D.MAG Marks Its 30th Anniversary as Event Series Concludes Successfully

6.5 Kilometers: Eight Hundred People Moving as One

At 9:00 a.m. on October 18, employees from the Nanhe and Pengxi plants arrived at the assembly point in Forest Park, lined up by department and collected their supplies. At 9:30, company leadership addressed the gathering and led the warm-up; at 9:35, the starting gun fired and the teams set off in formation, one after another. Three checkpoints along the loop handled water and check-ins. By 11:30, the last group reached the finish, collected their supply packs and dispersed — about 6.5 kilometers in roughly two and a half hours.

“Walk to build strength, walk together to build a team, walk green to honor our responsibilities” — these were the three aspirations behind the hike. Along the way, the teams followed traffic rules and looked after the environment, leaving the six-and-a-half-kilometer park loop as clean as they found it.

Two Days, Three Hundred Kilometers: One Rider Goes Fast; a Team Goes Far

On October 30, riders, bikes and luggage stood ready. About 100 core team members were formed into eight squads of ten. Setting out from Suzhou Bay, they circled Lake Tai in two groups — Route A to the east, Route B to the west — and met in Huzhou two days later. Each route covered about 155 kilometers, some 310 kilometers in all.

Three hundred kilometers is not a race. Helmets stayed on throughout; riders kept a single file on the right and slowed at every intersection, passing hand signals — slow down, emergency stop — all the way to the back of the line. Support stations stood at set intervals, with support vehicles, mechanics and medical staff alongside the whole way. What carried the team that distance was not stamina alone, but the certainty that every rider knew what the next intersection called for.

Inside Dingmei’s thirty years, working as one follows the same logic: someone leads, someone brings up the rear, someone holds the pace in the middle. Those years brought tailwinds and headwinds alike, and what carried the company through was precisely this understanding that no one is left behind.

Circling Lake Tai, in a sense, also means holding a team together. Three hundred kilometers on, the team came back to the finish intact — and that may come closer to the point of this ride than the mileage itself.

At thirty, one stands firm — an age for looking back, and for riding on. Dingmei sets out again with the understanding earned over these three hundred kilometers: to go steady and go far, better with each year; and over the next thirty years, a wider road and a longer line of riders.