"Construction machinery is an important pillar industry that concerns the national economy and people's livelihood, and it is also the most competitive leading industry and the most beautiful industrial card in Xuzhou. In recent years, we have adhered to 'building a city by industry and strengthening a city by industry', concentrated our efforts on building construction machinery, successfully selected as one of the first batch of national advanced manufacturing industry clusters, and built a development pattern of 'industrial plateau' and 'industrial peak' promoting each other." At the conference site, Song Lewei, Secretary of the Xuzhou Municipal Party Committee, introduced the strong development momentum of Xuzhou construction machinery and accurately depicted the future development priorities.

    "This conference has a deeper grasp of the basic laws of new industrialization and a deeper understanding of the core essence of modern industrial system." Yang Dongsheng, Chairman and Party Secretary of XCMG Group and XCMG Machinery, profoundly expounded the significance of the conference from the perspective of the current situation faced by the industry and the development of advanced manufacturing industry clusters in provinces and cities.

    At the same time, he said that XCMG Group will bravely move forward along the direction guided by General Secretary Xi Jinping, accelerate the implementation of innovation-driven development strategy, focus on implementing "1+6+N" R&D system reform, focus on implementing global innovation system layout, focus on implementing value innovation across the industrial chain, focus on digitalization, intelligence and green technology innovation and other four aspects to tackle key problems and make efforts to help build a new development pattern of "leading goose leading and geese flying together" with a more open attitude.

    In addition, there were three sub-conferences held simultaneously at the conference: Digital Design and Manufacturing Sub-Conference for Construction Machinery, Intelligentization and Greenization Sub-Conference for Construction Machinery, Intellectual Property Rights and Standards Sub-Conference for Construction Machinery. There were more than 20 special reports. Experts from various fields took to the stage together to go deep into verticals and passionately argue to help the industry compete for "digital intelligence" era and gallop on "green track".