What are the Big Names in Hefei Smart Manufacturing

This report details the industrial landscape of Hefei, showcased during the 2025 World Manufacturing Convention (Sept 20-23), as visiting delegates toured key local facilities. It highlights Hefei's strategy of building a modern, innovation-driven industrial system.
1. Smart Vehicle Manufacturing: A Dual-Pronged Approach Hefei demonstrates two successful paths in the smart EV sector:
- · Zunjie Super Factory: A joint venture between JAC Motors and Huawei, this massive plant produces the high-end Zunjie S800 EV. Its rapid market success exemplifies leveraging international partnerships and top-tier resources.
- · NIO: Representing homegrown innovation, NIO has invested heavily in R&D (over ¥60 billion cumulatively by Q1 2025) and built extensive charging/swapping infrastructure. Strong revenue and delivery growth in 2024/2025 underscore its success. This creates a complete industrial loop encompassing整车(whole vehicle), core components, and application scenarios.
2. Energy Revolution: Integrated "Solar-Storage" Ecosystem Hefei has built a comprehensive new energy chain:
- · Sungrow Power: A global leader in photovoltaic inverters and energy storage systems, providing integrated "solar-storage-charging" solutions worldwide.
- · Gotion High-tech: A top global power battery maker, advancing technology with its high-performance LFP batteries and a new, fully domestic, all-solid-state battery pilot line. Together,they form an integrated "Generation-Grid-Load-Storage" ecosystem supporting global carbon neutrality goals.
3. Innovation Ecosystem: The Soft Support Hefei's"soft" innovation infrastructure is a key pillar:
- · China Sound Valley: A national project fostering a complete AI and speech technology industry chain, from basic research to application development.
- · Anhui Innovation Museum: Serves as a central hub for displaying major scientific achievements (e.g., quantum computing) and facilitating technology transactions, having facilitated over ¥167 billion in deals.
- · Luogang Park: Features the national first Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Hub, demonstrating Hefei's forward-looking approach to future industries like low-altitude transportation.
Conclusion: The "Hefei Model" The report concludes that Hefei's manufacturing success is characterized byinnovation as the core, complete industrial chains as the skeleton, and real-world application as the link. Through precise investment attraction ("Chain Chief System") and deep integration of "S&T + Industry," Hefei has built internationally competitive clusters. It presents the "Hefei Solution" as a model for high-quality manufacturing development in China.