On the morning of August 16th, the company held a grand unveiling ceremony of the Technology Center. CEO Xia Songkang, along with headquarter leaders, all members of the Technology Center, and employee representatives, gathered to witness this significant milestone moment.

During the ceremony, CEO Xia Songkang and Wang Yuanbo, head of the Technology Center, jointly unveiled the Technology Center. As the red silk slowly descended, the applause thundered, officially marking the establishment of the company’s Technology Center.

Before the unveiling, CEO Xia Songkang delivered an important speech. He began by affectionately reviewing the company’s relentless exploration and deep accumulation on the path of technological development. He emphasized that the establishment of the Technology Center represents a crucial milestone in the company’s history, signifying a key step forward in accelerating its digital and intelligent transformation and advancing green ship repair and intelligent development. This move not only embodies the company’s 23 years of technical heritage and strategic resolve but also demonstrates its firm determination to drive development through innovation and lead the future with technology in this new stage.

CEO Xia further elaborated on the core mission and value of the Technology Center. He stated that talent and technology are the cornerstones of building corporate core competitiveness. The Technology Center brings together the company’s most promising technical talents and shoulders the important tasks of breaking through key technological bottlenecks and leading the industry’s fine-tuned upgrades. The company will spare no effort in perfecting innovation mechanisms and platform construction to provide a broader stage for team growth. He encouraged all technical personnel to uphold a pragmatic approach, boldly explore cutting-edge fields, and continually enhance the “Xinya” brand reputation with leading technologies and outstanding innovative achievements. The ultimate goal is to build the company into a globally influential benchmark enterprise for green ship repair.

The establishment of the Technology Center is a key initiative to deepen the “consolidating existing oil tanker repair services while developing vessel conversion” strategy within the green ship repair field. Moving forward, the Center will accelerate its development with a focus on three core objectives:

1.Ship Design: Prioritizing the development of green and low-carbon vessel conversion design capabilities to enhance the company’s competitiveness in the high-end ship repair and conversion sector.

2.Technology Innovation: Targeting global technological advancements, organizing teams to tackle tough challenges and achieve breakthroughs in key technological bottlenecks.

3.Solving Technical Problems: Efficiently integrating internal and external technical resources to provide robust technical support to the front-line engineering teams for solving complex technical challenges.

To achieve these objectives, the Technology Center will concentrate its efforts on five major areas:

1.Cutting-edge Learning: Closely tracking and learning global cutting-edge technologies and development trends in ship repair and conversion.

2.Overcoming Difficult Problems: Efficiently organizing team resources for focused breakthroughs on core technical challenges.

3.Resource Integration: Actively integrating high-quality internal and external technical resources to build an open innovation ecosystem.

4.Team Building: Focusing on building a well-structured, first-class echelon of R&D and technical talent.

5.Standards Leadership: Actively participating in the formulation of industry technical standards to enhance industry influence and voice.

The establishment of the company’s Technology Center marks a solid step in its transformation towards “high-quality, high-efficiency, high-service experience” operation, as well as towards intelligent and green ship repair and building processes. Using the Technology Center as a new starting point, the company will promote technological innovation with a grander vision, leverage its increased strength to lead in green ship repair and high-end conversion projects. The Technology Center will inevitably become a powerful engine driving the company’s high-quality development, helping the company fully embark on a new chapter in building a “first-class, internationally competitive modern ship operation and maintenance enterprise”!