On July 23, 2018, 6 people, including An Lusheng, Party Secretary of Shanghai Jing'an District Committee and Pan Guoli, the director of District Committee Office, visited CASCO. On behalf of CASCO, President Yang Haidong welcomed their arrival and introduced CASCO's developments and changes in recent years.

Secretary An praised and acknowledged CASCO's rapid growth and latest achievements, noting as a former railway man, he was greatly inspired when learning about CASCO's good development plan and strategic development ideas. He believed CASCO has salient features: 1) advanced management philosophy and good mechanism which are maintained during its transformation from a JV to a state holding enterprise; 2) strong awareness of innovation; 3) putting safety first. He noted CASCO's move to set up research and design institute and provide full-life-cycle management for products lays a strategic foundation for virtuous future development, thus further increasing its presence and growing into a model in rail transit industry. He said the District Committee and Government will spare no efforts to support introduction of various talents, actively engage with the company regarding policies on employee apartment and provide door-to-door service to help the company grow.

President Yang Haidong thanked An for his care and noted CASCO would deliver good performance in technical innovation, particularly the development of driverless technology and integration of Beidou satellite positioning technology to develop the existing Shanghai rail transit driverless train control system engineering research center into the first national engineering technology research center in China. Meanwhile, the company will focus on cloud computing, big data, smart traffic and intelligent travel and actively explore next-generation rail transit operation control system in its steady movement towards the established strategic goals.