Among the male executives of China FAW, 43-year-old Zhou Shiying's "women's red" is quite dazzling. She is the CEO of the HIS platform of China FAW R&D General Institute and a well-known R&D woman in the industry. Since graduating with a Ph.D. in 2009 and working in FAW, she has stepped on the "accelerator" on the road of independent research and development, leading FAW to stand at the forefront of the new wave of autonomous driving.
Writing code, drawing drawings, and seamlessly switching conference calls are a portrayal of Zhou Shiying's busy work every day, as it has been for more than ten years. Zhou Shiying, who was a child, grew up in the FAW factory, and her eyes were full of busy figures of her father, Zhou Xuewen, the former director of the basic department of China FAW Technology Center. At that time, Zhou Shiying may not have thought that she would one day become a "car iron woman". When she was in college, she always dreamed of becoming a university teacher. When he asked his father for his opinion when he graduated, Zhou Xuewen said: "Where else can you go if you don't go back to FAW?" This made Zhou Shiying resolutely give up the preferential treatment thrown by the university and become the "second generation of cars" who poured her heart and soul into China's manufacturing.
In 2009, Zhou Shiying joined the automotive electronics department of the newly established FAW Technology Center, and secretly made up her mind to strive to inject more scientific and technological genes into domestic automobiles and promote the continuous transformation of national automobile brands. At that time, not long after China FAW launched the "Red Flag Revival" project, Zhou Shiying, with the encouragement of the leadership, chose the simulation test direction with the closest combination of automobile and computer, and shouldered the independent development task of "automotive electronic brain + nerve center" - electronic and electrical architecture. Her choice inadvertently pressed the start button for China FAW to face autonomous driving.
Looking back, when Zhou Shiying was short of resources in China, she "gnawed" the "hard bones" of all-English materials and groped forward step by step; in the face of foreign engineers' disdain for China in this field, she won the respect of the other party with her technical opinions......
For a long time, in everyone's minds, the Hongqi brand was the head of state car and official car. With the development of the economy, the consumption of individual car purchases has increased rapidly, and the Hongqi brand has continued to enter the civilian car market. The leadership of high-end technology is the core of maintaining and enhancing the brand power of "Hongqi". Over the years, from undertaking and completing the development of L3 autonomous driving EE architecture system, to enabling Hongqi HS5 to realize 100 Gigabit Ethernet communication and OTA remote download of the whole vehicle for the first time in China, to establishing an independent information security attack and defense system, the first application of the national cryptography algorithm in the automotive industry has been successfully realized...... Zhou Shiying led the team to overcome the test problems of 9 model projects such as Hongqi H7 and Besturn B30, and became the backbone of ensuring the quality and reliability of FAW's electronic and electrical systems.
In January 2023, Hongqi announced "All in" new energy, promoting the electrification of all models, and setting a new target of hitting 1 million sales in three years, of which new energy will contribute half of the country. According to Zhou Shiying, the focus of its work is the integration of vehicle software and hardware architecture, autonomous driving and cockpit networking. Her vision is to transform traditional cars into mobile smartphones, creating a smooth experience interface for human-vehicle interaction. "300+ user functions are put on the shelves, and 300 vehicle software interfaces are opened at the same time for users and software developers to flexibly define, and the interface for interaction and iteration between the car and the outside world is opened. Zhou Shiying expects that in 2023-2025, the platform will be successfully delivered, and through the improvement of intelligent networking and software capabilities, it will firmly hold the red flag matrix in the fierce competition and promote the brand's potential energy.
On the road of unremitting climbing, Zhou Shiying has made one breakthrough achievement after another, and has successively won many honors such as Class B Talent in Jilin Province, the National "Most Beautiful Worker", the National Women's Meritorious Service Model, and the National May Day Labor Medal, and enjoys the special allowance of the State Council.
From the national car, to the down-to-earth national car, to the high-end intelligent networked car, the development of Hongqi is "soaring" with the times. "Hongqi is constantly seeking innovation and change, because my team and I are constantly running forward, resonating with the development of Hongqi at the same frequency and going hand in hand. As a craftsman in the new era and an important force supporting China's manufacturing, Zhou Shiying, the "goddess of automobile research and development", is still overcoming obstacles on the road of independent innovation and continuing to write a new legend of the spirit of model workers.
Source: Cailian News