Since August this year, Xu Liuping took the post of Chairman of China FAW Group Corporation, China FAW ushered in an unprecedented, unprecedented and unprecedented depth of reform, and now, this drastic reform continues, and the areas involved More specific, more targeted.
On November 23, the subsidiary of Shanghai Research Institute of China First Automobile Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Shanghai Research Institute) was formally established in Shanghai.The establishment of Shanghai Research Institute indicates that the unprecedented reform of China FAW is advancing implement.
Shanghai Research Institute focused on new energy and smart network
According to official sources, Mr. Wang Zheng, assistant to general manager of China FAW, and Wang Deping, deputy director of New Energy Office, attended the ceremony of listing the Shanghai Research Institute together with other responsible officials of China FAW.
Wang Deping, deputy director of New Energy Office appeared on the scene of the listing ceremony, confirming the main functions of the Shanghai Academy of Sciences and the main direction.It is understood that Shanghai Institute will rely on Shanghai's advantages of international information technology center, as China FAW Group Research Institute's frontier , Which provides forward-looking technical information and research direction for the research institute of the Group headquarters. It mainly undertakes the research and application of new energy vehicle development and intelligent network interconnection of China FAW.
In fact, Xu Liuping made the clear and clear outline of the goals of China FAW's core business segments as soon as he assumed the position of FAW in the first time, of which, in building the total number of "domestic first and world-class" auto companies Target, targeting the field of new energy and intelligent networking, clear the industry leader in the field into the field of the first camp 'vision ... By the end of September,' hardcore 'Dong Haiyang joined China FAW, and is responsible for the new energy and intelligent network associated Business, visible in these two areas, Xu Liu Ping placed high hopes.
The institute is located in Shanghai, a city with a rich atmosphere of traditional automobile manufacturing, new energy vehicle research and development as well as intelligent network technology development. It will create the favorable conditions of "weather, geography, people and" for the realization of this goal. At the same time, To the extent of promoting China FAW new energy and smart car network of industrialization, to further accelerate the pace of scale.
R & D institutions to reform for the core areas of surgery
As part of the drastic reform of FAW, on September 21, the delisting of FAW Technology Center, the largest research, development and testing base for automotive products in the domestic automobile industry, which set up more than 60 years, affected China FAW and even the entire Chinese automobile Industry nerves in the future of China FAW R & D will continue to become the industry has become the focus of attention.
After the delisting of the FAW Technology Center, including R & D headquarters, modeling design institute, new energy development institute, intelligent network joint development institute and other departments have been set up from the original one center, split into 'four courtyards', the major The core research and development areas are clearly divided and integrated, and the R & D personnel and team level reconfiguration and segmentation, the main purpose is to focus on firepower, focus on key areas of core technology independent research and development efforts.
New Energy Development Institute and Intelligent Network Alliance Development Center is the FAW Technology Center after delisting, the group set up two new research institutes, which means that China FAW for the development trend of the industry will be the future direction of development and focus on locking here According to the plan, the establishment of Shanghai Research Institute will be more and more effective linkage with the four research institutes, and enhance the research and development strength of China's FAW new energy technology, equipped with intelligent network technology vehicle product layout The perfect contribution to make.
Obviously, for China FAW, whose reform has entered the deepwater zone and is to be reborn as a rebirth, all the aims of the Chinese FAW, breaking the inherent R & D system model and R & D organization and organization, are to fuller fulfill this unprecedented reform and rise Appeal.
Currently, in the field of new energy sources, China FAW has a corresponding product layout in all its brands. Among them, there are the Hongqi H7 PHEV models that have been put on the market and several new energy vehicles under the FAW Pentium series have been released on many occasions The establishment of Shanghai Research Institute will greatly enhance China FAW new energy technology, improve product layout.
In the field of intelligent networking, on July 3, FAW and Baidu signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement to join Apollo Ecology as a strategic partner. On the just-concluded 2017 Baidu conference on November 16, China FAW brought the Red Flag H7, Hongqi H5, Pentium X40, Senya R7 four intelligent version of the vehicle debut, share China FAW on the development and application of intelligent network of understanding.
Another source disclosed that after the founding of the Shanghai Institute will also be in the traditional car prices and new car forces cooperation, the relevant attempts and exploration.