Trading House Xingtai Ltd is the legal successor of the company's Chinese sales of Xingtai tractor plant (XINGTAI TRACTOR MANUFACTURING co., Ltd.), which was founded in 1968 in Xingtai, Hebei. The organization and mastering of production were conducted with the assistance of Soviet specialists of Kharkov and Minsk tractor plants. The first batch of Chinese tractor plant engineers were trained at the Kharkov tractor plant in the late 1950s.
Originally based on two best designs by the hard work of factory specialists, the most reliable tractors MTZ-2 (MTZ) was designed to meet the specificity of agricultural production, the soil and climatic conditions of China.
This intense but fruitful work contributed to the mini tractor XT-160, which combined reasonable price with high efficiency of the tractor at the end of 1960s, also reached the level of the world standards. With the introduction of XT-160, farmers of China got an alternative to manual labor, with good performance and reliable technique.
Constant aspiration to meet the most varied requirements of buyers led to an increase in the power range of tractors. As a result, XT-120 (12HP) and XT-180 (18HP) were produced respectively. Later the horsepower was increased to 35 horsepower.