On December 23, the release conference for the diamond partners of “Experience Beijing” winter sport events was held in the park of Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, and five enterprises, including BAIC, become the diamond partners of “Experience Beijing” winter sport events. Leaders including Zhang Jiandong, Vice Mayor of Beijing, Executive Vice Chairman of Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and Executive Vice Chairman of the Organizing Committee of “Experience Beijing” winter sport events, and Han Zirong, Full-Time Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of “Experience Beijing” winter sport events attended the conference. Zhang Jiandong awarded representatives of the five enterprises diamond partner nameplates. Xu Heyi, Party Committee Secretary and Board Chairman of BAIC, accepted the nameplates on behalf of the group.

Zhang Xiyong, Party Committee Deputy Secretary and General Manager of BAIC, said in his speech, BAIC is a major automobile manufacturer in China as well as a pacesetter for the State-owned enterprises in Beijing. Preparing for “Experience Beijing” winter sport events is both an honor and a mission. BAIC will go all out with an unshrinkable responsibility. As a automobile manufacturer with complete product lines and leading new energy and intelligent and connected technologies, BAIC has the confidence, resolve and capability to meet the high-profile and multi-scenario travelling demand arising from “Experience Beijing” winter sport events with top standards and State-level quality.  

BAIC Secures Green and Smart Traveling during Events with Top Quality

Holding a series of test events before the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games is the requirement and practice of International Olympic Committee and International Paralympic Committee, as well as part of the commitment of the host city. All the test events for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games are collectively named as “Experience Beijing” winter sport events. Han Zirong said, “Experience Beijing” winter sport events are the rehearsal of the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and an important part of the preparation for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. It’s of great importance to improving the level of hosting Olympic Games, bolstering the confidence in hosting Olympic Games and demonstrating the image of the host country. The active participation in and sponsorship for “Experience Beijing” winter sport events fully reflect the enterprises’ overall awareness of serving major national events and promoting the development of ice and snow sports and their initiative in taking the responsibility.

In “Experience Beijing” winter sport events, BAIC will provide passenger and commercial vehicles respectively powered by pure electricity and hydrogen fuel cells and highlight two traveling brands, i.e. BAIC Mobility and Foton Zhicheng. By making overall deployment with the achievements of automation, electrification, connectivity and sharing to cover all the scenarios, BAIC will not only offer green traveling experience enabled by new energy vehicles, but also introduce the latest autonomous driving technology that shone at WICV and World 5G Convention to the site of the sport events, so as to transfer cloud-based AI technologies into reality through automobile platforms and create a brand-new ecology for “Experience Beijing” winter sport events characterized by intelligence, connectivity and sharing.

BAIC Advances Development Driven by New Energy Vehicles and Intelligent and Connected Vehicles  

Based on the strategy of offering high-tech, novel and distinctive products, BAIC is vigorously advancing the development driven by new energy vehicles and intelligent and connected vehicles. 2019 marks the 10-year milestone of BAIC in the development of new energy vehicles. Over the last decade, BAIC has produced and sold over 500,000 units of new energy vehicles. It has adhered to the technical route of putting equal emphasis on pure electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles and fuel cell vehicles, synchronizing the development of new energy passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles and advancing the development of new energy vehicles in all aspects including product technologies, industrial chain deployment and service ecology.

BAIC has a 10-year history in developing pure electric passenger vehicles, with the sales volume of pure electric passenger vehicles ranking the first for six years in a row in China. With the release of the brand-new self-developed passenger vehicle brand BEIJING and the high-end brand ARCFOX as well as the successive launch of pure electric vehicles by joint venture brands like Beijing Benz and Beijing Hyundai, BAIC opens a new chapter for the development of pure electric passenger vehicles. In the sports events in the future, BAIC will render users all-new experience with the next generation pure electric vehicles. As for intelligent and connected vehicle technologies, BAIC will focus on four strategic fields, including intelligent technologies, intelligent products, intelligent technology and intelligent transport, based on the “Dolphin Plus “strategy and centering on five dimensions of evolution, namely protection, optimization, liberation, personality and harmony.

BAIC Fulfills Its Social Responsibility as a State-owned Enterprise and Deepens Implementation of Corporate Strategy

Supporting “Experience Beijing” winter sport events once again reflects the initiative of BAIC in taking the responsibility as the biggest State-owned enterprise in Beijing. From serving military parades to serving international events like APEC Beijing Summit, China-Africa Cooperation Forum Beijing Summit, 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Expo 2019 and Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations, BAIC fully demonstrates the initiative in taking its responsibility as a State-owned enterprise and the capability in serving important events. Through long-term cooperation with China Open, Beijing Marathon as well as volleyball sports and ice and snow sports for teenagers in Beijing, BAIC has accumulated rich experience in supporting sport events, and made continued contribution to the development of social sports undertakings.  

Combining the social responsibility of an enterprise as a corporate citizen with the development strategy of the enterprise and achieving the common growth of the enterprise and the society as a whole is the philosophy of BAIC about social responsibility. While supporting “Experience Beijing” winter sport events, BAIC will also gain opportunities to accelerate the development driven by new energy vehicles and intelligent and connected vehicles, strengthen technological innovation, product innovation, mode innovation and management innovation, create dual powers driving innovation and initiate the strategic accelerator behind the dual powers.

“Experience Beijing” winter sport events resemble a battlefield. BAIC will take immediate action, strengthen technological innovation, product innovation and mode innovation based on the demand for vehicle use in events, and secure the services for “Experience Beijing” winter sport events on time and with guaranteed quality, so as to provide powerful product technology and service support for event-related travelling.