On June 16, the off-line ceremony of Changhong Huayi’s billionth compressor was grandly held in Jingzhou with the theme of “Three Ranks Crowning the World, Intelligent Manufacturing Creates the Future”.
With the smart manipulator steadily delivering new compressors, Changhong Huayi’s cumulative output has officially crossed the one billion unit mark. This milestone is not only a testimony to the strength of China’s small refrigeration compressor industry to reach the top of the world, but also a vivid answer to Jingzhou’s manufacturing industry’s deep cultivation of physical and intelligent manufacturing to break through.
Huayi Compressor (Jingzhou) Co., Ltd., which has been rooted in Jingzhou for 25 years, was born in 2001 and is a wholly-owned core subsidiary of Changhong Huayi Compressor Co., Ltd.
Since its establishment, the company has anchored on the track of environmentally friendly and energy-saving small compressors, focusing on the research, development and manufacturing of refrigeration equipment products suitable for refrigerators, freezers, car refrigerators, ice machines, commercial display cabinets and other full categories of refrigeration equipment. It has now deployed six series and more than 300 subdivided varieties. With the product advantages of low noise, low vibration, low-voltage start-up, high efficiency and energy saving, and ultra-long life, it has quickly seized the domestic and foreign markets.
Since 2013, Huayi Jingzhou has ranked first among its peers in the country in terms of production and sales for 12 consecutive years. In 2025, the scale of production and sales reached a new high. The annual output of compressors was nearly 16.5 million units, a year-on-year increase of 20%. The output value that year exceeded 1.82 billion yuan. The Jingzhou base has become the core support point of Changhong Huayi’s global strategic layout.
Good products are sold all over the world.
At present, Huayi Jingzhou products are exported to more than 30 countries around the world, and are deeply tied to more than 60 internationally renowned refrigerator manufacturing companies such as Whirlpool, GE, Midea, Meiling, and Galanz to establish long-term and stable strategic cooperation.
At the 137th Canton Fair in 2025, the company launched the E120GL large-scale compressor. With its outstanding advantages of high power and extremely fast refrigeration, it won bulk intended orders from many countries in the Middle East and Africa, becoming the main force for Jingzhou’s foreign trade manufacturing companies to go overseas to grab orders.
The billionth compressor rolled off the assembly line this time, carrying the original intention of Changhong Huayi Industry to serve the country, embodying the hard work of thousands of employees at the Jingzhou base for decades, and also witnessing the deep friendship between Jingzhou and Changhong Group for 25 years of working together.
From a production capacity of tens of millions to a milestone of one billion units, Huayi Jingzhou can lead the industry for a long time, relying on two core competitiveness——
The entire green manufacturing chain layout and in-depth digital and intelligent transformation have led to a path of Jingzhou manufacturing upgrading with simultaneous improvements in scale, quality, environmental protection and efficiency.
Unique Skill One: Green manufacturing runs through the entire chain, from end-to-end management to upgrading full-cycle low-carbon production.
Entering Huayi’s Jingzhou factory, a complete closed-loop environmental protection treatment system is the most eye-catching “green business card”. The company abandons the single-end pollution control model and integrates low-carbon concepts into the entire industry chain of design, production, and recycling to achieve a win-win situation of cost reduction, efficiency increase, and ecological protection.
In the waste gas treatment process, the waste gas generated by the electrophoresis drying process is collected through a dedicated pipe network, and is cooled and dusted by a cyclone spray tower, and the secondary activated carbon is deeply adsorbed and purified before being discharged into compliance with the standards. The company has added an online monitoring device, and the environmental protection data acquisition instrument updates pollutant data every two minutes and automatically alarms for abnormalities. All monitoring data are synchronized to the Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau supervision platform in real time, making the entire process traceable and controllable.
The company has also invested heavily in sewage treatment. The company invested 3 million yuan to build a new sewage sludge treatment station, with a designed daily sewage treatment capacity of 300 tons. It purifies production and domestic wastewater through multiple processes of oil separation, sedimentation, coagulation and flocculation. So far, a total of more than 28,000 cubic meters of industrial sewage have been processed.
More than just upgrading pollution control equipment, the company comprehensively implements an integrated strategy of green design, green production, and green recycling, continues to optimize raw material utilization, and reduces production energy consumption. It has successively won the honor of Hubei Province’s Green Manufacturing Factory and has become a demonstration model for the green and low-carbon transformation of the city’s manufacturing industry.
Unique skill two: Deep empowerment of intelligent transformation and digital transformation, machine substitution to open up the digitization of the entire link of production, supply, marketing and research.
As a provincial-level specialized and special “little giant”, a provincial-level advanced intelligent manufacturing factory, and a provincial-level manufacturing individual champion, Huayi Jingzhou will launch a comprehensive digital transformation as early as 2024, using a two-pronged approach of system upgrades and production line transformation to solve manufacturing pain points.
The management side builds a digital base: integrated intelligent management and control of personnel, equipment, and materials.
In the shell welding workshop, 26 welding robots work together, significantly improving welding accuracy and finished product consistency; a new intelligent tool library has been put into use, which relies on hierarchical authority and inventory warning to replace traditional manual ledgers to eliminate material waste and ensure continuous and stable production.
Multiple smart assembly lines have completed iterations. The same process in the old production line requires 38 people, while the new smart line only requires 29 people. Production efficiency has increased by 35%, and the output of a single shift has grown steadily.
Relying on the 5G + industrial Internet platform, the workshop can realize instant alarm of equipment faults and remote debugging, and the digital transformation has achieved remarkable results.
Facing the future, the company plans to open up the full-service interconnection of “production, supply, research, sales, and maintenance” by the end of 2026 to reach advanced standards for smart factories; during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, it will strive to achieve a full-process automation coverage of 82%, and continue to consolidate the world’s leading technical barriers for small compressors.
Having taken root in Jingzhou for 25 years, Huayi Jingzhou is no longer just a manufacturing factory, but also the core engine that drives the city’s intelligent equipment industry chain extension, transformation and upgrading.
The company possesses many important qualifications such as national high-tech enterprise, provincial 5G factory, specialized and new “little giant”, green factory, and individual championship. It has formed a complete closed loop of technology research and development, intelligent production, and global sales, providing solid support for Jingzhou to build a 200-billion-level intelligent equipment industry cluster.
Huayi Jingzhou is deeply engaged in the small refrigeration compressor segment, with differentiated layout of commercial, household and vehicle-mounted diversified products, filling the gap in the regional high-end refrigeration equipment industry, attracting upstream and downstream supporting companies to gather in the Economic Development Zone, and improving the local home appliance equipment industry chain support; the company continues to expand production capacity, introduce advanced technology, cultivate local industrial talents, and drive local economic growth with real output value, tax revenue, and foreign trade orders, becoming a vivid epitome of the high-quality development of Jingzhou’s advanced manufacturing industry.
Standing at a new starting point as the billionth compressor rolls off the production line, Huayi Jingzhou will adhere to the innovative, green, and intelligent development route, continue to delve into the global market, break through core technologies, and expand high-quality production capacity.
In the future, this manufacturing leader that has grown from Jingzhou to the world will continue to set new industry records, and with the power of Jingzhou’s intelligent manufacturing, it will continue to lead the new track of the global small compressor industry.
