CATARC

China Automotive Technology and Research Center Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "CATARC") is a central enterprise directly under the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, established in 1985. CATARC has always adhered to the leadership of the Party, closely aligned with national strategic needs, and is committed to becoming an important force in promoting innovation and high-quality development of China's automotive industry. As a comprehensive technology enterprise group with extensive influence in the domestic and international automotive industry, CATARC actively serves the national development agenda, deeply implements the innovation-driven development strategy, and provides technological support for national economic transformation and upgrading, green development, and modernization. CATARC completed its corporate restructuring in February 2018 and now has 8 directly affiliated institutions, 35 wholly-owned subsidiaries, and 11 holding companies, with total assets of 24.439 billion yuan, net assets of 19.655 billion yuan, and over 5,000 employees.\r\n\r\nCATARC adheres to the new development philosophy as its guideline, steadily upgrades its business layout, and continuously enhances its comprehensive strength and core competitiveness. Following the overall direction of "full-chain layout, link-oriented, cluster development," it has created a "1+9+X" new business layout. Its business network covers China's automotive industry clusters such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the Northeast region, and the Chengdu-Chongqing twin cities, as well as specialized and innovative bases such as the Yancheng site, Kunming plateau, and Hulunbuir cold region, and has established subsidiaries and permanent offices in Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and Thailand, playing an important role in promoting China's automotive industry to integrate more actively into the global system.\r\n\r\n\r\nCATARC has always upheld its original aspiration of advancing scientific and technological progress in China's automotive industry and its industry positioning of "independent, fair, and third-party," accumulating solid technical strength. Its business covers the entire value chain of the automotive industry, including policy research, standards and regulations, key common technology R&D, product engineering development services, testing and certification, information consulting, engineering design, and other technical services, and is accelerating its layout in strategic emerging fields such as new energy, intelligent connected vehicles, digitalization, and dual carbon, providing strong support for the high-quality development of China's automotive industry.\r\n\r\nCATARC places technological innovation at the core of its overall development, courageously undertakes the mission of "national team" for scientific and technological self-reliance, focuses on new energy vehicles, intelligent connected vehicles, and other fields, and strives to build a source of original technology. Currently, it has 6 national-level research platforms and 21 provincial and municipal-level research platforms, continuously promotes breakthroughs in key core technologies, has achieved a series of important scientific and technological innovation results, accelerates the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements, and effectively promotes the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation in the automotive field.\r\n\r\nCATARC takes "achieving a harmonious automotive society" as its development vision, firmly adheres to the development mission of "leading the progress of the automotive industry and supporting the construction of an automotive power," is committed to building itself into a globally competitive automotive full-value-chain technical service institution, and strides forward with the strategic goal of "becoming a government-recognized industry think tank, an industry-respected partner, a public-trusted authority, and an employee-proud career platform."\r\n\r\nLooking ahead to the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, CATARC has defined the development goals of "four highs and four achievements": to fulfill strategic missions with high standards and achieve a systematic enhancement of core functions. It focuses on national strategic needs, fully leveraging its roles in leading automotive industry standard innovation, supporting automotive industry strategic policies, providing common technology supply for the automotive industry, and promoting the enhancement of automotive product value, effectively supporting the construction of an automotive power. It will strengthen, optimize, and expand its main business of full-value-chain technical services for the automotive industry, anchor key links in the automotive industry such as industrial governance, public infrastructure, forward-looking innovation, R&D and validation, testing and certification, manufacturing and supply, market consumption, circulation and use, and recycling, and build core advantages for high-quality development. It will systematically construct strategic emerging business groups covering new energy vehicles, intelligent connected vehicles, new components, automotive dual carbon, high-end equipment, low-altitude economy, artificial intelligence, internationalization, and frontier businesses, forging new momentum for sustainable development. It will further improve the modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, deepen the construction of a "three-type" group headquarters, implement differentiated and precise management and control of subsidiaries, and promote the formation of high-level competitive advantages through market-oriented operating mechanisms.\r\n\r\nKeep going without stopping, and practice to achieve long-term goals. Looking ahead to the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, CATARC will always be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, firmly implement the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, actively serve major national strategies and the overall development situation, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development philosophy, firmly grasp the new mission of new-type state-owned central enterprises in the new era, continuously enhance core functions, improve core competitiveness, effectively play the role of technological innovation, industrial control, and security support, keep in mind the "great affairs of the country," comprehensively empower the high-quality development of the automotive industry, and make new and greater contributions to the construction of an automotive power in the historical process of advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-style modernization!