The 2022 China Auto Supply Chain Conference and the first China New Energy Vehicle (NEV) and Intelligent Connected Vehicle (ICV) Ecosystem Meeting is unveiled on June 27 in WEDZ. [Photo provided to en.whkfq.gov.cn]
The 2022 China Auto Supply Chain Conference and the first China New Energy Vehicle (NEV) and Intelligent Connected Vehicle (ICV) Ecosystem Meeting kicked off on June 27 in the Wuhan Economic & Technological Development Zone (WEDZ). It will last for three days until June 29.
More than 200 industry insiders, specialists, and executives from throughout China gathered in the zone to discuss how to build a more resilient and safe automobile supply chain and reshape the auto supply chain ecosystem against the backdrop of an industrial transformation in China's auto sector.
Dubbed the first domestic on-site event focusing on the auto supply chain, the event was directed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Hubei Provincial People's Government, China Machinery Industry Federation, and organized by China Association of Automobile Manufacturers and Wuhan Municipal People's Government.
An auto supply chain strategic summit was held that afternoon, inviting more than 30 leading figures in the industry to give lectures on how the automobile business will react under normalized pandemic prevention and control. Zhu Yanfeng, president of Dongfeng Motor Co, Yang Xudong and Guo Shougang, senior officials from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, professors at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Tsinghua University, Dalian University of Technology, Donghua University, and representatives of renowned domestic automakers and auto spare part suppliers, including FAW, Changan Auto, BAIC Motor, GAC Motor, Geely, Chery, NIO, CALB, CATL, and Neusoft Reach, attended the summit.
As the conference's host province, Hubei showed its capability and resolution to become China's most competitive NEV and ICV industrial hub by giving full play to the leading roles of auto giants such as Dongfeng, SAIC and Lotus.
It will also develop a cutting-edge power cell industrial cluster to achieve technological independence in actuating a motor and electric control system, and promote the in-depth integration of the auto industry and new-generation communications, new energy, new materials, artificial intelligence, big data, and other emerging sectors.
