In the era of digital intelligence, the automobile industry is ushering in a new round of subversive changes

In the context of a new round of scientific and technological revolution, the global automobile industry is undergoing profound changes. Digital transformation is becoming a complex and huge system engineering, so that automotive companies have a long-term layout and continuous evolution.

According to the iResearch report, in 2020, the production and sales of passenger cars in China will be 19.994 million and 20.78 million, respectively. Driven by intelligent and connected technologies, intelligent connected vehicles have gradually become the main growth driver in the passenger car market.

When the automotive industry meets the age of digital intelligence, a profound and far-reaching change is taking place.

IDC predicts that by 2024, more than 71% of new cars shipped worldwide will be equipped with intelligent network systems, and the market will gradually mature. At the same time, this also indicates that in the future, the entire automobile and even the mobile travel industry will give birth to more application scenarios under the promotion of autonomous driving and intelligent connected cars. "Including intelligent production, cloud platform, vehicle networking, artificial intelligence, digital marketing, mobile travel, driverless, etc., digital transformation has become the fundamentals of high-quality development of every automotive company." Zhang Xiuzheng, president of Huawei Cloud China, believes that smart cars that integrate digital technology are becoming the consensus of industry development.

"The future intelligent connected automobile industry will be an emerging strategic industrial cluster with more industries breaking through the original business barriers, deep integration and collaborative innovation." In the view of Zhang Xiaohe, executive vice president of the People's Net Research Institute of Finance and Economics, information technology as a new variable into the bureau, the future automotive industry chain will be deeper and wider. At the same time, the transformation and upgrading of the automobile industry will also inject surging momentum into the high-quality development of the entire economy and society, and become an important part of meeting the needs of consumption upgrading and helping realize the construction of a smart society.

"We are experiencing the transformation of old and new kinetic energy in the automotive industry, and new energy vehicles and intelligent connected vehicles have become the common development goals of the global automotive industry." Yan Jianlai, deputy secretary-general of the China Society of Automotive Engineering, believes that the current round of disruptive changes in the automotive industry has begun. With the integrated development of the digital economy, artificial intelligence and the real economy, the vitality brought to the automobile industry will promote the reconstruction, reconstruction and reshaping of the high-quality development pattern of the automobile industry.

How to "adapt with wisdom, promote wisdom with change", embrace opportunities and meet challenges in this new transformation of the automobile industry? A few days ago, the People's Daily Online Institute of Finance and Economics, the China Society of Automotive Engineering, and Huawei Cloud jointly launched the "Automobile intelligent Manufacturer" action plan, and jointly built a comprehensive platform to help digital industrialization and industrial digitalization coordinated development.

"It's an action plan and a public service platform." Zhang Xiaohe introduced that the plan adopts the "3+N" open mode, focuses on the practitioners of the automotive industry's digital intelligent transformation as the object of observation and research, and organizes a series of seminars and surveys to help promote the automotive industry to gather high-quality development consensus, create new competitive advantages of the digital economy, and explore effective paths and solutions to meet people's yearning for a better travel life.

According to reports, around the action plan, the People's Daily Online Institute of Finance and Economics will join hands with the China Society of Automotive Engineering, Huawei Cloud and experts in the field of digital economy to organize special research topics, in-depth observation of the intelligent transformation and upgrading process of the automotive industry, in view of the hot spots, focus and difficulties of the development of the industry, and jointly explore forward-looking solutions and paths. At the same time, through the "into the enterprise" in-depth research, from the production side, the operation side, the service side, the product side and other observation dimensions, focusing on new technologies, new products, new models, mining the automotive industry digital upgrading, scientific and technological innovation, reform breakthrough excellent cases. After the completion of the research action, the theme report "Automotive Industry Digital Development Insight (2021-2022)" will also be released to provide decision-making reference for relevant departments and industry enterprises, and provide sample strength for the development of automobile brands.

The "Automobile Intelligent Manufacturer" action plan invites outstanding representatives of the automobile industry to actively join, participate together, and contribute wisdom and strength to seek collaborative innovation in the automobile industry and promote the high-quality development of the industry.