Stage 16 Changsha：From Lihero to Hunan University and Sany

Jen Chen | 28. April 2025

Today, we arrived in Changsha City to experience the millennium cultural heritage of Yuelu Academy and appreciate the impressive strength of Sany Heavy Industry.

As a leading enterprise in China’s environmental monitoring sector, Lihero Technology (Hunan) Company leverages technological innovation, with water quality monitoring as its core strength, and expands its business into multiple fields, including air quality, pollution sources, and smart water management. In addition, the company provides comprehensive solutions such as smart environmental protection, carbon peak and carbon neutrality, contributing to ecological governance.

Located at the foot of Yuelu Mountain, Hunan University is renowned as a “thousand-year-old institution and a century-old prestigious school.” The campus is surrounded by lush greenery and fresh air. Amid the shade of towering trees, the old red-brick teaching buildings exude a rich cultural atmosphere. The university boasts examples of ancient Hunan architecture, such as Yuelu Academy, as well as early modernist buildings designed by prominent architects like Liu Dunzhen, Cai Zefeng, and Liu Shiying.

With technological innovation at its core, Sany Heavy Industry continuously enhances product competitiveness and has become a key representative of China’s high-end manufacturing industry on the global stage. Its leading products, including concrete machinery, excavators, and lifting machinery, hold a dominant position in the global market, with its electric products leading the industry in market share.

Like igus, all three entities have actively responded to China’s “dual carbon” strategy, and driven the green development of the industry through participation in policy initiatives and standard-setting.

Our rider: Joseph Zhou

Hi, I’m Joseph. I am very glad to participate in the igus:bike world tour, sharing with everyone igus’s environmental philosophy and products, as well as the excellent manufacturing enterprises in China.

Map of the tour