China's largest car company and China's largest Internet company

If China's largest car company and China's largest Internet company collision, what will spark?

On the afternoon of July 23, SAIC and Alibaba Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement on "Internet cars" in Shanghai. The two sides intend to cooperate in the field of "Internet cars" and related application services so as to jointly create the future-oriented "Internet car" and its ecology ring.

In a press release issued to surging news (www.thepaper.cn), SAIC said that after five years of exploration in the Internet field, SAIC's inkaNet version now on the new Roewe 550 has been upgraded from online navigation and infotainment services to compatible vehicles Remote diagnosis and security services development, to achieve multi-screen interaction inside and outside the car, the computer screen, mobile phone screen and the car screen integration, to achieve information cloud sharing, and began to develop the life circle of the owners.

SAIC and Alibaba Group said they hope to integrate resources and open up the car life cycle car needs and Internet life cycle, allowing users to experience an Internet-based, more convenient mobile intelligent ecosystem to create a new "Internet car" .

Surging news reporter also learned that the car intended to end-user experience-oriented integration of Alibaba Group's "yun OS" operating system, big data, Ali communications, high German navigation, Ali cloud computing, shrimp music and other resources, as well as SAIC Vehicle and parts development, automobile service trade and other resources, opening up the integration of Internet and big data, and integrating the online and offline resources of both parties around the user's car to provide smart travel services.

SAIC believes that as the largest and deepest change in this century, the Internet is affecting people's lives in all aspects. The close integration of automobile and mobile Internet is quietly accelerating. Consumers' demands for automobiles will no longer be mere traffic tool.

In fact, this is one of the cognitions of SAIC Chairman Chen Hong on the future automobile industry. On June 19, Chen Hong, chairman of SAIC, elaborated on the idea at the shareholders' meeting.

Chen Hong said at the time that the auto industry has been affected by cross-border effects. "E-commerce and the mobile Internet have become increasingly challenged by traditional industries. Cross-border access to the automobile industry has already begun. For example, Google's driverless Apple Car application. "

"Both I and Chen Zhixin (President of SAIC, 55) are the elderly of SAIC and we have been working in SAIC for more than 30 years. I worked for 10 years as the president of SAIC, and Vice President Zhixin worked for more than 10 years. Future development must be based on the present, but it must also be for the future. "Chen Hong said.

According to Chen Hong's plan, the future group will continue to increase its own brand investment. In addition, SAIC will regard new energy vehicles as the commanding height for its future development.

As a game of SAIC's layout for the future car, it can be predicted that if the Internet car is successful, it will promote the development of SAIC's own brand Roewe.