On December 6th, the 2026 Business Conference of Shandong Heavy Industry Weichai Group, with the theme of "seizing the opportunity to gather strength and innovate", was held in Weifang. More than 1200 partners gathered together to share Weichai's high-quality development achievements in 2025, witness the release of heavyweight new products and service models, and explore new paths for future industrial development.

Steady progress: With high-quality performance, Weichai continues to lead the industry

2025 is the final year of the national 14th Five Year Plan and a crucial year for the layout of the 15th Five Year Plan. Faced with a complex and severe external environment and increasingly fierce industry competition, Weichai relies on Shandong Heavy Industry's complete vehicle and global market advantages, anchors six major transformation directions, and works hand in hand with partners to achieve year-on-year growth in major business indicators such as revenue and profit, laying a solid foundation for "seizing the opportunity to move forward".

The deep cultivation of the market has achieved significant results, and the leading advantages at home and abroad continue to be consolidated. By 2025, Weichai's engine market share will remain the top in the domestic industry. With the comprehensive advantages of powerful power, high efficiency, economy, and reliable safety, the sales of 4.0 gas turbines have exceeded 30000 units, setting a new benchmark in the industry. The sales volume of construction machinery power increased by 8% year-on-year, and the domestic market share of high-end high-power products above 15L jumped to 36%. The sales of high value-added M-series large bore engines have exceeded 10000 units, showing strong momentum. The global sales of power generation products have exceeded 100000 units, ranking among the top three in the world. The data center backup power market has achieved a key breakthrough, with a global market share of 12%. The sales of new energy batteries are expected to increase by 170% year-on-year, becoming an important emerging business growth point for enterprises. The overseas market expansion has yielded fruitful results, with sales growth exceeding 50% in strategic markets such as Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Europe. Weichai's global influence and brand reputation have reached a new level.

The innovation driven strategy is deeply implemented, and the core competitive strength continues to be highlighted. By 2025, Weichai's engine sector research and development intensity will reach 6%, ranking at the forefront of the global industry. In the traditional power field, the advantages of green, low-carbon, and high-end high-value technologies are constantly expanding. The WP14T commercial vehicle's golden powertrain achieves the lowest fuel consumption under all operating conditions, and the world's first 5-megawatt high-speed diesel generator set with a power of 20M61 liters ranks first in the world. The globally exclusive high-end gas power 12M33NG and 16M33NG empower large construction machinery with exclusive core technology, setting a new industry benchmark for power reliability of high-end equipment. In the field of new energy, Weichai's heavy-duty truck specific bottom mounted battery has a super high capacity of 600 degrees, a system cycle life of up to 4500 times, and can operate normally at minus 20 ℃, meeting the requirements of harsh working conditions. The all-new 140 degree high-capacity fast charging battery can save customers over 100 hours of charging time per year, equivalent to running an additional 8000 kilometers, creating tangible value for customers through technological innovation. Breaking through the bottleneck of high-power system integration technology for solid oxide fuel cells, the new generation of products has a maximum power generation efficiency of over 65%, providing efficient and clean innovative solutions for distributed energy and smart microgrids.

The transformation is progressing rapidly and steadily, and new quality productivity continues to emerge. With the acceleration of new energy transformation, relying on Weichai Yantai New Energy Power Industrial Park, Weichai battery products are widely used in commercial vehicles, construction machinery, forklifts and other scenarios, becoming the most reliable, energy-saving and worry free choice for customers. The transformation of the aftermarket continues to deepen, developing a TCO management model that covers the entire lifecycle of customers, and promoting the transformation from component supply to an integrated solution of "technology+service+product". The digital transformation is in full swing, implementing the full chain digital reconstruction of research and development, manufacturing, and service, and fully promoting the deep application of AI in various business scenarios, setting a benchmark for the intelligent transformation of equipment manufacturing industry.

Focusing on Innovation: New Products+New Services, Continuing to Lead Industry Upgrades

During the conference, Weichai exhibited more than 150 sets of green and low-carbon high-end products, including commercial vehicle power, engineering machinery power, agricultural equipment power, energy and electricity, high-end ship power, hydraulic power, and new energy power. They also released 16 heavyweight new products and new service models, interpreting the core connotation of "gathering strength for innovation" through comprehensive technological innovation and service upgrading, and leading the industry into a new stage of high-quality development.

In the field of commercial vehicle power products, multiple upgraded and iterated products demonstrate their hardcore strength. As the culmination of the NG4.0 series products, the WP14NG engine has a maximum horsepower of 610Ps and a maximum torque of 2800N · m, with a weight 180kg lighter than its competitors of the same displacement. Through high thermal efficiency and assembly consumption reduction technology, it achieves an additional 6% reduction in gas consumption under high-speed conditions on the mainline, saving customers an additional 20000 yuan in operating costs annually. The WP5H engine is designed for yellow card cargo truck scenarios, with the highest horsepower of the same displacement and the best economy. Its fuel consumption advantage of 2% lower than competitors directly translates into customer operating income. The WP2.5T engine is known for its high cost-effectiveness, with obvious advantages over competitors in terms of power, economy, and reliability, making it perfect for blue label cargo transportation scenarios.

In the field of engineering machinery power, the WP17TME methanol hybrid assembly is suitable for 130t wide body dump trucks and 75-135t excavators, and is the only methanol powered model in the industry that can achieve long-term, trouble free and stable operation; The WP16NG natural gas range extender assembly is suitable for 130t wide body dump trucks, equipped with Weichai's unique roof combustion chamber design. With multiple core technologies and super strong power performance, it achieves comprehensive leadership in segmented fields. The two new hybrid products balance environmental protection and economy, providing diversified low-carbon power choices for the construction machinery market. The 12M25 diesel engine adopts a high-strength body, crankshaft, high-strength bearing, and autonomous controller, focusing on the demand for high-power heavy loads. It performs excellently in high-intensity working conditions such as engineering transportation, and can provide strong power support for heavy equipment such as 90-110 ton mining trucks and 1000 horsepower bulldozers.

In the field of new energy technology, Weichai demonstrates its full chain layout advantages. The CTB power battery for heavy-duty trucks adopts an integrated, high safety blade cell design, highly optimized system, and achieves efficient energy replenishment; The EH165/ET200 power battery application is fully bottom mounted, with a power coverage of 330kWh-600kWh, stronger expandability, more flexible wheelbase, higher vehicle passability, and safety and reliability. The motor controller WMC-L/H/B multi in one integrated controller adopts multi-core chips to achieve high integration, with standard information security and functional safety. The highest efficiency of the controller is 99.2%; The WMS3200 electric drive system has strong motor power, high efficiency, cost saving, and durable performance, which can provide strong power for heavy-duty tractor and dump truck electrification. The CT100A pure electric power battery for construction machinery has a power coverage of 300-600kWh. The integrated design reduces pipes and lines by 90%, improves the installation efficiency of the entire vehicle by 90%, and achieves deep integration between the power system and the chassis of the construction machinery. It can effectively improve the maneuverability, stability, and operational efficiency of the equipment.

In the field of agricultural equipment power, facing the pain points of decreasing harvesting unit prices and intensified competition from customers, Weichai has released a new product of 2.0 low-speed engine for harvesters. On the basis of ensuring power and reliability, the overall machine speed is reduced again, and an intelligent strategy for the harvester industry is launched to further reduce fuel consumption.

In the field of service ecology, Weichai has launched multiple innovative service solutions. The intelligent customer service system relies on four core data models to achieve intelligent conversation communication, intelligent dispatching, and intelligent diagnosis. It can provide efficient services such as 7 × 24 online fault diagnosis and consultation for 4.5 million customers worldwide, greatly improving service response speed. The newly launched W-TCO Blue Shield product is more convenient to purchase and use, and can be purchased directly from Weichai Mall. With the purchase verification code, you can go to the service station for verification and maintenance. It can achieve genuine traceability, has high cost-effectiveness, and reconstructs the full life cycle service value, realizing a benign ecology of win-win for the host factory, central warehouse, service station, and end customers. Relying on its first-class strength in traditional energy services and the most comprehensive service network in the new energy industry, Weichai has built 40 new energy deep maintenance centers, which can provide maintenance services for core components such as batteries, motors, and electronic controls for new energy customers, solving their worries. Relying on over 8000 service stations worldwide, Weichai has innovatively launched TIR cross-border logistics exclusive services, providing full scenario protection for cross-border logistics customers, solving pain points such as limited cross-border service outlets, language barriers, and opaque pricing, and further enhancing its international service capabilities.

Every new product originates from Weichai's deep cultivation of technological moat and precise insight into customer needs. By continuously improving and optimizing, we aim to build competitiveness in technology, quality, cost, and service, and create maximum value for our customers.

Riding on the momentum: anchoring national strategies, gathering strength to create a new chapter in the future

At present, the deep adjustment of energy structure transformation, dynamic reshaping of supply chain pattern, and the intense evolution of industry competition have brought phased challenges. However, from a global perspective, the triple combination of national policy dividends, global technological revolution, and industrial chain upgrading wave is opening up a strategic opportunity window for Weichai and global partners to "seize the opportunity to move forward", and the path of high-quality development is becoming increasingly clear. 2026 is the starting year of the 15th Five Year Plan, and Weichai will also celebrate its 80th anniversary of establishment. Faced with opportunities and challenges, Weichai will seize the opportunity and embark on a new development cycle.

The strong momentum empowered by national policies has injected core driving force into Weichai's development. At present, the policy combination of stabilizing growth, expanding domestic demand, and promoting transformation continues to exert force, accelerating the promotion of "two new" and "two double", directly tapping into the potential demand in core areas such as commercial vehicles and construction machinery. At the same time, the high-level opening-up has been pushed forward in depth, the deepening of the "the Belt and Road" initiative and the release of RCEP dividends have provided unprecedented convenience for Weichai's high-end products to go to sea, overseas localized operations and the integration of global innovation resources, and the international layout has continued to highlight its confidence.

The trend of green and low-carbon is becoming increasingly popular, and technologies such as new energy, artificial intelligence, and big data are reshaping the competitive logic of the industry. Weichai has already advanced its layout, creating a leading advantage in diversified power of "traditional energy+clean energy+new energy", accumulating solid experience in the integration of AI and manufacturing, forming a highly resilient industrial ecosystem, and laying a solid foundation for leading the industry through cycles and transformation.

Faced with the upgrading of the global industrial chain, Weichai takes on the role of "chain owner" to promote "precise chain supplementation, collaborative strengthening, and open chain extension", and build a global collaborative industrial ecological network. Surpassing the supply-demand relationship with thousands of upstream and downstream partners, we have formed a "strategic alliance" to overcome technological barriers, jointly expand markets, and share achievements, continuously enhancing synergy and risk resistance capabilities.

Taking advantage of the trend "is the direction," moving forward "is the action, and the core password lies in" gathering strength towards novelty "- gathering the wisdom of the entire industry chain, and jointly innovating value through multidimensional breakthroughs in technology, market, and ecology. In the future, Weichai will take technology as the core, maintain global leading R&D investment, build an innovation consortium of industry, academia, research and application, tackle "bottleneck" technologies, deepen the research and development of low-carbon and zero carbon fuel engines such as gas, methanol, and hydrogen ammonia, lay out cutting-edge fields such as solid-state batteries, and create more commercially valuable new energy solutions through hard core innovation; Taking the market as the wing, focusing on high value-added areas with partners, concentrating advantageous resources to create customized, high-performance, and highly reliable power solutions, crossing from meeting demand to leading demand, achieving an upgrade from "product output" to "value output", and deeply empowering customer development with Weichai brand influence enhancement; Taking ecology as the guiding principle, abandoning traditional supply and demand thinking, promoting deep binding of strategic consultation, resource investment, risk sharing, and achievement sharing, sharing Weichai's advanced practices and mature experience in research and development, manufacturing, procurement, management, and other fields, creating a "Weichai Cloud Chain" digital collaborative platform, and cultivating a data-driven global industrial chain new ecology.

As a leading enterprise in China's high-end equipment manufacturing industry and a core force of Shandong Heavy Industry, Weichai will work together with its partners to seize strategic opportunities, gather global synergy, activate the synergistic value lever of "1+1>2", take the lead and shoulder the big beam during the "15th Five Year Plan" period, comprehensively promote transformation and upgrading, and achieve new leaps and breakthroughs in high-quality development.Editor/Cheng Liting