On March 16th, at the China Electric Vehicle People Forum (EV100 2024), Deputy Minister of Industry and Information Technology Shan Zhongde presented on the industry. His opening statement outlined how China has achieved remarkable accomplishments in the field of new energy vehicles (NEVs). However, most of his address focused on the fact that development still faces difficulties and challenges.
In the presentation, Mr. Shan reiterated that domestic efforts are needed to strengthen the development of automotive chips and basic software and continuously improve the adaptability, safety, and charging convenience of NEVs. Mr. Shan pointed out that the opportunities for the development of the new energy vehicle industry outweigh the challenges, and the favorable conditions outweigh the unfavorable factors, filling the industry’s future with confidence.
Shan Zhongde introduced that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will strengthen interdepartmental coordination, improve policy measures, and enhance innovation development, system competitiveness, and open cooperation capabilities. It will accelerate the development of intelligent and connected new energy vehicles as new productive forces from four aspects to empower the development of the new energy vehicle industry.
First, they will adhere to “innovation-driven development.” They will strengthen the leading technological role of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation, enhance talent gathering, and support leading companies in the supply chain in establishing an innovative system that coordinates technological research, platform support, and demonstration applications. Efforts will be made to address weaknesses, extend advantages, forge new strengths, accelerate the technological research and industrialization of next-generation power batteries, automotive chips, operating systems, and autonomous driving, and enhance the industry’s and supply chains’ resilience and competitiveness.
Second, they will improve the policy system and continuously optimize industrial structure and ecology. They will further strengthen industrial planning and investment guidance, curb blind investment and redundant construction, and accelerate the introduction of regulations on access management for the production of electric vehicles. Pilot projects for group management will be initiated to support leading enterprises in improving quality, reducing costs, mergers and reorganizations, and further increasing industrial concentration. They will guide traditional automobile companies to accelerate transformation based on their technological and channel advantages, open cooperation, and crackdown on unfair competition.
Third, they will increase promotion efforts and deepen cross-domain integration and innovation. They will study and formulate supportive policies for trade-ins of old vehicles for new ones, construction of charging and swapping infrastructure, and carry out activities such as the electrification of new energy vehicles in rural areas and comprehensive electrification of vehicles in public areas. Product quality and safety standards will be further improved, active efforts will be made to expand the consumption of intelligent and connected new energy vehicles, pilot projects for access to intelligent and connected vehicles and vehicle-to-road-cloud integration will be conducted, and the construction of roadside perception and cloud-controlled infrastructure for networked vehicles will be accelerated. Demonstration applications of city-level advanced autonomous driving vehicles will be carried out.
Fourth, they will adhere to international cooperation to assist in constructing a modern industrial system through high-level opening-up. They will guide international alliances of automotive companies, establish third-party technology and policy service platforms for domestic and international use. Meanwhile, they will welcome increased investment and technology cooperation in the automotive industry from companies worldwide in China, share development opportunities, and create with the hopes of creating a better future together.
Source: Youth.cn
