Reprinted from Hudong Zhonghua WeChat official account

On the afternoon of March 27th, Li Zheng, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Pudong New Area Committee, led a team to conduct research at the company, promoting the continuous deepening and implementation of cooperation between the central and local governments. Accompanied by Xu Xin, Deputy District Mayor of Pudong New Area, Su Juemin, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Hudong Xincun Street, and other leaders, Chen Jianliang, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Company, and Weng Hongbing, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager, warmly received them.

Li Zheng watched a special retrospective film on the company's high-quality development in 2024 and listened to Chen Jianliang's report on the company's technological innovation, market development, lean production and other business operations, as well as the comprehensive development and transformation of the Pudong factory area. He fully affirmed the achievements of the company's high-quality development in recent years, especially the realization of "independent research and development, independent controllability, and independent branding" for the company's large LNG ships and ultra large container ships.

Li Zheng stated that the shipbuilding industry has high innovative technology content and strong industrial driving force, which is an important support for Pudong to build an international shipping and trade center core area. It is also an important growth pole for Pudong to develop high-end equipment industry and enhance the level of manufacturing industry. Hudong Zhonghua has been deeply cultivating high-end intelligent manufacturing for a long time, overcoming difficulties and rising to the challenge in the field of large LNG transport ships, demonstrating its responsibility in promoting independent innovation of high-end equipment, playing an active role in inheriting and promoting ship culture, and injecting strong momentum into the high-quality development of the region.

Li Zheng emphasized that Pudong will take it as its own responsibility to serve the national strategy, and will continue to do its best to provide support and service guarantees, support enterprises to carry out digital, intelligent, and green transformation and upgrading, increase breakthroughs in key core areas, continuously enhance the core competitiveness of industries, and make Pudong contributions to building a maritime power.

Chen Jianliang stated that as a "century old shop" in the shipbuilding industry, Hudong Zhonghua is a pioneer in building first-class ships in China and a benchmark enterprise in China's shipbuilding industry. Currently, it is closely focusing on serving the country's major strategies, deepening reforms, doubling production capacity, continuously improving core competitiveness, taking the lead in high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement, forging new paths in accelerating the localization rate of important products, and fully accelerating the construction of a world-class marine equipment industry group, making greater contributions to building a maritime power and Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center.