On May 15, the 2025 Global High‑End Manufacturing Investment Promotion Conference with the theme of "Intelligent Leadership · Global Cooperation" was grandly launched during the 4th Changsha International Construction Machinery Exhibition. Wu Guiying, Member of the Standing Committee of Hunan Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of Changsha Municipal Party Committee, presided over the opening ceremony. Gu Gang, Vice Governor of Hainan Province, attended as a special guest.
165 entrepreneurs from Fortune Global 500, Global 2000 and multinational corporations from 60 countries including ASEAN nations, Africa, Russia, Australia and Europe, together with more than 500 entrepreneurs from central SOEs in China, Fortune Global 500, China’s Top 500 Private Enterprises and Specialized, Refined, Differential and Innovative "Little Giant" enterprises took part in the conference.
As an important participating unit, ZTRS . sent representatives to attend. Ye Weimin, Chairman of ZTRS, held special exchanges with provincial and municipal leaders. Ma Mengchen, Assistant General Manager of ZTRS, delivered a keynote speech titled Innovative Practice of Artificial Intelligence Empowering Manufacturing at the conference. Together with global industry leaders, he explored innovative paths for deep integration of AI technology into the whole manufacturing process.
In 2025, marked by the rise of Chinese AI enterprises such as DeepSeek, global artificial intelligence technology has achieved rapid development. Core elements including algorithms, computing power and data keep making breakthroughs. AI application scenarios keep expanding and are deeply integrated with all industries, especially manufacturing. It empowers intelligent upgrading of thousands of industries and promotes intelligence, flexibility and green development of production systems. Major countries around the world have elevated artificial intelligence to a national strategy, increased R&D investment, and fully laid out new high ground for future competition.
Located in the core area of the Guangdong‑Hong Kong‑Macao Greater Bay Area, Shenzhen is a national high‑ground for scientific and technological innovation and a window of reform and opening‑up. At present, it focuses on the practical application of artificial intelligence in the "20+8" strategic emerging industries, smart city construction and industrial innovation development. In‑depth discussions were carried out around core topics such as talent cultivation, key‑technology research and joint‑base construction. Shenzhen always shoulders the important mission of exploring cutting‑edge technologies and driving industrial transformation. Situated in central China, Changsha boasts solid manufacturing industrial chains, scientific‑and‑technological innovation chains and abundant educational resources. It also undertakes the great historic mission to explore frontier technologies and advance transformation of manufacturing industries.
The new round of scientific and technological revolution represented by artificial intelligence is profoundly reshaping the global industrial landscape. For manufacturing industries, it is a core path to further remove the "last‑mile" barriers for integrated innovation and realize efficient coordination between innovation chains and industrial chains. The collaboration between Shenzhen and Changsha reflects the realistic path for China’s manufacturing industry to march from "mid‑to‑low end" toward "intelligent high‑end".
As cooperating organizations for this conference, China Smart City Construction Investment Alliance, Shenzhen Smart City Research Association, Shenzhen Smart City Construction Association and Shenzhen Industrial Park Development Promotion Association led a delegation of nearly 60 leaders from Fortune Global 500 enterprises, central SOEs, China’s Top 500 Private Enterprises and listed companies from Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan and other cities. The participants included ZTRS, BYD New Materials, CRSC, CAS‑StarGEO Co., Ltd., China Railway Construction Development Group, East Group Co., Ltd., Zhongneng Qingda (Shenzhen) Holdings and other enterprises.
As a leading Chinese ICT enterprise rooted in Shenzhen, ZTRS takes its outstanding strength as "No.1 Brand in China Rail Transit Communication Industry" as its foundation and continuously deepens industrial layout. While consolidating its advantages in rail transit, ZTRS has built a diversified industrial portfolio covering smart transportation, smart energy, digital government affairs, smart manufacturing and other fields. It empowers intelligent transformation of thousands of industries through advanced scenario‑based digital solutions.
At this grand event, in‑depth dialogues and idea exchanges with Chinese and foreign enterprises will surely spark innovative inspiration for the integrated development of artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing. This will not only open up a strategic coordination channel between the Guangdong‑Hong Kong‑Macao Greater Bay Area and the middle Yangtze River urban agglomeration, but also promote in‑depth integration of innovation chains and industrial chains between Guangdong and Hunan provinces in fields such as industrial internet and intelligent equipment. It will inject strong momentum into building a globally competitive high‑end manufacturing innovation corridor.
