Innovation is the primary driving force for development. On September 11, the second Jiangsu Industry-University-Research Cooperation Docking Conference opened in Nanjing. The provincial party secretary Xin Changxing attended and launched the opening. As the only enterprise representative, XCMG Group and XCMG Machinery Chairman and Party Secretary Yang Dongsheng were invited to attend the conference and give a speech. The theme of this conference is "Promoting the Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements and Empowering Industrial Innovation and Development". It gathers high-end innovation resources at a higher level, a wider field, and a greater intensity, promotes in-depth cooperation between industry, university and research, improves the level of scientific and technological achievement transformation and industrialization, and provides strong support for high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement.

Yang Dongsheng said that XCMG always keeps in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest entrustment of "must have confidence, patience, and perseverance to do a good job of independent innovation", adheres to technological innovation as XCMG's main strategy, builds a "1+6+N" technological innovation system, and builds a number of national-level innovation platforms. At the same time, XCMG attaches great importance to cooperation with universities and research institutions, and has overcome more than 100 industry technical problems such as "intelligent behavior decision-making and planning for unmanned mining trucks", leading the Xuzhou engineering machinery industry cluster to be shortlisted for the first batch of national advanced manufacturing industry clusters.

Yang Dongsheng pointed out that with the in-depth development of a new round of scientific and technological revolution, industry-university-research cooperation has become an important means of scientific and technological innovation.

In the next step, XCMG will keep in mind the entrustment, be grateful and forge ahead, in accordance with the requirements of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 14th Provincial Party Committee to "build an industrial science and technology innovation center with global influence", adhere to the "four orientations", build a number of high-energy-level innovation carriers such as national manufacturing innovation centers, and continuously cultivate new industries with new technologies and lead industrial upgrading, making greater contributions to promoting the economic development of Jiangsu Province and even the whole country!