The overseas high-end market orders of Zhongtong Bus this year have been scheduled until June. It is worth noting that Zhongtong Bus defeated several foreign enterprises and successfully secured an order for 40 new energy buses in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. This is the first time that Chinese bus manufacturing enterprises have entered Dubai's public transportation market in bulk.

Ren Xianfeng, the product supervisor of the Bus Research Institute of Zhongtong Bus under Shandong Heavy Industry, told reporters: "The temperature is relatively high all year round in that place. The customer requires that the temperature inside the carriage can drop from 50℃ to 23℃ within 45 minutes, and the wind speed at the air outlet should reach 6m/s. We spent 40 days and, after several rounds of revisions and improvements, finally came up with a suitable technical solution that was recognized by the customer."

Zhongtong Bus is an established bus manufacturing enterprise founded in 1958. After integrating into Shandong Heavy Industry Group in 2018, it began to carry out resource integration, accelerate strategic transformation, and continuously make breakthroughs in the development of the high-end market. In 2023, the enterprise obtained the EU Whole Vehicle Type Approval (WVTA) (WVTA is a mandatory certification to ensure that vehicles meet all relevant safety, environmental protection and performance standards in the EU market), becoming the first enterprise in the field of Chinese commercial vehicles to obtain this certification. "This means that we have obtained the product pass for the EU market. It not only opens up the European market, but also simultaneously develops markets in countries and regions such as the Middle East and Singapore," said Qi Honglei, the dean of the Bus Research Institute of Zhongtong Bus under Shandong Heavy Industry.

In 2024, Zhongtong Bus achieved an income of 5.635 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 32.8%. Among them, the income from the overseas market was 3.212 billion yuan, accounting for nearly 60% of the total income. "This year, we have set the goal of achieving a two-digit year-on-year growth in product export income. By continuously carrying out the special action of 'optimizing the market layout and building a brand matrix' overseas, we will amplify the influence of the coordinated innovation of the group's whole industrial chain resources and the brand matrix, continuously leap towards the high end of the industrial chain and value chain, and make every effort to build a world-class intelligent bus manufacturing powerhouse," said Liu Wei, the director of the international business of Shandong Heavy Industry Group. (This article is from the official website of Seetao.com, www.seetao.com. No reprinting is allowed without permission. Otherwise, legal liability will be pursued. If reprinting, please indicate Seetao.com + the original text link.) Editor of the Strategic Column of Seetao.com / Yin Shiqian