A Tour of Beijing's Wondrous Vistas: Experience the High-end Intelligent Manufacturing Achievements of the Economic Development Zone

On the morning of September 3, the "Vast Prospects of Chinese Path to Modernization" online influencers' Beijing tour event, hosted by the Cyber Social Work Bureau of the Cyberspace Administration of China and the Beijing Municipal Cyberspace Administration, and undertaken by Beijing News Shell Finance, arrived at the Economic Development Area. The group of online influencers successively visited the Innovation and Operation Center of the High-level Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone, the Xiaomi Auto Factory, the Robot Mall Embodied Intelligent Robot 4S Store, the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, and the Rocket Street Exhibition Hall. Here, the achievements of high-end intelligent manufacturing are flourishing, and the atmosphere of scientific and technological innovation is strong.

Smooth Journey Ahead with Intelligent Driving

Tech-packed minibuses shuttle through the roads. If you take a closer look, there is no driver holding the steering wheel in front of the vehicle

——This is a scene on the roads of Beijing Economic Development Zone, where self-driving vehicles from brands such as Baidu, Pony.ai, and WeRide are running. In the morning, at the Innovation and Operation Center of the High-level Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone, the online influencers became passengers and experienced the new intelligent travel mode in person.

(The picture shows Baidu's autonomous driving minibus)

The Innovation and Operation Center of the High-level Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone is located in Beijing Economic Development Zone. It opens large-scale normalized road test scenarios, continuously promotes the demonstration of autonomous driving with passengers and the construction of vehicle-road coordination infrastructure, and is the first national-level pilot zone for intelligent connected vehicle policies in China. Inside the exhibition hall of the innovation operation center, the commentator introduced that since its establishment in 2020, the demonstration zone has gone through four stages of development, committed to promoting the integration of vehicle, road and cloud. In addition to the minibuses experienced by the online influencers, unmanned sanitation vehicles will also clean the roads at night to reduce the burden on sanitation workers.

Stepping out of the Innovation and Operation Center of the High-level Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone, the online influencers came to the Xiaomi Auto Factory. In the exhibition hall of the Xiaomi Auto Factory, a car hanging in the air caught everyone's attention. It is the Xiaomi YU7 in Gulf Blue, which forms a Möbius strip shape together with its mirror image on the ceiling. Xiaomi Auto integrates a number of scientific and technological innovation achievements, and components such as Xiaomi Super Motor, Xiaomi Kunlun Platform, and armor cage steel-aluminum hybrid body are displayed on the booth, attracting online influencers to stop and watch.

(The picture shows online influencers visiting the Xiaomi Auto exhibition hall)

Xiaomi Auto was born in the factory workshop. There are six workshops for stamping, die-casting, bodywork, painting, final assembly and battery, where logistics robots, assembly robotic arms and workshop engineers work in an orderly manner. The factory can produce 40 vehicles per hour at full capacity, rolling off one unit every 76 seconds, and the cars ordered by consumers are born here. After passing the road tests one by one, Xiaomi Auto will enter thousands of households and come to users.

Intelligent Life Within Easy Reach

In the afternoon, the online influencers came to the Robot Mall Embodied Intelligent Robot 4S Store and the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, to experience another possibility of technology integrating into life. Here, robot enterprises are connected with the market application end, robots enter life scenarios, and they are present in fields such as family, health care, culture and entertainment.

In the family scenario built by the Robot Mall Embodied Intelligent Robot 4S Store, a bionic robot hostess sits on the sofa, and in the fish tank behind her, there is a bionic golden arowana robot swimming with real fish. On the "Robot World" entertainment stage not far away, two robots wearing long mandarin jackets tell comic dialogues in authentic Tianjin dialect, while in the health care area, the traditional Chinese medicine robot "Wang Shuhe" is busy taking the pulse of online influencers.

(The picture shows the living room with bionic robots)

How do these robots move? In the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, the hands, joints, circuits and other components of the robots are exhibited in the form of parts. At the dexterous hand booth, online influencers interact with the robotic hands and experience the technology that makes machines "alive", namely visual follow-up. Not far away, the joint components of the robots are quietly displayed. The commentator introduced that without joints, robots cannot move a single step.

The precise operation of thousands of components inside the body can help embodied intelligent robots realize the complex functions that people expect. Their large-scale application will make robots more stable and easier to use.

Commercial Aerospace Chasing Dreams in the Vast Sky

At the last stop of the day, in the Rocket Street Exhibition Hall, the model of "Zhuque-2" attracted everyone's attention and discussion. It is the world's first successfully orbited liquid oxygen methane rocket, and also the largest active private liquid rocket. How to design the rocket shape? Is recycling needed after launch, and how to recycle? The online influencers raised questions to the commentator and enthusiastically discussed the innovative achievements of commercial aerospace.

(The picture shows online influencers in the Rocket Street Exhibition Hall)

On the third floor of the exhibition hall, the online influencers experienced the simulated rocket launch in person. With the commentator counting down "3, 2, 1", the "Zhuque" in the electronic projection in front of them slowly lifted off. The rocket flies into the vast universe, and the starry sky is also simulated by electronic screens, which constitute the interstellar exploration center of the Rocket Street Exhibition Hall. The center is as high as three floors, accessible from the negative first floor, where a rocket model made at a ratio of 1:3.5 is placed.

Intelligence boosts space exploration, and technology creates the future of life. In the Economic Development Area, cutting-edge technologies are accelerating out of the laboratory and integrating into production and life, making the prosperous scene of scientific and technological innovation perceivable, tangible and accessible. In the future, more new technologies, new products and new scenarios will set off from here and move to a broader stage.