Equipment manufacturing industry

The equipment manufacturing industry is one of the five pillar industries in Baotou. Its leading enterprises are Inner Mongolia First Machinery Group Corporation and Inner Mongolia North Heavy Industries Group Co Ltd. It integrates resources to develop heavy-duty cars, mining trucks, railway vehicles and the Mega Watt wind turbine as its main focus, and seeks to further develop large-scale machinery equipment and parts suitable for petrochemical engineering, power transmission and distribution, environmental protection and military projects.

The equipment manufacturing industry was up by 8.9 percent over the first three quarters compared with the same period last year.