Weifang Municipal Government and Futian Group Co., Ltd. jointly established the Automotive Engineering Research Center

On November 19, the Weifang Municipal Government and the Foton Motor Group deepened cooperation to expand investment and cooperation. The signing ceremony for the Shandong Research and Engineering Center of Engineering Research Institute of Foton Motor Group was held at the Fuhua Hotel. Party Secretary Xu Liquan, Secretary of the Party Committee of Futian Automobile Group and General Manager Wang Jinyu attended the ceremony and delivered speeches; CPPCC Chairman Cui Jianping, Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee Secretary, First Deputy Director Hu Gang, Municipal Party Committee Secretary General Liu Decheng, Deputy Mayor Xia Fangchen, Deputy CPPCC Committee Chairman Li Chuanheng of the Municipal Economic and Letter Committee attended the meeting; Chen Baifeng, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and executive deputy mayor, signed an agreement on behalf of the municipal government and Foton Motor Group; Zhao Zhiyuan, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, secretary of the Party's Working Committee of the High-tech Zone, and director of the Management Committee presided over the ceremony.

After briefly introducing the economic and social development of the city, Xu Liquan pointed out that Beiqi Foton, as a large-scale state-controlled listed company with cross-regional, cross-industry, and cross-ownership ownership, is one of the fastest growing and fastest-growing companies in the Chinese automotive industry. , has an important influence in the industry. For a long time, Foton Motor Co., Ltd. has taken the responsibility of improving independent innovation capabilities and promoting the development of the automotive industry, adhering to the road of technological innovation, market innovation, mechanism innovation, and management innovation, in brand building and marketing, product design research and development, and sales channel construction. The supply chain management and other aspects have made remarkable achievements and created successful models. The brand influence, innovation driving force and reputation have always been at the leading position. They have become the backbone of independent brands and independent innovation in the Chinese auto industry, becoming the most complete varieties in China. The largest automobile manufacturing company. For many years, Foton Motor Company has maintained a good relationship with Weifang. Foton Motor Co., Ltd.'s Futian Zhucheng Automobile Plant and Foton Lovol Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. in Weifang continued to develop rapidly and has become the backbone of the city's leading enterprises. The first phase of the Foton Automobile Weifang Plant has completed an investment of 6.5 billion yuan, which has been completed and put into use. With the further deepening of the cooperation between both parties and the further expansion of investment, it will become an important growth pole for the development of the Weifang automobile equipment industry and the development of the new energy automotive industry. New highlights. In the long-term strategic cooperation, the two sides formed a deep friendship, laid a good foundation for cooperation, and achieved mutual benefit and win-win results. Not only did it make important contributions to the economic and social development of Weifang, especially to the development of advanced manufacturing, Foton Motor Co. also deepened. Cooperation has achieved rapid development.

Xu Liquan pointed out that this strategic cooperation with Beiqi Foton is an important measure to conscientiously implement the "implementation of innovation-driven development strategy" proposed by the party's 18th National Congress, which is not only a practical action to promote mutual benefit and common development between local and enterprises, but also The important measures to promote the optimization and upgrading of Weifang's industrial structure and accelerate the transformation of economic development methods will certainly play an important role in promoting the scientific development of Weifang and the innovation of Futian. We will use this as an opportunity to do a good job in various service guarantees and create a better environment for the smooth progress of the Foton Motor Co. Weifang project. Departments at all levels must firmly establish the overall awareness and service awareness, actively do a good job of docking, take the initiative to follow up on services, and go all out to implement various tasks identified in the agreement. It is hoped that Foton Motor will seize the opportunity and take advantage of the situation to strengthen technological innovation, product research and development and market development, expand its scale as soon as possible, become bigger and stronger, and create a more brilliant performance.

In his speech, Wang Jinyu said that Weifang has a strong manufacturing base and superior development environment. Futian Automobile Group will, on the basis of past cooperation, earnestly implement the spirit of the Party's 18th National Congress and use Weifang as a company for transformation, upgrading and development of advanced manufacturing. An important platform to build R&D centers through government-enterprise cooperation, promote the improvement of independent innovation capabilities of Foton Motors Group and Weifang City, boost the transition from Weifang to Weifang manufacturing, and promote the sound and rapid development of Weifang economy and society and “four Weifang” "More contributions to construction.

Foton Motor Group is China's largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles. The Foton Motor Group has expanded investment and deepened cooperation in the city, and jointly established an automotive research and engineering center with the municipal government. This is a concrete action for both parties to earnestly implement the spirit of the 18th Party Congress. The signing of the contract means that Foton Motor Group will focus on making Weifang an important global R&D center and advanced manufacturing base in its global strategic layout. After the establishment of the Shandong Research and Engineering Center of Foton Motor Research Institute, it will make full use of the existing product R&D advantages and independent innovation capabilities of Foton Motor and integrate the outstanding talents and advanced resources in Shandong Province, thus becoming the leading domestic and world-class automotive R&D. And engineering center. It is reported that the total investment of the center is 2 billion yuan, and there are more than 1,000 R&D personnel. The main focus of R&D is on automobiles, especially new energy vehicles and engines.