On February 11, Zhangjiakou Nanshan Economic Development Zone, Zhangjiakou Aurora Bay Engine Manufacturing Co., Ltd. production workshop. Hebei Daily reporter Zhao Jie photographed
Lynk & Co Automobile Zhangjiakou plant production line. (Hebei Daily information film) Hebei Daily correspondent Wu Diansen photo
With the progress of the Winter Olympics, Zhangjiakou, one of the host cities, has gradually been re-recognized by people: the city of history and culture, the city of industrial pioneers, the city of green ecology, the city of clean energy, the city of hydrogen energy demonstration...
305,000 vehicles from here to the market; 1.18 million of the world's top engines from here to the world, the famous car "heart" was originally made in Zhangjiakou; hydrogen fuel cells have been installed in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology new energy vehicle catalog 67 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, ranking first in the industry...
Nowadays, a set of data has gradually made another "dream" of Zhangjiakou a reality.
The rising "Motor City"
Walking on the street of Zhangjiakou, there will be proud Citizens of Zhangjiakou pointing to the driving Lynk & Co car and saying, "Look, this is what we produce in Zhangjiakou." ”
Lynk & Co with stylish shape and excellent performance is becoming another business card of Zhangjiakou.
On February 11, in the assembly workshop of the Zhangjiakou factory of Lynk & Co Automobile in Zhangjiakou Nanshan Economic Development Zone, a dazzling 285 KUKA robots wielded flexible mechanical arms to handle and weld, and welded and spliced sheets one by one.
The workers on the assembly line methodically assemble the various parts of the car, and at the end of the assembly line, on average, a Lynk & Co car is perfectly off the production line in about two minutes.
As geely group's first manufacturing base built in full accordance with Volvo's global manufacturing and quality standards and meeting the world's most stringent market access conditions, this factory is based on the concept of "Industry 4.0", intelligent, informatized, flexible, automated and green environmental protection concepts have reached the international leading level, fully interpreting the essence of Lynk & Co's "trend intelligent manufacturing", which can be called the world's top factory.
Not far away, inside the factory of Zhangjiakou Aurora Bay Engine Manufacturing Co., Ltd., robots carry engine parts and shuttle through various production workshops. There are more than 100 robots called "automatic guided transport vehicles", which can replace more than 100 operators according to the calculation of 3 teams.
This is Volvo's second engine plant in the world and its only one outside of Europe. By the end of 2021, a total of 1.183 million engines have been produced. The "heart" of volvo's many models of cars loved by car owners actually comes from the Zhangjiakou factory.
"Both factories are green factories and are a new generation of benchmark factories in the world." The relevant person in charge of the Zhangjiakou Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology said that whether it is from the perspective of products or production methods, "it can represent the top level of the current automobile industry." ”
One detail is enough to prove that there is a humble small white room inside the factory of Zhangjiakou Aurora Bay Engine Manufacturing Co., Ltd., which is one of the most classified areas in the whole factory, and it is Volvo's only direct injection rail assembly test line in the world.
The relevant person in charge of the factory revealed that the gasoline high-pressure direct injection rail assembly test technology, as one of the core technologies of the engine, the company spent 3 years to develop successfully, only this technology can save tens of millions of yuan per year, and less than 5 companies in the world have mastered this technology.
Putting the core assembly test technology here shows the important position of Zhangjiakou factory in its global layout.
In addition, Zhangjiakou Engine Factory was rated as the first batch of national-level green factories by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2017, and is committed to "building a green and environmental protection factory, creating high-quality products, and creating a first-class engine enterprise", playing a leading role in the industry in many aspects such as intelligence, automation, informatization and sustainability.
There has always been a "dream of upgrading"
Workers in the warehouse workshop of Magna Seats (Zhangjiakou) Co., Ltd., located across the wall from Lynk & Co., Ltd., in the auto parts industrial park across the wall from Lynk & Co., Ltd., on February 11, assembled goods in the operation area, and after the goods were configured, they were trucked to the production line of the factory next door.
"As a strategic supplier of car seats at Lynk & Co's Zhangjiakou plant, we have a straight-line distance of only 1 km from Lynk & Co. In the event of an urgent order, parts can be transported from the warehouse to the Lynk & Co production line in sequence in just half an hour. The person in charge of the factory introduced.
Also as the core supplier of Lynk & Co., Ltd., Eberher Exhaust Technology (Zhangjiakou) Co., Ltd. provides exhaust cylinders for Lynk & Co Manufacturing.
Since the development of Volvo Engine and Lynk & Co Automobile Project in Huai'an, a large number of upstream and downstream enterprises have flocked to huai'an, opening up the transformation of the city's equipment manufacturing industry from low-end extensive to high-end boutique. At present, the Nanshan Automobile Industry Cluster has settled a total of 26 automobile-related enterprises, which has become one of the 4 established in the city and 107 key industrial clusters established in the province.
As one of the earliest cities in northern China to develop industrial economy, Zhangjiakou has a strong industrial foundation, which is accompanied by a profound industrial cultural heritage.
More than 100 years ago, Zhan Tianyou presided over the construction of the first trunk railway designed and built by the Chinese, the Beijing-Zhang Railway, breaking the foreigners' assertion that "the engineer who can repair the Beijing-Zhang Railway in China has not yet been born". More than 100 years later, the 174-kilometer Beijing-Zhangjiang high-speed railway, like a flying dragon, sometimes took off, sometimes entered the ground, passed through the Great Wall, crossed the reservoir, and finally arrived at Zhangjiakou, one of the venues of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Upgrading and innovation have always been deeply engraved in the genes of Zhangjiakou's industrial development.
Since 2010, when Zhangjiakou City cooperated with Geely Holding Group to promote the landing of the project, a vehicle factory and an engine factory have completely opened the prelude to the comprehensive upgrading of Zhangjiakou's automobile industry.
Today, the automobile industry has become one of the important sectors for the cultivation and development of modern manufacturing in Zhangjiakou City, showing a cluster development trend.
Zhangjiakou City, with Huai'an Automobile Industrial Park as the main platform, relies on Geely Automobile Zhangjiakou Branch and Zhangjiakou Aurora Bay Engine Manufacturing Co., Ltd. to continuously improve the automotive industry chain and greatly enhance the market competitiveness of Zhangjiakou automobile industry.
At the same time, it has promoted the development of automobile research and development, logistics, commerce, services and related enterprises in Huai'an Economic Development Zone and its surrounding areas, forming an automobile manufacturing industry cluster with reasonable spatial layout, comprehensive business coverage and huge development potential.
Moreover, the industrial upgrading is still continuing: Zhangjiakou Aurora Bay Engine Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has completed and put into operation the project with an annual output of 150,000 new energy vehicle motors. At the same time, with the construction of hydrogen fuel cell engine production base as the starting point, accelerate the agglomeration of upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, vigorously introduce hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and supporting projects, accelerate the construction of the second phase of The Yihuatong fuel cell engine project and the hydrogen fuel cell stack production project of Zhangjiakou Hydrogen Energy Technology Co., Ltd., and promote the demonstration operation of hydrogen energy buses in the region.
The Winter Olympics turn on the "spotlight"
"The green Winter Olympics have made the Zhangjiakou hydrogen fuel cell industry suddenly out of the circle, which is the best display opportunity for our future automotive equipment manufacturing industry, and it will surely usher in greater development after the Winter Olympics." In recent days, Gao Weidong, a fourth-level researcher at the Zhangjiakou Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, always receives inquiries from some old friends in the automotive industry across the country, "Do you have any cooperation space for hydrogen fuel cells there?" ”
"The important direction of the future development of the automobile industry will be new energy, as a leading enterprise in the field of hydrogen fuel cells, Yihuatong has attracted widespread attention from the whole industry by means of the 'spotlight' of the Winter Olympics, and will definitely drive Zhangjiakou to fully bloom in the field of new energy vehicles in the future."
Gao Weidong's confidence has enough support. Today, Beiqi Foton, Yutong Bus and Geely Commercial Vehicle have established long-term and stable cooperative relations with Yihuatong. At the same time, due to the excellent quality of its products, the bus developed by the company and Toyota and Beiqi Foton has also been designated as the transportation service car for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
According to the total sales power of vehicle fuel cell systems in 2020, Yihuatong has ranked first in China's battery system market, with a market share of 34.8%. Some insiders even predict that in the future, new energy vehicles will be led by Ningde Times and Yihuatong in the two development directions of pure electricity and fuel cells. This also means that Zhangjiakou is expected to seize favorable opportunities in the future development of the automobile industry.
When hydrogen energy is combined with automatic driving, it is even more impressive to the speed of development of The Zhangjiakou automobile industry.
On February 11, in front of the Zhangjiakou media reception station of the Winter Olympics, a large number of reporters experienced a hydrogen energy automatic driving cabin.
This hydrogen energy automatic driving cabin comes from the Yilong intelligent hydrogen energy commercial vehicle industry base jointly built by a smart travel company in Guangzhou and Zhangjiakou. Suitable for scenic spots, parks, large communities, airports, commercial centers, outdoor plazas, convention and exhibition centers and other areas.
The 23-seat autopilot cabin, with only one safety officer in the car, sat in what was supposed to be the cab, but his job was not to drive, but to survey the road conditions and brake in an emergency.
Song Xiaoliang, director of the Comprehensive Office of Yite Zhixing (Zhangjiakou) Co., Ltd., said that this cabin adopts a variety of security technology based on lidar, which can sense the environment around the cabin and is equipped with high-precision maps and navigation to ensure safe operation. At the same time, it can realize human-computer interaction, which uses advanced human-computer interaction technologies such as remote request touch operation and voice interaction, which is very simple to use.
"We also have another hydrogen energy automatic driving cabin of the same model put into use in zhangjiakou area, mainly responsible for the ferry work of volunteers and staff of the Olympic Organizing Committee in the hotel, so far, about 16 times a day, transporting 200 people per day, everyone's awareness and recognition of the automatic driving cabin is very high." Song Xiaoliang said, "It represents the direction of the future development of the automobile industry. (Reporters Yuan Weihua and Wang Xuewei Correspondent Li Xiaoyu)