On December 27, the 2019-2020 Chongqing Fumin Xingyu Contribution Award was officially announced, which is a commendation project approved by the central government and carried out in the name of the municipal party committee and the municipal government, and the selection period is two years. A total of 10 winners and 2 special prize groups were selected for this award. Among them, Chongqing Changan Automobile Co., Ltd. won the "2019-2020 Fumin Xingyu Contribution Award Special Award".
Changan Automobile has made innovative and outstanding contributions to the construction of "intelligent manufacturing town" and "smart city" in Chongqing, and to the realization of China's dream of an automobile power. The Fumin Xingyu Contribution Award is a high affirmation of Changan Automobile's strategic achievements and operating performance in 2019-2020.
Take responsibility and turn crisis into opportunity
Changan Automobile, with the new as a reflection of the great responsibility of large enterprises, give full play to the leading role of leading enterprises in Chongqing.
During the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020, when materials were in the most urgent supply, Changan Automobile resolutely chose "cross-border car companies" and formed a mask production team. As of November 29, 2021, the company has produced a total of 20.821 million masks and distributed 19.801 million masks.
Through the development of thermal imaging epidemic prevention vehicles, Changan Automobile has expanded the effective temperature measurement range to 10 meters, realized the real "non-contact" long-distance body temperature measurement, and at special moments, provided free of charge to municipal, transportation and medical service institutions such as high-speed rail stations and communities in Chongqing to help public welfare epidemic prevention.
At the same time, Changan Automobile has driven the development of 20,000 upstream and downstream enterprises in Chongqing, promoted the endogenous cycle of the national economy, driven 800,000 people to employment, attracted 229 talents and 42 senior talents in core fields for Chongqing globally, and made every effort to fight a high-quality development battle and actively contribute to the economic and social development of Chongqing.
As a state-owned enterprise, Changan Automobile has not forgotten its original intention, kept its mission in mind, assumed greater social responsibility in the great changes that have not occurred in a hundred years, and handed over a wonderful Chang'an answer sheet.
Innovation and entrepreneurship, keep pace with the times
Changan Automobile has accumulated 160 years of historical and cultural heritage, and maintained an open pattern in innovation and entrepreneurship. In 1984, Changan began its first venture, less than 20 years, in China to create an automobile category, becoming the king of micro-cars; in 2003, the second entrepreneurship, Changan took the initiative to change, out of the comfort zone, the pursuit of higher quality development, less than 20 years, become China's own brand of the first automobile enterprises.
Now, Changan is experiencing its third entrepreneurship. Focus on chips, core algorithms and other fields, build the system capability of "Core Diagram Core Cloud Nettian", jointly lay out new tracks of science and technology, focus on innovative applications and full-scenario digital connections, and create a digital ecology; build a "partner" relationship with users to create automotive ecological products; and successively release intelligent "Beidou Tianshu Plan", "Shangri-La Plan" and "New Car + New Ecology" strategies.
Changan Automobile has run out of "acceleration" on the road to becoming an intelligent low-carbon travel technology-based enterprise, realizing the development of enterprises "unique scenery here", and becoming the only state-owned independent passenger car brand enterprise with both scale and efficiency.
Independent research and development, leading the future
Keeping in mind the earnest entrustment of General Secretary Xi Jinping that "we must get the national automobile brand up", Changan Automobile, centering on the "two-point" positioning, "two places", "two high" goals and "four solid" requirements put forward by the general secretary for Chongqing, undertakes the heavy responsibility of the revitalization of the national automobile brand and the responsibility of the long chain of the modern industrial chain, and firmly chooses to firmly grasp the key core technologies in its own hands in the new era of intelligence, networking, electrification and health.
In April 2019, Changan laid out a global R&D center in Chongqing, involving 12 fields such as simulation analysis, noise and vibration, and passive safety, and built 180 laboratories such as hybrid power and environmental testing.
Changan Automobile is self-reliant in key technologies, and has mastered more than 1,100 core technologies such as intelligence and new energy, and has 5892 patents. The research and development strength has ranked first in the industry for ten consecutive years, and the production and sales of independent brand automobiles have ranked first in China for many years, promoting the automobile industry to become a beautiful business card of Chongqing.
From January to November 2021, Changan Automobile's sales reached 2.12 million units, an increase of 17.7% year-on-year, of which Changan's Chinese brand cars sold 1.63 million units, such a brilliant achievement, but also the epitome of industrial innovation in the new era. Self-reliant, independent innovation, and high ambitions, Changan Automobile dares to break through the key core technical problems of "card neck" and enhance the independent and controllable ability of the industrial chain and supply chain.
In Chongqing, the automobile industry has formed a "1+10+1000" advantageous industrial cluster supply chain with Changan as the leader, more than a dozen vehicle enterprises as the backbone, and thousands of supporting enterprises as the support. While developing itself, Changan Automobile also joins hands to drive other enterprises to develop together to achieve a "win-win situation" and play a decisive role in pulling the local economy.
Enrich the people and rejuvenate Chongqing, upward and new. Turning honor into power, Changan Automobile will seize the historical opportunity of the construction of the twin-city economic circle in Chengdu and Chongqing at a new starting point of continuous struggle, run out of "acceleration" on the transformation road of becoming an intelligent low-carbon travel technology-based enterprise, focus on breaking through the "card neck" problem, enhance core competitiveness, and fully promote the strategic action of "new car + new ecology", and is committed to achieving world-class enterprises and creating a world-class international brand.