Entrepreneur Forum that as the world's leading Chinese construction machinery manufacturer, Sany Group actively practiced, bowed into the game, deeply participated in the major historical process of BRICS cooperation, and regarded BRICS as a historical opportunity that cannot be missed for the development of Sany.

Deeply involved in BRICS cooperation, the development of the industry has yielded fruitful results

The concept of "BRICS" was first proposed in the international community in 2001, and the story of Sany Group and BRICS began the following year. In 2002, Sany started its globalization journey, and 4 motor graders were exported to India in the first batch of products sold overseas, and Sany took the first step in the globalization of enterprises in the BRICS market.

After years of local expertise, Sany India now has a significant share of the local industry in a number of vertical product segments such as excavators, cranes, pile drivers, mining machines, road and port machinery. Sany has invested more than INR 750 million in its local manufacturing plant in Pune, India. As Sany India celebrates its 20th anniversary, it has achieved the milestone of selling more than 22,000 units.

Sany India Industrial Park

In Brazil, another BRICS country thousands of miles away, Sany Brazil's subsidiary was registered in 2007 and began to invest in expanding marketing and manufacturing operations in 2010. In July 2014, President Xi Jinping personally witnessed the signing ceremony of Sany Investment in Brazil after attending the 6th BRICS Summit in Brazil. In the past ten years, Sany has invested nearly 100 million US dollars in Brazil.

Signing ceremony of Sany Investment Brazil project

Across the mountains and seas, in order to seek development. Xiang Wenbo said that at present, in order to seize the opportunities of the new era and new technological revolution, Sany is fully implementing the strategy of globalization, digital intelligence and low-carbon transformation. Among them, globalization is at the top of the list, urgent and important. BRICS countries are an important engine of the global economy, and Sany has been deeply involved in BRICS cooperation for many years, and has achieved fruitful results in industrial development. According to the latest data, in Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa and the six countries that have just been invited to join the BRICS family in 2023, Sany Group has achieved cumulative sales of more than 70 billion yuan. Among them, in 2022, 14,500 units of equipment will be sold, with sales exceeding 13 billion yuan. In the first three quarters of 2023, sales exceeded RMB14 billion, accounting for about 40% of Sany Group's overall overseas sales in the current period.

Openness, inclusiveness, and win-win cooperation to help build local society

In July 2014, China first mentioned the spirit of BRICS cooperation: openness, inclusiveness, cooperation and win-win results. As a construction machinery enterprise, Sany Group not only actively invests in the BRICS countries, but also gives full play to the advantages of the enterprise industry, deeply contributes to the local economic and social construction with an open and inclusive attitude, and enhances win-win cooperation.

The Adama II Wind Power Project in Ethiopia is the first foreign wind power project to adopt Chinese standards and technologies, and it is also an important measure for the Ethiopian government to protect the ecological environment and meet the needs of economic and social development. The total installed capacity of the project is 153MW, with an average annual power generation of about 500 million kilowatts. The project has met about 30% of the electricity demand of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, and injected new impetus into Ethiopia's economic development, which has been highly praised by the local government and the international community.

Adama Phase II Wind Power Project

In 2017, Saudi Arabia announced that it would build an unprecedented "city of the future" called NEOM. As the core project of Saudi Vision 2030, NEOM covers an area of 26,500 square kilometers and is a large-scale integrated urban construction project that involves a large number of infrastructure and construction projects. Since the second half of 2021, more than 1,600 Sany equipment have been deployed at the NEOM New Town construction site, including cranes, excavators, loaders, dump trucks,Concrete pump truckAt present, these equipment and more than 50 local engineers of Sany are swaying iron arms and sweat to promote the rise of a giant future city at full speed.

NEOM new city construction site

In the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sany ultra-high pressure trailer pump has set the world's highest pumping record; In India, the world's tallest "Statue of Unity", Sany Crane Equipment has completed 80% of the lifting project; In the World Cup and Olympic Games venues in Brazil, hundreds of excavators, cranes and graders participated in the construction of the whole process; In Egypt's new capital central business district, more than 30 Sany devices contribute to the realization of Egypt's national rejuvenation plan...... In the past 20 years, the BRICS countries have seen the "China Red" figure of Sany equipment everywhere.

Sany pump truck is under construction in Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building in the United Arab Emirates

Deepen the cultivation of people-to-people exchanges and water the tree of friendship and cooperation

"The friendship between countries lies in people-to-people relations. Only by cultivating the tree can the tree of friendship and cooperation flourish. ”

As a corporate citizen, Sany has made great progress in BRICS cooperation and achieved mutual benefit and win-win results, while never forgetting its social responsibilities, deeply cultivating people-to-people exchanges with local people, and watering the tree of friendship and cooperation.

Rooted in the South African market for 18 years, Sany has been deeply integrated into the local social development in South Africa. "Teach a man to fish" and also "teach a man to fish". In 2021, combined with the actual local society, Sany South Africa launched the "Empower Women in Mining" social welfare activity, providing a one-week closed excavator operation training for unemployed women in remote areas, and the trainees successfully became certified operators after the training. This event has aroused enthusiastic and positive responses from South African government departments, local media and all walks of life, and they have praised its outstanding contributions to women's rights and social welfare.

"Empower Women in Mining" social welfare activities

In the past 20 years in India, Sany has also participated in people-to-people exchanges between the two countries in various forms. In May 2018, Trinity Institute of Technology and Somaiya University signed a cooperation agreement in Mumbai, India, to cooperate closely in the fields of credit exchange courses, orientation class training, summer overseas internships and teacher visits. Sany Group became the first Chinese-funded enterprise to establish an educational cooperation program with an Indian higher education institution. At the end of 2018, the first batch of Somaiya students went to Trinity Institute of Technology for a month of exchange study. Since 2018, nearly 150 Somaiya teachers and students have gone to Trinity India for exchange and study. Industry-university-research has achieved cross-field and in-depth cooperation, which has brought the "people-to-people relationship" closer between China and India.

The first batch of Somaia students went to Trinity Institute of Technology for exchange studies

"Those who are like-minded do not take mountains and seas as far". In August 2023, the 15th BRICS Summit announced the invitation of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Iran, and Ethiopia to officially become members of the BRICS family. Avenue together, together to the future. With broad prospects for BRICS cooperation and promising future development, Sany will firmly seize the historical opportunity and share resources, wisdom and opportunities through the BRICS Innovation Base Industrial Innovation Alliance, so as to make Sany's contribution to turning the BRICS "Second Golden Decade" cooperation vision into reality!