Xu Liuping: Auto Powers Can't Buy Need to Promote Independent Innovation

Although China's automobile industry has made great progress, the growth in "quantity" has not brought a "quality" breakthrough. The transition from a large automobile country to a powerful automobile country requires the vigorous promotion of independent innovation.

In recent years, although China's automobile industry has made great progress, the growth in "quantity" has not brought about "quality" breakthroughs. To realize the transition from a big automobile country to a powerful automobile country, it is necessary to vigorously promote independent innovation. China's auto industry has many R & D models: joint, imitation, and foreign platforms to use, buy foreign product technology and platforms, independent research and development. There is no right or wrong between these methods. However, if companies want to become stronger and better, they must have independent and independent core technologies. Otherwise, it is impossible to buy a strong car company.

The lack of core technologies is a bottleneck that restricts the independent innovation of China's auto industry and the development of parts and components industry. The proportion of funds invested by foreign auto giants in the field of science and technology accounts for about 5% of sales revenue. There is still a small gap between Chinese companies in absolute or relative terms. Therefore, auto companies must focus on increasing investment in science and technology, returning to the nature of global competition in the automotive industry: independent development, and truly enhancing the ability of independent innovation.

For a long time, people have confused the materialization technology embodied in products with the ability to design and develop these products. Under this logic, it seems that foreign companies investing in factories to produce new products in China, or China can purchase new products using foreign companies, is equivalent to China's ability to develop, design, and produce these products. This is wrong. For example, as long as they are willing to pay, the Chinese can drive Mercedes-Benz BMWs, sit Boeing airplanes, etc., but this is only the consumption of other people's products, and the ability to design and develop these products does not belong to you, the brand does not belong to you, resulting in profits It does not belong to you. Technical capabilities are endogenous to the organization and can only be formed in the practice of technology research and development. Therefore, only independent research and development can develop the capability, and it is possible to have intellectual property rights. No matter how important the introduction of technology and the introduction of foreign investment in economic development, can not replace it. Independent development of the key role of technology learning.

Changan has several ideas on independent innovation. First, make full use of global resources and arm yourself with global resources rather than behind closed doors. We have our own R&D centers in Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and we have attracted the world's excellent human resources to Changan. Second, to upgrade the technology for classification management, the seven major assemblies, four major processes, more than 10,000 parts and components, and hundreds of key technologies have all been classified. One is benchmarking, and the world is at what level. Chang’an What is the level, where is the gap, and then develop your own technology roadmap. Third, in some of the missing technologies, intensify the replenishment, especially to fill the gaps overseas. For example, our R&D project in the United States is a chassis, which helps to upgrade our chassis overall tuning technology to a new level. In addition, support for competitive companies in global mergers and acquisitions can also quickly bridge critical technology gaps. By 2020, Chang'an will achieve 5 million to 6 million vehicles for automobile production and sales, of which production and sales of self-owned brands account for more than 60%.