On the morning of September 16, the China Quality (Nanjing) Conference opened in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Wanxiang Qianchao Co., Ltd. was nominated for the 5th China Quality Award thanks to its "Wanxiang Quality Management Model, centered on the 'Seven-Step Value-Based Core Method'." This marks the third time that Wanxiang Qianchao has been nominated for the China Quality Award, following its previous nominations in 2013 and 2021 for the 1st and 4th China Quality Awards, respectively.

Wanxiang has always regarded quality as the foundation for the survival and development of the enterprise. In 1980, Lu Guanqiu, the founder of Wanxiang, scrapped 30,000 defective universal joints, suffering a painful loss of 430,000 yuan—a “painful wake-up call” that awakened the entire workforce to the importance of quality and firmly established the philosophy of “quality first, reputation paramount.” Taking this as a starting point, Wanxiang has rigorously focused on quality, formulated stringent systems, and implemented comprehensive quality management, assigning responsibility to every department and every production process, thus laying a solid foundation for the company’s development.

Thanks to its profound cultural heritage in quality and its continuous quality management practices, the “Qianchao” brand universal joint has become synonymous with high-quality products, selling briskly both at home and abroad. Since 1982, it has successively been awarded Provincial Excellence and Ministerial Excellence honors. In 1988, the Hangzhou Universal Joint Factory received the Silver Award of the National Quality Prize—a national honor that was then the highest distinction in the automotive industry.

Wanxiang Qianchao carries forward Wanxiang’s quality culture, always keeping the user at the center of its attention. It rigorously implements the Board of Directors’ “one-vote veto” quality principle, firmly upholds the philosophy that “quality is safety,” and practices the quality spirit of “strictness first, meticulousness, and relentless pursuit of excellence.” The company continuously promotes comprehensive quality innovation. By focusing on education, management, and technology, and aligning with strategic goals at different stages of development, the company constantly innovates its quality management model, driving continuous improvement in its quality management capabilities.

In 2013, Wanxiang Qianchao was nominated for the first China Quality Award, thanks to its comprehensive implementation of a “quality and safety risk management system based on ‘Four Nos and Four Earlys’,” which has yielded outstanding results. The “Four Nos” refer to “not designing, not manufacturing, not accepting, and not releasing nonconforming products,” while the “Four Earlys” stand for “early detection, early assessment, early warning, and early handling.” The company has established a comprehensive quality control system with the participation of all employees, effectively preventing and eliminating quality risks and potential hazards.

In 2021, Wanxiang Qianchao was nominated for the 4th China Quality Award, thanks to the successful implementation of its “Wanxiang ‘Four-Drive, Four-One’ Quality Management Model—From Fields to the World.” The company took meeting the highest quality standards in the global automotive industry as its breakthrough point, building an innovation-driven development mechanism from four aspects: market, technology, manufacturing, and operations. It also established a supporting system from two dimensions: quality infrastructure and quality culture development. Through “Four-One” goal management—“doing one practical thing each day, one new thing each month, one major thing each year, and one meaningful thing throughout one’s life”—all employees continuously strive for improvement, enabling quality to shift from quantitative change to qualitative transformation.

Through inheritance and iterative refinement, Wanxiang Qianchao has further developed the “Wanxiang Quality Management Model, centered on the ‘Seven-Step Value-Based Core Method’”—driven by innovation, anchored in three major strategies: globalization, technological innovation, and digital intelligence engineering. This model revolves around seven key steps—“What do we want?”, “What are we doing?”, “Who are the key players?”, “Who is being evaluated?”, “What is being evaluated?”, “How are we evaluating?”, and “How will we apply the results?”—to quantitatively measure the quality value of all employees throughout the quality development process. By building core competitiveness across R&D, marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and finance, the company aims to achieve comprehensive, high-quality development in products, services, management, and operations.

The operation of the Wanxiang Quality Management Model, centered on the “Seven-Step Value Creation and Verification Method,” enables all employees to engage in value creation and verification aligned with the company’s quality strategy and objectives. This has laid a solid foundation for the company to establish comprehensive quality prevention and improvement efforts that involve all employees, cover the entire process, and encompass all key elements. As a result, the company has achieved remarkable quality benefits, successfully becoming a supplier to all major mid-to-high-end automotive brands worldwide. The 9N strategy is being steadily and effectively implemented, and customer satisfaction continues to rise.

Since the 1980s, the principle of "Quality First, Reputation Above All" has been deeply embedded in the very essence of Wanxiang Qianchao. The people of Wanxiang profoundly recognize that "quality" is not merely the outcome of production—it is, rather, a highly effective, all-encompassing, and continuous interaction involving every employee, across all aspects and at all times. It is a comprehensive reflection of the company’s value orientation, technological capabilities, employee ethos, and management standards. At Wanxiang, quality is not just a simple metric or a mere number; it is, above all, a spirit and a belief. With four awards to its credit, Wanxiang’s quality management system has continually evolved. Behind this evolution lies the unwavering commitment of Wanxiang’s people to “never let up on quality,” and it also vividly demonstrates our strong capability to ensure stable quality and achieve sustained improvement. Standing tall at the top of the pole, we aim to go even further. Centered around its two core technologies—chassis and bearings—Wanxiang Qianchao will continue to deepen its expertise in the field of intelligent motion control for the machinery industry, wholeheartedly building a full-cycle digital and intelligent innovation development system. This will empower simultaneous leaps in quality innovation and industrial value creation, driving us to break new ground and strive toward the China Quality Award, thus securing even greater honors for Wanxiang’s “intelligent manufacturing”!