Central-Local Collaboration Drives Innovation and Upgrading in New Energy Vehicle Materials

In recent years, materials innovation has accelerated its integration with whole-vehicle manufacturing. Through synergies in technology, data, standards, and markets, this convergence is driving new energy vehicles (NEVs) toward being lighter, safer, smarter, and lower-carbon, thereby fostering a new industrial ecosystem. In this process, collaboration between central government entities and local governments has played a pivotal role—not only promoting deep integration of scientific and industrial innovation and facilitating structural optimization and upgrading of industries, but also supporting the transformation of regional economic development models. China National Building Material Group (CNBM) has launched industrial collaboration with Wuhu City in Anhui Province, focusing on emerging material demands in sectors such as new energy vehicles, robotics, low-altitude economy, and high-end equipment. Together, they are co-building a new materials R&D and innovation platform, advancing the construction of a new materials industrial base, and deepening investment cooperation through new materials industry funds. At the recently held “CNBM–Chery Automobile” Product and Technology Exchange Day, participants proposed establishing a joint laboratory as the core platform to tackle critical “bottleneck” issues in automotive materials. They emphasized concentrated efforts to accelerate the realization of domestic controllability, safety, and efficiency in core materials, thereby supporting the high-end, intelligent, and green development of the automotive industry. Furthermore, they called for comprehensive integration of technology, talent, markets, and capital around the broader themes of integrated transportation systems, advanced materials, and sustainable ecosystems—speeding up the transition of research outcomes from laboratories to production lines and markets, and creating an exemplary model of central-local collaboration, chain-leading enterprises’ guidance, and integrated industry-academia-research-application cooperation.