SHANDONG HONGDA GROUP has made great achievements in developing new products.The group defines 2005 as brand year with all the factories,workshops,and departments further strenthening different posts’quality control goal and brand building entering all the fields and processes.Meamwhile,the group practises international facilities purchase and global technology cooperation,and emphasizes improving independent innovative ability.It has developed such eight series of new products as pump truck with boom,concrete piston pump, truck-mounted concrete,concrete mixer truck,concrete mixing plant/towers,asphalt mixing plant,mini-type excavator,and hydraulic piling rig.Especially 14m³ concrete mixer truck made firstly by HONGDA in China meets large-scale concrete project’s demands of quickness and high-efficiency.Newly trial-produced China’s first 48m pump truck with boom adopting home-made chassis is popular with users.Concrete piston pump has got such three national patents as discharge change valve,concrete transport cylinder,and hydraulic control module. Newly developed HZSP180 concrete mixing plant has been examined and approved by experts organized by SHANDONG PROVINCE’s DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.Their conclusion is:the plant’s general technological index reaches domestic leading position,and it reaches internationally advanced level in such aspects as productivity,noise control,etc.The mixing plant’s “main mixer adjustable mixing device,auto-control device” get two national patents.Recently,it has been jointly awarded “national major new products certificate” by CHINA’s MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,MINISTRY OF COMMERCE,STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ADMINISTRATION,and STATE ADMINISTRATION OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE.The group is chosen as SHANDONG PROVINCE“HIGH-TECH ENTERPRISE”by the province’s DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.