Jointly Building a Smart Port under the Belt and Road Initiative | Njabulo Nzimande, General Manager of African Exponential Tech, and his delegation visited HIRI FUTURE for technical exchange.

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2025-09-25

On the afternoon of June 4, Njabulo Nzimande, General Manager of African Exponential Tech A group of three people was invited to visit HIRI FUTURE for a technical exchange.

General Manager Wei Qiuxin provided a detailed introduction to HIRI FUTURE's practices in areas such as the development of smart ports and scientific research innovation in artificial intelligence. He also expressed hope that, guided by General Secretary Xi Jinping's... The Silk Road spirit of “peaceful cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and借鉴, and win-win cooperation” As a guide, taking this technical exchange as an opportunity, Fully leverage our respective strengths, deepen international cooperation on smart ports, and extend “Made in China” expertise to Africa and other Belt and Road countries, thereby achieving complementary advantages and mutually beneficial outcomes.

During the exchange, Mr. Njabulo Nzimande expressed full recognition of HIRI FUTURE's development achievements in recent years and expressed his hope to establish a long-term, stable cooperative relationship with our company. Leveraging China's strategic guidance for the Belt and Road International Cooperation initiative, he hopes that African countries can also achieve intelligent transformation and upgrading of their traditional ports.

After the exchange meeting, Mr. Njabulo Nzimande and his delegation also visited the HIRI FUTURE project site to get a close-up look at HIRI FUTURE's latest R&D achievement—the L4-level intelligent loading and unloading robot. The “L4-level intelligent loading and unloading robot” employs “a set of sensors and a single brain,” enabling conventional gantry cranes to achieve a 100% fully automated operation rate. Significantly enhance operational efficiency and safety protection levels.

HIRI FUTURE's AI products have been successfully implemented at nearly a hundred port terminals both domestically and internationally, and we are committed to providing ports with full-stack AI solutions. In recent years, HIRI FUTURE has actively responded to the nation’s call for “high-quality development” and “jointly building the ‘Belt and Road’,” strengthening industrial cooperation within the framework of the Belt and Road initiative and successfully enabling Chinese enterprises’ technological innovation achievements to go global.

In the future, HIRI FUTURE will continue to deepen its expertise in the field of artificial intelligence, promote technological innovation and development in the port industry, and help ports around the world achieve a green, automated, and intelligent transformation and upgrade.

Editor: Pan Yanling

Proofreading: Lai Zhiwei

Reviewed by: Zhang Weitian

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