Recently, ZOOMLION's new plant in Mantova, an important town in northern Italy, was officially completed. The completion of the plant will further enhance ZOOMLION's localized production in the European market, covering tower cranes, truck cranes, aerial work platforms and forklifts, and provide all-round services to local customers, marking the further improvement of ZOOMLION's global layout. It is understood that the factory covers an area of 20,000 square meters, including 10,000 square meters of factory buildings. Adhering to the principle of excellent production, the factory has reached the highest safety and environmental protection construction standard in Europe. The new plant is equipped with an automatic gas emission monitoring system to prevent pollution. Solar panels are installed on the roof to provide power for production activities and provide LED lighting for the entire factory. According to the general manager of CIFA of ZOOMLION Italy, "the new factory is a comprehensive production base for ZOOMLION products in Europe. We will gradually build a complete R&D, production, sales and supply chain system, and realize the complete localization of product design, manufacturing, and parts procurement by integrating ZOOMLION's technology, to create high quality ZOOMLION's 'European version' products." Industry experts said that overseas "localized" production will be more in line with the needs and preferences of the target market in terms of product performance, technological innovation and appearance, which can improve product competitiveness; Moreover, localized production is also conducive to enhancing the global operation ability of enterprises.

Recently, hundreds of XCMG equipment were arranged in orderly rows at the port to be exported to the countries along the Belt and Road. According to XCMG, the products exported this time cover multiple categories including excavators, graders, and cranes, worth over 100 million RMB, demonstrating China's manufacturing capabilities in the construction of various infrastructures around the world. With intelligent technology and high reliable quality, XCMG has been developing new products to meet the needs of overseas customers for medium and high-end models, and harsh environment construction. The main parameters and intelligent control technology of this batch of products have reached the international advanced level. XCMG has helped build a series of major projects, such as the construction of the main stadium of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the construction project of Kenya SGR with a total length of 480km, and the largest Dangote oil refining project in Africa. The operation performance of XCMG equipment has been highly praised by its customers.

Recently, XCMG purely-electric trucks have been exported to the high-end market in Oceania in batches for local construction and environmental sanitation industries, marking that XCMG purely-electric trucks are gradually gaining recognition of the world's high-end market. XCMG purely-electric mining dump truck E700 entered the market as early as 2018. This model has the leading and mature purely-electric vehicle integration technology in China. It consumes only 8% of the battery capacity per day with 600 tons of loads, costing about 4 dollars. Diesel trucks consume 90L diesel under same operating conditions, costing about 125 dollars. This batch of XCMG electric trucks cover various types like mining truck and water truck. The performance indicators including vehicle power, load capacity, driving speed, mileage and fast charging have won high praise from local customers. In recent years, energy-saving and new energy vehicles have become the development direction of the international automobile industry. XCMG actively responds to the call of the country and takes a global and social green and sustainable development perspective to vigorously deploy in the field of new energy.

Guinea, located on the west coast of Africa, is rich in mineral resources, but the environment is extremely bad, which brings great challenges to construction machinery. Featuring excellent performance and customized improvement, XCMG XE370CA excavator has become the most popular model in Guinean market. In a large bauxite mine of Guinea, dozens of XCMG excavators are working busily. Improvement 1: In view of the local working conditions of high temperature and heavy dust, XCMG XE370CA uses new ESS microcomputer power control system, oil bath filtration system, more powerful engine and optimized system matching, ensuring smooth and stable operation under harsh environment. Improvement 2: Equipped with high-power air conditioner and air duct with enlarged aperture, the cab is soundproof and shockproof. All operation control is designed and arranged according to ergonomics theory. In this vast land, XCMG excavators have been running continuously for more than 2000 hours. While ensuring the reliable operation of equipment, XCMG has won the trust and praise of customers with its efficient and timely after-sales service.

On February 22nd, XCMG crawler cranes worth more than 30 million CNY were arranged in a row and ready to be shipped to the countries along the Belt and Road. This is another significant breakthrough of XCMG in overseas market since its delivery of more than 400 sets of equipment at the beginning of this year. It is reported that this batch of equipment will be put into various fields including urban construction, petrochemical an energy in Southeast Asia and Russia, contributing to the local infrastructure. XCMG provides customized design according to different working conditions and climate. In recent years, XCMG has been recognized in overseas markets by its excellent product innovation strength and its focus on the market and customers.

According to the statistics of China Construction Machinery Industry Association for 26 excavator manufacturers, excavator has sales of 19,601 in January 2021, with a year-on-year increase of 97.2%. Domestic sales is 16,026, with a year-on-year increase of 106.6%. Overseas sales is 3,575, with a growth of 63.7% year on year.

Recently, XCMG's telescopic loaders were delivered to the European high-end market in large quantities. With the sustained and rapid development of economy, the demand of telescopic loader in high-end markets represented by Europe and North America is booming. XCMG takes the lead in mastering the independent research and development ability of many core technologies including fork self leveling system, telescopic loader LMI system and self-locking multi-mode steering system. Relying on the deep R&D foundation and solid process guarantee ability of boom products, XCMG has won many big orders in the competition with the world's top port machinery manufacturers!

At the beginning of the new year 2021, SDLG achieved its first order in Russian region. On the port platform, more than 100 sets of SDLG equipment are arranged in order, waiting for shipping. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was rampant around the world. The Russian market of SDLG faced severe pressure and market competition. SDLG adhered to customer value, rapidly changed its working ways, and achieved the annual growth of 40% and zero risk debt performance. In 2021, SDLG will continue to deepen market management innovation, focus on creating new competitive advantages in differentiation, continuously enhance channel competitiveness and brand influence, and further build SDLG into an internationally renowned brand in Eastern Europe.

With the development of international channels and new products of LIUGONG Forklift, the international business of LIUGONG Forklift developed rapidly in 2020 and the export sales reached a record high. In December 2020, the monthly sales exceeded 500 units, and the annual sales and revenue increased by more than 40% year-on-year. In spite of the pandemic, LIUGONG Forklift still made a breakthrough in South America, Europe, South Africa, the Russian regions and the Middle East. In recent years, LIUGONG Forklift has focused on product portfolio advantages to meet the needs of customers in the international market, especially in terms of product performance and quality, product structure, ability to meet the expectations of high-end customers, and sustainable development capabilities. At present, LIUGONG Forklift can provide global customers with a full range of internal combustion forklifts, electric forklifts under 5 tons, storage vehicle series, tractor series, AGV series and comprehensive solutions for intelligent logistics.

On December 22nd, LIUGONG released its 12 F series new-generation fuel excavators, 2 F series electric excavators and D series new-generation bulldozers. According to Mr. Huang, the president of LIUGONG, the release of new excavators will further improve and perfect LIUGONG F-series excavators. With the full coverage of large, medium and small tonnage of 1.5-90 tons, LIUGONG will meet more than 90% of the global differentiated demand with different product combinations.  As the representative product of LIUGONG F series medium crawler hydraulic excavator, 922F is equipped with electric control hydraulic system, LIUGONG version 2.0 control system and optimized key component structure. Compared with 922E, it achieves three performance improvements: fuel consumption reduction of 20%, efficiency improvement of 5-10%, and maintenance cost reduction of 20%.

Recently, SDLG LFT18F fork loader was successfully loaded at Qingdao port and exported to Brunei. With the in-depth promotion of the Belt and Road, Chinese enterprises have been developing more construction projects overseas. Since the second half of this year, with vigorous development demand and active epidemic prevention and control measures, the infrastructure construction in Southeast Asia has remained strong momentum, and the infrastructure development index has maintained the first place in the regional ranking with a score of 119. The transportation infrastructure projects represented by modern railway network, expressway network, automatic port and airport became the development focus of Southeast Asia. For the Chinese construction company's large port oilfield project in Brunei, SDLG provides a variety of schemes and finally built personalized high-end equipment for the special working conditions of the project.  In view of the urgent demand and the shortage of shipping cabins, a brand-new LFT18F fork loader was successfully delivered in Qingdao port on schedule.

With the vigorous development of green circular economy initiated by the state, China LONGKING purely-electric new energy wheel loaders have been delivered in bulk, indicating that LONGKING, together with the State Power Investment Corporation, has taken an important step in promoting the electrification of China's construction machinery along the new development direction of "low carbon, environmental protection and green".  With the advantages of Longking's original internal combustion engine, the LG855N-E electric wheel loaders delivered this time feature optimized hydraulic system and efficient operation, ensuring zero emission, zero pollution and low noise.