Yutong Highest Annual Science & Technology Award up to 3.3 Million RMB
2016-10-28 Source：www.chinabuses.org
Summarize：On October 25, Yutong held 2015 Science & Technology Awarding Conference at Yutong Industrial Park. At the conference, technicians and engineers who made significant contributions to the company’s development in the areas of products, technologies, manufacturing level and product quality in 2015, received awards from the bus maker. The highest award is presented with a bonus of 3.3 million RMB.
www.chinabuses.org: On October 25, Yutong held 2015 Science & Technology Awarding Conference at Yutong Industrial Park. At the conference, technicians and engineers who made significant contributions to the company’s development in the areas of products, technologies, manufacturing level and product quality in 2015, received awards from the bus maker. The highest award is presented with a bonus of 3.3 million RMB.
Yutong Highest Annual Science & Technology Award up to 3.3 Million RMB
To comprehensively evaluate its technological progress in the previous year, a panel of judges was formed to assess 175 projects. In the end, 35 projects stood out, which cover new energy bus technologies, T7, E8, school bus, interior design, accelerator, torque self-adjusting controller, material cutting, drilling, etc. The highest award with 3.3 million RMB bonus went to Energy Conservation & New Energy Bus Key Technology R&D and Industrialization project. The project also won 2015 China National Science & Technology Progress Second Award thanks to its breakthroughs made in some key technologies and its enormous social and economic benefits.
After a decade’s continuous hard work, the project has realized the shared platform development for full electric buses, plug-in buses and hybrid buses. It has successfully rolled out a whole spectrum of energy-saving and new energy buses measuring 6-18 meters in length. In addition, the bus maker’s whole vehicle energy conservation and control technologies, high-voltage power supply insulation & conversion technologies, and high-density electric drive & control technologies have given Yutong a lead in the international market. So far, the Energy Conservation & New Energy Bus Key Technology R&D and Industrialization project has won 23 invention patents, 142 utility model patents, and 14 software copyrights. Moreover, 23 research papers have been published and four national and industrial standards have been formed thanks to its technological advances.
Thanks to its many technological breakthroughs in a number of key areas, such as highly efficient power systems, power battery integration & management, whole vehicle control & energy conservation, the Energy Conservation & New Energy Bus Key Technology R&D and Industrialization project marks a new historical milestone in China’s ambitious drive to sharpen the nation’s overall competitiveness of its new energy vehicle industry in the global market.
Take Yutong T7 high-end business coach for example. Since its debut, it has successfully broken the monopoly of foreign bus brands in this sector. So far, it has made its way to a number of high-profile national and international events, such as Hangzhou G20 Summit, Bo’ao Forum for Asia, China’s annual NPC and CPPCC sessions. Behind the laurels of the T7 are the continuous hard work of Yutong’s employees and its relentless pursuit of perfection. At Yutong 2015 Science & Technology Awarding Conference, four projects related to the development of T7 have won awards in different categories.
As the leading bus maker in China, Yutong has always been giving its top priority to technological innovation. Tang Yuxiang, president of Yutong Group, points out that technologies are Yutong’s core competitiveness and only technological leaders are qualified to be a bellwether in the industry. In order to strengthen its technological competitiveness, Yutong puts 3% of its sales income aside each year for research and development projects. Along with the continued rise of its sales income, Yutong’s R&D investments have been reaching new record high every year. Its R&D investments stood at 171 million RMB in 2005, 314 million RMB in 2008, 869 million RMB in 2012 and 0ver 900 million RMB in 2015 as its operating income reached 31.2 billion RMB in the same year.
Apart from its generous investments in R&D, Yutong also attaches paramount significance to the cultivation of talents. In 1993, the number of the company’s technicians only stood at 18. Currently, the bus maker boasts 12 departments with over 3,000 professional technicians. Among them, 29 hold doctor’s degrees, 315 master’s degrees, 27 are senior engineers, and 280 engineers. In addition, 17 have been recognized as the experts by related state-level organizations.
Adhering to its PSC innovation principle which integrates proactive measures, systematic approaches and customer-oriented strategies, Yutong focuses on its products, its markets and its customers, and it has maintained a robust growing momentum. In 1993, it rolled out China’s first coach with sleepers. In 1999, it gave birth to China’s first full electric bus and in 2008 it released China’s first school bus. Among its counterparts, Yutong is also the first bus maker in China to build whole vehicle electrophoresis production line, state-level bus testing center. Having won 399 patents, the company has participated in the draft of 35 national standards.
Currently, Yutong has successfully accomplished its transition from just a domestic bus maker to a bus giant in the global market with formidable strengths in a number of bus manufacturing areas.
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