In a practical training class of lathe parts processing, it was their senior brother Yandong Ma who was guiding a group of sophomore students.
In 2008, Yandong Ma was admitted to the Mechanical Department of Changzhou Vocational Institute of Industry Technology (CIIT). In 2009 when he was in the second half of his sophomore year, Jiangsu Hengli Hydraulic Co., Ltd. began collaborating with CIIT to establish an order class to select and reserve frontline skilled talents for the foundry that was currently under construction.
In 2011, as one of the first graduates of the order class, he started working as a frontline worker at the newly established foundry of Hengli as soon as he graduated.
Just ten years later, he quickly developed from a grassroots frontline worker to the director of Hengli Foundry. He has successfully broken through the core production technology of smelting and solved the bottleneck problem of plunger pumps and multi way valve casting technology for excavators in the Chinese hydraulic industry, producing alternative to import and putting an end to foreign monopolies. In May 2021, he was awarded the honor of Chinese Foundry Master.
Despite their busy work, Yandong Ma and other key members who also graduated from CIIT, as industry mentors, regularly come back to their mother college to teach their junior brothers and sisters by personal example as well as face-to-face verbal instruction.