Recently, the fifth annual meeting of the Global Automobile Forum was held in Wuhan, China, attracting more than a thousand Chinese and foreign guests to pay attention and discussion. Experts present said that under the impact of the Internet and the pressure of environmental protection, the automotive industry is undergoing fundamental changes. The Chinese automotive industry has also entered a critical period of transformation. In the next decade, the automotive industry will undergo subversive changes.
The Internet will reshape the traditional automobile industry The Internet has had an unprecedented impact on traditional manufacturing. In this regard, many corporate executives have conducted in-depth discussions from different angles.
According to Dr. Xu Daquan, executive vice president of Bosch China, the century-old enterprise Kodak did not adjust its response to the new technological revolution in time, and thus went down, which is a warning to the traditional auto industry. Xu Daquan said that there are three main directions for the development of automotive technology in the future: electrification, interconnection and automation. Due to the intervention of the Internet, the entire automotive industry chain will undergo tremendous changes from product design to manufacturing, to Internet sales and after-sales service. People will see more and more new faces involved in the automotive industry, IBM, Google, Apple and even Alibaba will become new competitors in the automotive industry.
In China, 500 million people use mobile phones to access the Internet, 77% of car buyers check the car information before buying, and 57% of car buyers express their willingness to buy cars online. Ni Zhen, president and CEO of Beijing Mercedes-Benz Sales & Service Co., Ltd., said that in the face of such a new environment, a century-old company like Mercedes-Benz is making adjustments and changes in a timely manner.
Matt Tsien, vice president of GM and president of General Motors China, said that GM will launch a concept car that no longer uses oil in 2030, achieving zero emissions, no traffic accidents and congestion, and people will drive more happily. He said that GM's move is not for the technology itself, because it is a worldwide consumer demand, and the automotive industry has a responsibility to drive this key area of ​​development.
Li Keqiang, director of the Department of Automotive Engineering at Tsinghua University, said that the car network can be used not only for automotive use, but also for improving the performance of the car itself. The survey found that Chinese consumers have a particularly high demand for technology allocation. China's well-selling cars are models equipped with in-vehicle systems and entertainment systems. The in-vehicle system has become the top five influencing factors for Chinese consumers to buy or not to buy a car. The car interconnection will become a watershed in the industry.
Environmental protection pressure accelerates industrial upgrading and congestion and pollution is a new problem brought by the automobile industry. Through public transportation and reasonable road planning, congestion problems can be gradually solved, but environmental protection issues involve comprehensive adjustment and upgrading of various factors such as industrial structure and economic structure. The development of new energy vehicles has become a hope.
Wang Chuanfu, chairman of BYD Auto Co., said that there are currently three "emergency" in China's auto industry. First of all, 60% of China's oil depends on imports, 60% of the import channels come from the South China Sea, 60% of the oil is used for transportation, and the safety issue is urgent. The second "emergency" is the environmental problem. The exhaust gas and air quality have reached the two years. The situation of being intolerable has changed from a secondary contradiction to a major contradiction; the pressure of the world car to upgrade to the Chinese car is the third "anxious". Wang Chuanfu said that China has 1.2 million taxis and 500,000 bus buses, accounting for 1.7% of the country's total car ownership, but it emits 80% of China's exhaust gas and consumes 33% of China's total fuel consumption. Therefore, the promotion of new energy vehicles in China should first be in the official and public sectors. He expects that by the end of this year, China's new energy vehicles will surpass the US in a single month, becoming the world's largest market for single-month auto consumption, and may surpass other countries by 2020.
Feng Xingya, executive deputy general manager of Guangzhou Automobile Group, said that GAC has mastered the core three-electric technology (battery, electric control, motor). At present, three new energy vehicles have been put into trial operation, and the extended-range electric vehicles have been implemented in batches in October. Production, the model is fully charged and can travel 800 kilometers. Feng Xingya said: In the field of car networking, through the research and breakthrough of electronics, electrical appliances and intelligent technology, GAC has established intelligent technology for mobile phones and TBox, which realizes the integration of the three networks of the car network, mobile phone network and the Internet. Meet the different levels of configuration requirements from A to C.
China's auto industry enters a critical period of transformation Wang Ruixiang, president of China Machinery Industry Federation, said that China's auto industry is in a critical period of transition from large to strong. As a pillar industry, the current automobile industry contributes more than 6 trillion yuan to the national economy every year. The output and sales volume ranks first in the world for five consecutive years. In the global automobile sales, we account for about 1/4. China has become a veritable country in the world of automobile manufacturing and sales. However, we must also clearly understand that China's automobile industry's overall innovation capability is still not strong, and the development of the industrial chain is still not perfect. There is still a long way to go to achieve the goal of manufacturing a strong country. To this end, we must abandon the value orientation of GDP-only ranking, adhere to the structure, actively promote cross-regional, cross-industry, and cross-ownership mergers and acquisitions, optimize industrial layout; continue to use innovation as the driving force to enhance the level of industrial independent innovation. And the driving force of endogenous growth; accelerate the development of new energy vehicles and high-efficiency and low-energy products; take the international development as the strategic goal, extend the service to the after-market, and extend the deep cooperation of the industry chain to build the overall competitiveness of the industry.
Tang Liangzhi, the mayor of Wuhan, said that Wuhan has participated in and witnessed the historical process of growth, innovation and transformation of China's automobile industry, and the automobile industry has become the first pillar industry in Wuhan. Wuhan has become the city with the largest number of complete vehicle brands in China. Four of the world's top ten automakers have invested and cooperated in Wuhan, and more than 400 auto parts companies have formed a complete automobile industry chain. In 2013, automobiles and parts. The industrial output value has exceeded 200 billion yuan. This year, the city's automobile production will exceed one million yuan. Wuhan will build a large car block with a total area of ​​about 600 square kilometers. By 2020, the total vehicle production capacity of Wuhan will exceed 3 million. According to our forecast, it will exceed 3 million in 2017, and the output value of auto parts will exceed 600 billion. It has become the headquarters of China's automobile business and R&D.