Increase the speed of Xiaomi's car! Officially settled in Beijing Economic Development District to build a factory with an annual production capacity of 300000 vehicles, the time for mass production has been set for 2024.

On November 27, the Management Committee of Beijing Economic and technological Development Zone signed a "Cooperation Agreement" with Xiaomi Science and Technology, formally announcing that Xiaomi Motor had settled in Beijing Economic Development Zone.

A reporter from Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily learned that the Xiaomi automobile project will build Xiaomi automobile headquarters, sales headquarters and R & D headquarters, and will build a vehicle factory with an annual output of 300000 vehicles in two phases, of which the first and second phases will have a production capacity of 150000 vehicles respectively. The first car is expected to be offline and mass produced in 2024.

After settling in Beijing Economic Development Zone, how does Xiaomi build cars to speed up?

A reporter from Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily learned that Beijing Economic Development District will give full play to the leading advantages of Xiaomi automobile project "chain main" project, promote the agglomeration and integration development of intelligent network connection automobile industry core components, vehicle specification-level chips, vehicle computing platform, and vehicle control operating system in Beijing Economic Development District, and promote the coordination of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei industry.

In addition, the relevant person in charge of Beijing Economic Development District said that under the leadership of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, Beijing Economic Development District will make efforts of the whole region and actively promote the work of special classes at two levels in the urban area to provide security services for the millet automobile project, promote the project to start early and put into production as soon as possible, coordinate with the linkage to build the industrial ecology, and actively seize the highland for the development of the automobile industry in the future. To build Xiaomi Automobile into a national brand of new energy vehicles with global influence, and to contribute to the construction of Beijing into a global intelligent network of automotive science and technology innovation highland.

In fact, there were signs that Xiaomi had settled in Beijing's economic development zone.

On September 1 this year, the national enterprise credit information publicity system showed that the registered address of Xiaomi Automobile Co., Ltd. is Beijing, and the registration authority is the Market Supervision Administration of Beijing Economic and technological Development Zone. Industrial and commercial registration information shows that the registered residence is Room 816, 8th floor, Building 5, No. 15 Kechuang 10th Street, Beijing Economic and technological Development Zone, Beijing.

A reporter from Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily learned that after nearly 30 years of development and construction, the Beijing Economic Development Zone has formed a sophisticated industrial development pattern based on the four leading industries of new generation information technology, high-end cars and new energy smart cars, biotechnology and great health, robots and intelligent manufacturing, as well as emerging industries.

At present, Beijing Economic Development Zone has laid out complete vehicle enterprises such as Beijing Mercedes-Benz and BAIC New Energy, built state-level technological innovation centers such as the National Chuangchuang Center and the National Automobile Intelligence Alliance, and built high-level self-driving demonstration zones.

In the first three quarters of this year, the Economic Development District of Beijing achieved a GDP of 193.48 billion yuan, an increase of 38.8 percent over the same period last year, a total industrial output value of 424.36 billion yuan, an increase of 32 percent, and a total industrial output value of 403.74 billion yuan for the four leading industries, an increase of 33.0 percent over the same period last year. Among them, the high-end automobile and new energy smart car industry have become the "engine" to drive the economic growth of Beijing Economic Development Zone and the "vanguard" to build the main position of high-tech industry.

Xiaomi car continues to attack, and the relevant territory gradually emerges.

In this year's third quarterly report, Xiaomi Group said, "at present, our smart electric vehicle business is progressing smoothly, with more than 500 team members." Xiaomi smart electric car is expected to be mass produced in the first half of 2024. "

At present, Xiaomi makes the relevant car-building territory emerge gradually by investing in the intelligent automobile industry chain.

According to Guojin Securities statistics, as of the end of September this year, Xiaomi investment layout of a total of 62 enterprises in the field of smart cars. Among them, there are 17 enterprises of intelligent driving layout, 13 enterprises of intelligent electric layout and 6 enterprises of intelligent cockpit layout. Of these, 22 enterprises have made new investments this year.

Among them, in terms of autopilot, Xiaomi acquired deep motion technology, a self-driving company, and invested in ADS (autopilot system), ADAS (advanced driving assistance system) technology and product supplier Zongmu technology, domestic lidar start-up Wesai technology, and Shanghai geometric partners who can provide L2-L4-level autopilot "integrated perception + intelligent decision-making" software and hardware integration system for car companies.

In terms of power batteries, Xiaomi has invested in Zhuhai Guanyu, Ganfeng lithium industry, honeycomb energy, AVIC lithium battery and so on.

In terms of chips, Xiaomi has invested in BYD Semiconductor, Zhanxin Electronics, Canxin Semiconductor, Yutai Microelectronics, Jucore Microelectronics, Yunying Valley Technology and so on.

In terms of talent introduction, on September 1 this year, Lei Jun, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Group, released a group photo of 17 people, which is also regarded by industry insiders as "the core members of Xiaomi car", including Li Tianyuan, the designer of BMW's flagship iX; on Sept. 7, Hu Zhengnan, former director of Geely Research Institute, joined Shunwei Capital as an investment partner. In October, Yu Liguo, former president of Polar Fox, was revealed to have joined Xiaomi Group.

In this regard, an expert from the Leopard Research Institute told Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily that "capital and technical requirements are two major problems in car construction, and win-win cooperation is the king." Technology companies have the technology and capital to accumulate, but it takes too much manpower, money and time to build cars from scratch. Therefore, to achieve win-win cooperation is a more reasonable way for technology companies to enter the automotive field. "

At the same time, the research of Guojin Securities believes that the deficiency of Xiaomi's next car construction lies in the lack of vehicle platform design and manufacturing capacity and the lack of self-driving related automobile technology accumulation. In the later stage, the short board will be made up and a new long board will be established by the way of investment / M & A + endogenous incubation.

"2021 is a year of severe supply chain shortages." In September, Tesla CEO Elon Musk shouted on his Twitter. It is also worth noting that in the face of the global problem of "chip shortage", can Xiaomi overcome the relevant difficulties and proceed smoothly? For the latest development of this matter, the reporter of Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily will continue to pay attention to the report.