As the main position of the province's industrial economy, in the past year, in the face of the decline in sales of traditional fuel vehicles and the strong rise of new energy vehicles, Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, the "China Car Valley", has been moving forward with heavy burdens and forging ahead, and has walked out of a U-shaped curve of "bottoming out and rebounding".
The latest data shows that in 2023, the industrial added value of Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone is expected to increase by 6about 6%, leading the three major development zones in the city; The total industrial output value above designated size exceeded 360 billion yuan, accounting for nearly a quarter of the city's total, and the total amount continued to rank first in Wuhan.
The upward curve against the trend is not only a quantitative increase, but also a qualitative improvement.
From the addition of 2 "unicorns", the increase accounted for two-thirds of the province, to 1,700 high-tech enterprises, the total number jumped to the second in the city; From the output value of the digital economy exceeding 100 billion yuan to attracting investment, the cumulative contract amount exceeded 190 billion yuan; From the first batch of "double intelligence" pilot assessment in the country ranked second in the country, to the total number of new R&D institutions ranked second in the city......Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone is moving forward to the "new" and contributing to the "Chegu sample" of the province's new industrialization.
Break through
New energy vehicles start the "acceleration run".
At the beginning of the new year, in the Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, a group of new car-making forces and new strengths started to "accelerate the run".
On January 22, VOYAH and Huawei jointly announced that they have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly create the ultimate intelligent travel experience based on user needs, and accelerate the large-scale commercialization of intelligent technologies through innovative exploration in various fields through cooperative models.
A few days ago, on January 18, Lotus's first pure electric supercar Emeya was officially launched and started mass production and delivery, which is also the first "made in the valley" pure electric supercar car, equipped with a dual-motor four-wheel drive system, with an acceleration of 2 per 100 kilometers78 seconds.
Also this month, the luxury electric off-road brand Mengshi Technology announced that its first model, Mengshi 917, has won domestic production orders of 200 million yuan, ushering in a "good start". At the same time, Mengshi Technology also signed a strategic cooperation with CATL, and in the next three years, the battery technology developed by CATL will be the first to be used in Mengshi Technology's models.
The start is a sprint, and the start is a decisive battle. The courage of car companies to be the first is a vivid portrayal of Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone to promote the transformation and upgrading of the automobile industry with the spirit of breaking through.
Automobile is one of the pillar industries in Hubei. In 2023, our province will make a breakthrough in the development of five advantageous industries with extraordinary measures and gather the strength of the whole province, clearly include the "new energy and intelligent networked automobile industry", and strive to exceed one trillion yuan in the scale of the automobile industry by 2025.
As the main position of the province, the core bearing area of the "Wuxiang Shisui" national automobile industry cluster, Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone bravely takes on the important task of building a demonstration area for the development of the whole industrial chain of new energy vehicles and promoting the "incremental transformation" of the automobile industry. Since August last year, three "three-year action plans" have been launched consecutively, aiming at the three major technical directions of pure electric, hybrid and hydrogen energy, covering the three major fields of vehicles, parts and components, and intelligent vehicle software.
The 108-square-kilometer intelligent network and electric vehicle industrial park was first established. As the main incremental carrier of the new track of the automobile industry in Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, in one year, it has gathered four major new energy vehicle projects such as Lotus, Brayton, and Kaiwo, as well as more than 500 "smart + new energy" enterprises such as China Innovation Airlines and Aiji. In 2023, the total industrial output value of the park will exceed 53 billion yuan, doubling, and this year it will sprint to 140 billion yuan to build a new industrial park of 100 billion yuan.
At the same time, Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone will put parts in the same important position as the whole vehicle, and implement a zero-to-whole ratio improvement plan. The person in charge of the district led the team to carry out "carpet scanning" around the first chain of the industrial chain, and formulated an industrial investment map for the weak links. In the past year, more than 30 key component projects such as ZF, Aptiv, and Aifei have been implemented, and three Fortune 500 companies, C&D, State Holdings, and Chuxiang, have come to layout, and a more resilient new energy vehicle industry chain has been accelerated.
At present, with the continuous development of tens of billions of projects such as VOYAH Automobile, Lotus Smart Factory, and China Innovation Aviation Wuhan Base, Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone is showing strong development potential on the new energy vehicle track.
VOYAH Automotive bucked the trend and successively launched the VOYAH Chasing Light, the New VOYAH Free, the New VOYAH Dreamer, and the VOYAH Chasing Light PHEV, with annual sales exceeding 50,000 units, successfully entering the monthly sales club of 10,000 units, and becoming one of the few car companies to achieve the annual sales target in 2023. Lu Fang, CEO of VOYAH Automotive, said that in 2024, VOYAH will continue to launch first-class and facelifted products, accelerate digital transformation, and make every effort to hit the new goal of annual sales of 100,000 units.
Dongfeng Honda has accelerated its transformation and launched a new new energy brand "Lingxi", committed to building a younger and more intelligent electric vehicle. At present, Dongfeng Honda has more than 10 electrified products, and this year it will launch three pure electric products on the market: e:NS2, Lingxi L, and SUV sequence, accelerating the new era of intelligent electric.
The first and second phases of the Wuhan base of China Innovation Airlines have been put into operation, with the output rising and the revenue doubling, and the third phase of the project has also been completed and is climbing in capacity. The new generation of power battery products that have been mass-produced and rolled off the assembly line have been fully adapted to the best-selling models of many leading car companies, and will continue to be matched by local car companies in the future.
In August last year, Mengshi Science and Technology Park opened, and the first luxury electric off-road vehicle Mengshi 917 entered the mass production stage, which is the fourth new energy vehicle factory put into operation in Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone in three years. So far, Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone has laid out 7 new energy vehicle manufacturers, forming a pattern of central enterprises and private enterprises, independent and joint ventures, new forces and new strength going hand in hand, competing for development, and the new energy vehicle production capacity in the region will increase by 200,000 units in 2023, and the output of new energy vehicles will increase by 30%, accounting for 21%.
The relevant person in charge of Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone said that in 2024, it will strive to introduce one more new energy vehicle company to promote the production of new energy vehicles to exceed 400,000 units. By 2025, the output of complete vehicles in the region will exceed 1.5 million, including 600,000 new energy vehicles, and strive to exceed 1 million; Create more than 10 recognizable brands of automobiles and key components; Key technologies such as three-electric (motor, electronic control, battery) system and vehicle-grade chips have achieved domestic leadership.
Upgrades
The coordinated development of "double intelligence" is at the forefront of the country
Take a taxi to the airport, and take orders on autopilot. On January 26, at Wuhan Tianhe Airport, autonomous vehicles with lidar on their heads and "radish pick-up" paint appeared frequently, becoming a new force in this year's Wuhan Spring Festival.
It's amazing, the first time I ride, the sense of science and technology is full! Mr. Li, who returned from Guangzhou, was amazed after experiencing it firsthand.
In fact, for the citizens of the Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, hitting "unmanned vehicles" is not a new thing. As the core bearing area of the first batch of pilot cities for the coordinated development of smart city infrastructure and intelligent networked vehicles (hereinafter referred to as "double intelligence") in China, as early as September 2022, it was the first in the country to open the commercial demonstration operation service of fully unmanned autonomous driving in the country.
As a key link in the intelligent and networked nature of automobiles, autonomous driving has become a new track for global competition in science and technology and industry. In order to seize the new track, Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone has continuously increased its support for new business formats such as intelligent networked vehicles, not only taking the lead in building 106 kilometers of intelligent networked roads and Asia's largest intelligent networked closed test site, but also taking Junshan New Town as a starting point to greatly expand the scope of intelligent networked vehicle open test roads, leading Wuhan to achieve a national innovation breakthrough in multiple autonomous driving commercial application scenarios such as cross-regional traffic, cross-river traffic, and airport high-speed traffic.
In January this year, the National Intelligent Connected Vehicle (Wuhan) Test Demonstration Zone issued the first batch of 118 autonomous driving test licenses in 2024 to Dongfeng Yuexiang and Radish Express. So far, the Wuhan Demonstration Zone has issued a total of 1,954 road test and operation licenses for various types of autonomous driving, attracting nearly 500 autonomous vehicles to carry out normal operation. In 2023, the number of orders for autonomous mobility services will reach 7320,000 orders, serving 900,000 people. As a result, Wuhan has become the world's largest driverless operation service area.
In October last year, the National "Double Intelligence" Pilot Work Office announced the acceptance and assessment results of the first batch of six "Double Intelligence" pilot cities, and Wuhan scored a comprehensive score of 87With a score of 47, it ranks second, second only to Shanghai, and is rated as excellent together with Shanghai and Beijing.
It not only serves the public, but also "empowers" the industry. As the core carrying area of Wuhan's "Double Intelligence" pilot, Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone actively promotes technological innovation, standard formulation, testing and verification of intelligent networked vehicles, carries out commercial demonstration applications of autonomous driving, and innovates to create a "Double Intelligence" integrated industrial ecology.
In September last year, the Central China Regional Center, a national new-generation artificial intelligence open innovation platform for autonomous driving, jointly built by Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone and the Group, landed in China Car Valley. This is the second regional center set up by the national new generation of artificial intelligence open innovation platform for autonomous driving in China, which will strengthen the research of key core technologies and radiate and drive the high-quality development of autonomous driving and intelligent networked vehicle industries in central China.
At present, the largest 5G cloud warehouse center in China has been built in Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone. APLLO's intelligent driving system has been successfully installed in **VOYAH FREE, which can realize high-speed pilot assisted driving functions.
In November last year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other four ministries and commissions jointly issued the "Notice on Carrying out the Pilot Work of Intelligent Connected Vehicle Access and Road Access", which promoted the commercialization of L3 and L4 autonomous driving in the form of a pilot at the national level for the first time. Seizing the opportunity, Huali Zhixing, located in Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, took the lead in the layout, and the latest generation of on-board intelligent terminal products independently developed by the company are being front-loaded on 100,000 vehicles through first-class merchants. Qiu Zhijun, chairman of Huali Zhixing, said that this year, it will continue to expand large-scale mass production, and strive to complete the front-loading of V2X (vehicle-road collaboration) technology on 4 to 5 models, and accelerate the progress towards unmanned commercial applications.
Innovation
A number of new quality productivity projects are booming
Promote industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation, and cultivate the formation of new quality productivity. The ** Economic Work Conference held at the end of 2023 clearly proposed to vigorously develop the digital economy and accelerate the development of artificial intelligence; build a number of strategic emerging industries such as biomanufacturing, commercial aerospace, and low-altitude economy; Open up new tracks for future industries such as quantum and life sciences......
With new tracks and new advantages, China's car valley hooves are moving steadily.
On January 12, the Provincial Emergency Management Department, Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone signed a strategic cooperation agreement with CITIC Marine Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of CITIC Haizhi, a leading domestic low-altitude economic enterprise, settled in Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, and will carry out aviation emergency rescue, aero engine repair, overhaul, maintenance of various aircraft parts, and engage in the production of unmanned aerial vehicles and aviation emergency equipment and other products.
As a representative of new quality productivity, low-altitude economy is becoming an important direction for cultivating and developing new kinetic energy. According to the main person in charge of Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, at present, the zone has gathered a number of general aviation and emergency projects such as the National Central China Regional Emergency Rescue Center, Baoli Aviation, China Special Flying Institute Intelligent Container UAV R&D, Hubei 3611, etc., and the agglomeration effect of low-altitude economy and industry has begun to appear. "In the future, we will seize the opportunity to cultivate new economic growth points and create a highland for low-altitude economic and industrial development with the general aviation airport and the National Central China Emergency Rescue Center as the carrier. ”
Hydrogen energy is known as the "next outlet" of the new energy industry. On this track, Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone has gathered 14 leading enterprises, covering the whole industrial chain of fuel cells, vehicle manufacturing, inspection and testing, hydrogen production, hydrogen refueling station operation and so on. Among them, Wuhan Green Hydrogen Energy has realized the main core component of hydrogen fuel cells, "Chegu Manufacturing", and is striving to build the largest hydrogen energy R&D and production base in China. The most advanced "membrane electrode product" independently developed by Wuhan Institute of Technology Hydrogen Power will increase the life of hydrogen fuel cells by about 1 time, and will be officially launched to the market this year. Relying on these hard-core enterprises, Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone will continue to install "hydrogen" and build a national hydrogen fuel cell vehicle demonstration zone.
Software is the soul of the new generation of information technology. Seizing the opportunity of software-defined vehicle transformation, in September last year, Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone launched the construction of a 1-square-kilometer Wuhan Intelligent Vehicle Software Park, with the R&D base of Dongsoft South and the China Power Digital Economy Industrial Park as fulcrums to create a source of innovation for "software-defined vehicles". In less than half a year, it has settled in a number of intelligent networked vehicles and software projects, such as ZF Passive Safety Product R&D Center, Geely Automobile Research Institute Wuhan R&D Center, Manrui Electronics R&D Center, Valeo Comfort and Assisted Driving R&D Center, and the prototype of industrial development has begun to take shape.
It's not just software. Focusing on the next generation of automobiles, Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone is also in the fields of algorithms, automotive chips, intelligent cockpits, and Internet of Vehicles.
Among them, Hubei Xinqing Technology, headquartered in Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, officially launched the first domestic 7nm high-computing power vehicle-grade chip, and delivered dozens of models on a large scale. The Hubei Provincial Vehicle Specification Chip Industry Technology Innovation Consortium, led by Dongfeng Company, has achieved the first tape-out of three domestic blank automotive specification chips. The automotive-grade IGBT chip produced by Zhixin Technology has been successfully installed in Dongfeng's own passenger car brand models, with an additional production capacity of 300,000 pieces last year.
Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone should live up to the times, stand at the forefront of scientific and technological innovation, and be the source of automobile innovation. The main person in charge of Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone said that in the next three years, a vehicle-grade chip with ultra-large computing power will be launched every year, and strive to exceed one million pieces of intelligent chip output, and the output of power semiconductor chips will exceed 1.2 million pieces.
New industry, new space, new layout, new track. As the main position of the "second entrepreneurship" of Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, Junshan New Town under construction is accelerating the formation of a breeding highland for new quality productivity.
Here, major projects such as Lotus Technology Headquarters, Intelligent Connected Vehicle Innovation Industrial Park, Shuangzhi Innovation Port, Junshan Campus of Huake University, and Chegu Campus of Wuhan University of Technology are under construction. Among them, the Junshan Campus of China University of Science and Technology breaks the existing college concept and innovatively establishes four interdisciplinary departments: advanced manufacturing and new materials, information technology and artificial intelligence application, carbon neutrality and environmental protection, and life science and medical health. After it is put into operation in September this year, it will cultivate a group of high-end scientific research and industrial talents such as new energy and intelligent manufacturing, better serve new industrialization, and help accelerate the formation of new quality productivity.
Producer: Propaganda Department of Wuhan Economic Development Zone Working Committee.
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Editor: Lu Zuolu and Jiang Qiuyu.
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