Chongqing, China, on August 23, 2018, Chongqing Xiaokang Industrial Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Xiaokang Group) and Alibaba Group officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement. The two sides will carry out comprehensive cooperation to jointly promote the application and industrialization cooperation of digitalization, intelligence and networking in the automotive industry.
As a benchmark enterprise for strategic cooperation between Chongqing Municipal Government and Alibaba, Xiaokang Group will work with Alibaba to build an intelligent manufacturing demonstration in the automotive industry, promote the high integration of the automotive industry and Internet technology, and drive technological innovation in the automotive industry. In the future, the two sides will deepen cooperation in the field of automotive intelligence and jointly promote Intelligent networking The popularity of automobiles.
This signing is another implementation of the Group's "smart ecological strategy" with the corporate mission of "promoting automobile energy reform and creating smart mobile life". In the new field of intelligent cars, Xiaokang Group is actively embracing change with confidence, adhering to high-quality development in intelligent networking, intelligent driving and intelligent manufacturing, and playing a new strong voice of "intelligent manufacturing in China".
According to the strategic cooperation plan, Xiaokang Group and Ali will give full play to their respective advantages and form an effective technology alliance through effective cooperation methods such as resource complementarity and technology sharing. The two sides will carry out in-depth cooperation in Internet marketing, digital middle ground, cloud computing platform, e-commerce and logistics vehicles, and apply new technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing to deepen cooperation in digital design and development, intelligent manufacturing, business model innovation, service quality and efficiency improvement, and intelligent driving experience, And jointly accelerate the development process of intelligent vehicle industrialization.
At present, the global automobile industry is undergoing irreversible energy reform. Intelligence, networking, electrification and sharing will reshape the organization mode of the automobile industry and promote a major reshuffle and change of the global automobile industry pattern. Against the background of this great opportunity, the strategic cooperation between Xiaokang and Ali is a car manufacturer committed to becoming a global smart car brand enterprise, and the cooperation with leading travel enterprises will help to jointly provide users with the ultimate user experience.
For the well-off group with more than 30 years of industrial experience, smart cars have already become the company's strategic development direction, and are committed to promoting the interconnected development of people and cars, cars and cars, and cars and the environment through technology and business model innovation, so that cars can become people's smart mobile partners, lead people and cars' lifestyle, and share people's happy mobile life. Ma Jianchang, chief operating officer of Xiaokang Group, said, "The in-depth integration of Xiaokang's 30 years of manufacturing experience and Alibaba's Internet technology will accelerate the pace of Xiaokang Group to become a global smart car brand enterprise, and bring more remote, safer, and more usable intelligence to users in Chongqing, China and the world electric vehicle Products and services. "
Traditional car companies have not much contact with Internet companies. However, with the popularization of car intelligence, both basic on-board Internet systems and advanced car technologies such as automatic driving need the support of Internet technology, and the relationship between the two is getting closer and closer.
Since 2014, Alibaba has invested in the research and development of AliOS intelligent operating system for cars, and has always been committed to creating intelligent travel experience. AliOS is regarded by Ali as the smart brain of the future automobile. According to public data, in July 2014, Ali and SAIC Group announced that they had reached a strategic cooperation. In 2015, Ali and SAIC Group jointly invested and set up a 1 billion yuan "Internet Auto Fund", established a zebra network, and officially started the landing plan of "cars running on the Internet". In July 2016, SAIC Group launched the first Internet car, Roewe RX5, which was jointly built with Ali and quickly became a best-selling model after its launch.
On April 23 this year, Alibaba Artificial Intelligence Laboratories (AILabs) announced that they have reached cooperation with three automobile enterprises, Daimler (parent company of Mercedes Benz), Audi and Volvo. In the future, the three international automobile enterprises will support Tmall Genie's voice assistant for mass production models with networking function.
Hu Xiaoming, president of Alibaba Cloud, said, "Alibaba hopes to provide better technical support and innovative services for practitioners in the automotive industry, so as to bring better travel solutions and more intelligent driving experience to consumers. We will cooperate with Xiaokang Group to explore digital and intelligent transformation of the automotive manufacturing industry, and promote industrial application and promotion." According to Hu Xiaoming, At present, Alibaba's business layout in the automotive field includes cloud computing, operating systems, maps, high-precision positioning, new retail, auto finance, automatic driving, logistics, travel services, etc., which can provide partners with technical support and ecological collaboration throughout the industry chain.
