On June 19, 2021, the "(Nantong) Road Marking Industry New Technology Exchange Conference," initiated and hosted by Tiantu Road Industry Group, was held in the beautiful Tongzhou Bay of Nantong. The conference invited Cao Suning, Deputy Secretary of the Tongzhou Bay River-Sea Intermodal Development Demonstration Zone, Xu Honghua, Deputy Director, and leaders from the Demonstration Zone's Construction Bureau and Investment Promotion Bureau, as well as Mr. Bai Zhen, Executive Vice President of the Traffic Engineering Facilities Branch of the China Communications and Transportation Association, Ms. Chen Xianzheng, Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Hu Jiangbi, Professor of Beijing University of Technology, and over a hundred other well-known figures from the industry to attend and witness the successful holding of this new technology exchange conference.

Interior view of the venue for the (Nantong) Road Marking Industry New Technology Exchange Conference

Cao Suning, Deputy Secretary of the Tongzhou Bay River-Sea Intermodal Development Demonstration Zone, delivered a speech at the conference.

Cao Suning, Deputy Secretary of the Tongzhou Bay River-Sea Intermodal Development Demonstration Zone, delivered a speech at the conference as the host representative. He fully affirmed and praised Tiantu Road Industry Group for its continuous investment, construction, and steady development in the demonstration zone over the past eight years. He expressed his firm belief that Tiantu Road Industry Group will continue to grow stronger and better in the industry with its clear and firm strategic goals, steady development path, and innovative investment.

Bai Zhen, Executive Vice President of the Traffic Engineering Facilities Branch of the China Communications and Transportation Association

Bai Zhen, Executive Vice President of the Traffic Engineering Facilities Branch of the China Communications and Transportation Association, delivered a special lecture entitled "An Introduction to a Long-Lasting Hot-Melt Checkerboard-Shaped Road Marking," addressing the pain points, difficulties, and irregularities in the domestic road marking industry during rainy nights. Executive Vice President Bai Zhen introduced a hot-melt checkerboard-shaped road marking system. This system, based on specially modified hot-melt road marking paint and constructed using large-scale marking equipment such as marking vehicles, not only effectively solves the problems of weak adhesion and easy detachment of glass beads in conventional hot-melt flat markings, making it difficult to achieve continuous reflectivity, especially in rainy nights, but also addresses the issue of high prices for two-component checkerboard-shaped markings that offer both good hydrophobicity and rainy night reflectivity. It is a truly meaningful rainy night reflective marking system that is both adaptable to the production conditions of the domestic paint industry and effectively achieves the functions of water-repellent road protection, lane marking warning, and rainy night reflectivity. It is an economical, feasible, and marketable high-performance road marking system with excellent cost-effectiveness.

Ms. Hu Jiangbi, Member of the China Intelligent Transportation Systems Association and its Safety Committee,
Director of the Traffic Engineering Branch of the China Highway Society,
Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Beijing University of Technology

Following this, Ms. Hu Jiangbi, a member of the China Intelligent Transportation Systems Association, a member of its Safety Committee, a director of the Traffic Engineering Branch of the China Highway Society, a professor and doctoral supervisor at Beijing University of Technology, delivered a professional speech entitled "Innovation and Development of my country's Road Marking Industry." Professor Hu's insightful analysis and data-driven assessment pointed out that "only fully automated production equipment and standardized raw material and finished product testing systems can guarantee the production of high-quality road marking materials; only large-scale road marking construction equipment, represented by road marking vehicles and line removal vehicles, can solve the long-standing problems of construction quality, construction progress, and construction risk management that have plagued the road marking industry." She earnestly hoped that all colleagues in the road marking industry present would work together to solve the urgent problem of "having an advanced highway transportation system, but with almost outdated road markings, line removal/washing equipment, and processes."

Mr. Wang Shuwen, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tiantu Road Industry Group

Mr. Wang Shuwen, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tiantu Road Industry Group, delivered an impromptu speech on how to start with fully automated production and standardized quality control of road marking paint, and how to upgrade large-scale road marking equipment such as road marking vehicles to meet international standards, in order to create a sustainable development ecosystem for the road marking industry.

 Following this, the guests gathered at the "Road Marking Industry Customer Center" built within the "Virdo" base. During a "family banquet" held in the VIP restaurant of the customer center, they shared their conference experiences, analyzed industry pain points, and discussed how to quickly achieve fully automated production and standardized quality control of domestic road marking paint by aligning with international road marking paint production and construction processes. They also explored ways to expedite the large-scale and modern development of road marking and line removal/washing equipment, represented by road marking vehicles, and to resolve long-standing industry pain points for road management departments and construction units, such as "difficulty in controlling the quality of road marking paint, difficulty in managing the quality of road marking construction, difficulty in guaranteeing the progress of road marking construction, and difficulty in avoiding the risks of road marking construction." The goal was to change the embarrassing situation in China where "it possesses a large-scale, high-grade road network globally, but with outdated road markings." They also offered numerous opinions and suggestions on how to continue holding successful exchange meetings.

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