From April 27th to 29th, 2025, the China Forging Association successfully held the "2025 Forging Automation and Informatization Technology Seminar" at the Zhongyuan International Hotel in Xuchang, Henan. Nearly 300 renowned forging experts and enterprise elites from home and abroad gathered in Xuchang. Centered around the theme of "Moving towards High - end, Leading Intelligence, and Practicing Green Development", they presented a high - standard and high - value - added forging event for the industry.
On April 28th, the conference grandly opened with a speech by Han Mulin, the vice chairman of the China Forging Association. Mr. Zhao Baojiang, the vice chairman of Xuchang Far East Transmission Shaft Co., Ltd. and the chairman of Zhongxing Forging, who is also from the conference's co - organizing unit, attended and delivered a welcome speech.
From April 28th to 29th, industry experts presented 14 wonderful professional reports. They discussed the changes and improvements in forging automation and informatization technologies over the past decade with the participating representatives and shared classic cases of enterprises' transformation and upgrading in the field of forging automation and informatization during this period.
On the morning of April 28th, hosted by Dr. Jiang Peng, an outstanding compound expert of China Academy of Machinery Science and Technology Group Co., Ltd. (CAM) and the chief expert of the China Forging Association's brainstorming expert database, the "Listen to Expert Insights・Anticipate Future Trends - High - end Interview Meeting" was successfully held.
During the interview, the experts mainly discussed the following hot - topic issues:
- What development changes have China's forging automation and informatization technologies experienced in the past decade? What are the current short - board problems in the industry, and what are the directions for further improvement?
- What impact does artificial intelligence have on the forging industry? For example, how will the DeepSeek technology affect the future development and application scenarios of the forging industry?
- Considering the current domestic and international economic environment, what core conditions do Chinese forging enterprises need to possess when going global?
- Under the pressure of involution competition, how can the forging industry achieve survival and business expansion?
- In the face of the turmoil in the manufacturing industry and the challenges of Sino - US trade tariffs, how should enterprises respond, and how can they balance challenges and opportunities?
On the afternoon of April 29th, the representatives of the 2025 Forging Automation and Informatization Technology Seminar visited Xuchang Zhongxing Forging Co., Ltd. and Xuchang Far East Transmission Shaft Co., Ltd. successively for on - site exchanges. They experienced firsthand the transformation path of Far East Transmission, which focuses on innovation - driven, cluster - based, intelligent, and green development, and witnessed the leading enterprises in forging automation and intelligence.
