On April 26th, BMW announced that it would deepen its layout in China and planned to invest an additional 20 billion yuan in its Shenyang production base.
The focus of this investment is on the large-scale upgrading and technological innovation of the Dadong plant, the birthplace of BMW production in China, laying a solid foundation for the start of localized production of BMW’s “new generation” models in 2026, demonstrating BMW’s long-term commitment to the Chinese market.
Hao Peng, secretary of the Liaoning Provincial CPC Committee and chairman of the standing Committee of the Provincial people’s Congress, Li Lecheng, deputy secretary of the Liaoning Provincial CPC Committee and governor, and Qi Puze, chairman of BMW Group, jointly witnessed the signing of the memorandum of understanding on investment.
BMW Group and brilliance will take the opportunity of new investment and make use of the local production of BMW “New Generation” models to deepen strategic cooperation with Liaoning Province and Shenyang in industrial upgrading, technological innovation, supply chain strengthening, personnel training and other areas, so as to promote the high-quality development of new energy and intelligent network connection industrial clusters in Northeast China.
We will promote the transformation of the manufacturing industry with new quality productivity to a more efficient, smarter and greener direction.
Hao Peng said: “BMW Group is a world-famous century-old automobile company.
It has developed rapidly in new energy vehicles, self-driving and other fields in recent years, and has maintained a leading position in the industry.
” For more than 20 years, BMW Group has persisted in taking root in Liaoning and ploughing Liaoning.
Shenyang has become the largest production base of BMW Group in the world.
At present, the trend of economic and social development in Liaoning continues to improve, laying a solid foundation for further deepening cooperation with BMW Group.
Liaoning will continue to firmly support the development of brilliance BMW, take this contract as a new starting point, push bilateral cooperation to a new height, and jointly create a model and model for Sino-German economic and trade cooperation.
” Chipze said: “the cooperation between BMW Group and Liaoning is a model of mutual benefit and win-win.
For a long time, Liaoning Province and Shenyang have provided strong support for the investment and development of BMW Group in Liaoning, for which we are deeply grateful.
In Shenyang, BMW is casting the future.
Our ‘new generation’ undoubtedly marks the largest investment in the history of BMW Group, and it heralds a new era of personal intelligent travel driven by innovation and technology.
By 2026, the first Chinese-made ‘New Generation’ model will be taken off the production base in Shenyang.
The new RMB 20 billion investment plan announced today further highlights China’s central position in the future of ICV in BMW Group.
This not only demonstrates our success in China over the past 30 years, but also expresses our firm confidence in our future development.
” High efficiency, high technology, high quality: redefine the future intelligent manufacturing and green production, BMW Shenyang production base continues to pursue excellence, always leading the technological innovation and progress of the automotive industry.
With further investment, Shenyang production base will continue to set a new industry benchmark in intelligent manufacturing and green production.
In the field of intelligent manufacturing, AI technology is widely used in Shenyang production base.
At present, about 100 AI applications have been launched.
For example, the stamping workshop industry’s first self-developed AI intelligent quality inspection system, and painting workshop AI visual inspection, using real-time process monitoring and real-time data analysis to improve production efficiency and optimize product quality.
The “digital twin” technology combines the virtual world with the real world, which can shorten the construction cycle of the brand-new vehicle factory by 6 months.
In the field of green production, the concept of sustainability and circular economy are fully integrated into all operational levels of the production base.
Since 2019, the entire BMW Shenyang production base has used 100% renewable power.
the “smart energy” system has raised the production and operation efficiency and green carbon reduction to a new height.
and the Shenyang production base has also established a complete wastewater treatment system to realize the closed cycle of water resources management.
Take the lead in the industry with local partners to achieve closed-loop recovery of raw materials for domestic electric vehicle power batteries, effectively reducing 70% carbon emissions in mineral resources exploitation.
BMW Group’s “new generation” is not only a car, but also marks the beginning of the next generation of BMW brand-new product series, which represents the leapfrog advance of BMW design, technology and overall production innovation capability.
The “New Generation” model will be made in China in 2026.
The total investment of the sixth generation power battery project for the “new generation” model has reached 10 billion yuan.
The main building of the project was fully completed in Shenyang in November last year, and the equipment installation is planned to be completed within this year, and will be officially opened in 2026.
To carry out the long-term commitment of “Home in China”, the cumulative investment in BMW’s Shenyang production base has reached 105 billion yuan since 2010.
With the continuous increase of investment in China and the continuous upgrading of its production base, BMW Group will further boost the new productivity of China’s automobile industry and inject new momentum into the economic development of Liaoning Province and Shenyang.
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