Homegrown Changan Auto pushes for self-innovation

• Source: Global Times
• [08:38 December 28 2009]
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At present, Chana Auto Technology Center has set up 10-odd design data bases for complete auto types, 20-odd data bases for analyzing autos and 2,000-odd related criterions and flows.

Nowadays, Chana Auto has established product platforms for auto body, base plate, engine, power system, interior and exterior decoration and electric appliance system, and launched a series of auto types with self-owned brands and great market influence.

The sales volume of Chana Star 2, which was launched in March, 2007, achieved 100,000 sets in the same year, and it is estimated that the sales volume will break through 200,000 sets this year; meanwhile, the monthly sales volume of ALSVIN, which was launched in this March, has breached 10,000 sets.

In order to improve the R&D capability on complete car, Chana Auto has invested almost RMB1 billion yuan and had capabilities in such six aspects as shape design, engineering design, simulation analysis, trial manufacture of sample autos, appraisal of trial development and project management.

At present, among the 147 core technologies in 12 key fields, Chana Auto has mastered 95 ones. By this October, Chana Auto has obtained 2,425 patents aggregately.

New energy technology as the future development orientation of auto industry has become the target of many enterprises to seek for breakthrough. Currently, Chana Auto has obtained research breakthrough in energy conservation and environmental protection technology, like hybrid power and hydrogen fuel, and lightweight technology, etc.

Additionally, Chana has mastered the core technology of industrializing hybrid power autos, and won 70-odd patents. Chana Jiexun HEV, the first hybrid power car developed independently and realizing mass production in China, has once served for 2008 Beijing Olympic Games successfully. In this June, such a type of hybrid power auto was launched into the market successfully.

In order to guarantee the increasingly improved research and development capability, Chana Auto Technology Center has introduced 40-odd overseas senior experts successively, and cultivated a development team with almost 2,000 persons, which has provided persistent impetus and core competence for the long-run development of Chana's autos with self-owned brands.
 
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