(Economic Observation) Sichuan and Chongqing are emerging as a world-class automobile manufacturing industry cluster

  Chinanews, Chongqing, January 3, title: Sichuan and Chongqing are emerging as a world-class automobile manufacturing industry cluster

  China News Service reporter Liu Xian

  On the 3rd, the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing dual-city economic circle was just an anniversary. Sichuan and Chongqing's joint efforts to build a world-class automobile manufacturing industry cluster are in full swing: 45 auto companies, 1,600 auto parts companies above designated size, with an annual output value of more than 600 billion Yuan (RMB, the same below), from the supply chain, the industrial chain to the innovation chain, the cooperation is increasingly close.

  On January 3, 2020, the sixth meeting of the Central Finance and Economics Committee proposed to promote the construction of a two-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region and form an important growth pole for high-quality development in the west.

Since then, Sichuan and Chongqing have quickly negotiated and implemented at all levels, so that the "circle" painted by the country in the west has become increasingly full.

Particularly worthy of attention is the cooperation in the automobile industry with large volume, high output value and long chain.

The picture shows the car production process.

Photo by Chen Chao

  The Chongqing Economic and Information Technology Commission and the Sichuan Provincial Economic and Information Technology Department signed the "Chengyu Region Twin City Economic Circle Auto Industry Cooperative Development Strategic Cooperation Agreement". The plan is determined to jointly promote the acceleration of the R&D and manufacturing level of the automotive industry in the two places, and strive to Build a trillion-dollar automobile industry cluster.

Over the past year, the two parties have communicated frequently and have launched an online supply-demand docking platform for the automotive industry chain in the Chengdu-Chongqing Double City Economic Circle, and released more than 40 supply-demand docking information.

  The supply chain sharing between the two parties is deepening.

The Chongqing Economic and Information Technology Commission revealed to a reporter from Chinanews.com that there are more than 300 parts and components companies in the two places directly supporting each other for complete vehicle companies, with a supporting amount of nearly 10 billion yuan.

In 2020, the Sichuan-Chongqing Economic and Information Department will speed up the strengthening of the auto parts chain and use the industrial chain supply and demand docking platform as a starting point to promote Changan Automobile, Geely Automobile (Chengdu) and other vehicle companies to further open their markets and increase procurement. Promote the two places to add nearly 20 complementary parts and components companies, and the new purchase amount is nearly 800 million yuan.

  The highlight of industrial chain cooperation is "green upgrade."

  The Sichuan-Chongqing new energy automobile industry will be deeply coupled.

The Sichuan-Chongqing Economic and Information Department integrates new energy vehicle support policies, liberalizes the promotion and application of the market in the two places, promotes the development of Geely Automobiles and other power exchange models, and jointly declares the national hydrogen fuel demonstration city group, and plans to jointly build the Chongqing Expressway Hydrogen Corridor and accelerate greening Transformation.

  The intelligent networked vehicles in the two places will compete and develop together.

Chongqing is speeding up the creation of a national-level Internet of Vehicles pilot zone to support Changan Automobile to expand its leading edge in autonomous mass production vehicle technology; Sichuan is actively deploying the intelligent networked vehicle industry and building a Sino-German intelligent networked vehicle demonstration project.

The Sichuan-Chongqing Economic and Information Department is actively promoting the development of the two places into the Chongqing Smart Expressway, realizing the comprehensive link of the intelligent network resources of the two places, and co-building China's leading Internet of Vehicles demonstration application development scenarios.

The picture shows the automobile production line.

Photo by Chen Chao

  Cooperation on the innovation chain will push the industry to mid-to-high end.

  Chongqing Liangjiang New Area is the first national-level development and opening up new area in inland China, and it is also the automobile base of Chongqing.

Many local car companies have also gathered in Sichuan Tianfu New District.

Duan Chenggang, member of the Standing Committee of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, Secretary of the Party Working Committee and Director of the Management Committee of the Liangjiang New Area, analyzed in an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com that Liangjiang New Area and Tianfu New Area will unite, first of all, the automobile industry will become "big"-larger scale, more brands Secondly, we must be "strong"-aiming at the joint research and development of automobile and electronics industries to form industrial synergy and innovative synergy.

  The Liangjiang Collaborative Innovation Zone to be built in Liangjiang New Area has introduced a total of 30 university campuses, built more than 40 scientific and technological research and development platforms, and introduced more than 800 high-end talents.

Wang Zhijie, Deputy Secretary of the Party Working Committee and Executive Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Liangjiang New Area, told reporters that the agglomeration of many scientific research institutions will form a synergistic mechanism that can push the automotive and electronics industries to mid-to-high end, conform to the changes in the world industry, and become an internationally competitive company. Industrial clusters.