Photo: CFP Chinese national lawmakers with connections to the equipment manufacturing industry have called for the country to firmly grasp key core component technologies to establish a safe, reliable, independent and controllable supply chains, during the ongoing national two sessions. Shan Zenghai, chief engineer from Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group Co (XCMG), who is a deputy to the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC), called for the establishment of a national innovation platform to strengthened the construction machinery industry and promote the rate of domestic innovation for key components tied to the high-quality development of the industry, China Securities Journal reported on Saturday. Shan suggested creating a national innovation center and based on this platform to accelerate the research and development of a number of internationally leading core components products to boost the high-quality development of construction machinery and equipment manufacturing industry in China. Through technological upgrading, key indicators of the company’s all terrain crane below the 300 ton-level are now the best class globally, with a 100 percent domestic production rate. To promote the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry, Shan also suggested integrating and utilizing global innovation resources, building a technology innovation system that integrates manufacturing enterprises, the market […]