On March 6, Yuchai Cup ten-city bus enterprise service contest, themed by contending for excellence, creating civilized units, proposed by Tianjin Bus Group (TBG), was launched in Tianjin.

Wu Qiwei, general manager of Yuchai Machinery Co., Ltd. (YM), sponsor of the event, said, Engine is the core part that directly affects the exhaust and fuel consumption of vehicles, Yuchai shoulders heavy social responsibility. As the navigator of Chinese urban bus engines, Yuchai has maintained an over 60% share in the bus market for years, so Yuchai has the honor to sponsor the event in the full course and will try its best to grow with the bus enterprises in the ten cities.

According to the source, the event is aimed at improving the service standards of buses, further consolidating the key role of buses in promoting urban development and facilitating travel; further increasing the level of construction of humanistic, cultural, environmental and harmonious public transport; further deepening Party-mass building and excellence contention, creating a favorable atmosphere of learning from the advanced, advocating the advanced and contending to be the advanced. It is a great event in Chinas public transport industry on the eve of the 90th anniversary of the Party.

As one of the representatives of bus enterprises in the cities involved in the event, Shao Hongsheng, deputy Party secretary of Beijing Public Transport Holdings Ltd., told the press, 2011 is the opening year of the Eleventh Five-Year period, the 90th anniversary of the Communist Party of China, a year when excellence campaigns in the public transport industry will climax as well as an important year for the country to intensify traffic control and building bus cities. In this context, bus enterprises in ten cities including Beijing, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan, Hohhot, Jinan, Zhengzhou, Qingdao, Tangshan and Baotou decided to jointly carry out the event, which is of great realistic and far-reaching significance.

According to the source, the organizing committee has worked out the elaborate contest plan, steps and specific assessment system. The contest involves competitions in seven aspects-Party spirit and excellence, operation and transport quality, safety and stability, service and quality, tidiness and image, consumption reduction and environmental protection, and station order and support. At the same time, during the contest, bus enterprises from ten cities will, based on their respective characteristics and actualities, carry out distinctive service contests, and organize activities such as bus service exchange and observation, sharing of service experience and demonstration of service skills to maximize the effects of activities.

The event advocated by TBG is of great significance to the improving the overall service level of the public transport industry. National policies encourage priority to public transport development. Vigorously developing public transport and improving service quality can not only facilitate the travel of urban residents, but also is of great significance to solving problems of urban congestion and air pollution, and plays a significant role in boosting the self construction and service standards of bus companies. Zhong Yuwei, deputy general manager of GM, told the press, Yuchai has the honor to be involved in the event as the sponsor. It will organize Yuchais offices to offer active assistance to the thematic service activities of bus companies from the cities, to intensify daily services and training, and to repay customers with quality services.

Upon the strength of advantages in products and services, Yuchai has been popular with and gained high recognition from customers and in the public transport market. Through long-term operation and comparison, domestic bus customers universally recognize the power performance, economy, environmental friendliness, quality and service assurance system of Yuchais products.

Yuchai, which aims to be the largest controller of mobile pollution sources, has always led the industry in exhaust control and taken active part in technical R & D three to six years before the national compulsory requirements were proposed. For example, the National V engines, which Yuchai began to develop six years ago, have entered Beijing in volume, making Yuchai the countrys only enterprise that can manufacture National V engines in volume. Several environment-friendly and energy-conserving engines input massively into the public transport system such as Yuchai National IV diesel engine, hybrid engine and gas engine have played significant role in further improving the service standards and overall image of the public transport industry.

According to Zhong, to further enhance Yuchais quality image among customers, with the event, Yuchai will further raise his service commitment by increasing the warranty period of large bus engines from 250,000 kilometers to 300,000 kilometers in 24 months.

Liu Jingjing, China Automotive News