Xi’s visit inspires Shenyang workers

Factory worker Ma Changhao, 40, still remembers the visit of Communist Party of China Central Committee General Secretary Xi Jinping to Shenyang’s Tiexi district four years ago.

“I was working on part of a blower when he visited our workshop. He asked me what I was doing and asked us to keep improving the technical level,” recalled Ma, who works for Shenyang Blower Works Group Corp, a State-owned enterprise that makes products like compressors, blowers and pumps.

Ma’s conversation with the Party’s leader came in August 2013, when Xi visited the manufacturing hub of Tiexi, in Liaoning province, and talked with workers and senior executives from Ma’s company as research center, according to Liu Shengmin, the company’s publicity department manager.

Guan Xiyou, president of Shenyang Machine Tool Co, said the company has invested billions of yuan in developing high-end intelligent factory machine tools that incorporate such technology as informatization and the internet.

“We used to provide products for customers, while now we provide a set of solutions. This is a transformation from a manufacturer to a product service provider,” Guan said. “We will keep working according to Xi’s instructions and focus on innovation and improving our competitiveness.”

Tiexi district houses a large number of very large heavy industrial enterprises, including those producing robots and military aircraft.