On October 25, the closing ceremony of the World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference & IEEVChina 2019 was successfully held, at which BAIC Group reached strategic cooperation agreements with ten enterprises, universities and scientific research institutes including Tsinghua Unigroup, CEPREI, CCID, Harbin Institute of Technology, ZTE, Magnetti Marelli, Huada Semiconductor, Magna Automobile Technologies (Shanghai), Beijing HiRain Technologies and Velodyne.

Cai Suping, member of the standing committee of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of BAIC Group, Diao Shijing, Co-president of Tsinghua Unigroup, Wang Yong, Vice Director of CEPREI, Liu Wenqiang, Vice President of CCID, Zhang Hongtao, chief engineer of the Center of Science and Industrial Technology of Harbin Institute of Technology, Zhao Qiang, Vice President of ZTE, Joachim Fetzer, Executive Vice President of Magnetti Marelli, Ma Yuchuan, Deputy General Manager of Huada Semiconductor, Wang Bicheng, Vice President of Magna Automobile Technologies (Shanghai), Ji Yingcun, CEO of Beijing HiRain Technologies and Mike Parkin, Vice President of Velodyne, attended the signing ceremony.

Partnership across the Value Chain Promotes Industrial Ecological Prosperity

Reaching the strategic cooperation is an important move that BAIC Group takes to comprehensively advance the development of intelligent and connected vehicles and implement the “Dolphin Plus” strategy in accordance with the guidelines specified in the Action Plan of Beijing Municipal Government for the Innovative Development of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles, and reflects the strategic resolve and firm actions of BAIC Group in deepening the development of intelligence and connected vehicles. According to the agreements, BAIC Group will carry out continued and in-depth cooperation with the ten partners on autonomous driving, human-vehicle interactions, big data, cloud platforms, intelligence and connectivity simulation authentication, and create a circle of friends across the value chain of intelligence and connectivity.

At present, the auto industry chain is being integrated with information, communication and Internet industrial chains at a deeper level, forming an unprecedented industrial ecology. Amid the trend, whole vehicle enterprises, parts and components manufacturers, Internet giants, new technology and new mode startups, universities and research institutes successively join the open tide of cooperation that was never seen before, sharing the huge innovation space and broad market prospects related to intelligent and connected vehicles through cross-sectoral corporation.

Xu Heyi, Party Committee Secretary and Board Chairman of BAIC Group, said, to realize the popularization and large-scale development of intelligent and connected vehicles and enter a period of fast development for intelligent and connected vehicles, focus must be put on the demand ecology, application ecology, innovation ecology and management ecology, and ecological prosperity must be accelerated from multiple dimensions. BAIC Goup will join hands with partners both at home and abroad, integrate competitive advantages and carry out comprehensive and in-depth strategic cooperation on the technologies and products of intelligent and collected vehicles, so as to make deployment at the technological frontier of intelligent and connected vehicles and embrace the new era of traveling based on intelligence and connectivity.

Dual Drivers Power Future Travelling

The 4-day event gathered the strongest forces in auto, Internet and related fields both at home and abroad and reflected the latest trends of intelligent and connected vehicles. BAIC Group made use of the platform and displayed its products in diverse forms, manifesting its role as an advanced force in the transformation of China's auto industry with a series of strategic achievements. Xu Heyi, Party Committee Secretary and Board Chairman of BAIC Group delivered a keynote speech at the main forum, Sharing the experience and wisdom of BAIC Group; through the static exhibition of new energy products, BAIC Group presented its portfolio that combines new energy with intelligent and connected technologies; through dynamic experience of intelligent and connected technologies like queue autonomous driving, automated valet parking, L3 autonomous driving and V2X dynamic exhibition, BAIC Group demonstrated the innovative fruits in intelligent and connected technologies. Leaders including Miao Wei, Party Group Secretary and Minister of MIIT, and Chen Jining, Deputy Secretary of Beijing Municipal Committee of CPC and Mayor of Beijing, visited the exhibition of BAIC Group and spoke highly of the achievements BAIC Group has made in intelligent and connected vehicle technologies.

As the backbone force of China's auto industry and a firm leader in the transformation of the auto industry, BAIC Group not only takes the lead in the promotion of new energy because in an all-round way, but also makes positive deployment and key breakthroughs towards the direction of intelligence and connectivity and advances the strategy of development driven by new energy vehicles and intelligent and connected vehicles. BAIC Group will continue to implement the “Dolphin Plus” strategy, and build the “hard core” of intelligent technologies through constant breakthroughs in key technologies like onboard chips; it will mass produce high-end products like L3 and L4 to cross the watershed of intelligent products; it will work to build an intelligent ecological community through opening-up and integration with bigger efforts and a wider scope; it will create a new benchmark for intelligent transport through demonstration applications targeted at demand arising from the hosting of 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games and the construction of Xiongan New Area.

In the future, intelligence and connectivity will become the most disruptive force transforming the century-old auto industry, and release growth room at an exponential speed. BAIC Group is ready to team up all the partners, break the ecological bottleneck and accelerate ecological prosperity, so as to advance the key leap of the intelligent and connected vehicle industry from the incubation period to the period of fast development and build a better future for intelligent and connected vehicles.