The 14th China Auto Forum was held in Jiading, Shanghai from July 11th to 13th, 2024. The theme was “Leading New Changes, Winning a New Future” with various meetings and activities to gather strength, form consensus, guide the future, and promote sustainable high-quality development of the auto industry. The “Closed-door Summit” on the afternoon of July 11th was a communication platform for government and enterprises, bringing together leaders from over 10 government departments, mainstream auto groups, leading new energy companies, technology giants, top supply chain companies, and industry institutions to discuss common issues and policy directions.
This year’s closed-door summit invited more than 100 heavyweight guests, including leaders of government departments in charge of the automotive industry and heads of key companies in the industry chain. They communicated face-to-face, focusing on the theme of “consolidating and expanding the leading advantage of the intelligent connected new energy vehicle industry,” sharing views and proposing strategies on hot, key, and painful issues in the automotive industry. Given the nature of the closed-door meeting, this article will not provide detailed information on this. At this closed-door summit, Secretary-General of the China Automotive Forum and Executive Vice President and Secretary-General of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, Fu Bingfeng, served as the host and delivered the opening speech. On behalf of the organizers, Fu Bingfeng expressed sincere thanks to all the busy guests who took the time to attend, welcoming everyone to speak freely, openly face issues, share wisdom, collide with sparks of thought, and make today’s closed-door summit a productive “wisdom feast” with significance for the high-quality development of the industry and the construction of a modern industrial system.
Fu Bingfeng said that boosting the consumption of intelligent connected new energy vehicles has become an important measure to promote stable consumption growth. This year, various government departments have carried out a series of work to promote industry development. The implementation rules for the “subsidy for replacing old cars with new ones” and the supporting policies of local governments have played a positive role in promoting stable consumption growth; in the development of intelligent connected vehicles, pilot applications of intelligent connected vehicles have been launched, and unmanned driving vehicles have begun commercial trial operations; in terms of infrastructure construction, the pace of installing charging piles in rural areas and constructing charging facilities on highways has accelerated; at the same time, counter-subsidy responses and related countermeasures will protect the rights and interests of Chinese automobiles going global. These measures have played a role in safeguarding the leading advantage of the intelligent connected new energy vehicle industry. Shanghai Jiading District Party Secretary Lu Fangzhou delivered a welcome speech for the summit. Jiading is the city with the largest scale, highest research and development level, and most complete industrial chain in the domestic automobile industry, and it is also a long-term partner of the China Automotive Forum. Over the past ten years, Jiading’s automobile industry has been advancing towards the “new”, seizing opportunities, and accelerating the transformation towards the “new four modernizations” direction. By taking advantage of the construction of the first international demonstration zone for electric vehicles and the national pilot demonstration zone for intelligent connected vehicles, Jiading has initially achieved breakthroughs in overall capacity, carrier layout, and demonstration applications, further enhancing the city’s reputation as “Automobile Jiading”. Jiading has built high-standard industrial parks such as the Intelligent Automobile Software Park and the Automobile Core Valley, attracting more than 600 enterprises related to the “new four modernizations” of automobiles and over 200 public and enterprise research and development platforms. Last year, the total output value of the automobile “new four modernizations” reached 231.84 billion yuan.
Miao Wei, Deputy Director of the Economic Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, said that China’s intelligent connected vehicles are entering a key period of rapid technological evolution and large-scale application development. It is necessary to gather the strength of various industries and seize the opportunity for industrial development. Miao Wei suggested focusing on building an open ecosystem, solving the computing power dilemma through software and hardware coordination, and continuously exploring integrated solutions for vehicle-road-cloud.
Xu Niansha, President of the China Machinery Industry Federation, spoke on behalf of the forum’s guiding unit. He said that the automotive industry chain and value chain have expanded. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, big data, and high computing power, the automotive industry is expected to revolutionize multiple industries, injecting new vitality into social, economic, and technological progress. Looking ahead, only by leading new changes and creating a new ecosystem can the automotive industry achieve a win-win new future.
During the meeting, top executives from T10+ companies, including Jia Jianxu, President and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of SAIC Motor Corporation Limited, Liang Guiyou, Member of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of China First Automobile Group Co., Ltd., You Zheng, Deputy General Manager and Member of the Party Committee of Dongfeng Motor Corporation, Wang Hui, Vice President of Changan Automobile Co., Ltd., Hu Hanjun, Member of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of BAIC Group, He Xianqing, Vice President of GAC Group, Li Ming, Director of Jiangqi Group Holding Company, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of Jiangqi Group Co., Ltd., Yin Tongyue, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Chery Automobile Co., Ltd., Gan Jiaye, CEO of Geely Automobile Group, Wu Baoning, Vice President of Great Wall Motor Co., Ltd., Lian Yubo, Executive Vice President of BYD Group, Qin Lihong, Co-founder and President of NIO, Jin Yuzhi, CEO of Huawei Intelligent Car Solution BU, Chen Liming, President of Horizon Robotics, Ma Donghui, Executive Director and President of Ideal Auto, spoke and asked questions about the issues they were concerned about.
Top leaders from other companies and platforms, including Wu Tao, Party Secretary and CEO of Autohome, Yang Hongze, Chairman of CheLink, Liu Weihong, Co-founder and President of Heizhima Intelligence, Liu Junfeng, Vice President and General Manager of Intelligent Automobile Business Unit of iFlytek, Yuan Feng, Chairman of Xinliandongli, Li Hao, Vice President of Sales of Aixin Yuan Intelligent Vehicle Business Unit, Shen Tao, General Manager of Amazon Web Services China Industry Cluster, respectively communicated and shared their experiences and challenges encountered in enterprise development. After the speeches from representatives of companies and institutions, Guo Shougang, Deputy Director of the Equipment Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Xu Xingfeng, Director of the Market Operation and Consumer Promotion Department of the Ministry of Commerce, Li Yongjun, Deputy Director of the Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Commerce, Zhang Haolong, Deputy Director of the Atmospheric Environment Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Yao Lan, Deputy Director of the Planning Bureau of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, Zhang Zhengming, Deputy Director of the Price Supervision, Inspection and Anti-Unfair Competition Bureau of the State Administration for Market Regulation, Qiu Kuotian, Director of the Machinery Equipment Division of the Industrial Development Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, Zhang Lin, Director of the Machinery Product Trade Division of the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Commerce, Yin Hang, Director of the Motor Vehicle Emission Monitoring Center of the China Academy of Environmental Sciences, Xie Yue, Deputy Director of the Road Network Monitoring and Emergency Response Center of the Ministry of Transport, respectively spoke about the key issues in their respective areas of responsibility. Finally, Fu Bingfeng delivered the concluding remarks.
On July 12th and the morning of July 13th, 2024 China Auto Forum will hold “Conference Forum” and more than 10 unique “Theme Forums”.