As the last page of the year turns, the lights of Xi'an meet the measurement beams still lit in the workshop. This is the final watch before Spring Festival, and another complete year walked alongside our customers.
Looking back on 2025, AEH moved decisively closer to its customers' processes. We did not define success on our own this year. We redefined, with our customers, what accuracy means in an era of intelligent manufacturing.
The first kind of accuracy lies in a trust that began with a tender in 2003 and continues today.
More than twenty years ago, Xi'an Aero-Engine gave AEH its first opening in a genuinely demanding application. By 2025 this instrument had become a mainstay from Shenyang to Chengdu, on aero engines and spacecraft components alike. Our customers tell us the equipment has run for twenty years and is still dependable. We tell them they are the ones who gave it the standing to define accuracy at all.
The second kind of accuracy appeared on a demonstration screen at our product launch on 26 June.
At the Foliwang conference centre, our new generation of CMMs with embodied intelligence was shown for the first time. When real-time adaptive algorithms completed micron-level compensation under difficult conditions, and digital imaging measurement raised throughput visibly, the first question from the floor was whether the system could go into their production line tomorrow. That was when we knew the value of a technical breakthrough is not in the laboratory but in the customer's takt time.
The third kind of accuracy is written into an investment agreement signed in July.
China Galaxy Investment completed a strategic investment in AEH through the Shaanxi Aerospace Fund. The arrival of capital was not the turning point in this story. The real turn came earlier, when customers began moving AEH equipment from an alternative under consideration into their technical specifications. The market had already read the company's value.
The fourth kind of accuracy is defined in our strategy of enabling people first.
This year we said plainly that real accuracy is not the endless pursuit of higher specifications, but a precise grasp of what a customer needs and a precise response to it. Behind our new line, accuracy defines your altitude, sit 28 years of application data, more than a hundred engineers' continuing study of customer processes, and a decision to place solving problems above selling equipment.
The fifth kind of accuracy took root at an opening ceremony in January 2026.
At the Chang'an Advanced aerospace intelligent manufacturing laboratory, the Aerospace Precision Measurement Technology Research Centre, established jointly by AEH and Chang'an Advanced, was formally founded. It opens 2026, but it is the result of countless technical discussions through 2025. As measurement moves from offline inspection to online monitoring, and from final gatekeeping into the nervous system of manufacturing itself, our relationship with customers has moved too, from two ends of a transaction to a shared starting point in research.
The sixth kind of accuracy belongs to every operator standing at one of these machines.
We have always believed that however advanced the algorithm or precise the sensor, the result is handed to a person to judge, decide and build on. In 2025 more frontline operators came through AEH's training courses. When one of them said they had never realised data could be read this way, we saw what putting people first actually looks like: not people serving machines, but technology serving people's growth.
The seventh kind of accuracy is for you and your family.
Over the past year, every aero engine blade, every set of EV components and every semiconductor carrier AEH equipment measured rested on the attention of the people at this company. The 48-hour stability tests in temperature-controlled workshops, the late meetings working through a single measurement problem — that is the most dependable accuracy we deliver.
The Year of the Horse is approaching. In the Chinese calendar the horse stands for setting out at speed, and for going toward something.
In 2026, AEH will continue alongside our customers. Thank you for the year past, in which we defined accuracy together. In the year ahead, may this instrument that set out from Xi'an keep providing a dependable reference point for everything you set out to build.