Many leaders and friends from government, industry, academy, and software vendors came to celebrate the occasion, including Mr. Jun Wu from the Science and Technology Department of Hubei Province, the principals from Hubei Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Service Center, Mechanical Engineering Society of Hubei Province, Mechanical Science and Engineering School of HUST, NIIDDM, Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group of CSSC, Huaxin Cement, Hubei Digital Industry Group, Wuhan Fingu Electronic Technology, YOFC, Wuhan Aimin Pharmaceutical, Mitsubishi Electric, KMsoft, Tianyu Soft, Wellin Tech, EpicHust, EMAN, henrywaltz, BSG, Ruijie, MOREwis, Intplog, Bamboo Cloud, Zhiming Information, and e-works board members and executives. They gathered together to talk about those good memories with e-works in the past 20 years and looked forward to the bright future.
 
Prof. Peigen Li, e-works founder and Fellow of Chinese Engineering Academy, Mr. Jiayue Zheng, Inspector of Economy and Information Technology Department of Hubei Province, Prof. Bin Li, e-works Chairman, Dr. Pei Huang , e-works CEO, and Dr. Jun Xu, e-works President spoke at the anniversary ceremony.
 
“My heartfelt congratulations to all of you! The unique value of e-works makes it a noticeable platform at home and abroad. It has become a good platform for companies to identify suppliers, potential customers, and potential innovation partners. It also provides a knowledge platform for them to learn a wealth of knowledge and cultivate awareness and thinking for intelligent manufacturing and digital transformation,” said Li. He hopes e-works can continue to contribute its share to digitalization and intelligent manufacturing ecology.  
“e-works grows and prospers with time. Thank you for your great contributions to promoting digital transformation in enterprises. In the next 20 years, I hope you can achieve more brilliant results,” said Mr. Jiayue Zheng.  
 “e-works now has 1.1 million social media subscribers and 700,000+ members, among which over 60,000 are senior executives of manufacturing enterprises. The success is largely due to the 20 years’ focus on the IT application services in manufacturing, the original content creation, and the knowledge and resource services. I wish you many more successful years ahead,” said Prof. Li.  
When talking about the development history, e-works CEO Dr. Huang said,“e-works has been focusing on promoting intelligent manufacturing and the integration of IT application with industrialization in China for the last 20 years. We will keep sticking to the fundamental principle of being a neutral third party. As China's manufacturing industry prospers, we have found a unique development road of our own by creating new business models and have extended our services across and even out of China.”  
“I sincerely thank all the leaders and guests for your greatest support, encouragement and help to e-works. In the next 20 years, we will strive for a stronger growth and make new achievements in promoting intelligent manufacturing,” said Dr. Xu.  
At the ceremony, e-works also announced its 20^th anniversary logo and watched a blessing video in which scholars, experts, and entrepreneurs expressed their best wishes and great expectations for e-works.  
“In the future, e-works will continue to focus on intelligent manufacturing services, and we are looking forward to cooperating with our many partners to achieve greater success,” said Dr. Huang.