In March 2023, the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency presented the Annual Innovation Product Investment Award to NIO Energy's European factory. The products produced by this factory are battery swapping stations that can accommodate the next entire sport utility vehicle. Currently, not only can NIO cars be seen on the streets of Europe, but multiple battery swapping stations have also been put into operation. Enjoying a more convenient charging experience will help conservative European consumers more easily accept electric vehicles.
Currently, Europe and the United States hold two vastly different attitudes towards the rapidly developing new energy vehicle industry in China. Some established car companies value China's industrial advantages and work together with Chinese partners to seek innovative breakthroughs; There are also conservative voices accusing China of "overcapacity" or "data threats" in new energy vehicles, demanding registration, review, and heavy taxation.
Faced with external environmental challenges, is it for Chinese enterprises to return to the vast domestic market and "build cars behind closed doors", or to integrate resources and create more stable, reliable, and efficient industrial and supply chains through a global development path?
During a visit to frontline enterprises in Anhui, the reporter found that whether it is product exports or industrial chains going global, continuing to optimize resource allocation through a global development path, improving technological and management innovation levels, and building core competitiveness are still industry consensus.
In Ningguo City, Anhui Province, the exhibition hall of Zhongding Group, a leading global automotive parts supplier, is marked with the company's multinational business layout of research and development, production, and distribution in more than 20 countries and regions around the world.
Xia Yingsong, Chairman of Zhongding Sealing Parts Co., Ltd., told reporters, "Our competitive advantage comes from global industrial layout. Faced with external obstacles, Chinese enterprises should actively participate in international cooperation and jointly build supply chains."
Since 2008, Zhongding has embarked on a distinctive path of globalization through its "global mergers and acquisitions, China integration" strategy. This company has successfully integrated into the global automotive industry chain by acquiring overseas companies and guiding them to invest in China in a reverse direction, introducing overseas technological advantages and high-end talents to China, and innovating on the basis of digesting advanced technology.
In Feixi County, Hefei City, Anhui Province, the factory of Junsheng Automotive Safety Systems (Anhui) Co., Ltd. is working intensively in production. Enterprise leader Zhang Huawei explained that the reason for choosing to build a factory here is because Feixi County has a strong cluster advantage in the new energy vehicle industry chain. Junsheng Safety has established a new industrial base in Hefei, covering research and development centers, testing and verification laboratories, passenger car steering wheels, and safety airbag production centers.
Junsheng Automotive Safety Systems is headquartered in Auburn Hills, USA, with operations in 25 countries worldwide. It is a subsidiary of Ningbo Junsheng Electronics Co., Ltd.
For over a decade, Junsheng Electronics has achieved technological breakthroughs through independent research and development and overseas mergers and acquisitions, entering high-end automotive parts fields such as automotive electronics and automotive safety, entering the supply chain system of top global OEMs, and ultimately completing a global business layout, accumulating a large number of technological advantages, becoming a leading supplier in the automotive industry chain worldwide.
Dong Jinsong, the person in charge of the preparation team for Junsheng Automotive Safety Project, told reporters that the company provides high-quality and reliable automotive safety system related technologies and products to domestic and foreign vehicle manufacturing enterprises, creating a strong and vibrant industrial chain for the development of the global automotive industry.
The sea embraces all rivers, and the capacity is great. Chinese new energy vehicle industry chain enterprises are actively operating globally with an open mindset, constantly generating tremendous creativity and making new and greater contributions to the global economic green transformation and technological progress.