XGC88000: The 4,000-Ton-Class Crane Built to Move the Impossible

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4,000 metric tons — lifted, swung, and placed by a single crane, in a single motion. That's more than double what the world's most powerful conventional crawler crane can handle. China built it specifically to lift entire nuclear reactor modules and wind turbine components too massive for anything the rest of the world had ever built. In this video, we go inside the XCMG XGC88000 — the counterweight system holding back four thousand tons of tipping force, the overload test that pushed it to 4,500 tons just to prove it wouldn't fail, and why China's heavy-lift industry has quietly overtaken the West.

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