FAW Xichai was awarded the "Hundred Year Achievement Award" for Internal Combustion Engines

FAW Jiefang Xichai has recently won the "100-year Achievement Award" of China's internal combustion engine industry. Xichai was founded in 1943 and is a pioneer in China's internal combustion engine industry. It has created several domestic firsts, such as pouring out the nation's first ball-iron crankshaft and developing the first domestic air-cooled diesel engine and unattended power station. , Successfully developed the first 6110 diesel engine. Xichai was once affiliated with the former Ministry of Machinery Industry, Jiangsu Province and Wuxi City. In 1992, it joined China FAW Group. Xichai has now become a research, development, and production base of diesel engines for FAW in East China and is a national key high-tech enterprise. At present, the factory covers an area of ​​more than 500,000 square meters, net assets of 1.057 billion yuan, and intangible assets of 7.1 billion yuan.

In the past 65 years since its establishment, Xichai has grown from a small plant that can only produce simple iron-wood tools to a modern enterprise that researches, develops, and produces diesel engines with independent intellectual property rights and internationally advanced standards. In the past 30 years of reform and opening up, the people of Xichei not only mastered world-class diesel engine manufacturing technology, but also possessed unique and independent innovation and research and development capabilities. Xichai’s major technical and economic indicators have also been greatly increased, with sales of diesel engines from 1977. The number of 4,855 vehicles in the year was increased to 720,200 units in 2007, with an average annual increase of 13.24%. The sales revenue of products increased from RMB 41.49 million in 1977 to RMB 7.25 billion in 2007, with an average annual increase of 18.33%. From January to September this year, production and sales exceeded the 210,000 mark, which exceeded the total annual production and sales volume in the past year. Various operating indicators ranked among the highest in China's internal combustion engine industry.