As the largest province of automobile production and consumption in China, Guangdong has run out of the "new speed" of China's new energy vehicles. On the evening of August 9, BYD announced at its global headquarters in Shenzhen that BYD's 5 millionth new energy vehicle had rolled off the assembly line, becoming the first car brand in the world to reach this milestone.
This is less than nine months after BYD's 3 million new energy vehicles rolled off the assembly line. Reviewing the development history of BYD's new energy vehicles, it took 13 years from "the first car to the one million" and 1 and a half years from "one million to three million".
"Technology research and development is a new long march of self-reliance in science and technology." At the ceremony, reviewing the development of China's new energy vehicles, Wang Chuanfu, chairman and president of BYD Co., Ltd. choked up several times. He is full of ambition for the rise of China's new energy vehicle brands: "China will be born a respected world-class brand!"
According to data from the Guangdong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, in the first half of this year, Guangdong's new energy vehicle production accounted for 28.74% of the country, ranking first in the country, and one of every four new energy vehicles in the country is "made in Guangdong".
"The achievement of BYD's new milestone highlights the strong potential energy of Guangdong's leading enterprises to take the lead and accelerate the development of new energy automobile industry clusters." Said Chen Feng, associate researcher of the Institute of Modern Industry, Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences.
It is the driving effect of the main chain leader, the vertical integration ability of Guangdong's new energy vehicle industry chain continues to strengthen, and the external "siphon effect" continues to increase. Recently, international auto giants have "increased" Guangdong's auto industry: Germany's Volkswagen Group injected about 700 million US dollars into Xopeng Automobile to improve Volkswagen's intelligent network car research and development capabilities in China; Gac Toyota joined hands with Pony Zhixing to promote L4 automatic driving mass production and commercial use; Gac Ea 'an to GAC Honda, GAC Toyota and other joint ventures reverse export products, technology...... In the transformation of the direction of intelligence and electrification, Guangdong's automobile industry realizes "overtaking" by "changing lanes".
"Looking ahead to the second half of the year, Guangdong's auto industry is expected to maintain a good growth momentum." The relevant person in charge of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology said that Guangdong takes electric vehicles, intelligent connected vehicles, and fuel cell vehicles as the "three horizontal", passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and public vehicles as the "three vertical", and core technologies, core resources, and core platforms as the "three cores" to create a new energy automobile industry with global competitiveness.
"A world-class new energy vehicle industry cluster is emerging in Guangdong, becoming an important part of a modern industrial system supported by the real economy," said Wang Fuqiang, head of the regional and industrial planning department at the China Center for International Economic Exchanges.
