Xiang Wenbo: Sany Group has always chosen optimism and remains a steadfast optimist.

Topic: China Development Forum 2026 Annual Conference

The China Development Forum 2026 Annual Conference was held in Beijing from March 22 to 23. At the “Seminar on the Digital and Intelligent Transformation of Manufacturing,” Sanyi Group’s rotating chairman and Sanyi Heavy Industry’s chairman, Wenbo Xiang, said that in today’s changing world landscape, people’s emotions are polarized, with both optimists and pessimists having their reasons, but Sanyi Group has always chosen optimism and remained steadfast in its optimistic outlook.

He emphasized that Sanyi views the shifting global landscape as an opportunity for development, determined to become a force for disruptive change rather than a victim of transformation: “We hope to be the one sitting at the table, not the one turned into an item on the menu.”

To seize opportunities for development, Wenbo Xiang introduced that Sanyi Group has formulated its “Three Transformations” strategy: globalization, digital and intelligent transformation, and electrification. He believes that changes in the world order have inherent rationality. Since the Industrial Revolution, global economic structures have long been 固化, and the pattern of industrialized countries has not undergone fundamental change; the current situation of persistent imbalance in development between the North and the South urgently needs to be broken, and China’s development is driving optimization of this pattern. In addition, the combination of two disruptive technologies has, to date, occurred for the first time in human history of technological and economic development, which undoubtedly represents a major opportunity for development.

Wenbo Xiang candidly stated that when discussing future development directions, enterprises have identified two major core opportunities: first, the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation; second, the super window period for “super technology” that comes from the Fourth Industrial Revolution overlapping with the Third Energy Revolution. To this end, Sanyi Group launched its “Third Entrepreneurship” in 2003, with the goal of moving from a billion-yuan-level enterprise to a trillion-yuan-level enterprise.

Wenbo Xiang focused on introducing the core of Sanyi’s “Three Transformations” strategy: the digital and intelligent transformation. It clarifies that digital and intelligent transformation mainly focuses on three things: first, the digital and intelligent transformation of manufacturing. It has already achieved initial results. He added, drawing on the remarks previously made by Minister Su Bo, that among the global Lighthouse Factories, China accounts for 45%, and all three Lighthouse Factories in the equipment manufacturing industry belong to Sanyi; second, the digital and intelligent transformation of business and management. The company transfers all business online, improves organizational efficiency with big data and machine decision-making, and reshapes business processes—providing customers with better services. Various types of data and intelligent tools have been widely applied across the entire business lifecycle; third, the digital and intelligent transformation of products. The core is continuously improving the intelligence level of products, ultimately achieving unmanned operation. Currently, multiple unmanned products and unmanned clusters of Sanyi have been put into actual use.

Besides digital and intelligent transformation, Wenbo Xiang also introduced Sanyi’s layout in the field of the energy revolution. He said that the company has deeply deployed in the new energy industry, covering wind power, solar power, hydrogen energy, and energy storage, among other areas. At the same time, it is vigorously promoting the electrification of traditional construction machinery business, focusing on green mine extraction, pushing the green transformation of the entire process of mine extraction, and actively responding to the trend of the energy revolution.

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