China auto supply chain meeting concludes

Winners of the China Automotive Parts Industry Award pose for a group photo on Dec 24. [Photo provided to en.whkfq.gov.cn]

The 2022 China Auto Supply Chain Conference and the Seventh China Automotive Parts Industry Award ceremony concluded on Dec 24 in the Wuhan Economic & Technological Development Zone (WEDZ).

Senior executives, industry insiders and automotive specialists from all parts of China were invited to the automotive event to discuss how to build a safer, more resilient and controllable automobile supply chain as well as how to reshape the automotive industrial chain system.

The conference was jointly organized by WEDZ and Auto Business Review – an authoritative automobile media outlet in China, and has been held twice in the zone previously.

Jia Ke, chief editor of Auto Business Review, said that this year's conference mainly focused on the underlying causes for the auto supply chain crisis.

Liu Ziqing speaks at the opening ceremony of the conference on Dec 24. [Photo provided to en.whkfq.gov.cn]

At the opening ceremony, Liu Ziqing, secretary of the zone's working committee, called on entrepreneurs to invest in WEDZ. “The zone will allocate personnel, material and financial resources, and create a business-friendly environment for talent introduction, innovative development and supporting facilities, to share development opportunities with investors,” Liu said.

Senior members from CATARC, Geely, Qualcomm and other leading enterprises and research institutions addressed the conference.

The conference also featured the Seventh China Automotive Parts Industry Awards on the same day, during which 13 products won gold awards for industrial foresight and 11 products won gold awards for mass production.