Shenzhou Machinery seized the opportunity of the country promoting the healthy development of the coal industry. Since October 2004, with forward-looking strategic thinking, it reorganized and established China Coal Mining Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd. Taking the mission to build a "national team" for coal machinery manufacturing, it continuously strengthened technological innovation in the field of coal machinery equipment. Always with the foresight of a leader, it addressed the new era's industry issues, set new industry standards with a full range of product solutions, and reached new heights in the industry with the safest and most reliable products. After six years of development, in July this year, the equipment company under the China Coal Group entered the top 100 mechanical manufacturing enterprises in China in 2010, ranking 105 places higher than the second place enterprise in the same industry, becoming the first mechanical manufacturing top 100 enterprise in the coal machinery industry. The equipment company under the China Coal Group has become the "national team" and industry leader in the design, manufacture, and R&D of complete sets of equipment for the "three machines and one frame" on the comprehensive mining face underground in our country, and some research results have entered advanced fields such as satellite launches.
The China Coal Group takes science and technology as the primary productive force, mainly implementing measures in building an industry-leading scientific research and development system, increasing scientific and technological investment, and actively innovating independently. Not only has it achieved leapfrog development in the enterprise's coal mine equipment industry, but it also continues to make new contributions in leading and revitalizing the development of the national coal machinery equipment industry.
Firstly, it continuously improves the scientific and technological innovation system. Through continuous integration, improvement, and perfection, the Shenzhou Equipment Company has now formed a scientific and technological innovation system mainly consisting of 1 state-recognized technology center, 1 state energy research and development (experimental) center, 1 state-accredited laboratory, 2 postdoctoral scientific research workstations, 3 provincial and municipal technology centers, 2 provincial engineering research centers, 6 enterprise technology centers, and 86 professional research institutions of various types. It has a powerful R&D team composed of more than 2,600 professional technical personnel. This has become the core and source of the enterprise's technological innovation, ensuring the enterprise's continuous scientific and technological creativity. In July 2010, the Shenzhou Equipment Company was again approved for the "National Energy Coal Mine Excavation Machinery Equipment Research and Development (Experimental) Center." As the first national-level energy research and development (experimental) center in the coal machinery industry, it owns the world's largest excavation complete equipment linkage laboratory and powerful hydraulic support test platform. This center is significant for promoting the benign development of domestic energy equipment enterprises in scientific and technological independent innovation, high-end expert talent cultivation, and major topic research in coal machinery technology, enhancing the international influence of China's coal mine machinery R&D and testing technology.
Secondly, it strengthens external technical cooperation and exchange. Relying on its existing scientific and technological research and development system, the Shenzhou Equipment Company integrates internal and external resources, striving to achieve substantive industrial-university-research cooperation and international cooperation. In recent years, it has cooperated on 32 projects with 12 universities including China University of Mining and Technology, China Petroleum University, China University of Geosciences, 2 scientific research institutes, and multiple research institutions, signing 7 strategic alliances. It has received visits from foreign guests from fifteen countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan, Russia, Sweden, Poland, Australia, India, and Turkey. In 2008 alone, it received 32 foreign technical trade groups and dispatched more than 300 people to execute technical business tasks in Western Europe, the United States, Japan, Russia, and India.
Thirdly, it continuously increases scientific and technological investment. The Shenzhou Equipment Company attaches great importance to technological innovation and consistently supports and invests in new technologies and products. In just the past three years, the Shenzhou Equipment Company's scientific and technological investment has reached 728 million yuan, accounting for 5.89%, 5.05%, and 5.0% of annual sales revenue respectively; new product sales revenue reached 3.8 billion yuan, accounting for 47%, 28%, and 29% of annual sales revenue respectively.
Fourthly, it strengthens industry technical guidance. By participating in the formulation of national industry policies, the Shenzhou Equipment Company actively undertook the research topics of "National Coal Industry Major Technical Equipment Policy Research" and the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" development plan research for national coal machinery equipment. Playing the responsibilities and obligations of an industry leading enterprise, it actively occupies the discourse power of industry scientific and technological development. After preliminary preparation, industry research, expert seminars and arguments, soliciting opinions, it has completed the initial draft.
Fifthly, it strengthens key technology R&D. Through undertaking national key scientific and technological projects, etc., the Shenzhou Equipment Company focuses on breakthroughs in key technologies in key areas, meeting the demand for heavy-duty, automated, and complete sets of major equipment in domestic mines, solving mining problems under special geological conditions such as extra-thick coal seams and thin coal seams, filling many domestic blanks and replacing imports with several technical achievements, even reaching internationally leading levels. For example, the world's most powerful conveyor, hydraulic support over 7 meters tall, automatic strong scraper coal cutting machine complete equipment for thin coal seams, the largest AC electric traction coal cutter domestically, complete technology and equipment for large-scale open mining of extra-thick coal seams, etc.
The Shenzhou Equipment Company solved a series of technical problems that constrained the development of the coal machinery industry, promoted the localization of major coal mine equipment, and achieved a batch of important scientific and technological achievements. In the past three years, the Shenzhou Equipment Company has cumulatively completed or is researching 478 R&D projects including national key projects; formed nearly a thousand scientific research achievements and proprietary technologies, including three categories of world-class technologies, nine categories of advanced international or domestic technologies, and 23 sets of products achieving China's first complete sets; cumulatively applied for nearly 300 patents, including 44 invention patents, and obtained more than 180 authorizations; won more than 40 national and provincial/ministerial level science and technology awards, including the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award and the second prize of National Technology Invention Award.
Located at the foot of Mount Tai, in the hometown of Yang Hu, Shenzhou Machinery Co., Ltd. is a specialized factory for producing cranes. The enterprise was founded in 1989, formerly known as Xintai Crane General Factory. Now, there are Shandong Shenzhou Machinery Co., Ltd. Jinan (Zhangqiu) Office and Shandong Shenzhou Machinery Co., Ltd. Hebei (Cangzhou) Office as sales points. by: http://www.sdszqz.com/