On December 18, the congress to celebrate the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up was held in Beijing.

On December 18, the congress to celebrate the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up was held in the Great Hall of the People. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and China State Council commended outstanding contributors to reform and opening up. In the afternoon of December 18, provincial committee and government of Jiangsu province held a symposium in Nanjing to celebrate the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up. In the symposium, the decision of the provincial committee and government to award the title of "Advanced Collective and Individuals Who Made Outstanding Contributions to the Reform and Opening up of Jiangsu" was read out. Wang Min, chairman of and secretary of CPC of XCMG, was awarded the title of "Advanced Individual Who Made Outstanding Contributions to Jiangsu's Reform and Opening Up".

At the age of 18, Wang Min started to work in XCMG.

Over the past 46 years, he has grown from an apprentice to the head of XCMG.

During the past half century when he struggled for XCMG, XCMG has grown from an unknown local state-owned enterprise into the Chinese first and world's sixth brand in the construction machinery industry, which has a business scale of more than 100 billion and won General Secretary Xi Jinping’s praise.

In 1999, a new term of XCMG leading group took office and started a new chapter in the development of XCMG.

In 2000, XCMG carried forward "Chairman No. 1 Project" and successfully developed ZL50G, a landmark product of the third generation loaders in China.

Bauma China 2018

In 2018, XCMG handed in a series of remarkable achievement sheets. This year, 700-ton mining excavators - “First excavator in China” were successfully launched, 50,000 truck cranes, 4000 large-tonnage loaders, and 100,000 rollers left the assembly line, 4000-tonnage crawler cranes - “World's top crane" completed nearly 100 times of hoisting, new electric cabinets, high-end hydraulic valves, and intelligent control systems were equipped in batches instead of imported products…In the first 10 months in 2018, XCMG realized the business income of RMB 91.9 billion, of which the main business income increased by 47.7% year-on-year and the total export value reached USD 1.1 billion with a year-on-year rate of 41%. All indicators attained historic peak levels.

On November 18, XCMG set up a precision casting base aiming at the front-end industry chain. It is expected that XCMG will provide high-end parts to the world after putting them into operation in the first half of 2020. On November 21, the first national strategic alliance for innovation of high-end construction machinery and core components launched by XCMG was officially set up to tackle key and common technology problems. On December 9, XCMG "Super Mobile Crane Innovation Project” won the Chinese Industrial Award. This is the second time that XCMG won this honor...

Wang Min, who worked more than six and a half days a week, leads this enterprise with 23,000 employees to keep fighting. He said: "I hope that the younger generation can devote themselves in the equipment manufacturing industry once they choose this industry. I hope that they can take every step with ideals, responsibilities, passions, and endurance in this seemingly painful industry!"