Shanghai Economic and Information Commission: Will promote the transformation of whole vehicle enterprises, strengthen innovative applications such as intelligent driving large models.

"The future of Wisdom Chain, a new chapter of win-win situation" The 2025 Yangtze River Delta New Energy Automobile Industry Chain Supply Chain Innovation Cooperation Conference was held at the National Exhibition and Convention Center on April 25. Han Dadao, Deputy Inspector of the Shanghai Economic and Information Commission and Director of the Automobile Industry Department, said in his speech that the automobile industry is one of the key industries in Shanghai. In the current global automotive industry restructuring and adjustment window, opportunities, Shanghai is fully addressing the pain points and bottlenecks of the transformation and upgrading of the automotive industry, accelerating the construction of a world-class automotive industry center, and promoting integrated development in the Yangtze River Delta, achieving certain results in recent years. Han stressed that currently, the global automotive competition is developing towards electrification, intelligence, and AI, with obvious trends of component integration, integration, and lightweighting. Coupled with geopolitical influences such as international trade frictions and tariff barriers, the automotive industry chain is facing reshaping and transformation. To accelerate the enhancement of the competitiveness of the entire automotive industry chain in the Yangtze River Delta region, Shanghai will promote the reform and transformation of whole vehicle enterprises, strengthen the application of innovative technologies such as intelligent driving models, accelerate the production and listing of new models such as ZhiJi, Audi, and ShangJie, and promote the coordinated development of the upstream and downstream of the automotive industry chain in the Yangtze River Delta region and the whole country.