During the two sessions, "vigorously promoting the construction of a modern industrial system and accelerating the development of new quality productivity" was listed as the first of the top ten government tasks in 2024. Empowering the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries with scientific and technological innovation and promoting the innovation and development of emerging industries is an important mission entrusted to enterprises by the state, and it is also the key to the high-quality transformation and upgrading of enterprises themselves.
As a large-scale industrial group with innovation as the driving force for development, Geely Technology has seized development opportunities, led the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries to intelligence, digitalization and greening with scientific and technological innovation, and played a good "first move" in emerging industries such as low-altitude travel and commercial aerospace, demonstrating its strategic vision and responsibility in the context of the new era.
Look forward to the future development trend and open up a blue ocean for the development of new quality productivity
At present, the "low-altitude economy" has become an emerging industry direction for global competition, and it is also an important field for cultivating and developing new quality productive forces. Through the development of airspace resources, it will redefine the form of future travel and create new industrial ecology and economic growth highlights.
As early as 2017, Geely Technology began to deploy the three-dimensional transportation business in the air, and continued to innovate around electric manned aerial vehicles (eVTOLs), opening up a unique commercial development path. In terms of technical routes, Geely Technology has firmly established the path of self-development, conducted in-depth research on the development trend of the domestic market, improved the adaptability of product technology research and development to market demand, developed domestic leading key technologies such as tiltrotor configuration and distributed electric propulsion (DEP), successfully developed the AE200 series products with "high performance, high safety and high comfort", and continuously firmly promoted the forward airworthiness process.
The mutual promotion of technology and market has brought steady and significant development to Geely Technology on the road to commercialization of low-altitude travel. At present, Geely Technology's low-altitude travel business has received two rounds of market-oriented financing, and AE200 has won the first 100 business aviation orders in the Asia-Pacific region, and will continue to expand the development space of low-altitude products and services in high-end travel, aviation logistics, sightseeing and other application scenarios in the future.
Lay out strategic emerging industries and consolidate the cornerstone of the development of new quality productive forces
In the information age, commercial aerospace has become an emerging industry of strategic significance and an important driving force for the development of global science and technology and digital economy. The global low-orbit satellite market is rising rapidly, and in the next five years, the demand for manufacturing and launching low-orbit satellites in mainland China is expected to enter an explosive period of "exponential" growth. Opportunities and challenges coexist, and how to break the bottleneck of satellite mass production and achieve large-scale application and commercialization has become a prerequisite for the industry to speed up.
By learning from the large-scale mass production manufacturing models such as intelligence and automation in the automotive industry, Geely has built a satellite super factory and realized the disruptive innovation of final assembly, integration, and testing (AIT) for satellite mass production. Through modular design, flexible production, intelligent manufacturing and other technologies, the satellite design and production cycle has been greatly compressed, and production costs have been reduced, setting a new benchmark for the entire industry.
Up to now, Geely Technology's commercial aerospace business has completed the deployment of 2 orbital planes, with a total of 20 satellites in orbit. Through the operation of the constellation system and relying on Geely's industrial ecology, Geely has taken the lead in realizing the vehicle-grade R&D and mass production of aerospace products, the large-scale application of on-board satellite communication and satellite-based high-precision positioning applications, and will accelerate the expansion of satellite communication, navigation, remote sensing applications in smart ocean, transportation, autonomous driving, emergency communication and other application scenarios, creating differentiated competitive advantages and helping Geely's "space-ground integration" ecology to be further upgraded.
Empower the transformation of traditional industries and stimulate the unlimited potential of new quality productivity
While striving to move forward on the emerging track, Geely Technology has always adhered to promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries with scientific and technological innovation, seizing opportunities for the development of the digital economy and green economy, and cultivating new momentum for high-quality development.
Relying on the precious forest assets of Huanghuali Villa in Hainan Province, with the help of new technologies such as the Internet of Things, blockchain, and big data, Geely Technology has actively built a digital forest demonstration area in Huanghuali, and combined aerospace products and technologies to create a digital and intelligent three-dimensional security system to protect precious forest assets. In order to solve the bottlenecks restricting the high-quality development of the industry, such as the difficulty in the transfer of forest rights, industrial financing, and product sales in Hainan, and better realize the transformation of "lucid waters and lush mountains into gold and silver mountains", Geely Technology explores the online and offline collaborative development model, builds a good wood forest trading platform, and creates a precedent of "one tree, one certificate, one code" single tree trading and forest asset securitization, so as to realize the industrialization of ecological resources, the capitalization of ecological industry, the productization of ecological capital, and the marketization of ecological products, and build a new model of ecological development of Huanghuali industry.
In the face of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, the development of new quality productivity has become the only way for enterprise development to reach a new height. Geely Technology adheres to the industrial foundation, promotes the two-way empowerment and two-wheel drive of traditional industries and new industries with scientific and technological innovation, and continues to build a new model for the development of large-scale industrial groups.