On 20^th October, the 11^th Forum of Deep Foundation Development & 2021 Deep Foundation Technology Equipment Trade Fair, which was postponed twice due to the impact of the epidemic, was carried out and achieved a complete success in LongCheng TaiYuan Star River Hotel. This forum will continue with the style of "conference + exhibition + trade", and to adhere to the need of development of the whole industrial chain of deep foundation and underground space engineering, and to promote the deep integration of construction technology, theoretical research, equipment manufacturing & service engineering, to build a solid foundation for the national economy construction industry.  At the same time, the forum provides a valuable platform for technical exchange and experience sharing for academia and industry in this special field to achieve a deep integration of upstream and downstream industrial chain, combining experience with theory and practice to complement each other.  It is highly favored and valued by industry leaders, experts, scholars and entrepreneurs.  For this event, 6 out of the 9 members of APIE shared a booth to jointly participated in the exhibition, while the other two members participated in this exhibition in their own booth. Please refer to the table at the end of this article for detailed information about the 9 members.Forum of Deep Foundation Development is co-sponsored by the Deep Foundation and Underground Space Engineering Branch of China Construction Industry Association, Pile Construction Machinery Branch of Chinese Society of Construction Machinery, Pile Construction Machinery Branch of Chinese Society of Construction Machinery and Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Branch of China Civil Engineering Society.  After ten years of continuous exchanges, the Forum has formed a distinctive feature of focusing on the development situation, to closely follow the needs of the industry, integrating resources and cooperation, and to promote technological exchanges. The theme of this forum is "Building a Solid Foundation through Industrial linkage". Meanwhile, well-known experts and scholars in the field of basic engineering are invited to deliver industry development reports, conference reports and special reports of parallel forums.  As one of the special co-organizers, Tysim, President unit of APIE, delivered a special report with the theme of "Analysis of domestic and foreign Construction Method Application of Small Rotary Drilling Rig".  Among them, case sharing of customized small rig for Grid tower foundation construction, low headroom series rig, modular rotary drilling rig and the multi-functional rotary drilling rig have successfully aroused great interest of the participants.

Mr. Xin Peng, chairman of Tysim and APIE, delivered a special report

APIE is the abbreviation of Alliance of Piling Industry Elites, was founded in Wuxi in December 2016 by six members to realized customer information sharing, joint participation in domestics and international trade show. Please refer to the table at the end of this article for detailed information about the 9 members.

APIE was founded in response to the call and encouragement of "integration, sharing and group development" of secretary general Huang ZhiMing, Guo ChuanXin and other leaders of China Piling Machinery Association, to connect the leading enterprises of various subdivisions of piling industry products. It first participate in 2016 Shanghai Bauma Construction Machinery Exhibition and achieved good publicity and wide attention in the industry. The member units of APIE are the leading manufacturing enterprises in various subdivisions of piling industry. They integrate various sales forces and market channel resources and work together to promote the market, aiming at sharing and cooperating in all aspect including customer information, learning, and experience.

At present, the members has increased to 9 to continue adhering to the development idea of "integration, sharing and win-win". APIE strives to achieve the collaborative sharing of marketing systems and market resources of various enterprises. The member units have formulated the joint promotion action program and unified promotion requirements in marketing in domestic & foreign exhibitions, network publicity, marketing media, and market information sharing.  So far, there have been many successful cases of cross-marketing to maximize marketing effects with minimum cost for all members. 

Gao WenSheng, director of Foundation Research Institute of China Building Research Institute, and experts from various industries took a group photo with APIE members

Group photo of APIE participating teams

In this forum, through exchanges and sharing, friendships have been enhanced,  wisdom has been enlightened, innovation idea have been stimulated, to further promote the development of foundation technology in China, and also to provide a platform for exchange and learning for colleagues in this field, which is of great significance to promote the high-quality development of foundation engineering in the future.  Through this forum, APIE will further promote its brand awareness in the industry. Adhering to the joint purpose of "sharing consensus and developing together", the member units will enhance the cross-marketing ties among all members to further expand the influence of win-win cooperation, to jointly promote the interconnection & integration for new value of the consortium!