On November 15th, the 2024 Shanghai New Energy Vehicle Cluster Forum, hosted by the Economic Committee of Jiading District and the People's Government of Anting Town in Shanghai, was successfully held.

At the event, Anting Town signed agreements with six companies, focusing on cooperation in new energy and other fields.

Themed “Intelligent Driving, Digital Leadership: Creating and Sharing the Future,” the forum discussed trends in the innovative development of the new energy vehicle industry, the overseas expansion of automotive companies, and the digital transformation of the industry.

During the opening ceremony, Xiang Ping, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Economic Committee of Jiading District, expressed that Jiading, as one of the birthplaces of China's automotive industry, is also one of the regions with the highest concentration of automotive enterprises and the most complete industrial chain. Jiading will leverage its industrial advantages to accelerate the growth of three trillion-level industries, including the "New Four Modernizations" of automobiles, and proactively plan for a future industry system of “2+2+1.” The aim is to comprehensively empower the construction of a world-class automotive industry center and to create the best automotive industry “ecosystem.”

Chen Kele, Deputy Director of the Automotive Industry Department of Shanghai's Economic and Informatization Commission, stated that automobiles are one of the key industries that Shanghai is focused on developing. Moving forward, Shanghai will implement the national development strategy for new energy vehicles from three aspects: focusing on addressing the core technological bottlenecks of the automotive industry and strengthening the industrial chain; aligning with the trend of digital transformation in the automotive supply chain; and creating significant application scenarios to drive industry development through application.

At the forum, Xu Honghai, President of the Shanghai Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Association, shared multidimensional insights from global, national, and key regional perspectives, advocating for Shanghai to build a new energy vehicle industry cluster through four key approaches. Wang Jian, R&D Executive Director of the Innovation Research and Development Institute at SAIC Group, noted that the application of sensor and intelligent control technology will promote the development of high-speed intelligent robots. Ding Qing, Deputy General Manager of Continental Temic Automotive Systems (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., highlighted the significant achievements the company has made in actively embracing AI and other new technologies to facilitate its digital transformation. Luo Huanta, founder of the Times Think Tank (TD), analyzed the opportunities and challenges of new energy vehicles going global.

Xin Lei, Deputy General Manager of Shanghai Unicom Jiading Branch, mentioned that the company focuses on the in-depth integration of artificial intelligence and manufacturing, with intelligent manufacturing as the direction of transformation, vigorously developing financial products to empower suppliers and clients, and accelerating the cultivation of more new quality productivity.

During the roundtable discussion, Yang Yongzhe, Deputy Director of the Product Digitalization Center at Great Wall Motors; Wang Jian, R&D Executive Director of the Innovation Research and Development Institute at SAIC Group; Ge Jiahong, Deputy General Manager of Shanghai Shunhua New Energy; and Xin Lei, Deputy General Manager of Shanghai Unicom Jiading Branch, engaged in discussions on topics like “Balancing and Breaking Through in the Development of the New Four Modernizations of Automobiles,” “Establishing a Stable and Efficient Automotive Industry Supply Chain System,” and “Jiading’s Efforts to Build a World-Class Automotive Industry Center.”