Dongfeng Motor has reached strategic cooperation with Foshan Municipal Government on hydrogen fuel cell, intelligent network connection and other fields.

Published: Feb 3, 2021 16:51

On February 3, Dongfeng Automobile Group Co., Ltd. learned that it held a quadripartite strategic cooperation signing ceremony with Foshan Municipal Government, Foshan Xianhu Laboratory and Foshan Nanhai District Government on February 2. Adhering to the principle of "resource sharing, complementary advantages, win-win cooperation and common development", the Quartet will cooperate in the field of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and intelligent Internet-connected vehicles.

According to the agreement, Dongfeng Company will jointly set up a demonstration fleet of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles with Foshan City and Nanhai District, and establish a maintenance system for fuel cell passenger vehicles. by the end of 2021, the fleet size will not be less than 100, and the demonstration scale will be increased year by year from 2022 to promote the large-scale and high-quality development of the hydrogen energy industry.

At the same time, with the joint support of Foshan City and Nanhai District, Dongfeng Company and Xianhu Laboratory jointly established a seamless mobile service company in Foshan, with a total investment of not less than 270 Dongfeng seamless mobile service products in three years. Open up South China seamless manned mobile services, security patrols, sanitation, unmanned logistics and other markets.

In recent years, the automotive industry has ushered in great changes, of which new energy and intelligence are important poles, while hydrogen fuel cell and seamless mobile service is one of the important development directions.

For this cooperation, you Zheng, member of the standing Committee of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of Dongfeng Company, said that Foshan is one of the regions with the most complete hydrogen energy industry chain in China, and Xianhu Laboratory has also established solid hydrogen energy and fuel cell research and development capabilities and talent team. form a good ecological layout of industry-university-research integration, which is also an important reason for Dongfeng to choose Foshan and laboratory cooperation. Dongfeng Company attaches great importance to this cooperation and will fully support this cooperation in line with the basic principle of "complementary advantages, resource sharing, and win-win cooperation." it also hopes to explore with relevant parties in Foshan the possibility of deepening cooperation and expanding the scope of cooperation, with a view to achieving more and more brilliant achievements during the 14th five-year Plan period, building an ecology of close cooperation between government and enterprises, universities, and the integration of industry, university and research, and speeding up the mastery of core technologies. Jointly promote commercial applications.

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