CCTV News: Changchun, Jilin is known as the "cradle" of the automobile industry in New China, and the wave of new quality productivity is reshaping the genes of the automobile industry. As the digital transformation continues to advance, a number of national-level "specialized, specialized and innovative" small giant enterprises have emerged among local private enterprises, becoming the "vibrant cells" of Jilin's leap into a trillion-level automobile industry cluster. In Changchun City, a company that once engaged in the manufacturing of traditional automobile parts relies on innovation to reach the forefront in the production track of new energy vehicle accessories. How is efficient transformation and development achieved?
When you walk into the company's production workshop, the most intuitive feeling is the high degree of automation. These busy robots are transporting materials to various points in the production line. These QR codes on the ground are "digital tracks" for robots, which can guide robots to deliver them in an orderly and precise manner. In the entire workshop, the automation rate has reached more than 90% from loading and flowing of raw materials to processing and storage of finished products. Although the company's orders increased by 40% in the first quarter of 2025, production lines continued to be completed for 24 hours, which also ensured that the orders were delivered as scheduled.
Automotive manufacturing is a traditional industry in Jilin. In 2023, Jilin Province launched the "Going Level" project for the automobile industry cluster and proposed the development goal of reaching trillions of levels of the automobile industry. Among them, private enterprises are important new forces, but it is actually not easy to transform from the production of traditional fuel vehicle parts to the "track" of new energy. In the early stages of the transformation, many small and medium-sized automotive parts companies, including this company, faced the dual pressure of capital and technology, especially the cloud storage companies that were not matched with low-priced and high-quality cloud storage companies, which hindered the advancement of digital transformation.
Changchun City has established a public service team for digital transformation to select service providers with technological advantages and cost-effectiveness to accurately match enterprises. After continuous transformation and technological innovation, the company's production efficiency has now increased by more than doubled compared to the original, ranking among the forefront of the industry.
What kind of upgrade has the transformed products ushered in? This is a new type of flat belt charging wire harness. Unlike this traditional copper wire harness, its metal wire adopts an all-aluminum structure, weighs only about one-third of the copper, and costs less. Its shape is flat lines. These curved parts are folded according to the curve of the body sheet metal shape. They can fully fit the body, which is more utilizing space than the cylindrical wiring harness, freeing more layout space for downstream automobile manufacturers and greatly saving the time and cost of manual assembly. Such a seemingly ordinary wire harness must solve multiple technical levels such as different conductivity and precision bending between aluminum wire and other metal parts in the car, thereby enhancing the core competitiveness of the product.
The successful digital transformation has brought the possibility to the manufacturing of high-precision components and has also activated the motivation for corporate innovation. In recent years, the company's R&D investment has accounted for more than 8% of sales. The continuous breakthroughs in the technology field have allowed the company to obtain more than 1,000 patents, and is capable of in-depth serving the supply chain system of domestic mainstream new energy car companies, and has successfully expanded overseas markets, and exported products to more than 80 countries and regions around the world.
In 2025, orders from new energy vehicles exceeded 50% of the total output, and the products also moved towards "high-end and sophisticated". This circuit board is called the intelligent power distribution control module, also known as the "safety heart" of new energy vehicles. This small board integrates more than 1,500 materials including chips, sensors, power devices, etc. The ability to highly integrate so many components on a board actually uses more than 20 patented technologies. Compared with independent and dispersed modules, the use of automotive wiring harnesses can be reduced. More importantly, in terms of intelligent driving, it can support high computing power and improve the perception and decision-making system response speed of intelligent driving. It can also provide more optimized energy scheduling for smart cabins, remote control, etc., to improve efficiency and experience.
Such a transformation practice can be said to be a vivid epitome of the transformation of the automobile industry in Jilin Province to new quality productivity.
As of now, the number of private automobile parts enterprises in Jilin Province has grown to 330. Since 2025, in order to promote the development of the private economy, Jilin Province has made great efforts to formulate a list of business environment reform tasks, clarify 12 key tasks, and solve the bottlenecks and difficult problems reflected by private enterprises. With the continuous improvement of the business environment, private enterprises will show their strengths and achieve greater achievements in the comprehensive revitalization of Jilin.
