We consulted thousands of patent papers, professional literature and other materials, held nearly a hundred technical seminars, and newly established mechanical and optical laboratories. It took a full five years. Without any available experience for reference, we constantly tested, corrected errors, repeatedly deduced, experimented and improved, and finally successfully developed this system. From zero to one, from nothing to something, the Xiong Gu automatic welding inventor team, with their dedication and fearlessness of hardship, forged ahead bravely and finally the dawn of harvest, successfully developing a fully automatic welding system based on laser tracking function.
We can summarize the characteristics of this technology of Xiong Gu with "three highs and one strong", namely high precision, high efficiency, high reliability, and strong adaptability, which can greatly improve the welding production efficiency and product quality. In November 2021, a welding system based on laser tracking won the first prize of the Sichuan Patent Award in 2020. With painstaking efforts and perseverance, the situation of being restricted by core technologies was broken.
This technological flower has also nurtured industrial fruits. The automatic welding machine products produced by the transformation of this patent have replaced imported products, filling the domestic gap in the field of high-strength steel automatic welding equipment for oil and gas pipelines. We are the main welding equipment suppliers for key oil and gas projects such as West-East Gas Transmission, Shaanxi-Beijing Line 4, and foreign projects. The welding equipment operates stably and safely and has been highly recognized by customers.
The Xiong Gu fully automatic pipeline welding system ensures the consistency of weld seam performance and the reliability of welding quality in the project, saves welding materials, and greatly promotes the quality and progress of the project. Patent technology helps strengthen, extend, and complement the industrial chain, playing a role in the real economy with high creativity, high application, and high conversion rate, ending the long-term monopoly of China's welding equipment market by foreign equipment.
Where there is a will, there is no distance too far; no mountains too high, no seas too wide. Hard work and continuous self-improvement are the noble spiritual forces deeply rooted in the hearts of every innovator at Xiong Gu. Let us pay tribute to the inventors of the new era and to scientific and technological innovation.