A total of 11 major projects with combined investment worth 30.3 billion yuan ($4.69 billion) are to be developed in the Wuhan Economic & Technological Development Zone, or WHDZ – located in Wuhan city, in Central China's Hubei province – in the wake of agreements inked there on Aug 27, according to local media reports.
The projects cover multiple fields such as intelligently connected cars, the headquarters economy, new retail, the internet of things and big health.
One of them – the Hik Ai Link Central China Regional Headquarters Project – will be located in the Smart Eco-city in the WHDZ.
The project will be dedicated to the research, development and application of internet of vehicles technology – focusing on the field of the cooperative vehicle infrastructure system, or CVIS. It is expected to develop into a research and development headquarters for car-end mass-produced products, as well as a data operations service headquarters in Central China.
According to Hik Ai Link officials, to date the company has successfully built a CVIS system, which can provide smart roads, autonomous driving bus lines and other CVIS V2X applications and scenario applications. It has reportedly served customers in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Shandong, Beijing, Hubei and elsewhere in China.
Meanwhile, the WHDZ's Jangho Central China Headquarters project will include a curtain wall industrial base and an industrial design center. In the construction industry, a curtain wall is an outer covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, utilized only to keep the weather out and occupants in. Since the curtain wall is non-structural, it can be made of lightweight materials such as glass, reducing construction costs.
The curtain wall sector facility will reportedly offer overall solutions integrating product research and development, engineering designs, precision manufacturing, installation and construction, consulting services and finished product exports.
It is said that the city industry project will attract the Hong Kong-based and share market listed Steve Leung Design Group, which provides interior design services for luxury apartments, restaurants, hotels and the like.
The project is also expected to introduce architectural designs, decorative designs and industrial designs resources and integrate them into industrial production, within an eco-friendly development.
It is expected to attract more than 300 small and medium-sized innovative design companies to settle there and employ about 2,000 design and research personnel.
