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Shandong Heavy Industry and Haier Group Sign Strategic Cooperation Agreement to Build a New Green and Digital Industrial Ecology
Shandong Heavy Industry and Haier Group Sign Strategic Cooperation Agreement to Build a New Green and Digital Industrial Ecology
January 29, 2026
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Shandong Heavy Industry and Haier Group Sign Strategic Cooperation Agreement to Build a New Green and Digital Industrial Ecology. On January 28th, Shandong Heavy Industry Group and Haier Group solemnly signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Qingdao, marking the official start of a comprehensive, in-depth and long-term new chapter of strategic cooperation between the two parties. They will work together to focus on green and digital development, build a new industrial ecology and promote high-quality development. Wang Zhijian, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Shandong Heavy Industry Group, and Zhou Yunjie, Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Haier Group, held in-depth discussions and witnessed the signing ceremony together. Ye Jianjun, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of Shandong Heavy Industry Group, and Zhao Yanfeng, Vice President of Haier Group, General Manager of Government and Enterprise Affairs of Haier Group, and General Manager of Haier Smart Home China, signed the agreement on behalf of both parties.
According to the strategic cooperation agreement signed this time, the two parties will give full play to their core advantages in the real economy field, base themselves on industrial development needs, focus on key areas such as logistics supply chain, smart zero-carbon parks, industrial Internet, automotive comfortable cockpits, and electric power energy, further deepen strategic cooperation and expand the scope of cooperation. The two parties will carry out full-industry and full-scenario collaborative innovation, integrate high-quality resources, complement development shortcomings, accelerate the process of building world-class enterprises for both parties, and work together to lead the transformation, upgrading and high-quality development of related industries.
During the discussion and exchange, Wang Zhijian detailed the development overview, strategic layout and core advantages of Shandong Heavy Industry Group. He stated that currently, Shandong Heavy Industry is fully promoting the four major strategies of greenization, globalization, digitalization and ecologization, focusing on seven major business segments, continuously strengthening and optimizing core industries, and striving to enhance the company’s core competitiveness. Shandong Heavy Industry highly recognizes Haier Group’s technical accumulation and ecological layout in the fields of digitalization and green development, and looks forward to further expanding multi-field and in-depth cooperation with Haier Group, empowering industrial upgrading through technological innovation and scenario innovation, jointly building new global competitive advantages, and continuously leading Shandong’s high-end equipment manufacturing industry towards world-class levels.
Zhou Yunjie highly appraised the development achievements of Shandong Heavy Industry Group and introduced Haier Group’s industrial layout and development philosophy. He said that as two leading enterprises in Shandong Province, Shandong Heavy Industry and Haier Group have highly complementary industrial ecosystems and great potential for cooperation. They can achieve resource sharing and ecological coordination in many core areas. Through cooperation, they can further improve the operational efficiency of both parties, open up new industrial growth space and cultivate new development momentum. The achievement of this strategic cooperation is not only a strategic alliance and complementary advantages between the two enterprises, but also a positive practice to promote the transformation and upgrading of Shandong’s high-end manufacturing industry and build a modern industrial system, which is of great significance for boosting the high-quality development of Shandong’s real economy.
After the signing ceremony, the delegation of Shandong Heavy Industry Group also visited Haier Central Air Conditioning Lighthouse Factory and Ecological Experience Center, where they learned in detail about Haier’s advanced technologies, practical achievements and ecological layout in intelligent manufacturing, green production, industrial Internet application and other aspects, laying a more intuitive and solid foundation for the in-depth cooperation between the two parties in related fields in the future.
China's first enterprise to fully introduce foreign heavy-duty vehicle manufacturing technology, with products exported to more than 110 countries and regions.
