On December 11, the 2024 Create@ “Future Mobility” Global Innovation Competition finals came to a perfect end in Shanghai. The competition was guided by the Shanghai Pudong New Area Science and Technology and Economic Committee and the Shanghai Jinqiao Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee, and jointly hosted by Shanghai Jinqiao (Group) Co., Ltd., Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd. and BMW China Service Ltd., and honored by Ruigu Science and Technology Innovation. It aims to gather global wisdom, further promote the innovation and application of technologies such as AI+, new energy vehicles, and Internet of Vehicles, accelerate the intelligent and green transformation of urban travel, and inject strong vitality into industrial upgrading and economic take-off.
Shen Xuechu, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences , Lv Dongsheng , secretary of the Party Leadership Group and director of the Jinqiao Administration Bureau of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone Administration Committee and director of the Shanghai Jinqiao Economic and Technological Development Zone Administration Committee, Wang Gang , deputy director of the Science and Technology and Economic Commission of Pudong New Area, Zhu Lili, member of the Party Committee and vice general manager of Jinqiao Group, Dragana Kostic , vice president of BMW Asia Pacific Technical Center, Qian Guobing, government and enterprise division of Alibaba Cloud, and other leaders and experts attended the event and witnessed the birth of various awards of the competition.
Since the competition was launched in September, it has received great attention and strong public response. The organizing committee received more than 310 project applications from all over the country, covering and gathering thousands of dual-innovation talents, and 37 projects stood out and advanced to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, each project fully demonstrated its own innovation strength and market potential. After evaluation by the organizing committee, a total of 16 companies advanced to the finals.
After a day of fierce competition , the following companies stood out from 16 outstanding companies and won awards:
First Prize Winner: Zhaobian (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd.
Second Prize Winners: Suzhou Shenbo Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai Zhongdiao Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Third Prize Winners: Zhengshu Intelligent Information Technology (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd., Hangzhou Zhuoyin Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., Suzhou Boyu Technology Co., Ltd.
Technology Innovation Award winners: Suzhou Boyu Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai Taiyi Micro-Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd.
Winner of the Popularity Award: Zhaobian (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd.
Winners of the competition include variety fields of road infrastructure construction, data solutions , etc. With the joint efforts of relevant government departments, leading enterprises and these small and medium-sized entrepreneurial enterprises, the emerging track and emerging industry of “future mobility” have more room for imagination.
The 7 winning projects are all committed to solving pain points in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain
As the wave of energy transformation surges, we are standing at a critical juncture in the transformation of transportation energy. Exploring efficient, clean and sustainable new energy solutions have become our core mission to promote future mobility upgrades.
Shen Xuechu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, said in his speech that new energy is a major issue for national security and people’s livelihood. New energy is an interdisciplinary subject, not just physics, not just chemistry, not just mechanics, battery information, it requires comprehensive scientific capabilities, and talent training is very important.
Practice is an important part of talent cultivation, and the 2024Create@ “Future Mobility” Global Innovation Competition provides a stage for practice. The morning and afternoon sessions of the finals of the competition will each hold 8 project finals roadshows, with experts from the industry and academia serving as judges, including Hu Ping, managing partner of Morningside Venture Capital, Ding Hao, partner of Boyuan Capital, Hua Yiqun, investment director of CMC Capital, Han Wenxuan, deputy general manager of Boquan Capital, Guo Guanheng, vice president of investment of Multidimensional Capital, Pan Hong, visiting professor of Fudan University and East China Normal University, Li Jun, entrepreneurship guidance expert of Shanghai, Zhao Feng, entrepreneurship guidance expert of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Human Resources and Social Security, Science and Technology, Yin Zhicheng, outstanding science and technology entrepreneurship mentor of Shanghai, Qian Wenying, secretary general of China-Europe AI and Management Innovation Research Center, and other experts from the industry and academia.
The finals adopt the “8+7” model, that is, the project roadshow lasts for 8 minutes and the judges ask questions for 7 minutes. The judges evaluate the performance of the project from five dimensions: “technical innovation”, “development potential”, “market positioning”, “team competitiveness” and “on-site performance”.
The 16 shortlisted projects cover all links of the upstream and downstream industrial chain of the “future mobility” track, including road infrastructure construction, intelligent driving solutions, automobile industrial manufacturing, new energy vehicle energy storage, etc., and use new technologies such as artificial intelligence and AR augmented reality to solve various problems encountered in the digital transformation of the automobile and travel industry chain, laying a good foundation for the future development of travel.
Zhaobian (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd. was unanimously recognized by the judges and became the biggest winner of the competition. It is mainly engaged in the research and development of vehicle-road cooperative traffic control technology, and has a complete set of products including vehicle-road cooperative edge computing equipment, cloud control platform, evaluation equipment, roadside communication unit, vehicle-mounted assisted driving equipment, and integrated radar vision machine.
Suzhou Shenbo Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., which won the second prize, is committed to the research and development of smart seats and photoelectric products; Shanghai Zhongdiao Information Technology Co., Ltd. is committed to the research and development of big data intelligent engine solutions; Zhengcheng Intelligent Information Technology (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd., Hangzhou Zhuoyin Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., Suzhou Boyu Technology Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Taiyi Micro-travel Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd., which won the third prize and the Technology Innovation Award, are respectively involved in the research and development of data engine solutions, CNC technology, etc.
The government and leading enterprises empower medium and small-sized enterprises
For a long time, in the fierce competition among major leading companies, how to obtain innovative resources, increase exposure, gain more “opportunities”, ensure the stable development of cash flow, and continue to achieve high-quality growth has been a daily concern for innovative companies upstream and downstream of the industrial belt.
As the core carrier of Pudong New Area and even Shanghai’s automobile industry, Shanghai Jinqiao is one of the regions with the best industrial ecology. As a national-level economic development zone, Jinqiao contributes more than 1/4 of the industrial economic scale with 1/50 of Pudong’s land. It is known as the region with the “highest per-mu yield” in Shanghai and even the whole country. Among them, the automobile industry has also become the first 100 billion-level industry in Pudong’s development history.
Lv Dongsheng, Party Secretary and Director of Jinqiao Administration Bureau of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone Administration Committee and Director of Shanghai Jinqiao Economic and Technological Development Zone Administration Committee, said in his speech that Jinqiao Group must keep the track of future cars and future mobility, and is determined to become a leader in Shanghai and even in China in the track of intelligent connected cars and driverless driving ( future mobility). In the future, Jinqiao Group will build an ecosystem to gather more advanced and better market players in future mobility, so that their technologies and products can create a better future mobility ecosystem and industry in Pudong.
Facing the new round of intelligent wave, Jinqiao relies on its three major advantages of “legislation, industry, and scenarios”, firmly grasps the opportunities of technological change, actively builds the future vehicle industry ecosystem, and launches the “Jinqiao Intelligent Connected Vehicle Testing Demonstration Zone”, the world’s first application scenario in the central urban area of a super-large city, and opens 234.5 kilometers of autonomous driving test road.
At the 2024Create@ “Future Mobility” Global Innovation Competition, Shanghai Jinqiao Intelligent Connected Vehicle Development Co., Ltd. officially released the “Jinqiao “Dual Intelligence” Collaborative Development Innovative Application Scenarios”, taking the opening of major application scenarios as a starting point to provide a “testing ground” for new technologies and new products, and accelerate the formation of landmark results in the innovative application of intelligent connected vehicles.
The ten scenarios released this time include: L3 autonomous driving vehicle testing applications; driverless taxi travel; autonomous driving bus transfers; unmanned delivery and logistics; unmanned urban management law enforcement; unmanned sanitation; smart parking; unmanned charging; traffic light information services; and traffic incident information services.
The release of the ten major scenarios aims to further stimulate enthusiasm for innovation and allow “good scenarios to attract more good projects, and good projects to create more good scenarios.” We welcome innovative companies to come to Pudong New Area, implement innovative scenarios, and integrate into the innovation ecosystem to jointly accelerate the dual-wheel drive of the development of the intelligent connected industry.
Dragana Kostic,Vice President of BMW Tech Office APAC, said: “BMW Group has always believed that innovation is the key driving force for the development of the industry. In the context of rapid technological changes and endless innovations in the world, we are fully aware of the importance of working together with global innovative forces. BMW Group will cooperate with all innovative companies with an open attitude. We hope to build a platform that gathers wisdom and stimulates innovation, and work with partners to create a new chapter in future mobility.”
Qian Guobing, from Alibaba Cloud’s Government and Enterprise Division, said at the competition that the development of cutting-edge technologies such as intelligent driving, autonomous driving, and vehicle-cloud-road-network integration has not only redefined the car itself, but also had a revolutionary impact on the entire industrial chain, value chain, and even the ecological chain. Alibaba Cloud is committed to providing advanced technology, easy-to-use products, solid services, inclusive computing power, and entrepreneur programs to provide our partners with “innovation acceleration” and improved business efficiency.
Alibaba Cloud’s collaboration with more auto companies has further superimposed Alibaba Cloud’s ecological resources in the fields of automobile manufacturing and cloud services, and enhanced the integration of innovative and entrepreneurial resources. By exploring the establishment of a vertical technology empowerment system, we will accelerate the service, empowerment and cultivation of high-growth technology-based innovative enterprises, and empower the transformation and upgrading of the Jinqiao Economic Development Zone and even the entire Shanghai automobile industry.
The local government and leading enterprises jointly empower medium and small-sized enterprises in the automobile intelligent industry chain. On the one hand, Jinqiao government of Shanghai has built an intelligent industry cluster effect through policy support, and built a relatively complete industry chain covering new energy vehicle, whole vehicle testing, core component research and development and production, and intelligent networked vehicle system integration and application. On the other hand, driven by Jinqiao government, more leading Internet + automobile companies are providing the strongest “hard support” for Jinqiao to build a trillion-dollar automobile industry cluster, empowering Chinese science and technology innovation companies.
Autonomous driving technology will completely change the way we travel
Smart cockpit, smart driving, autonomous driving, integrated collaboration of vehicle-cloud-road-network… The automotive industry has never been the intersection of so many technological changes as it is today, and the automotive industry has therefore begun its intelligent “transformation”.
It is foreseeable that these intelligent technologies will bring revolutionary changes to the entire automotive industry chain, value chain, and ecological chain in the future. At the same time, companies that master cutting-edge technologies will also bring endless innovations to business models. Today, the real race between upstream and downstream companies in the automotive industry may have just begun.
Zhang Zailong, Professor at the School of Internet of Things, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, said in his speech that intelligent network technology is the use of autonomous driving, Internet of Vehicles, intelligent transportation and other means to achieve all-round connection and intelligent collaboration among vehicles, roads and people. The background is mainly traffic accidents, energy, congestion and other issues. The current mainstream of autonomous driving technology should be L2 and L3, and will gradually reach L5 (fully autonomous driving) in the future. In the future, autonomous driving will integrate sensor technology, artificial intelligence decision-making and other means to move towards greater intelligence and safety.
Zhang Zailong said that after autonomous driving gradually breaks through from the current L3 to L5 , autonomous driving technology will cover larger-scale commercial scenarios in the future and completely change the way people travel.
At the panel discussion, Professor Zhang Zailong from the School of Internet of Things, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Professor Ye Jianhong from the School of Transportation of Tongji University, Ding Hao, partner of Boyuan Capital, Guo Guanheng, vice president of Multidimensional Capital Investment, and Yang Xi, industry analyst at 36Kr, discussed the development, innovation and future trend of smart transportation. In Ye Jianhong’s view, the coordinated development of intelligent connected vehicles and smart cities requires the integration of the three elements of automobiles, transportation and cities at the top level. Among them, the empowerment of intelligent connected vehicles on transportation is more obvious, and it is worth further exploration in both business model and operation model.
This competition has built a platform for participating companies to have in-depth exchanges with leading companies, scientific research institutions and local governments, helping more companies to access cutting-edge technologies, gain market insights, and accelerate application implementation. At the same time, Jinqiao Economic Development Zone will use its rich industrial resources and comprehensive industrial support and services to help companies achieve in-depth cooperation with upstream and downstream industries and rapid conversion of innovative results, providing strong support for the development of future travel industry companies.
According to industry insiders, in the next ten years, intelligent connected technology is expected to enter a peak period of commercial use and be widely used in major cities and transportation systems. It is foreseeable that the future travel industry ecosystem created by this event will produce continuous innovation benefits, benefiting the entire intelligent travel industry and even everyone.
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