As the only province in China with all 41 major industrial categories, Shandong is following the principle of “establish first, then transform,” focusing on the deep integration of industrial chains and innovation chains to accelerate the development of new productive forces and accelerate its transition into a leading province in intelligent manufacturing.
Zongwang·Hai Bao News has launched a special report titled “The Remarkable ‘Smart Manufacturing’ of Shandong.” We turn our lens to vivid examples of traditional workshops transforming into smart factories, decoding how Shandong leverages big data as an engine to drive the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation, empowering the real economy to achieve intelligent upgrades and efficiency transformations, and witnessing the surging power and boundless potential of “Shandong Smart Manufacturing”!

At the welding workshop of Sinotruk Group’s Jinan Truck Manufacturing Company, a “steel waltz” starring robots is currently underway. 110 robots work in tandem, their mechanical arms moving gracefully, and welding guns rising and falling with precision. The once-busy scene of workers holding welding guns has vanished, replaced by efficient operations that complete a weld point every 3 seconds—cold steel plates are precisely “woven” into the sturdy frame of the new Yellow River heavy-duty truck.

At Sinotruk, steel plates are undergoing a transformative journey toward intelligence. What begins as cold raw materials upon entering the workshop is transformed into a complete heavy-duty truck cab frame in just two and a half hours.

This is not only a profound transformation in production methods but also a shining example of Shandong manufacturing on the global stage. As a leading global heavy-duty truck manufacturing base, Sinotruk demonstrates the essence of intelligent manufacturing through a series of impressive metrics: cumulative error of no more than 1 millimeter across 3,000 weld points, seamless integration of 38 production processes, and a 100% pass rate for critical processes…