en.Wedoany.com Reported - China's XCMG Group and Southeast University signed a strategic cooperation agreement on July 13. Sun Youhong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and President of Southeast University, and Song Lewei, Secretary of the Xuzhou Municipal Party Committee, attended the signing ceremony and delivered speeches. Zhong Wenqi and Qiu Haibo, members of the Standing Committee and Vice Presidents of Southeast University, Wu Qibiao, Vice Mayor of Xuzhou, Yang Dongsheng, Chairman and Party Secretary of XCMG Group and XCMG Machinery, and Lu Chuan, President and Deputy Party Secretary of XCMG Machinery, participated in the event.

Song Lewei, on behalf of the Xuzhou Municipal Party Committee and Government, expressed gratitude to Southeast University for its support of Xuzhou's development. He stated that this signing is a concrete action to deeply study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches at the National Science and Technology Awards Conference, the Conference of Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the 11th National Congress of the China Association for Science and Technology. It also represents a significant achievement in advancing education, science, and talent development in an integrated manner, marking a new phase of systematic and in-depth university-enterprise cooperation. He noted that Southeast University's strong engineering disciplines align well with XCMG's industrial layout and innovation needs. He hopes both sides will focus on enterprise needs while leveraging the university's strengths, jointly conduct cutting-edge basic research and core technology breakthroughs, cultivate high-quality engineering and high-end R&D talent, and facilitate the industrialization and large-scale application of the university's cutting-edge technologies and research outcomes at XCMG, thereby helping Xuzhou build a world-class construction machinery industry cluster.

Sun Youhong thanked the Xuzhou Municipal Party Committee, Government, and XCMG Group for their support of Southeast University's development. He stated that Southeast University and XCMG Group have maintained close interactions and practical cooperation over the years. Southeast University has always adhered to its mission of "gaining fame through science and serving the country with talent." It is currently fully implementing the new three-step development strategy for 2035, advancing the "Famous Strategy," and striving to build a world-class discipline structure with top-tier engineering, cross-disciplinary leadership, and emerging excellence, to serve the high-quality development of the real economy and the construction of a modern industrial system. In the future, Southeast University will take this signing as a new starting point to jointly tackle key core technologies with XCMG, deepen the co-cultivation of high-quality talent, and establish a normalized and long-term cooperation mechanism, jointly writing a new chapter of collaborative innovation and service development between the university and enterprise.

Yang Dongsheng expressed gratitude to Southeast University and the Xuzhou Municipal Party Committee and Government for their long-term in-depth cooperation and guidance. He stated that this cooperation is a crucial step in building an innovation ecosystem integrating industry, academia, research, and application, and a pragmatic action to jointly serve national strategies, support Jiangsu's development, and empower Xuzhou's world-class cluster construction. XCMG is rooted in the main battlefield of industry, while Southeast University delves into the source of innovation. Their collaboration is a deep synergy and value co-creation driven by national needs, industrial urgency, and future trends. With joint efforts from all parties, the "key variables" of technological innovation will surely be transformed into the "maximum increments" for industrial transformation, upgrading, and high-quality enterprise development, contributing more wisdom and strength from university-enterprise cooperation to the construction of a world-class construction machinery industry cluster.

At the signing ceremony, the Joint Innovation Laboratory for Intelligent Control Technology of Construction Machinery and the High-End Intelligent Construction Machinery Excellent Engineer Technology Center (XCMG College) were inaugurated. This marks the entry of the cooperation into a comprehensive, in-depth, institutionalized, and long-term new stage.

Before the signing ceremony, Sun Youhong and his delegation also visited the Jiangsu Huizhi Innovation Center and the XCMG Intelligent Manufacturing Exploration Center. Heads of relevant departments and colleges from Southeast University, Zhen Wenqing, Deputy Party Secretary and Labor Union Chairman of XCMG Group, and Shan Zenghai, Vice President and Chief Engineer of XCMG Machinery, along with other relevant personnel, participated in the event.