Hubei Henglong Group, the automobile power steering system manufacturing enterprise, owns 17 domestic and international invention patents and more than 200 utility model patents of all kinds. Meanwhile, the group has participated in the formulation of 8 industrial standards. Its steering gear has a 20% domestic market share. It’s the largest producer of automobile power steering system and accessories in China.
In the 3000m3 national level experiment center of Henglong, the reporter saw over 20 detection platforms was detecting the steering gears of more than 10 domestic and overseas brands such as Chrysler JEEP from America, Volvo from Japan, FIAT from Brazil and GM from India at the same time. Xiong Wei, the director of the experiment center, briefed us that, this experiment center is one the most advanced automobile steering gear detection platforms; it has over 60 domestic and overseas first-class detection equipments, which can detect more than 50 kinds of steering gears at one time. Among all the equipments, the steering endurance testing machine is world-leading, the semi-anechoic room which detects the steering noise is domestic leading, and the pull-rod-four-axles fatigue test-bed is the only detection equipment in China of the same kind.  {Ky:PAGE}
Li Qi, the vice-president of Henglong Group Research Institute, said that, the company had established a group research institute, three technical research and development centers; there are over 260 people in the scientific research team, they are distributed in Beijing, shanghai, Wuhan, Jingzhou and some other cities. Billions of RMB has been invested in scientific research each year; the output value of new products shares over 30% of group’s annual value. Last year, Henglong Group has produced more than 4 million automobile steering gears, its sale income has reached 3 billion yuan, and it supplies over 50 domestic and overseas automobile manufacturers such as Dongfeng Motor Corporation, FAW Group Corporation, Chery Automobile Corporation, Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company, etc with accessories. Its products can satisfy all kinds of vehicle (heavy-duty, midsize, light, sedans, mini, etc.). It’s the biggest, strongest automobile steering system manufacturing enterprise with the largest scale of variety.