Private enterprises better alliance

　　Feng Fei: Private enterprises better form alliance for battery technological breakthrough

　　2010 China Green Energy Automotive Development Summit Forum was held in December 1st in Beijing Convention Center. In his speech, Director of the State Council Industrial Economics Research Department Feng Fei called on China to set up advanced battery Innovation Alliance. “I advocate the Alliance to take a combination of vertical and horizontal direction. We should promote alliance of the upstream and downstream companies within the same industry chain in the vertical direction, and in the horizontal direction the alliance formed by enterprises in competition to address key technical issues before the competition.” He said.

　　In the intermittent, he described in detail in an interview with SOH AUTO the original intention of calling for the League. He believes that the vast majority of car companies in China are joint ventures, technologies are all from foreign while batteries, motors, electrical three key technologies of new energy vehicles are basically controlled by private enterprises. “I think, now central enterprises are even not as advanced as private enterprises in the battery technology. But the technological base and human resources foundation of these private enterprises is weak although they master key technologies. Therefore, I appeal private enterprises to enhance the R& D of core technologies through alliances.”

　　He also believes that currently, only through breakthroughs in the material field, the battery technologies can get progress. Meanwhile, the problem of product consistency needs to be solved. Therefore, experts in battery materials, manufacturing, production technology and other fields should join the alliance and work together for breakthroughs.

　　For the central enterprises, whether the electric car alliance is more advantageous in the industrial chain cooperation, Fangs believes that the Alliance of central enterprises has the same investors---- the SAC, and they have a large number of vehicles to string up energy, vehicle and the battery industry chain, but the problem is that they does not master core battery technology.

　　(Translator: Yalong/Jessie)

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