Not only in overseas markets, Great Wall Motors is also working in East China.
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Author | Zhang Yi
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On August 15, Great Wall Holdings Group and Shanghai Jiading District People’s Government signed a cooperation agreement at Baoding Haval Technology Center. The Great Wall Holdings East China (Shanghai) Headquarters Base officially settled in Jiading District, and will be positioned as the size of Great Wall Motor in addition to Baoding. The largest research and development center.
According to the contracted content, Great Wall Holdings established the Great Wall Holdings East China (Shanghai) Headquarters Base in Jiading District to realize its full coverage of the Yangtze River Delta market. The base will radiate the entire East China market and form the “New Sihua” sector of Great Wall Holdings. They are: Hydrogen Energy Industry National Headquarters, Parts and Other Innovative Projects Shanghai R&D Center, Shared Travel East China Headquarters and Intelligence Networked the national R&D headquarters and established a project company in Anting.
Shanghai Jiading focuses on the new energy and intelligent networked automobile field. The annual output value of the automobile industry in this area is 460 billion yuan. It is the largest single-city city in the country, with the highest level of research and development and the most complete industrial chain.
In October 2018, SAIC Volkswagen’s first new energy vehicle plant with a total investment of 17 billion yuan was started in Jiading. At present, in the “Automobile·Innovation Port” of Anting·Shanghai International Automobile City in Jiading District, there are nearly 100 complete vehicles and zeros such as SAIC Alibaba, Weilai Automobile, Porsche Engineering and Italy Pininfarina. Components, pure electric vehicles, intelligent network joint key technology research and development companies settled.
Wei Jianjun, Chairman of Great Wall Holdings Group, said that the new base will adopt the research and development model to introduce high-tech industries such as hydrogen energy, core components, shared travel and intelligent network and international talents into Jiading District.
In terms of hydrogen energy, the National Headquarters of the Great Wall Hydrogen Energy Industry will be based on the above-mentioned fuel power industrial park, and will arrange all aspects of the hydrogen energy industry ecological chain, including hydrogen energy technology, fuel cell system core components, fuel cell systems, fuel cells. R&D, trial production, and manufacturing of the entire vehicle.
In February 2018, Shanghai’s first “hydrogen and fuel cell industrial park” was unveiled at the “Tongji Chuangzhi City” in Jiading Anting. The park’s fuel cell power system and key components research and development platform relied mainly on Shanghai Fuel Cell Vehicle Power System Co., Ltd. is under development. In August of the same year, Great Wall Holdings acquired a 51% stake in Shanghai Fuel Cell Vehicle Power Systems Co., Ltd.
In the field of shared travel, Great Wall Holdings East China (Shanghai) Headquarters will rely on the “European Travel” brand to explore the travel mode and phase in Jiading.Innovate in technology and establish a network of shared travel and intelligent travel services covering the entire East China region.
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