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DENVER, the United States, Oct. 14-- Steven Chapman has been travelling to China for 32 years. When he took over China operations for Cummins in 1985, Deng Xiaoping, the great reformer recognized an excellent American product and opened the floodgates for the diesel engine giant. Since from then, under Chapman's helm, Cummins' China sales skyrocketed from 8 million U.S. dollars to a staggering 5 billion U.S. dollars last year. Since from then, the Yale-educated China Cummins Investment (CCI) CEO had overseen the construction of 17 factories in China, several joint ventures with leading Chinese truck manufacturers, and his staff had mushroomed from eight to 10,000. Chapman has interfaced with his Chinese counterparts so successfully that in 2016 he was awarded the China National Friendship Award - China's most prestigious award for foreigners. But what landed the Cummins leader on center stage at Friday's 8th Annual U.S. China Energy Efficiency Forum (EEF) in Denver, is not only his achievements in past decades recognized by Chinese and American energy and government officials, but also his company's new joint project, Chinese version Super Truck. In 2016, Cummins, in response to a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) program, partnered with Peterbilt to make a Super Truck - featuring a Cummins engine and Peterbilt chassis that achieved 10.7 miles-per-gallon, twice the gas mileage of today's tractor-trailers. | 
