On the afternoon of the 21st, a new energy vehicle exhibition was held in a grand manner on the square in front of the International Conference Centre. New energy vehicle brands in Qingdao such as FAW Jiefang, FAW-Volkswagen, SAIC-GM-Wuling, Beiqi Manufacturing, Chery Automobile, etc. gathered together, and gained countless fans with their cool values and hardcore strengths. The Qingdao New Energy Vehicle Industry Chain Supply and Demand Matchmaking Conference was held simultaneously at Qingdao International Conference Centre. New energy automobile industry chain vehicle enterprises, core supporting, parts and components enterprises, industry chain ecological related enterprises, service organisations, as well as colleges and universities, scientific research institutes, etc. gathered to witness the development results and prospects of Qingdao's new energy automobile industry, and to discuss new cooperation and new opportunities.

New energy automobile industry is a strategic emerging industry in China, and also one of the important symbols to measure the innovation ability and core competitiveness of a region. Although Qingdao passenger car industry started relatively late, the industry system is gradually improving and emerging by seizing the strategic opportunity of a new round of industrial development. At present, Qingdao has nine vehicle manufacturers, built vehicle production capacity of 1.302 million units, the industry scale has reached 100 billion, becoming an important pillar of Qingdao's manufacturing industry. At the same time, the industry chain upstream and downstream enterprises to accelerate the agglomeration of the industrial ecosystem formed into a potential, four enterprises to become China's top 100 auto parts enterprises.

At present, the development pattern of new energy automobile industry is not yet finalised, and the reshuffle continues to intensify. Who can seize the high-end, intelligent, green trend, pool resources, increase production and efficiency, in order to break through in the competition. At the Qingdao New Energy Vehicle Industry Chain Supply and Demand Matchmaking Conference, Qingdao released the ‘Work Programme for the High-Quality Development of the City's New Energy Vehicle Industry’ (hereinafter referred to as the Programme) and ‘Qingdao Policy List for Supporting the Development of the New Energy Vehicle Industry (the first batch)’ (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Policy List’). The Programme proposes to strive for the city's vehicle production to reach 1.6 million units by 2026, the industry chain output value to reach 300 billion yuan, and the local supporting rate to reach 55%. This shows the determination and strength of Qingdao's new energy automobile industry to accelerate upgrading and driving to the high-end.

Complementary Chain: Collaboration between the whole and the parts Links to the new power

As the automotive industry chain is long, the higher the localisation rate of the supply chain means the lower the cost of the automotive enterprises, therefore, it is particularly important to improve the degree of industrial agglomeration and the local supporting rate for the development of the automotive industry. As the key links in the new energy vehicle industry chain, battery, electric drive and electric control have been the core supporting facilities that Qingdao has been striving to complete. In the parts and components exhibition area of Qingdao New Energy Vehicle Industry Chain Supply and Demand Matchmaking Conference, key supporting enterprises such as Weiqiao, Guoxuan Battery, Lixin, Hitech, Zhongwei Chuangxin, and Times Electric Drive appeared with their newest products, which showed the strong appeal of Qingdao's new energy vehicle industry chain.

From the point of view of the history of automobile development, every important breakthrough in automobile technology is the result of close coordination and integration of vehicle and parts. In order to further make up for the short board of key components, the release of the ‘policy list’ is clear, around the battery, motor, electronic control, hydrogen fuel cell catalysts, membrane electrodes, bipolar plates, proton exchange membranes, electric reactor modules and systems and other new projects, according to the amount of investment in equipment to give the maximum of 10 million yuan of compensation, reflecting Qingdao's construction of first-class industrial ecology of the eagerness and sincerity. In addition, Qingdao Haier, Hisense and other local head enterprises are also aiming at automotive electronics, vehicle display, intelligent driving, vehicle-circuit coordination, intelligent cockpit and other directions to speed up the layout, to promote Qingdao's new energy automotive industry to accelerate the butterfly.

Since this year, Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology has given full play to the role of the ‘chain of ten thousand enterprises’ supply and demand docking platform to strengthen the whole matching. In this event, Qingdao's leading enterprises in the new energy vehicle industry chain, such as Jiefang Qingdao Automobile, BAIC Manufacturing, Chery Automobile Qingdao Base, and SAIC-GM-Wuling Qingdao Branch, signed contracts with 32 industry chain partners. The signing of the signing of the parts and components enterprises in both the Hailian Jinhui, Qingdao Guoxuan, Hitech moulds and other excellent parts and components enterprises in the city have just entered the OEM supporting system, but also Toyota Textile, Wuhu Bertrams, Bonaire Electric and other industry leaders are ready to set up in Qingdao, ‘a whole with a multi-zero a zero with a multi-integrated’ industry chain ecology will be further improved. Further Improvement.

In order to further concentrate the advantageous resources, Qingdao to 212 square kilometres of Qingdao International Automobile City (Qingdao Automobile Industry New Town, Laixi New Energy Automobile Industry Gathering Area) as the core area, the West Coast Automobile and Parts Industry Gathering Area as the expansion area, and to strengthen the regional linkage. With a high level of carrier platform, to promote the industry to reduce costs and increase efficiency, agglomeration and enhance energy, so that the fertile soil breeding flourishing ecology.

Expanding Scenarios: Promoting Application and Performing New Ecology

For the new energy vehicle industry, demand is the driving force, and the scene is the track. Therefore, Qingdao taps into the consumption potential of new energy vehicles to promote production based on demand. At the same time, based on commercial vehicles, intelligent networked vehicles, etc., Qingdao has deepened the expansion of application scenarios from mass application scenarios to various segmented scenarios, and actively explored application scenarios with market potential.

The ‘Policy List’ issued from the new energy vehicle purchase tax relief, give new energy vehicles right of way, parking fee relief, support for exports and other aspects of the introduction of a number of policies to expand the new energy vehicle application scenarios, to scenarios to empower industrial upgrading. Through the effective guidance of the government, to make the new energy vehicle market ‘cake’, the formation of demand-driven supply, supply to create a virtuous cycle of demand, for industrial development continue to inject ‘source of living water’.

Insufficient charging infrastructure is still the main problem that affects the user experience of new energy vehicles and plagues the development of the industry. Therefore, the ‘policy list’ around the charging infrastructure to introduce two policies, requiring 100% of the new community with the installation of charging facilities, the old community renovation focus on the layout of the charging facilities, to support the construction of public charging stations, for the use of new energy vehicles to open up the blockage, create convenience.

On the commercial side, Qingdao will also explore the application of miniature pure electric logistics vehicles in the green city distribution, power exchange medium and heavy trucks in the port short-distance transport, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in the fixed transport routes. Grasping the new wind mouth of intelligent networked vehicles, we will support more intelligent networked vehicle new technologies, new products, new business forms and new modes to accelerate the layout and pilot test in Qingdao City.

The event saw the official opening of Qingdao's first batch of test roads and the first test licence, filling in the key jigsaw puzzle of the industry's closed-loop development. The first six test roads released are all located in the Central Intelligence Island Vehicle Co-operation Test Site in Qingdao Hi-Tech Zone, covering a wealth of traffic sections and scenarios along the route, which provides a comprehensive and realistic test environment for the road test of intelligent networked vehicles. The vehicles awarded with road test licences are from FAW Jiefang Qingdao Automobile Co., Ltd. and are equipped with self-driving function, multi-line LIDAR, millimeter wave radar, high-definition camera and other equipments, which can achieve safe driving under complicated weather and complex urban road conditions. The interconnection of vehicle and road will open up more imagination for Qingdao's new energy automobile industry.

KeLin ZhiTuan Automotive Technology Co., Ltd. participated in the exhibition.