Li Pingping

As a liberal arts student, I walked into the exhibition hall of Zhongnan Machinery Co., Ltd., as if "Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden": from the petroleum exploration manipulator to the precision accessories of the aircraft and the scientific research offshore vessel, it was dizzying. Key components of large and medium-sized marine diesel engines, key components of medium and high voltage electrical switches, key components of medical equipment machinery, key components of elevator machinery, key components of shield machines, electronic and electrical molds, CNC machine tools, and customized CNC equipment, metal 3D printing equipment, subway screen doors, etc., as well as exquisite 3D printing clothing, exquisite handicrafts, luxurious luxury jewelry and so on. Xu Guan, the chairman of Zhongnan Machinery Co., Ltd., a science and engineering company, has turned a machinery company into a "Hundred Gardens". In addition to hardware products, the company's business model, working environment, and corporate culture are also rich and colorful.

Interviewing Chairman Xu and listening to his narrative was shocking. Although his statement does not have flashy rhetoric, his dedication and performance can be called the "Chinese backbone". In view of his low-key style, let's call it "the backbone of private enterprises." Once, I have read a report that the equipment manufacturing industry with independent high-precision machine tools, 5-axis machining centers, early 10,000-ton hydraulic presses, aero engines and other engineering examples is the backbone of a country. However, Zhongnan Machinery has 8 manufacturing bases and 2 engineering technology research and development centers. It has the largest market share in the marine diesel electronic injection system market in the country. It used to rely entirely on imported precision mechanical parts. Now Zhongnan Machinery can manufacture it. The passive situation of marine diesel engine precision parts relying on imports has saved the country a lot of foreign exchange and has also been recognized as a "national high-tech enterprise."

Sharpen a sword in thirty years. Xu Guan, born in 1963, graduated with honors from South China University of Technology in 1983 and was assigned to the Wuhan Institute of Material Protection of the Ministry of Machinery as an engineer. This was a very honorable position at the time. Through his own efforts, he continued to work in the unit. Promotion, from middle management to factory director, along the way, Xu Guan always has a dream in his heart: China's manufacturing industry can't always stay at the low-end machinery level. It is always restricted by foreigners, and domestic manufacturing must also increase. Development in a sharp direction. He believed that the information and technology of Nanhai, Foshan, Guangdong would be superior to that of the mainland. For this reason, he returned to his hometown of Guangdong in 1991 and planned to build a Zhongnan Machinery Plant in Dali, Nanhai. After running approval documents, forming teams, looking for technical talents, finding venues, looking for customers, and forgetting to eat and sleep for two years, he formally served as the director of Zhongnan Machinery Factory in 1993 and embarked on an entrepreneurial strategy of “tolerating loneliness and poverty” road.

Chairman Xu said indifferently: “Most people think that mechanical manufacturing is relatively simple. A few pieces of steel processing can be beaten to produce products. In fact, mechanical processing and manufacturing is a very complicated matter, which requires special talents. High, you can’t go wrong, otherwise a small accessory can affect the whole set of equipment.” Not to mention that we all understand this truth, but it is fatal to an enterprise leader who has managed to manage for decades without making a mistake. pressure. He gets up at 6 o'clock every day and rests at 12 o'clock in the evening. He is both the chairman and chief engineer of the company. The company's products involve industries such as ships, oil drilling machinery, electric power, machine tools, medical equipment, elevators, and airplanes. Many specialized factories such as precision mechanical parts manufacturing, metal surface treatment, CNC machine tool manufacturing, and metal 3D printers are distributed in Foshan, Zhaoqing, Xiamen, Xi'an, Kunshan and other places. To ensure that there is no error in every product, Xu Dong, who is "flying in the sky", is like a "superman", supervising and inspecting products, managing the team, and cultivating talents, and he dare not relax for a second. He said that he didn't feel tired during working hours, but he felt particularly tired during holidays.

There is a touch of righteousness soaring to the world. He used his wisdom and hard work to write a shining course for the years. There is a lyric in the song "Chinese Backbone" that can be interpreted: Even if you carry a thousand mountains on your back, you will never bend and never bend. The Chinese have a spine, and the blood burns more and more. Vow to let righteousness soar to the sky.

Zhongnan Machinery Co., Ltd., with the mission of "making precise mechanical parts and making the most practical and intelligent equipment", has entered a period of rapid business growth in the past three years. This is because they have taken a step ahead in the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry and found an innovative path suitable for faster and higher development of the enterprise.

Not only did they take the lead in transforming themselves, they also took the initiative to host the "The Breakthrough of China's Manufacturing Industry" salon. They invited authoritative experts and professors of domestic 3D printing technology to interpret the new technology of manufacturing development-metal 3D printing, and also invited people from Industry experts from China, the United States, Europe, Japan and other regions with the most developed industries in the world discussed how to break through the transformation of Guangdong's manufacturing industry, and lay the groundwork for the transformation and upgrading of private enterprises in Guangdong. At the salon event, Chairman Xu Guan emphasized: "Each company has a different status quo. The key to breaking through is to find a way that suits you. But one thing is necessary, that is innovation. This innovation includes product innovation and business model innovation. And the innovation of entrepreneurs themselves. On the road of breaking through, what we have to do is professional, dedicated, innovative and open."

Zhongnan Machinery Innovation Road: products, high-tech, excellence; talent, tall and powerful.

They started the incubator + factory development model, and established the Zhongyu Intelligent Machinery Intelligent Equipment Incubation Center. There are currently 7 incubating companies, all of which are entrepreneurial teams of college mentors. At the launching ceremony in June this year, Zhongyu Intelligent has attracted 17 teams and projects including the "Thousand Talents Program" expert team to sign contracts. Since then, the contracts signed include 3D printing, robots, automated factories, and smart medical care. Equipment, new materials and other fields. As the first enterprise-led intelligent equipment incubator in Guangdong, it is expected to become the country's largest 3D printing service base in the future. Chairman Xu Guan said that for intelligent manufacturing, the power of a company is too small. "Zhongnan Machinery must be a point and unite everyone with "points and faces"."

When interviewing what difficulties or predicaments Xu Dong is currently encountering, he bluntly said: talent difficulties, financial difficulties.

Xu Dong said that for a manufacturing industry to become stronger and bigger, first-line technical talents must have at least ten years of training and training. But in the current environment, people are impatient, and there are too few talents who can settle down to do first-line technology. In the past, 100 ordinary student workers could train 90% of technical talents, but now they can only train 20%, and the attrition rate is still very high. As long as they are trained, other factories may be poached. He himself laughed and called the company a "Whampoa Military Academy" for cultivating technical talents. Even so, he does not regret it. After all, these talents are glowing and he is still prepared. The "Engineering Technical College" was established to train a large number of technical personnel. When it comes to funding difficulties, he said that it may be a problem that private enterprises will encounter when they grow larger. Because of the restrictions of the bank management system, the support for private enterprises is much smaller. In addition, the current capital operation in Foshan is far from that of developed cities, such as Shenzhen and Guangzhou. It is hoped that Foshan's capital market can also develop rapidly.

"Good rain knows the season, when spring is here". Under the leadership of Chairman Xu Guan, Zhongnan Machinery worked hard with seven shareholders to advance by victory. Since 2002, the company has passed the ISO9001 quality system certification of TUV Company, and obtained product certification from 8 domestic and foreign classification societies. In 2012, the company was recognized as a national high-tech enterprise and a private technology enterprise in Guangdong Province. It has been rated as the "Foshan Most Growing Small and Medium-sized Enterprise" and the key support enterprise of the "Eagle Plan" in Nanhai District for many times. In 2014, it was awarded "National Skilled Talent Cultivation Outstanding Contribution Unit" by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security; in 2015, it was rated as " In the same year, it won the “2015 Lingnan Good Enterprise. Innovative Growth Award”; in 2016, it won the “Product Innovation Award” of the Equipment China Innovation Pioneer List and the fifth brand Foshan “Foshan Smart Model” title. In 2016, it was awarded the "Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Base" by the Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security. In the same year, it was awarded the "Postgraduate Innovation Training Demonstration Site" by the Provincial Department of Education; in 2017, it was rated as the "Guangdong Province Private Enterprise (SME) Innovation Industrialization Demonstration Base" ".

At present, the company has more than 1,200 employees, of which technical research and development personnel account for more than 30%, and the total output value is about 800 million yuan. The company cooperates with a number of well-known universities and scientific research institutions inside and outside the province, such as South China University of Technology and the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and has introduced a number of high-tech projects at the municipal and provincial and ministerial levels and a group of high-quality talents to promote production through technological innovation. Business development. Among them, many projects have won provincial and municipal science and technology awards, and have obtained 45 national invention patents and 58 utility model patents. And has established a provincial-level engineering technology research and development center: Guangdong Provincial Ship Power Key Components Engineering Technology Research Center; two municipal and district-level engineering research and development centers: Foshan large processing center and key component engineering technology research and development center, and large low-speed Engineering Technology Research and Development Center for Key Components of Marine Diesel Engines.

They have been adhering to the service business philosophy of "Do my best, do the best". Sincerely establish and maintain a wide range of friendly cooperative relations with domestic and foreign merchants, use modern business management methods, and constantly develop unique and creative technologies and products, and contribute to the society with increasingly perfect "machinery products".

Update Date: 2019-04-04