会议于１９９９年１０月１４～１６日在合肥市召开。会议的主要内容是研究和讨论全国工程机械跨世纪改革与发展问题，描绘工程机械发展兰图，为振兴工程机械行业而奋斗。参加会议的代表来自全国各地工程机械行业大、中型骨干企业和部分科研院所，共７０多个单位１２２名代表。 The conference was held in Hefei City from October 14th to 16th, 1999. The main content of the conference was to study and discuss the problems of cross-century reform and development of construction machinery throughout the country, depicting the development of construction machinery as a blueprint, and striving to revitalize the construction machinery industry. Representatives from all over the country came from large and medium-sized backbone enterprises and some research institutes in the construction machinery industry across the country, with a total of 122 representatives from more than 70 organizations.