SHANDONG HONGDA GROUP has made great achievements in developing new products. All the factories, workshops and departments of the group always make concerted efforts to further strengthen quality control and brand building. Meanwhile, the group practises an international purchase strategy on its brought-in components, aims at global technology cooperation and emphasizes improving independent innovative ability. It has developed its new products like concrete boom pump trucks, concrete piston pumps, truck-mounted concrete pumps, concrete mixer trucks, concrete mixing plants/towers, asphalt mixing plants, mini excavators and hydraulic piling rigs. The 16m³ concrete mixer truck made by HONGDA Group can meet the requirements of large-scale concrete projects for its characteristics of quickness and high-efficiency. Hongda Group's 52m-boom concrete pump truck with home-made chassis is very popular with users. The HZS180 concrete mixing plant has been successfully inspected and approved by experts organized by the DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY of SHANDONG PROVINCE. According to their appraisal, this series of products are advanced in such aspects as productivity, noise control, operation and environmental protection”. The mixing plant’s “adjustable mixing device and auto-control device” obtained two national patents. It has been jointly awarded “certificate of national key new products” by CHINA’s MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, MINISTRY OF COMMERCE, STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ADMINISTRATION and STATE ADMINISTRATION OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE. Hongda Group was appraised as Shandong "HIGH-TECH ENTERPRISE” by the province’s DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.