2025 is a crucial year for bringing the 14th Five-Year Plan to a high-quality conclusion and mapping out the 15th Five-Year Plan, and it also marks the 20th anniversary of the reform and development of CCCC. In order to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, vigorously promote the spirit of innovation, and fully leverage the supporting role of scientific and technological innovation, all units of Xizhu Company have actively implemented the company's 2025 "Science and Technology Month" activity deployment, and carefully planned and systematically carried out a series of scientific and technological innovation activities.

University professors specially invited to hold technical exchange on asphalt mixing equipment

On November 26, the Research Institute specially invited two professors, Xie Liyang and Zhang Chenguang from Chang'an University, to conduct an exchange on key technologies of asphalt mixing plants. Zhang Yongwei, deputy general manager and chief engineer of the company, attended, and technical personnel in the mixing business participated.

Professor Xie Liyang analyzed the problems and challenges faced by mixing plants in terms of harmful gas emissions and environmental compliance from the three dimensions of environmental emissions, energy consumption control, and intelligentization. Combined with domestic and international cases, he discussed the evaluation system for harmful gases, the advantages and disadvantages of waste gas treatment technologies, and the direction of green and intelligent transformation of mixing equipment, providing ideas for the integration of environmental protection and intelligentization in enterprises. Professor Zhang Chenguang focused on specific technical issues and shared design ideas for drying drums and dust removal systems. Through data and model analysis, he elaborated on the optimization directions of equipment in terms of structure, energy consumption, and efficiency, providing theoretical support for product performance improvement and energy saving and consumption reduction.

Special training held on R&D investment governance and R&D funding collection

On November 27, the Science and Digitalization Department conducted the "Special Training on R&D Investment Governance, R&D Funding Collection, and Tax Reduction and Exemption," attended by the Science and Digitalization Department, the Financial Management Department, the Research Institute, and the technical heads of each branch company. The training specially invited senior expert Liu Yi in the field to give lectures, mainly focusing on "R&D investment governance," "R&D funding collection," and "tax reduction and exemption."

The training provided detailed explanations combining policy interpretation, technical contract recognition and registration, and the different requirements for R&D expense collection standards, while also providing detailed answers and guidance on issues such as labor costs, R&D working hours, invoice collection, and R&D trial production in various departments and branch companies. The training effectively improved the ability of relevant personnel to accurately collect R&D expenses and effectively prevented the risk of policy benefits being affected by non-standard collection.

Energy Branch Company holds "Science and Technology as the Banner, Innovation Revitalizing the Enterprise" activity

On November 26, the Energy and Environmental Protection Technology Branch Company held a "Science and Technology Month" activity themed "Science and Technology as the Banner, Innovation Revitalizing the Enterprise."

The activity focused on the development goals of "transforming toward green, leaping toward digital, and advancing toward the new," and organized all employees to collectively study General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on scientific and technological innovation and the development of new quality productive forces. At the same time, a "Green and Low-Carbon Knowledge QR Code Quiz" activity was carried out, inviting all employees to participate in the green and low-carbon knowledge quiz, further consolidating employees' understanding and mastery of low-carbon, zero-carbon, and negative-carbon related knowledge, promoting the development philosophy of "innovation, green, digital intelligence, integration, and sustainability" to take root in people's hearts, and building consensus in thinking.