CSR Joins the State-Owned Enterprise Electric Vehicle Industry Alliance

On August 18^th, the State-Owned Enterprise Electric Vehicle Industry Alliance , which was headed by the State Asset Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, was founded in Beijing, and its initial investment hit 1.3 billion yuan. As one of the sponsors, CSR is also the important member of the alliance s Complete Vehicle and Electric Drive Professional Committee. Chairman of CSR Zhao Xiaogang attended the foundation ceremony, and he signed the articles of association of the State-Owned Enterprise Electric Vehicle Industry Alliance in tandem with leaders of other 15 state-owned enterprises.

It is learned that the alliance consists of 16 sponsors in all and controls the council, secretariat, and three professional committees. Therein, the Complete Vehicle and Electric Drive Professional Committee comprises FAW Group, Dongfeng Motor Corporation, Chang an Automobile, Dongfang Electric, CSR; the Battery Professional Committee consists of China National Offshore Oil Corporation, General Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals, Aviation Industry Corporation of China, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, AviChina Industry & Technology Company Limited; the Charge and Service Professional Committee includes the State Grid, China Potevio, China Southern Power Grid, China National Petroleum Corporation, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, and China Poly Group Corporation.

The alliance will unify the industry technology standards, jointly research and develop the electric vehicle s new technology, new product, new plan, and new mode, jointly share the technological fruits, promote the electric vehicle s popularization and market development in China, and comprehensively improve China electric vehicle industry s overall technology and global competitiveness, according to Li Rongrong, director of the State Asset Supervision and Administration Commission.

Source said that by now, the alliance had commenced its running, with two employees being respectively transferred from state-owned enterprises to work at the alliance s secretariat. After being founded, the alliance will run in a market-oriented manner to urge and direct all member units to optimize their resources allocation in light of the requirements of the State-owned Enterprise Electric Vehicle Development Plan, in a bid to avoid repetitive construction and unify interfaces and standards of different links of the industry chain.

Furthermore, generic technologies that are developed by the alliance will be shared amongst member units, while general personalized technologies will be independently developed by member units in line with the market-based principle.