[Preface] General Secretary Xi Jinping recently inspected Shandong and pointed out that state-owned enterprises must be reformed, rather than remain conservative! In implementing the spirit of the General Secretary's instructions, Weichai Group focused on global resources and achieved innovative development through the implementation of the “going global” strategy.
[Text] Weichai (Tokyo) Science and Technology Innovation Center was unveiled today in Tokyo, Japan. This is another center that Weichai established overseas after Chicago, Aschaffenburg, Germany.
[Actual Sound] Tan Xuguang, chairman of Weichai Group
The Innovation Center will surely push us to achieve the highest level of kinetic energy conversion, and lead the process the high quality development.
[Text] The Japanese automotive industry is the world leader, especially, its hybrid and fuel cell business is unique in the world. Weichai will give full play to this advantage, to absorb the world's top talents, and strengthen collaborative research with the University of Tokyo to promote Weichai's new breakthroughs in the new energy industry and diesel engine exhaust treatment.
[Actual Sound] Ju Dongying, professor, Saitama University of Technology, Japan
Weichai can establish such a research and development center in Tokyo, and it will be able to combine the advanced technology of Japan and develop new technologies for new diesel engines and large trucks in China, based on the characteristics of the Chinese market.
[Synchronous Voice] Yichi Watanabe, president of Japan-China Automobile Exchange Association
Many of Japan's core technologies can be combined with the strategies and innovative spirit of Chinese entrepreneurs to achieve greater goals and dreams.
[Text] Weichai has signed strategic cooperation agreements with many world-renowned new energy companies and research institutes such as Bosch in Germany, AVL in Austria, Sirius Power in the United Kingdom, as well as MIT and Stanford University to build a global network of frontier innovation system.