China Auto Valley's "Second Entrepreneurship" Automotive Industry | Automotive | Auto Valley
From the production of the first domestically produced Fukang sedan to the construction of a vibrant new city, Wuhan Economic Development Zone has gathered 9 complete vehicle enterprises, 13 complete vehicle factories, and more than 500 automotive parts enterprises on less than 500 square kilometers of land, becoming one of the regions with the highest concentration of automotive industry in the country, and is vividly known as the "Chinese Car Valley". Nowadays, in line with the trend of electrification, intelligence, networking, and sharing in the automotive industry, Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone has once again made significant progress in the transformation of old and new kinetic energy.
In the Lantu New Energy Vehicle Industrial Park, various vehicle models are arranged neatly. This used to be Dongfeng Renault's Wuhan factory, but now it has become an intelligent production base for Dongfeng to build new energy passenger vehicle brands. Lu Fang, CEO of Lantu Automotive Technology Co., Ltd., told reporters that Lantu has exceeded 3000 units in sales for five consecutive months and has entered Norway, the world's third-largest new energy vehicle market. Behind the birth of Lantu, it reflects Dongfeng's efforts to accelerate the transformation of fuel vehicles to new energy vehicles and promote competition between domestic brands and high-end brands around the world.
Entering the Dongfeng Technology Center, the achievements in breaking through the bottleneck problem in key core areas are very impressive. Yang Yanding, Deputy Secretary and Deputy Director of the Party Committee of Dongfeng Technology Center, introduced that Dongfeng Company has established a joint venture with CRRC to independently develop and produce vehicle grade IGBT modules, breaking the monopoly of European, American and Japanese enterprises in the mid to high end IGBT market. Dongfeng Company also collaborates with 8 enterprises, institutions, and universities to build the "Hubei Province Automotive Grade Chip Industry Technology Innovation Consortium", striving to promote the complete independent definition, design, manufacturing, packaging, testing, and controller development and application of automotive grade chips.
Artificial intelligence has become the focus of competition for the next generation of cars. Unmanned buses traveling in Wuhan Economic Development Zone can "see", "listen", and "think" well. Through the fusion of multiple sensors such as LiDAR, millimeter wave radar, and cameras, they achieve stable and safe unmanned driving. Here, simply click on your phone to place an order and summon an unmanned taxi - the steering wheel can rotate freely, mobile payment is convenient and fast, and the travel experience is full of futuristic feeling. At present, more than 10 autonomous driving enterprises, including Dongfeng Yuexiang, Baidu, Xiaomi, etc., are conducting road testing and demonstration applications of autonomous driving here.
The "smart car" is driving on the "smart road". As early as 2019, the National Intelligent Connected Vehicle Testing Demonstration Zone was unveiled in Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, which is also the earliest demonstration zone in China to issue commercial licenses for autonomous driving. In recent years, Wuhan Economic Development Zone has focused on creating multi-dimensional intelligent connected vehicle application scenarios, and has built the largest, most scenario, and first fully 5G connected open road autonomous driving demonstration zone in the country.
Wuhan Economic Development Zone focuses on promoting the "dual intelligence" linkage development between smart cities and intelligent connected vehicles, and its comprehensive service capabilities in the new energy and intelligent connected vehicle industries are among the top in the country. The Economic Development Zone continues to strengthen, supplement, and extend the supply chain, accelerating the gathering of leading enterprises in the fields of unmanned driving and artificial intelligence. Wuhan Economic Development Zone Artificial Intelligence Technology Park is only one and a half years old, with 118 settled enterprises, including 3 specialized, refined, special, and new enterprises, 22 high-tech enterprises, and 67 incubators under incubation.
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Wu Fang, Director of the Economic and Information Bureau of Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, told reporters that strengthening attraction and policy supply around artificial intelligence, digital economy, and other areas is precisely to create a good industrial development environment and help the traditional automotive industry transform and upgrade into a future industry.
Yikatong Technology, which has settled in the Wuhan Economic Development Zone, has its intelligent cockpit products assembled and used in over 3.7 million cars worldwide. "It is very convenient to find upstream and downstream customers and partners here. In addition, Wuhan Economic Development Zone provides strong support for talent introduction and even office space, and enterprises can basically settle in," said Zhang Rongbo, Senior Vice President of R&D at Yikatong Technology.
In 2022, the GDP of Wuhan Economic Development Zone exceeded the 200 billion yuan mark for the first time, achieving an industrial output value of 350 billion yuan, and the number of high-tech enterprises doubled to over 1000. At present, China Auto Valley is anchoring its goal of "starting again with a second entrepreneurship", seizing new tracks and opportunities, and promoting high-quality development of the automotive industry.