The 15th Beijing People’s Congress of the Fifth Session Opens
The 15th Beijing People’s Congress of the Fifth Session opened in Beijing Convention Center on the morning of January 6th. Beijing has listed 9 development targets for 2022 including the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, science and technology innovation, digital economy, business environment, urban governance, rural-urban development, capital culture, ensuring people’s livelihood and safe Beijing.
In the government report of this year’s two sessions in Beijing, the science and technology development goal of 2022 includes the launch of the construction of Xiaomi cars and the construction of the Ideal Automobile company. In addition, the two sessions pointed out that Beijing will focus on the digital economy, strengthen the construction of new infrastructure such as computing power and algorithm platforms, launch 20 major application scenarios, and carry out the construction of the high-level autonomous driving demonstration zone 3.0.
On November 27, 2021, the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area Management Committee and Xiaomi Technology signed a cooperation agreement, officially announcing the establishment of the Xiaomi automobile factory in the Beijing Economic Development Zone.
The Xiaomi automobile project will establish the Xiaomi automobile headquarters base and sales headquarters, research and development headquarters, and will be built in two phases with an annual output of 300,000 vehicles, 150,000 vehicles for each phase. It is expected that the first car will be officially launched and put into production in 2024.
On October 16, 2021, the Ideal Automobile company’s Beijing factory officially commenced construction. The factory will transform existing factory buildings with a reuse rate of 60%. The official said the total investment of this project is over 6 billion yuan. There will be more than 600 welding robots in the welding assembly workshop, with a flexible production process that can accommodate 4 car models.
The annual production capacity of the first phase of the Ideal Automobile Beijing factory is planned to be 100,000 units expected to be put into operation by the end of 2023. The factory will also establish an industrial innovation center and a supercharging station, showcasing the latest car models and product technologies to the public, and providing customers with fast charging services.
🔗 Source: Beijing Daily
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