The Inaugural Meeting of the Traffic Intelligent Construction Branch of the China Highway & Transportation Society and the First National Academic Conference on Traffic Intelligent Construction Held in Wuhan
From March 22nd to 24th, 2024, the Traffic Intelligent Construction Branch of the China Highway Society was officially launched in WuHan, Hubei Province, marked by its inaugural assembly and the First National Traffic Intelligent Construction Academic Conference. This significant event, guided by the China Highway & Transportation Society and undertaken by entities including the CCCC Second Harbor Engineering Company Ltd, drew esteemed participants. The conference was attended by Weng Mengyong, Chairman of the China Highway & Transportation Society; Pei Minshan, Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of the China Communications Construction Group Co., Ltd; Chinese Academy of Engineering academicians Tan Jianrong, Li Huajun, Xie Xianqi, and Zhu Hehua; as well as leaders from Hubei Province's Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Department of Science and Technology, Department of Transportation, Jiangsu Province's Transportation Construction Bureau, and the Hubei Provincial Highway Society. In addition, over 500 experts, scholars, entrepreneurs, and academic faculty and students from the national field of intelligent construction participated in this conference. Capping off the event, Li Zongping, the Party Secretary and Chairman of the CCCC Second Harbor Engineering Company Ltd, was elected as the first Chairman of the Council of the Traffic Intelligent Construction Branch of the China Highway & Transportation Society, marking a significant milestone for the organization.
The conference centered around the theme "Digital Intelligence Empowerment and Transportation Powerhouse," featuring one main forum and five sub-forums. Renowned academicians and distinguished scholars were invited to deliver academic reports, focusing on major prospective and critical technological issues in current intelligent transportation construction. The latest research achievements in the field of intelligent transportation construction were exchanged and showcased. Among them, Zhang Hong, the Chief Scientist of the CCCC Second Harbor Engineering Company Ltd, delivered a keynote report titled "Research and Demonstration of Key Technologies for Industrialized Intelligent Construction of Bridges."
The Traffic Intelligent Construction Branch is the 16th branch established by the China Highway & Transportation Society and the first to focus on intelligent construction. It strives to become "a leader in technological innovation in intelligent construction within the transportation field, a converger of innovative elements, and a promoter of industrial development." By gathering domestic and international strengths in the transportation construction sector, it aims to advance the construction of transportation infrastructure towards industrialization, digitization, intelligence, and greening. Following its establishment, the branch will deeply grasp the policy direction in the field of intelligent transportation construction, further strengthen industry exchanges and collaborative innovation, focus on promoting research and the application of key theories, core technologies, intelligent equipment, and control, and actively contribute to the construction of a strong transportation nation.
It has been reported that CCCC Second Harbor Engineering Company Ltd, has made significant strides in bridge intelligent construction, serving as a breakthrough point. Integrating the concept of the industrial internet, the company has built an industrialized intelligent construction technology system. This system features a developmental approach based on industrialization, digitization, networking, and intelligence, as well as a threefold integration of the industry chain, innovation chain, and value chain. The company has transformed and upgraded its operations in various areas, including the construction of super-large open caisson foundations and super-high concrete bridge towers, as well as in prefabricated and digital construction. It has pioneered internationally leading technologies for constructing kilometer-scale cable-stayed bridges, massive sea-spanning suspension bridges, and super-large span steel truss arch bridges. Additionally, the company has developed significant equipment such as an integrated intelligent tower machine, an R20000-720 type tower crane, and a TD5000-30 flexible production line for reinforcing mesh.
These technological advancements have contributed to enhancing the quality and efficiency of significant infrastructure projects, including the Sutong Yangtze River Bridge, Changtai Yangtze River Bridge, ShenZhong Channel Lingdingyang Bridge, and the Chaoma Railway Ma'anshan Yangtze River Public Rail Bridge. The company has thus made substantial progress in establishing a modern industry system for bridge industrialization and intelligent construction that is autonomous and controllable.
The convening of this conference has established a high-end platform for exchange and cooperation in the field of intelligent transportation construction between industry, academia, and research, which is of great significance for promoting the transportation construction industry to lead industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation and to accelerate the cultivation and development of "new quality productivity". During the conference, academicians and experts visited the Wuhan Shuangliu Yangtze River Bridge project of the CCCC Second Harbor Engineering Company Ltd for on-site guidance and experienced the application of the company's intelligent construction technology and equipment in the project. (Tang Lin, Yan Jiushun, Tong Zhiyang)
