The biggest in the world - The Author visits the biggest mobile crane manufacturer in the world

摘要

In the first half of 2006, Xuzhou Heavy Machinery Co. Ltd. - the crane making division of XCMG -manufactured and sold over 4,000 truck cranes of between 8t and 200t capacity, giving it a share of about 54% of the approximately 7,500 such cranes produced in China between January and June. XCMG is, of course, much more than a crane manufacturer. XCMG is China's largest manufacturer of construction equipment with 2005 sales of about RMB 17bn (USD2.1 bn) and group products range from wheel loaders to compaction equipment. In 2005, 94% of XCMG's production was sold domestically, with just USD120m being exported, but this is changing rapidly.