Huaxiang South China Robot R&D and Intelligent Manufacturing Headquarters Settles in Shunde, Focusing on Joint Modules and Harmonic Reducers

October 22 news, October 20, Shunde District Government and Shanxi Linfen Huaxiang Industrial Co., Ltd. signed a contract for the Huaxiang South China Robot R&D and Intelligent Manufacturing Headquarters project. Project details: It is reported that the project is planned to settle in Daliang Subdistrict, Shunde District, with a planned land area of 130 mu, and will strive to build the Huaxiang Group's exclusive robot R&D and intelligent manufacturing headquarters in South China, a single champion project for humanoid robot core component suppliers, focusing on the R&D and production of joint modules, harmonic reducers, and liquid cooling key components. As early as December 10 last year, the first production line for humanoid robot precision components at the Huaxiang Shunde factory was put into operation and achieved stable production. This project plans to introduce global high-end CNC processing equipment, and plans to simultaneously introduce enterprises in the liquid cooling and CNC machine tool fields to settle in, forming a synergy of three blocks: robot core components, liquid cooling, and high-end equipment. At present, Huaxiang's humanoid robot business has carried out cooperation with enterprises such as Jiya Precision Machinery and Shanchuan Robot, and its liquid cooling and thermal management business has also carried out cooperative verification with industry-leading enterprises. Huaxiang Co., Ltd., why did it target robot components? Shanxi Linfen Huaxiang Industrial, which signed this contract, is the controlling shareholder of the listed company Huaxiang Co., Ltd., holding 52.15%. In the full year of 2025, Huaxiang Co., Ltd. achieved operating revenue of 4.127 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.83%, net profit attributable to the parent company of 558 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18.55%, and net profit after deducting non-recurring gains and losses of 488 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.85%. In the first half of 2026, Huaxiang Co., Ltd. achieved revenue of 2.206 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.64%, net profit attributable to the parent company of 262 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 9.89%, net profit after deducting non-recurring gains and losses of 219 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 16.51%, and a gross margin of 19.98%, a year-on-year decrease of 3.34 percentage points. In the first half of this year, Huaxiang Co., Ltd.'s main business, precision parts, saw declining growth and gross margin, which also led it to turn its attention to the new robot track and make the robot component business a key strategic layout direction for its future. The landing of this project further proves its determination to cross sectors, but at present, this line is still in the investment period and has not formed a second curve. To further understand the logic of Huaxiang entering robot components, it is necessary to return to its original position in the precision metal processing segment. Huaxiang Group owns a national-level manufacturing single champion enterprise. According to public information from Huaxiang Co., Ltd., its market share in core components for smart home compressors ranks first globally, its machining capability ranks first nationwide, and the scale of a single factory for industrial equipment components ranks first nationwide. The company's customers include Fortune Global 500 enterprises such as Midea, Gree, Haier, Continental Automotive, TRW, ZF, Toyota, and Mitsubishi. Compressor components themselves already have requirements for dimensional tolerance, material consistency, and batch delivery rhythm that are in the tighter range of precision manufacturing, while humanoid robot joint modules and harmonic reducer structural parts have requirements for processing accuracy and lightweight strength that have a certain process continuity with this manufacturing system. From Huaxiang's advancement path in robot components, this continuity can also be seen: the production line first landed at the Shunde factory, and then, in the form of an R&D and intelligent manufacturing headquarters, front-end process development and customer docking capabilities were concentrated in the same region. Conclusion: Shunde, as a major city for robots today, has also provided Huaxiang with the conditions for this engineering capability to be rapidly verified. It is reported that as of the end of 2025, the number of robot industry business entities in Shunde District reached 2,925, with an industry output value of nearly 40 billion yuan, and a chain covering key components, complete machine manufacturing, system integration, and scenario applications has taken shape. Huaxiang's project also lands on this, and the mass production ramp-up of its joint modules and reducer structural parts can connect nearby with the verification rhythm of upstream materials, processing support, and downstream complete machine customers. This is one of the conditions that a single factory area finds difficult to replicate when laying out in another location. Of course, the connection between Huaxiang and Shunde did not start with this signing. As early as October 2023, Huaxiang-affiliated enterprises began to settle in Jun'an Town, Shunde, to build a South China production base for expanding air-conditioning compressor component capacity, and the project was completed and put into operation in 2024. In December 2025, the first production line for humanoid robot precision components at Huaxiang's Guangdong Shunde factory completed equipment installation and debugging and achieved stable production, focusing on categories such as joint modules and reducer core structural parts. Entering 2026, the phase II project was officially put into batch production, advancing simultaneously in micron-level precision processing and mass production capacity. From the 22-mu compressor component base to the 130-mu R&D and intelligent manufacturing headquarters, from metal formed parts for home appliances to humanoid robot joint and reducer structural parts, Shunde has changed for Huaxiang from a production capacity landing point to an engineering support point for new business. Original title: Another robot intelligent manufacturing headquarters settles in Shunde!