Lanjian Intelligent, 30-Year Logistics Firm Building Its Own 45m Warehouses

Lanjian Intelligent (Lanjian Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.) is a 30-year smart-logistics systems specialist founded in Jinan in 1993, one of the few Chinese brands that develops and manufactures its own core logistics equipment and exports finished products to developed markets abroad.

1. Company Overview

  • Company name: Lanjian Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (Lanjian Intelligent), ticker 688557 (Shanghai STAR Market)
  • Founded: 1993
  • Headquarters: Jinan, Shandong Province, China
  • Listed: December 2, 2020 on the STAR Market (issue price RMB 28/share, 18.17 million shares issued)
  • Representative: Wu Yaohua — founder and chairman, a technical expert with more than 30 years in warehouse logistics automation, holding 35.86% equity

2. History and Personnel

Founded in 1993, the company grew into a full-process smart-logistics systems solution provider spanning consulting and planning, software development, equipment manufacturing, systems integration, and automated large-scale operations. In December 2020, it listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange STAR Market, becoming Jinan’s fourth and Shandong Province’s eighth STAR Market-listed company. It operates its own advanced logistics equipment and technology industrial park and states it holds 353 items of proprietary intellectual property.

The company is led by Chairman Wu Yaohua and states it has a research team including numerous PhDs trained in the United States. It has built cooperative relationships with leading domestic universities including Shandong University, and operates a state-level logistics engineering talent training and practicum base. R&D investment as a share of revenue has averaged more than 7% annually (8.78% in 2020).

3. Core Technology and Key Equipment

The company states it has independently developed logistics equipment including stacker cranes, shuttle cars, lifters, AGVs, and automatic packaging machines, holding more than 30 core technologies including simulation-based lightweight design. It has also developed an ultra-high-speed warehouse robot (pallet-class intelligent stacker) based on dual-drive technology.

  • Stacker crane — track record of self-developed, self-manufactured, and self-installed 45m-class ultra-high-rise stacking warehouses
  • Shuttle car — 30m-class super multi-deep (multi-shuttle) warehouses
  • AGVs, lifters, automatic packaging machines
  • BlueSword Digital Twins — an integrated platform for dynamic modeling, virtual simulation, offline debugging, and 3D monitoring

4. Production Infrastructure and Quality Assurance

The company operates an R&D center in Dezhou, Shandong, and its own industrial park (the ‘Super Future Factory’), progressively implementing a model in which robots manufacture robots.

5. Delivery Track Record and Partnerships

It is publicly disclosed that the company operates an automated large-scale operation system applying ‘massive-order 3D cargo-location picking technology’ for Vipshop’s South China warehouse. Individual customer names beyond this are (non-public).

6. Financial Status and Roadmap

As a Shanghai Stock Exchange STAR Market-listed company (688557), its annual reports are publicly disclosed. Per disclosures at the time of listing, R&D investment for 2017-2019 was RMB 13.06 million, RMB 22.56 million, and RMB 31.22 million respectively, a cumulative 7.47% of revenue over the period.

The company states it is strengthening its technology reserves in advanced smart warehouse-logistics automation systems and high-end equipment, with a stated strategic goal of growing into an international brand in the smart warehouse-logistics automation industry and achieving globalization.

This profile was compiled from publicly available sources including CS.com.cn, Chinabgao (chinabgao.com), the company’s official website (blueswords.com), and a Guosen Securities research report via Zhihu; unverified figures and non-public information have not been arbitrarily included.

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