China's "inward winding" the most serious province, than Jiangsu. Face emerging industry, "13 taibao" nature also is competing to occupy a position. Nanjing and Suxi, the most representative cities, for example, continue to play their advantages to seize the autonomous driving map.
The capacity and strength of Nanjing, the ancient capital of six dynasties
As a new driving force in the digital era, computing power is an important manifestation of a city's AI strength and a prerequisite for the development of autonomous driving. At present, the tide of artificial intelligence is surging to Nanjing.
At the just-concluded Artificial Intelligence Computing Conference (AICC), Nanjing's AI computing power has overtaken That of Shanghai, ranking fourth. It should be noted that in previous years, Nanjing ranked only ninth, while Beijing, Hangzhou and Shenzhen, the top three cities, have basically divided China's large tech giants and emerging AI unicorn companies. Shanghai, with its economic advantages, has a very obvious agglomeration effect of AI industry, and has always occupied the top echelon for many years.
In such a Wolf before, after the tiger environment, why Can Nanjing in AI computing power to achieve strong catch-up? The main reason is the Nanjing Intelligent Computing Center, which was officially completed and put into operation in July this year. It is reported that the center has become the most intelligent computing center in the Yangtze River Delta region, which can calculate up to 800P OpS, that is, it can carry out 8 billion calculations per second. Within one hour, it can process 10 billion images, 3 million hours of voice translation or 10,000 kilometers of autonomous driving AI data processing tasks. The powerful computing power undoubtedly injected new impetus into the development of nanjing's autonomous driving industry.
As a matter of fact, in addition to computing power, Nanjing also has policy support, talent reserve and start-up ecological bonus for the development of the autonomous driving industry.
In the "Nanjing Digital Economy Development Three-year Action Plan (2020-2022)" issued by nanjing Municipal People's Government in 2020, it has been clearly pointed out that qinhuai and other areas will be made into provincial intelligent connected vehicle test pilot area; Pilot operation of unmanned patrol cars, unmanned buses and unmanned sightseeing vehicles in Jiangxinzhou Ecological Science and Technology Island; A 5G-V2X vehicle-road cooperative demonstration area with a total length of more than 200 kilometers will be built.
On December 21, 2020, with the first batch of autonomous vehicles starting from Zidan Road, Nanjing's first provincial Internet of vehicles pilot zone was completed. At the same time, Nanjing L4 autonomous driving open test site was officially put into use. Up to now, Nanjing has launched an intelligent networked vehicle road test in Jianye District, Jiangning District, Lishui District, etc. Robotaxi has also entered the road test stage. On October 20, five Robotaxis in Nanjing Jiangxinzhou got the test licenses of intelligent connected vehicles, and the other three Robobus are also applying for test licenses.
In talent reserve, Nanjing also prepared for a rainy day. At present, Nanjing has gathered key enterprises such as Horizon, Chip Semiconductor, Wenyuan Zhixing, Siwei Zhilian, Jiangsu Intelligent Transportation and Intelligent Driving Research Institute through endogenicity and introduction, and has a certain foundation in the introduction and training of intelligent network talents. Of course, with the rise of automatic driving to the height of the national strategy, in front of the vast blue ocean, talent "battle" is moving to the campus. And Nanjing relies on the strong university talent resources, has the full momentum.
Data shows that there are 2756 ordinary colleges and universities in the whole country, including 175 in Jiangsu Province. Nanjing has occupied nearly one-third of the resources of colleges and universities in the whole province. There are 51 ordinary colleges and universities in total, including Nanjing University, Southeast University, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, and so on.
It is worth mentioning that Southeast University is also one of the six pilot projects to build a transportation power. Will be made in intelligence technology research and development, transportation infrastructure and long-term service digital technology research and development, the rapid road control and the car was synergy technology research and development, the public transport system coordinated control with intelligent service technology research and development, the comprehensive traffic planning and virtual simulation key technology research and development, modern transportation personnel training aspects continuously.
The Ministry of Transport approved the Implementation Plan of Southeast University Pilot Program for Building a Transportation Power.
The Ministry of Transport has approved the Implementation Plan of Southeast University As a Transportation Power. Photo source: Ministry of Transport
At the same time, nanjing's mature automotive industry chain has also created a leading advantage for the intelligent and connected industrial ecology. According to the data of Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, there are more than 300 automobile industry enterprises in the city, including nearly 200 enterprises above the scale, which have formed the whole vehicle and special vehicle production enterprises represented by NAC, NANvico, SAIC Volkswagen Nanjing Branch, SAIC Datong Nanjing Branch, Changan Mazda, Nanjing Golden Dragon, etc. The industrial chain is represented by parts manufacturers such as Bosch, Hella, Noble Automobile, LG Chem and Nanjing Guoxuan.
As the intersection of artificial intelligence and cars, autonomous driving is forming a new industry magnetic field. Policies, talents and formats of business escort the landing of Nanjing's automatic driving industry more stable and directed.
Su Xi weaves autonomous driving industry ambitions
If Nanjing has become the "top brand" of automatic driving in Jiangsu Province, Su Xi, who drinks water from Taihu Lake, must be the first to jump out and shout.
Take the core computing power of autonomous driving as an example, the infrastructure of computing power has become the general trend, and Wuxi is aiming at the intelligent computing center, the height of artificial intelligence development. Recently, Wuxi has deepened its cooperation with Inspur. The two sides have reached a strategic contract to build wuxi Intelligent computing Center and plan to build a leading intelligent computing highland in China.
It should be noted that Suxi, which is near Taihu Lake in the south and Yangtze River in the north, has been a land of prosperity since ancient times, and its per capita GDP has occupied one or two provinces for a long time. Suxi's strong economic strength provides "logistics support" for its development of autonomous driving industry, or relatively abundant financial expenditure enables Suxi to maintain "money to spend" in the "money-burning" industry of autonomous driving.
For example, Suzhou, which ranks first in GDP of Jiangsu Province, threw out a "luxury gift package" in order to support intelligent and connected vehicle production enterprises. Since July 2020, Suzhou has given strong support to Suzhou Xiangcheng Intelligent and connected automobile enterprises from the five directions of mass production support, financial support, headquarters support, operation support and supporting support. For mass production enterprises in key fields, Suzhou also said that it would give full support through equity investment, with a maximum amount of 100 million yuan.
Thanks to suzhou's continuous heavy warehouse filling and automatic driving, Suzhou, with Suzhou High-speed railway New Town as the main position of intelligent driving industry, has attracted more than 60 enterprises including Momenta, Zhica Technology, Heduo Technology, Xiandu Intelligence, Zhongke Chuangda in the past two years, covering intelligent vehicle association, vehicle interaction and technical support.
These enterprises in Suzhou, also made remarkable achievements. Momenta, for example, has announced the completion of a SERIES C+ financing of over $500 million. This brings the cumulative series C financing completed by Momenta in 2021 to over $1 billion. Behind it is no lack of well-known investment institutions, industrial investors are quite luxurious, the follow-up project cooperation is also on the way.
In addition to actively introducing autonomous driving enterprises to settle in, Su Xi also actively supports the application of autonomous driving from the perspective of policy. In 2017, wuxi municipal government took the lead in proposing the construction of national intelligent transportation comprehensive test base, creating the world's first LTE-V2X open road demonstration model, and laying out the construction of Internet of vehicles pilot area. In 2020, Suzhou also launched the national 5G New infrastructure vehicle-road Collaborative project, planning to transform 224.75 kilometers of 5G intelligent network connected roads, support million-level equipment or 10-million-level data concurrency, and realize more than 200,000 access users and 150 application scenarios.
Su Xi in the layout of the autonomous driving industry, but also focus on making ordinary people feel the autonomous driving technology. At present, intelligent sanitation, intelligent logistics, intelligent parking, Robotaxi, Robobus and other application scenarios are constantly landing in Suxi, which also provides a good foundation for the later commercial landing. One of the most noteworthy is that the Robobus of the light boat Zhihang has entered the SUxi CBD.
In addition, Su Xi is also building an ecological alliance. In January, the autonomous driving ecological operation alliance consisting of technology companies, oems and travel platforms was established, including enterprises from different chains in 32 industries. The alliance will promote the large-scale commercial use of automatic driving in Suzhou, which may become the first large-scale commercial city of automatic driving in China. At the end of 2020, Suzhou will establish the country's first autonomous driving ecological operation alliance.
Suzhou is also actively courting upstream and downstream enterprises and research institutions in the autonomous driving industry, and has reached cooperation with The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, SAIC, Huawei and local autonomous driving enterprises to jointly build a 5G+ autonomous driving industry ecosystem. At the same time, the practical integration of "production, universities and research institutes" has also benefited universities.
In the past two years, Su Xi has made frequent efforts in the field of higher education in order to make up for the shortage of talents. It is reported that the suzhou campus of Nanjing University, Suzhou campus of Southeast University, Suzhou Graduate School of Hohai University, Wuxi Campus of Yangzhou University, Wuxi International Campus of Southeast University, etc.
Some time ago, Wuxi also signed cooperation agreements with 11 colleges of Future Technology, including Peking University, Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, becoming the first city in China to reach cooperation with 11 colleges of Future Technology. According to the construction period of 5-10 years, combined with the future technology direction of each university and the industrial technology layout of Wuxi plate, Wuxi will give each college two types of policy funding support, such as taihu Scholarship for future technology and Future technology innovation Fund, and build the Wuxi Incubator Center of Future Technology College Jinan University Students' social practice base with each college. We encourage outstanding scientific research achievements of universities to be transformed in Wuxi and outstanding college students to work in Wuxi.
Nanjing and Suxi have their own advantages in the development of autonomous driving. It is not wise to consume each other. We should know that automatic driving is an integrated field, and its large-scale implementation is not a short-term operation, which requires sustained investment. It is generally believed that group development is the inevitable mode of its scale landing.
So, how to break the game in the unfinished city of autonomous driving industry? Is there such a possibility that "bulk" Jiangsu will develop its own strengths in the autonomous driving industry, and form urban clusters of autonomous driving industry, which may speed up the building of intelligent driving industry chain to a certain extent? To create a strong province of automatic driving, "bulk Jiangsu" is worth looking forward to.
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