Under multiple pressures, the Chinese economy has gone through an "extraordinary" year in 2024, and the results are encouraging.
As the annual barometer of China's economic work, the Central Economic Work Conference held in December has attracted much attention. Among them, the meeting called for the implementation of a more proactive fiscal policy and a moderately loose monetary policy by 2025, and to strike a good policy "combination punch"; Emphasize stabilizing the real estate and stock markets, preventing and resolving risks and external shocks in key areas; And it has been determined that by 2025, we will focus on nine major tasks, including vigorously boosting consumption and expanding domestic demand in all aspects.
How do you view the current economic situation? How to do economic work in 2025? We have launched a special report titled 'Looking Up at 2025', inviting regulatory authorities, renowned scholars, and leading entrepreneurs to jointly interpret the information conveyed by the Central Economic Work Conference and their confidence in the economy by 2025.
For enterprises, what measures will be taken to vigorously boost consumption and other issues proposed at the Central Economic Work Conference? What are the strategic development goals for 2025? The New Beijing News Shell Finance reporter interviewed Peng Jun, co-founder and CEO of Xiaoma Zhixing, on this matter.
New Beijing News Beike Finance: The Central Economic Work Conference proposed to vigorously boost consumption, improve investment efficiency, and comprehensively expand domestic demand. What specific measures will your company take?
Peng Jun: Xiaoma Zhixing will respond to the spirit and requirements of the Central Economic Work Conference through technological innovation, expanding application scenarios, strengthening cooperation and ecological construction, policy response and market development, and improving user experience and services. It will comprehensively expand domestic demand, boost consumption, and improve investment efficiency. Xiaoma Zhixing will continue to increase research and development investment in automatic driving technology to improve the safety, stability and reliability of the auto drive system. In the future, we hope to open up more scenarios that are closer to areas with denser travel demand.
Establish close cooperative relationships with upstream and downstream enterprises, jointly promote the research and application of autonomous driving technology, and form a good ecosystem of collaborative innovation. Closely monitor national policy developments, actively respond to the government's policy orientation of expanding domestic demand and boosting consumption, and strive for more policy support and market opportunities. While consolidating the domestic market, actively exploring the international market and promoting the globalization and internationalization of autonomous driving technology. Continuously improving the usability, comfort, and safety of autonomous driving products to create a high-quality user experience.
New Beijing News Beike Finance: What are your company's strategic development goals for performance growth, product innovation, and business lines in 2025?
Peng Jun: Xiaoma Zhixing has completed a crucial leap from 0 to 1, achieving fully unmanned commercial operation. Next, we will complete the work from 1 to 100, invest more resources to promote autonomous driving technology towards the 2.0 era, and continue to focus on scaling and commercialization, focusing on autonomous driving travel services, autonomous driving freight transportation, and other technology authorization and application services.
In terms of Robotaxi (autonomous taxi), Xiaoma Zhixing's future fully autonomous travel services will expand towards operating areas, enrich scenarios, and mass produce technology. For example, it will provide services in more cities and scenarios (such as airports, high-speed rail stations, etc.), promote research and development and reduce operating costs, explore and shape the Robotaxi business model, and hope to achieve the landing and operation of thousands of autonomous taxis by 2025-2026.
In terms of Robotruck, we will continue to explore trunk and dedicated logistics, broaden the commercialization capabilities of scenarios, and promote the multi-point development of logistics commercial applications through continuous strategic cooperation with logistics service providers and truck manufacturers, gradually achieving fully autonomous driving operations. In addition, in terms of technology licensing and application services, Xiaoma Zhixing relies on its accumulated software and hardware product capabilities to meet the diverse needs of customers and bring more cash flow to the company.
Chen Weicheng, a reporter from Beike Finance of the New Beijing News