In 2023, China will celebrate its 70th birthday. In the past 70 years, China's leading enterprises have developed and grown in forging ahead, made leapfrog breakthroughs in independent innovation, jumped to the world's largest automobile production and sales country, achieved the first scale of production and sales of new energy vehicles, and also gave birth to a number of well-known national automobile brands, and built a modern industrial system with complete structure and organic coordination.
Especially since the beginning of this year, China's automobile production and sales have grown steadily year-on-year, new energy vehicles have entered the stage of large-scale development, and the year-on-year growth rate of automobile exports has exceeded 70%, and the automobile market has become the "ballast stone" of economic recovery with strong resilience and stability.
While affirming the eventful years of industrial development, we should also be soberly aware that under the new proposition of high-quality development, China has come to a new threshold of transformation and upgrading. China's automobile industry is not only facing the opportunity to expand the development advantages of new energy vehicles, but also facing multiple challenges such as green, intelligent, safe and stable development.
Focusing on the present and the future, the author believes that we should seize the historical opportunity and make every effort to break through the three major difficulties and promote the high-quality development of the automobile industry when the automobile industry enters a new stage of high-quality development from high-speed development.
The first is to consolidate the technical foundation and consolidate and enhance the development advantages of new energy vehicles. New energy vehicles are a strategic choice for China to move from a large automobile country to an automobile power and realize the high-quality development of the automobile industry. At present, the development of new energy vehicles in China has achieved remarkable results. The next step should be to take advantage of the momentum and continue to strengthen the core technology research and technical system construction, especially the supply capacity of industrial machine tools, which is the "tool of the machine", so as to make it a key move and important support for building the competitive advantage of the whole industry chain of new energy vehicles.
The second is to make greater efforts to create an ecology conducive to the integrated development of "vehicle energy, road and cloud". Based on the actual development of the industry, the state has made it clear that the integration and development of automobiles, new energy industries, smart road facilities and cloud computing technology will promote the high-quality development of the industry with a system ecology. The network support formed by the integration of the Internet of Vehicles and the Internet of Things is the key infrastructure required for autonomous vehicles in the future, and the integration of the two networks should be strengthened to promote the construction of infrastructure such as smart road network, energy supplement, and cloud. At the same time, we will accelerate the demonstration and application of industrial collaboration, and create a "Chinese plan" for the integrated development of "vehicle energy, road and cloud" as soon as possible.
The third is to promote the internationalization of automobile exports and create international competitive advantages. Expanding exports and opening up overseas markets is the inevitable choice for car companies to become bigger and stronger, build an international brand, and it is also the only way to accelerate the construction of an automobile power. Looking forward to 2024, car companies should continue to make full use of the first-mover advantages they have established in the construction of the first-class system, intelligent technology innovation, product application, etc., actively participate in international exchanges and cooperation, learn from international advanced experience and technology, and promote the full ecology of Chinese auto brands to go overseas.
2023 is a commemorative moment for China to look back on its 70-year history, and it is also a starting moment for the future to be ready to go. It is believed that China, standing at a new starting point, will anchor high-quality development and move forward steadily. Automobile power is coming