Shanghai Diesel Engine Co., Ltd., formerly known as Shanghai Diesel Engine Factory, was founded in 1947. In 1993, it was restructured into a state-owned holding company that issued A and B shares at home and abroad. A national large-scale high-tech enterprise for R&D and manufacturing, it has a technology center and a post-doctoral workstation, an international first-class automated production line and a quality management system of passenger car standards.

In 2021, the company will realize a new pattern of integrated development of the two major industrial sectors of “heavy truck + diesel engine” through the implementation of major asset reorganization. The heavy-duty truck business will use the wholly-owned SAIC Hongyan Automobile Co., Ltd. as a platform to actively deploy intelligent heavy-duty trucks and new energy heavy-duty trucks, and become a leading enterprise in the field of commercial vehicle heavy-duty trucks. At present, it has 11 platform series including Z, M, R, H, D, C, E, G, K, W, SR (Lingzhong), with a power coverage of 8~2176 kW.Innovation in the field of technology will create a leading position in smart heavy trucks and new energy heavy trucks; the diesel engine business will continue to be a leading domestic independent supplier of all series and multiple fields, continue to expand product categories, expand new market segments, and further improve The products have differentiated competitive advantages in new energy and intelligent networking, and provide technologically advanced products for domestic and foreign customers of commercial vehicles, construction machinery, agricultural machinery, ships and generator sets.
The company has a nationally certified enterprise technology center and a post-doctoral workstation, has a quality management system of passenger car standards and advanced automation and digital production lines, and vigorously promotes the construction of smart factories.

