Innovation System

BAIC Research Institute Co., Ltd. (HEREINAFTER referred to as "BAIC Research Institute") is responsible for the R&D of BAIC's own brands of passenger vehicles. It was officially established on June 8, 2007, and integrated and upgraded in May 2021. BAIC Research Institute has set up the vehicle architecture center, the center of battery, motor and electric control, intelligent network center, modelling center, power center, test and certification center, the department of design cost and engineering, the department of engineering quality and other departments, covering the whole R&D process and business of vehicles. There are more than 4000 members of R&D staff, effectively supporting the BAIC passenger car brands, its core technology R&D and the hardware and software development.

After more than ten years of development, BAIC has established a complete positive R&D system centering on product development, technology development, project management, quality management, cost management and technical standards. It has achieved positive development ability at domestic industry leading level in vehicle architecture, modeling design, intelligent network, development of battery, motor and electric control, performance development, trial production test and other aspects of; it has obtained qualifications such as National Enterprise Technology Center, National Industrial Design Center, National High-Tech Enterprises and other qualifications; its independent R&D achievements have won "Science and Technology Award of China Automotive Industry", "Beijing Science and Technology Award" and many other important scientific and technological awards.

BAIC Foton Automobile Co., Ltd. ("BAIC Foton" for short) centering on the innovation concept of" intelligent, new energy, network and lightweight ", has established 15 intelligent innovative R&D centers in mainly Beijing and other cities in China. We actively participated in the formulation of 29 mandatory national standards, accounting for one quarter of all existing standards. It has more than 6,000 authorized patents, including 1183 new energy patents. It has won many science and technology awards such as National/Beijing Science and Technology Award, Science and Technology Award of China Automobile Industry, invention patent awards, etc.

A technological innovation system has been established with four core fields: new energy vehicle technology, intelligent network technology, energy saving technology and lightweight technology. In the field of new energy, it started R&D early and demonstrated operation early, covering multiple technical routes and product lines, and leading the sales. In the field of fuel saving technology and lightweight, it has created the cutting-edge "A super power chain", thanks to the intelligent synergetic development of Foton PDIC power transmission integration. Foton composite-material container won the first prize of China lightweight design; It created the first domestic aluminum-frame light truck products in mass production. In the field of intelligent network connection, the company laid out automatic driving in advance, obtained the first automatic driving road test license for commercial vehicles in China. It realized the first batch of public driving test for heavy truck fleets in China, reached strategic cooperation with Huawei to layout intelligent network connected commercial vehicles in the 5G era, and jointly start the construction of full intelligent system for commercial vehicles in the 5G era. In the field of testing and verification, it has invested 2 billion yuan to build a R&D testing system that reaches the advanced level of domestic commercial vehicles to fully meet the testing needs of products and future new technologies.