The automobile is the jewel in the crown of modern industry and the vane of global industry. With the advent of the era of electrification and intelligence, China has won the opportunity to "change lanes and overtake". As the center of China's auto industry and known as the "Detroit of the East", Chongqing is also seeking transformation in the throes.
Located in southwest China and the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Chongqing is the birthplace of Bayu culture and an important town in China's automobile industry, known as the "Detroit of the East".
Chongqing's automobile industry is mainly laid out in Liangjiang New Area, with Changan Automobile as the leader, concentrating a large number of vehicle enterprises such as Dongfeng Xiaokang, SAIC Hongyan, Great Wall Motors, etc., with thousands of parts supporting enterprises, with a complete supply chain and a huge industrial cluster.
At its peak in 2016, Chongqing's automobile production reached 3.16 million units, ranking first in the country. However, the good times are not long, since 2016, production and sales have declined year by year, and the output in 2019 is only 1.38 million, and the opening rate of some brand factories is less than 1/3.
The following figure of this car newly developed remote intelligent parking function, the user only needs to be in the place where there is a network signal, even if it is hundreds of kilometers, open the mobile phone software operation interface, click a key parking button, this car can achieve remote intelligent parking, a good solution to the user in the city to find parking space, parking difficulty problem.
Liang Fenghua, senior manager of the Intelligent Driving Institute of Changan Automobile Intelligent Research Institute
The car is loaded with L3 autonomous driving technology, which is the watershed between "assisted driving" and "automatic driving", which means that part of the driving responsibility is shifted from humans to automatic driving systems for the first time.
The intelligent central control system makes the human-computer interaction experience smoother and more humanized. In 6 years, more than 150 researchers spent more than 200 million yuan on the self-developed Blue Whale engine to make the car quieter and stronger.
Hu Tiegang, executive deputy general manager of Changan Automobile Power Research Institute
These powerful innovation drivers come from R&D centers around the world. With 5,000 R&D personnel, 180 laboratories, 6 countries and 9 places in the world, under this global R&D layout, technological innovation has made great breakthroughs. Changan Automobile has mastered more than 60 intelligent technologies in three categories: intelligent interconnection, intelligent interaction and intelligent driving.
Ye Pei, Executive Vice President of Changan Automobile
Changan Automobile is a world-class modern "intelligent manufacturing factory" built to achieve "Industry 4.0", which is the first batch of digital production workshops in Chongqing selected.
Sun Jianjun, senior manager of the second welding workshop of Changan Automobile Liangjiang Factory
This flexible production line can realize the mixed production of 6 different models, with an average of one complete vehicle rolling off the production line every 53 seconds, and the production capacity is expected to reach 180,000 units this year.
Efficient intelligent production is not only a test of the manufacturing level, but also a test of the ability to support the supply of spare parts. In recent years, Chongqing has introduced parts research and development centers, car companies have strengthened cooperation with Internet head enterprises, and vehicle manufacturers and suppliers have jointly developed, and the local industry matching rate has exceeded 70%, so as to create an independent and controllable industrial chain supply chain system.
A foreign-funded enterprise producing a new panoramic sunroof has invested tens of millions of yuan in research and development costs in order to meet the requirements of Changan Automobile's new products.
In order to adapt to the new requirements and new changes, a supporting enterprise that manufactures body structural parts has invested nearly 200 million yuan to upgrade the new process and new production line, and the equipment automation rate has reached 95%.
Relying on scientific and technological innovation, intelligent factories, and a smooth and reliable local supporting supply chain system, Changan Automobile finally came out of the trough of 2019 and achieved both production and marketing and a rise against the market.
【Half-hour observation】From the city of "manufacturing" to the city of "intelligent manufacturing"
The reason why Chongqing's automobile industry has successfully "counterattacked" is to rely on scientific and technological innovation. In the past few decades, Chongqing, as an important industrial base in China, has created a rich industrial category and a solid manufacturing foundation, and through supply-side structural reform and technological innovation, it has accelerated industrial upgrading to achieve "cage for bird", opening a new chapter in industrial digital transformation and upgrading. The fusion of scientific and technological innovation iteration has brought Chongqing's automobile industry into the era of intelligence. We believe that with the continuous acceleration of the intelligent road of Chongqing's automobile industry, a new chapter will be opened in the strategic development of the transformation of the automobile industry.
Source: CCTV Finance