[Text/Caiquansha & Dao Ge talks about Che Ma Jianyu] On the evening of September 2, Great Wall Motors Chairman Wei Jianjun announced an important piece of news about Great Wall Motors on Weibo. Great Wall Motors CTO Wang Yuanli will retire, and Great Wall Motors’ current intellig

[Text/Financial Society Dao Brother Said Chema Jianyu] On the evening of September 2, Great Wall Motors Chairman Wei Jianjun announced an important news about Great Wall Motors on Weibo. Great Wall Motors CTO Wang Yuanli will retire. Great Wall Motors Wu Huixiao, the current vice president of intelligence, will take over the position.

As a highly talented student studying in France and a technical master with rich experience in the automotive industry, Wang Yuanli joined Great Wall Motors in 2019, during which he made outstanding contributions to Great Wall Motors. Wei Jianjun also expressed his sincere gratitude to Wang Yuanli in his tweet: With his vision, professionalism and hard work, he has led Great Wall Motors to develop rapidly in intelligent driving and new energy technology, and promoted Great Wall Motors from "Made in China" to "Intelligent Made in China" A gorgeous turn.

Wang Yuanli’s retirement certainly makes people lament the ruthlessness of time, but Great Wall Motors still needs to continue to move forward. After Wei Jianjun announced this major news, the new CTO Wu Huixiao forwarded Wei Jianjun's Weibo, expressed his best wishes to Wang Yuanli, and said, "The new role also brings me new challenges. Of course, Great Wall people will not Afraid of challenges, I will make a little progress and a big step every day to live up to everyone's expectations! "

It should be mentioned that she is also the first female CTO of Great Wall Motors and looks quite young, so Wu Huixiao will give great advice to Great Wall Motors! What does the car bring?

"Baoding Liu Yifei" Can Wu Huixiao solve the unwillingness of Great Wall technicians

Judging from public reports, Wu Huixiao's previous exposure rate was not high, and he only started to come to the front of Great Wall Motors in the past year ". Entering 2024, Wei Jianjun participated in many live broadcasts, and the most frequent live broadcast was the smart driving demonstration about Blue Mountain. In each demonstration, Wu Huixiao was the main "explainer".

It is understood that Wu Huixiao was previously responsible for the research and development of coffee os 3, the third-generation intelligent space system independently developed by Great Wall Motors, and was the core person in charge of Great Wall Motors' entire intelligent driving business. Not long ago, the Blue Mountain Smart Driving Edition equipped with Great Wall Motor's latest smart cockpit and smart driving technology has been launched. Since it can realize full-scenario NOA without high-precision maps, you can also play "Black Myth Wukong" on the car and the Wei Brand Blue Shan smart driving version once caused a sensation in the industry.

Even Wei Jianjun bluntly said at the press conference of the Blue Mountain Smart Driving Edition: Great Wall Motors’ intelligence is number one! From this point of view, the ability of the first female CTO of Great Wall Motors is still very outstanding. However, compared with improving Great Wall Motors' intelligent technology, Wu Huixiao's other major role cannot be ignored, which is to increase the recognition of Great Wall Motors' intelligent technology.

"There has always been a lot of investment in intelligence, but it has not been highlighted." When mentioning the relevant situation of Great Wall Motors' intelligent transformation, a Great Wall Motors engineer very shyly told "Financial Society Society Talks about Cars" express. "XX has suffered too much in terms of publicity. I always feel that the people who do publicity don't know how to market." This is a complaint often made by corporate technical personnel, and it is obviously very applicable to Great Wall Motors.

At the launch conference of the Blue Mountain Intelligent Driving Edition, Wei Jianjun emphasized that Great Wall Motors has invested in intelligence for more than ten years and currently has more than 10 R&D bases around the world and a R&D team of nearly 6,000 people. Including more than 600 technical experts. However, compared to those car companies with prominent labels such as "Science and Engineering Man", Great Wall Motors' biggest labels may still be "hard" and "straight"...

And Wu Huixiao may be able to increase recognition of Great Wall Motors' technology in the market make a certain contribution.The comment area of ​​Wei Jianjun's "Important News" is full of netizens' wishes for Wang Yuanli's life after retirement and their blessings for Wu Huixiao. Of course, there are also several Great Wall Motors executives among the netizens. The editor of "Financial Society Dao Ge Talks about Cars" noticed that netizens frequently mentioned words such as "Baoding Liu Yifei" and "Great Wall Liu Yifei" in their blessings to Wu Huixiao. Even the internal executive of Great Wall Motors and Soul Motorcycle CEO Zhao Shengguang mentioned "Liu Yifei in the car circle" in his blessing to her.

It is obvious that Wu Huixiao already has the potential to be a influencer. Judging from the professionalism, calmness and passion he has shown in several live broadcasts, he also has the ability to make Great Wall Motors' technology widely recognized by the market.

Intelligence has become the strategic focus of Great Wall

In addition to Wu Huixiao's role, Wei Jianjun's personal official announcement and Wu Huixiao's background before being promoted to Great Wall Motors CTO may also be very revealing.

It is understood that before Wang Yuanli became the CTO of Great Wall Motors, he was the president of Nobo Automotive Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Great Wall Motors. This is a supplier mainly engaged in interior and exterior decoration, seats, rubber, and automotive electronics business, combined with Wang Yuanli's tradition Coming from the automotive industry, his intention is to make Great Wall Motors progress in transformation and intelligent manufacturing.

Wu Huixiao’s position before serving as the CTO of Great Wall Motors was vice president of intelligence. The intention of Great Wall Motors to choose a full-time intelligence talent as CTO may have been obvious. In recent years, the focus of competition in the automotive industry has gradually shifted towards intelligence. The so-called "second half" has become the key to victory. There is no reason why Great Wall Motors should not pay more attention to intelligence.

It is worth mentioning that since this year, Great Wall Motors has begun to demonstrate its intelligent capabilities in a high-profile manner. Wei Jianjun started the road of proof by saying, "In the past, new forces ridiculed us. It was unrealistic for traditional car companies to do a good job in smart cockpits. Now we have turned smartness into a longboard." He used several live broadcasts to demonstrate Great Wall Motors' strength in smart driving. ; Wei brand CEO Liu Yanzhao used the term "sweeping monk" to describe the current strength of Great Wall Motors. "Great Wall's intelligent driving (team) has been building since 2011. Great Wall is the 'sweeping monk' in intelligent driving." It is also intended to start Great Wall Motors' intelligent label.

From a product perspective, Blue Mountain Smart Driving Edition’s smart driving system coffee pilot ultra can achieve full-scenario NOA without high-precision maps, and is also the first to use a fashionable end-to-end smart driving large model - see; in the cockpit, The smart space system coffee os 3 is an in-depth application of AI and large models. Users can complete a series of commands in the car by just moving their wrists. However, intelligence is not something that can be achieved overnight. Software iteration, algorithm optimization, and data accumulation all require time and continuous investment.

From this perspective, Great Wall Motors’ selection of Wu Huixiao, a talent with rich experience in intelligence and a clear label, as CTO further demonstrates its strategic determination towards intelligent transformation.Of course, this also means that this "Baoding Liu Yifei" will also bear greater responsibilities, not only to make the Great Wall's intelligence recognized, but also to make the Great Wall's intelligence stronger...