On October 17, 2014, Dongfeng Motor Company and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement, which divided into three steps to create a smart car for emotional driving. This is the second time after SAIC and Alibaba. China’s automobile leaders and China’s telecommunications giants have once again joined hands in cross-border cooperation. The cooperation between Dongfeng and Huawei will usher in a win-win era.
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Dongfeng HUAWEI to join hands to seize new opportunities for interconnection
With the rapid development of information and communication technologies, modern information technology represented by the Internet is taking an unprecedented depth and breadth. It not only has a far-reaching impact on the way of thinking and organization of human society, but also on the future of the automotive industry. The shape, technological path and direction of development have also brought about profound changes. Internet cars and smart cars will be the key to success in the future and an important opportunity that cannot be missed.
Only the perfect integration of advanced automotive technology and cutting-edge interconnect technology can win in this contest. It is the common choice of Dongfeng and Huawei to jointly seize the opportunity.
Zhu Fushou, general manager of Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. said: "Dongfeng and Huawei have a high degree of complementary advantages. Dongfeng chose Huawei and Huawei took the east side and chose trust and the future."
For Dongfeng, Dongfeng chose to cooperate with Huawei and will seize the strategic opportunities brought by emerging industries such as the Internet, intelligence, big data, and driverless driving to seize the opportunities in the new round of industrial revolution. With an open mind, Dongfeng stands at the height of strategy and explores areas such as automobile interconnection, on-board systems, and smart cars, and accumulates experience. As a leading company in China's information and communications industry, Huawei has keen market judgment, strong R&D capabilities, extensive brand influence, and comprehensive service support capabilities. Dongfeng’s choice of Huawei will not only accelerate the marketization of Dongfeng Smart Motors, but will also help Dongfeng’s core competitiveness in the smart car field.
For Huawei, Huawei is the world's number one supplier of information and communications solutions. With an annual sales volume of nearly 240 billion yuan, Huawei provides services to 170 countries and regions in the world. It has world-leading advantages in terms of underlying software and hardware. In the area of ​​connected cars and smart cars, Huawei has already begun to lay out its position and is determined to become the first leading company in the car networking module. Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. is the second largest automobile company in China and ranks 113th among the top 500 companies in the world. In 2013, it sold 3.535 million vehicles and achieved sales of 453.36 billion yuan. Based on the common vision and strength of both parties, Huawei chose Dongfeng to gradually deepen Huawei's layout in the area of ​​vehicle networking, and continue to broaden the use of Huawei technology in the automotive field.
Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei's consumer business, said: “Dongfeng has 45 years of experience as a carmaker. Huawei is a world leader in information and communications. We are strongly integrated with Dongfeng to strengthen cooperation and win-win. In the era of big data cloud service information, do a good job car Networking and smart car services, creating value for consumers!"
Dongfeng Huawei took a good start in its strategic cooperation
According to the agreement, the strategic cooperation between Dongfeng and Huawei will be divided into three steps, and finally realize the smart car with emotional auto-driving. In order to ensure the progress of cooperation, the two parties have a clear division of labor: Dongfeng Motor Company focuses on the integration and application of products, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. focuses on the development and production of products; in the specific project development, the two sides jointly develop a project development plan, designated personnel Project management, development synchronization.
At the same time, prior to the signing of the strategic cooperation agreement between the two parties, Dongfeng and Huawei have completed the research and development of the first smart vehicle system, and have already put it on the Dongfeng Fengshen AX7, which will be listed in November, as a strategy for Dongfeng and Huawei Technologies. Cooperation made a good start.
The success of the first smart vehicle system demonstrated the tremendous energy of Dongfeng's strategic cooperation with Huawei. The development of this smart car system can be traced back to 2 years ago. Focusing on the "best user experience," 255 top engineers have conquered 439 technical problems and passed 79 repeated tests and tests. This year they were formally carried on the Dongfeng Fengshen AX7 and began to be used in the market. The car system has 9-inch large touch screen, can achieve wired and wireless dual-screen interconnection; three personalized UI interface to meet the individual needs; the car simultaneously achieve 5 mobile phone interconnection and car W-Fi function; regional radio automatic adaptation Very humane.
According to industry analysts, China's auto industry is in a period of strategic opportunities from a big auto country to a car power. The combination of Dongfeng and Huawei has demonstrated the strong power of Chinese brand convergence. It has important demonstration significance for enhancing the competitiveness of the Chinese automobile industry and promoting the transformation and upgrading of the automobile industry. Dongfeng and Huawei's cross-border cooperation will surely usher in a win-win era!