A Shengrui employee assembles an eight-gear automatic transmission for an engine on a production line in Weifang, Shandong province. A privately-owned company in Weifang, East China's Shandong province, spent eight years on developing the world's first front-engine, front-drive eight-gear automatic transmission. "This provides us with sustainable development and sharpens our competitive edge in the automatic transmissions research and development sector," …