en.Wedoany.com Reported - On June 2, China National Machinery Industry Corporation (SINOMACH) and Beijing Forestry University signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement in Beijing, China. The two parties will deepen collaboration in areas such as scientific research, agricultural and forestry equipment development, talent cultivation, campus engineering construction, and digital transformation. They will jointly establish the China FOMA (SINOMACH's core forestry equipment enterprise)—Beijing Forestry University Forestry Machinery Research Institute, focusing on promoting the coordinated development of intelligent forestry equipment and industry-academia-research-application integration.
Founded on May 21, 1988, SINOMACH is a key state-owned enterprise directly supervised by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC), with its predecessor tracing back to the former Ministry of Machinery Industry. The group's core businesses include scientific research and development, advanced equipment manufacturing, and engineering contracting. It manages 29 directly controlled secondary enterprises and 13 listed companies, with a total workforce exceeding 120,000 employees. SINOMACH has been consistently listed in the Fortune Global 500 for many years, ranking 352nd in 2025, and has repeatedly received an A-level evaluation in SASAC's performance assessment. This strategic cooperation with Beijing Forestry University represents SINOMACH's latest deployment in the forestry equipment sector, following its industry-academia-research agreements with Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, and the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.
Beijing Forestry University is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, and the Beijing Municipal People's Government. It is also a national "Double First-Class" construction university, with distinctive disciplines in forestry, biology, and forestry engineering. Before the signing ceremony, SINOMACH General Manager Zhou Kaiquan and his delegation visited the university's history museum and museum. Earlier in March 2025, the two parties had conducted special research and consultations on forestry equipment development, laying the foundation for this deepened cooperation.
In this agreement, the establishment of the joint research institute is a core outcome of the cooperation. According to research data, the global forestry machinery market was approximately 35.86 billion RMB in 2024 and is expected to approach 46.2 billion RMB by 2031, with the industry showing trends toward digitalization and green development. SINOMACH's subsidiary China FOMA has accumulated technical expertise in areas such as wood-based panel machinery, forest fire prevention, and outdoor forestry machinery, with its products exported to overseas markets including Australia. This cooperation will help promote the intelligent upgrading of China's forestry equipment and the deep integration of industry, academia, research, and application.
Relevant department and college heads from Beijing Forestry University, along with SINOMACH Assistant General Manager Wang Bo and heads of relevant departments and subsidiaries, attended the event.
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