Overview
- At a February 13 company gala, more than 60 million yuan in cash was laid out across roughly 800 tables for about 7,000 attendees.
- Employees took part in interactive money-counting activities and could keep the amounts they counted, with videos of the event spreading widely online.
- The company says total year-end payouts topped 180 million yuan, drawn from a reported 270 million yuan profit for 2025, or nearly 70% of earnings.
- Onstage, Cui instructed the finance team to replace planned appliance gifts with cash and to give each employee an additional 20,000 yuan.
- The crane maker operates in over 130 countries and has a track record of similar bonuses, including 170 million yuan shared in 2024 and 1.6 million yuan to 2,000 women employees on International Women’s Day.