The meandering Funan River in Chengdu passes through rows of tall buildings, and the river is sparkling, reflecting the traffic on both sides of the river. Here, it is the famous Chengdu Software Park.

In Block A, the territorial global financial center in the software park, a company from Chongqing has recently recruited more than 200 experts in the fields of artificial intelligence, big data analysis and processing, and intends to compete with the top international new energy automobile brands.

This company is Chengdu Software Center of Cyrus Automobile Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Cyrus Automobile). Just in May of this year, the sales of high-end new energy vehicles produced by Cyrus Automobile increased by 1616% year-on-year. At this point, the sales volume of new energy vehicles of Xiaokang Group, the parent company of Cyrus Automobile, surpassed that of fuel vehicles, and the transformation and development of enterprises ushered in a bright moment.

According to the plan, in the next two years, the total number of employees in Chengdu Software Center of Cyrus Auto will exceed 800.

'Chengdu has outstanding advantages in electronic information and Internet technology, and Chongqing has technology and experience in vehicle manufacturing. We hope to integrate the strengths of the two places, cultivate a stronger software technology team, consolidate the position of' self-sustaining new energy technology' and enhance product competitiveness.' Zhang Xinghai, founder of Xiaokang Group, said.

The curtain of cooperation between Sichuan and Chongqing on new energy automobile industry has been opened.

Chongqing's new energy automobile industry is highly complementary.

In Sichuan-Chongqing automobile industry cooperation, new energy vehicles can be described as the top priority-

From the perspective of industrial prospects, new energy vehicles have shown the trend of borderless integration of industries, and the 'new four modernizations' represented by intelligence and networking are becoming the future development trend of the automobile industry.

From the perspective of industrial complementarity, Chongqing has a large number of vehicle brands, a strong foundation of vehicle manufacturing industry, and a complete supply system including engines, transmissions and other assemblies. However, in emerging fields such as battery materials and battery packs, local enterprises in Chongqing are small in size. Sichuan has outstanding advantages in new materials, power batteries, electronic information and software industries, especially in intelligent networked automobile inspection and testing platform, information security and other technical fields. At the same time, it also has rich intellectual and scientific resources such as universities and research institutes.

Especially under the requirement of 'double carbon' target, new energy vehicles are faced with 'carbon footprint' tracking, which requires that their batteries must be 'green electricity'. In this respect, Sichuan has obvious advantages-taking hydropower as an example, by the end of 2021, the installed capacity of hydropower in Sichuan is nearly 90 million kilowatts, and the power generation accounts for about 1/4 of the total hydropower generation in China. It is because of this advantage that China's new energy automobile battery giants Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited and Honeycomb have set up battery factories in Sichuan.

'The automobile industry chains of Sichuan and Chongqing are highly complementary. If the new energy automobile industry of the two places can achieve integrated development in the industrial chain, core technology research and development and application scenarios in the future, it will achieve the effect of 1+1 > 2.' Zhang Xinghai said.

Based on the complementarity of new energy automobile industry, in October, 2021, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the Outline of Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle Construction Plan, proposing that Sichuan and Chongqing should 'cultivate advanced manufacturing clusters with international competitiveness'. With intelligent networking and new energy as the main direction, we will build a high-level R&D, production and manufacturing base for automobile industry '.

A number of joint policies have achieved remarkable results.

Optimistic about the cooperation prospect of new energy automobile industry between Sichuan and Chongqing, the Chengdu Software Center of Cyrus Automobile came into being. There is still a lot of cooperation between Cyrus Automobile and Sichuan.

For example, its power battery comes from the battery factory in Yibin, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited; The rear axle assembly and rear frame are from Sichuan Jian 'an Co., Ltd.; The whole wiring harness comes from Sichuan Fanhua Electric Appliance Co., Ltd..

Like Cyrus, many new energy car companies in the two places have benefited from the cooperation between Sichuan and Chongqing, or are looking forward to further cooperation.

Yang Dayong, vice president of Changan Automobile and chairman of Changan New Energy, said that a large part of Changan Automobile's battery supply next year is expected to come from AVIC Lithium Battery in Sichuan.

'Battery support occupies an extremely important position in the whole new energy vehicle support. Half of the battery cost depends on raw materials, and the other half is the production cost including electricity price. At present, the export of new energy vehicles to many countries requires the carbon emission certificate of' green electricity'. Sichuan has the advantages of cheap electricity price and' green electricity', which is very attractive to us. ' Yang Dayong said.

In fact, new energy vehicle companies in the two places have more cooperation ideas. Taking automobile chips as an example, with the existing domestic independent technology and industrial chain, R&D institutions in the two places have been able to develop independent automobile-grade chips. Moreover, the scale of automobile industry in Sichuan and Chongqing can 'feed' the whole upstream and downstream industrial chain including chips, forming a scale of trillions.

'We are working hard to promote the establishment of Chongqing Automotive Chip Research Institute. It is suggested that the government should invest in product platform research and development, and make overall plans for local industries. Chang 'an, Cyrus and other enterprises can each undertake a part of vehicle model research, and drive supporting enterprises to land through the whole vehicle to create demonstration effects.' Zhang Xinghai revealed.

In addition to the cooperation at the enterprise level, the cooperation between Sichuan and Chongqing government departments on the new energy automobile industry is also in full swing.

In recent years, Sichuan and Chongqing have jointly compiled and issued policy documents such as the Collaborative Work Plan of Sichuan-Chongqing Automobile Industry Industry Chain Supply Chain, the Implementation Plan of High-quality Coordinated Development of Automobile Industry in Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle, and the Strategic Cooperation Agreement on Building a World-class Advanced Automobile Industry Cluster, which have achieved results through multiple channels-

In the joint research of major key core technologies, the finance of Sichuan and Chongqing jointly invested nearly 200 million yuan, implemented the special support plan in the automobile field, and carried out more than 180 major theme projects of common key technology innovation in key industries, major theme projects of technological innovation and application development, and general projects.

Relying on the leading enterprises and key research institutes in the automobile field of the two places, the competent departments of automobile industry in Sichuan and Chongqing focus on key core technologies such as motors and batteries of new energy vehicles, and continue to strengthen the basic frontier problems in the field of new energy and intelligent networked automobiles and tackle key problems of 'sticking neck' technology.

In terms of personnel training, the governments of Sichuan and Chongqing have promoted the integration of service resources, supported Chongqing Institute of Industry and Trade Technicians, Sichuan Instrument Industry School and other enterprises to establish vocational education alliance of Sichuan and Chongqing automobile industry with Changan Automobile, Chengdu Geely and other enterprises, and promoted the cross-training and mutual transmission of intelligence and manpower in automobile industry.

In terms of joint testing of intelligent vehicles, relying on the two national-level test areas of Chongqing Liangjiang New District Vehicle Networking Pilot Zone and Chengdu Sino-German Intelligent Networked Vehicle Testing Base, the two places have reached an agreement to jointly promote the coordinated development of vehicle networking in Chengdu-Chongqing Shuangcheng Economic Circle.

In terms of information and resource sharing, the supply and demand information docking platform of the automobile industry chain in Chengdu-Chongqing Shuangcheng Economic Circle, jointly established by the economic and information departments of the two places, has been on the line for more than one year, and has attracted more than 3,370 complete vehicles and supporting enterprises in the automobile industry chain of the two places to settle in, with a cumulative increase of nearly 20 supporting parts enterprises, with an additional purchase amount of nearly 800 million yuan.

The two places made joint efforts to build 'three corridors'

Next, how can Sichuan and Chongqing join hands to make the new energy automobile industry bigger?

The person in charge of Chongqing Economic and Information Committee said that the joint efforts around the 'three corridors' of 'hydrogen corridor, electric corridor and zhixing corridor' are the focus of the development of new energy automobile industry in the next two places.

On November 30th, 2021, the launching ceremony of 'Chengdu-Chongqing Hydrogen Corridor' and the launching ceremony of hydrogen fuel cell logistics vehicle were held simultaneously in Jiulongpo, Chengdu and Neijiang, Chongqing. This 'hydrogen corridor' has planned an intercity line and a direct trunk line between Sichuan and Chongqing, among which the intercity line is around the trunk line from Chengdu to Chongqing, and will radiate into the urban agglomerations of Demeizi, southern Sichuan and western Chongqing, northeastern Sichuan and northeastern Chongqing, forming an integrated and interconnected hydrogen energy economic network; The direct trunk line is along the Cheng 'an-Yu Expressway, forming a fast hydrogen transportation line that runs through the central urban agglomeration of Chengdu-Chongqing.

'Starting the construction of' Chengdu-Chongqing Hydrogen Corridor' will deeply integrate the advantageous industrial resources of new energy vehicles in the two places, and form an industrial agglomeration development effect.' A person from the Automobile Department of Chongqing Economic and Information Committee said that Sichuan and Chongqing had intensively introduced a package of hydrogen energy industry planning and related support policies before, and more than 200 upstream and downstream enterprises and research institutes that 'manufacture, store, transport, add and use' hydrogen have gathered in the two places. At present, a total of 440 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles have been put into operation in the two places, and 15 hydrogen refueling stations have been built. Next, the two places will rely on leading enterprises such as Qingling Automobile to promote the demonstration and application of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, and simultaneously improve the supporting construction of hydrogen refueling stations.

As for the construction of 'Chengdu-Chongqing Electric Corridor', Chongqing and Yibin have both been selected as the first batch of application pilots of the electricity-changing mode of new energy vehicles in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the charging pile construction has been fully covered in the service areas of some expressways such as Chengdu-Chongqing Expressway. In the next step, the two sides will speed up the construction of charging piles in Sichuan-Chongqing inter-provincial expressway service area, form an expressway power supply service network, and ensure the inter-provincial charging demand of electric vehicles in the two places. At the same time, focusing on the urban areas of Chongqing, Chengdu, Yibin and Chengdu-Chongqing freeways, we will speed up the layout of power exchange stations, give priority to the pilot operation of power exchange technology in public areas such as taxis and network car-sharing, and gradually promote it to private areas.

Around the construction of 'Chengdu-Chongqing Zhixing Corridor', Sichuan and Chongqing are renovating and upgrading highways and urban roads with vehicle communication network functions in both places. Through the construction of platforms such as Baidu West Autopilot Open Test and Demonstration Operation Base, Chongqing West Autopilot Test Site, Xiantao Valley 5G Autopilot Public Service Platform, and Sichuan Base for Vehicle Networking Standards and Test Verification Pilot Demonstration, the two sides will carry out the test and demonstration application of autonomous driving and vehicle road coordination, and promote the development of intelligent networked vehicles and vehicle networking industrial clusters.

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1. In 2021, the total output of new energy vehicles in Sichuan and Chongqing will be 214,000. Among them, the output of new energy vehicles in Sichuan was 64,000, a year-on-year increase of 106.5%; Chongqing produced 150,000 new energy vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 252%.

2. The docking platform of supply and demand information of automobile industry chain in Chengdu-Chongqing Shuangcheng Economic Circle has been launched for more than one year, and it has attracted more than 3,370 complete vehicles and supporting enterprises in the automobile industry chain of the two places to settle in, with a cumulative increase of nearly 20 mutually supporting parts enterprises, with an additional purchase amount of nearly 800 million yuan.

3. According to the plan, by 2025, the output of automobile industry in Sichuan and Chongqing will reach 3 million vehicles, including 1 million new energy vehicles, achieving an output value of 600 billion yuan, with an average annual increase of more than 5%. Chengdu-Chongqing Shuangcheng Economic Circle will strive to build a world-class automobile R&D, manufacturing and application base.