The reporter learned from the China Mechanical Industry Federation on the 14th that as of the end of 2024, the number of enterprises above the scale of the machinery industry was 132,000, an increase of 11,000 from the previous year, an increase of 0.8 percentage points from the previous year; the total assets reached 39.4 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.2% year-on-year, an increase of 0.6 percentage points from the previous year. The scale of the machinery industry has reached a new high, and a number of major technical equipment has achieved new breakthroughs.

Luo Junjie, executive vice president and spokesperson of the China Mechanical Industry Federation, introduced that in 2024, my country's machinery industry adheres to scientific and technological innovation and green development, accelerates the cultivation of new momentum and new advantages, and actively promotes high-end, intelligent, green and integrated development. The industry has many highlights of high-quality development and transformation and upgrading. The machinery industry actively promotes collaborative innovation and conducts joint research to achieve new breakthroughs. The innovation capabilities of the machinery industry have steadily improved. In 2024, there were 33 new industry innovation platforms approved for construction, and a total of 290 industry innovation platforms listed and approved for construction have been 290.

In 2024, the 300-megawatt F-class heavy-duty gas turbine independently developed by my country has made milestone progress, and has completed the prototype assembly and offline, ignition and full load tests, breaking through more than 90 key technologies. It is the gas turbine independently developed by my country with the largest power and highest technology level. It has a significant driving effect on the progress of basic disciplines and industrial technology of my country's gas turbines, and is of great significance to ensuring my country's energy security and green development. The world's largest 26-megawatt offshore wind turbine with completely independent intellectual property rights has been removed from the line. The key component technology such as generators, blades, bearings, and electronic control systems of the units have reached the world's leading level, representing the latest achievements of the rapid technological progress of my country's wind power equipment industry chain.

The super-large diameter shield machines of more than 16 meters and above will be launched in 2024, marking a new leap in my country's development and application fields of 16 meters and a full industrial chain of super-large diameter shield machines have been formed. In 2024, Fangchenggang's "Hualong No. 1" demonstration project was fully completed, driving more than 5,400 upstream and downstream nuclear power equipment companies to achieve the autonomy of more than 400 key equipment, and has the ability to 100% domesticize nuclear power equipment, which has effectively promoted the improvement of the resilience and strength of my country's nuclear power industry chain. The world's largest 600-horsepower hybrid tractor has been successfully developed, breaking the key core technology bottlenecks such as agricultural machinery power transmission and hydraulic and electrical control. At the same time, the concept of new energy vehicles has been cross-borderly integrated into the agricultural machinery equipment field, promoting the upgrading of traditional agricultural machinery to intelligent agricultural machinery, and helping agriculture transform from mechanization to intelligent. The world's largest single-pack propane dehydrogenation project with an annual output of 1 million tons has been put into production, achieving innovations in a number of equipment such as reactor special valves and product gas compressors, and solving some "bottleneck" problems.