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On February 5, the first day of construction started after the Spring Festival holiday, the construction site of Nanjing Yika Smart Car Intelligent Factory located at the intersection of Xumutang Road and Sanya Road in Lishui Economic Development Zone was already roaring machines and vehicles shuttled through. The Nanjing Yika Zhiche Urban Service Robot Project, with a total investment of 3 billion yuan, was signed and settled in 2024 and was selected as a major project in Jiangsu Province in 2025. Since the project started construction last year, construction has been rushing, striving to achieve trial production in July this year and seize the lead in the unmanned vehicle track.
Work hard as soon as you start construction, and work backwards on schedule.
At the project construction site, seven or eight excavators quickly waved their “arms”, and the roar of machines and construction knocks came one after another.
”Xiao Li, the project progress is tight, but the project quality is the first.” At around 9 a.m., more than 50 workers were busy binding the steel bars of the ground beams and the project site production manager Fu Fei came to the project site to remind him. Xiao Li is named Li Qiang. He is a “post-80s” from Sichuan. He has rich work experience and is the person in charge of the construction site steel bar group. He said that the team has established a self-inspection system to ensure that the steel bar specifications and binding processes are accurate.
According to reports, the first phase of Nanjing Yika Smart Car Intelligent Factory Project covers an area of 58 mu and has a construction area of 44,600 square meters, including a 5-story living building, R&D building, solid waste warehouse, spare parts warehouse and final assembly workshop. Among them, the total assembly workshop has the largest construction area, with a total construction area of 33,000 square meters, divided into two floors, and underground structure construction is currently underway.
In order to speed up the progress, more than 100 workers returned to work early. “In previous years, I could usually take a month off around the Spring Festival and return to work after the Lantern Festival. This year’s project tasks are tight. I went home for less than 10 days to rest during the Spring Festival. I returned to the construction site on the sixth day of the first lunar month. I will do my best to seize the progress of the project.” Li Qiang said.
”We follow the time nodes, reverse the construction schedule and fight with charts to ensure that the project is completed as scheduled.” Gao Zhanying, manager of the construction project department, told reporters that most of the workers come from Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangxi and other places, and some workers arrive on the sixth day of the first lunar month. The seventh meeting was held, and the eighth day of the lunar calendar resumed work in full swing, and the beginning of the work was done, and we strive to achieve equipment entry in May this year to help enterprises start production as soon as possible.
Build a L4-level smart factory to seize the opportunity for market development
Deceleration, acceleration, parking, and voice remind passers-by to pay attention to avoiding… Recently, many Lishui citizens have seen on the road that the postal express delivery unmanned vehicles about 3 meters long shuttle freely on urban roads.
This unmanned express delivery vehicle is from Yika Smart Car, which can realize unmanned driving between the inn. “Under the influence of multiple factors such as rising manual delivery costs, the market demand for urban service-oriented unmanned vehicles is becoming increasingly strong.” Du Wanyun, project director of Nanjing Yika Smart Car Intelligent Factory, said that with the advancement of my country’s smart city construction, the central and local governments have all Governments at the level continue to introduce support policies to accelerate the implementation of service-oriented unmanned vehicles in the scale, and service-oriented unmanned vehicles are increasingly entering people’s vision.
As a leading enterprise in the field of urban service-oriented unmanned vehicles, Yika Smart Car has launched more than ten unmanned vehicles in the past two years in three major scenarios such as sanitation, logistics, and security. Nearly 2,000 vehicles have been operating in multiple pilot cities across the country. .
In order to expand the company’s production capacity, Yika Smart Car came from Shanghai to Lishui to build a world-leading digital intelligent factory that combines flexible automation production of L4-level unmanned vehicles with “immersive” experience. Du Wanyun introduced that the company currently has sufficient orders and has stable customers such as Cainiao and White Rhino. In order to deliver orders in advance, Nanjing Yika Smart Car accelerated the construction of the project while renting factories for production.
In Suchuang Smart Industrial Park, in the temporary factory with an area of about 10,000 square meters, nearly 100 workers have resumed work, and the two processing production lines have fully launched orders. The reporter saw at the scene that dozens of customized logistics vehicles had their license plates on them and the body was labeled with the logistics company’s logo. “This batch of logistics vehicles will be delivered soon.” Du Wanyun said that there are still orders of more than 200 vehicles waiting for production. “After the new factory is completed and reached production, it will have the ability to produce 20,000 units per shift annually. It is expected that the company’s output value will reach 1 next year. 100 million yuan.”
Smart factory + industrial park, work together to build an industrial chain cluster
”Nanjing has rich manufacturing resources and talent reserves. Building a factory in Lishui Economic Development Zone will help the company quickly expand its production capacity and seize the upcoming industrial explosion period.” Bai Junbo, co-founder of Yika Zhiche, said that service As a self-driving vehicle moves from R&D technology to market-driven, it must have greater production capacity to meet market demand.
As the second batch of pilot cities for the coordinated development of smart city infrastructure and intelligent connected vehicles in the country, Nanjing has clearly stated that it will comprehensively promote the construction of pilot cities for the coordinated development of “double intelligence” with the pilot areas of “one main and three deputy”. As one of the pilot areas, Lishui Economic Development Zone has advanced the planning and layout of the intelligent connected vehicle industry innovation base, and strives to build a national-level intelligent connected vehicle industry innovation pilot zone facing the world and radiating to the Yangtze River Delta. At present, the park has built an intelligent 8.5 kilometers long. Connected vehicle test roads and 9.5 kilometers of pilot demonstration routes. According to a relevant person in charge of Lishui Economic Development Zone, after the Yika Smart Car Smart Factory is put into production, it will help Lishui’s intelligent connected vehicle industry enterprises to accelerate their gathering.
It is understood that Yika Zhiche has connected more than 100 ecological partners upstream and downstream of the industrial chain. Lishui Economic Development Zone will work with Yika Zhiche to build a self-manned vehicle industry chain cluster, from application scenarios, carrier sites, industrial support, and operation We will provide strong support in terms of business environment, administrative services, etc. to enhance the resilience and competitiveness of the industrial chain in the service-oriented unmanned vehicles field.
In order to promote the accelerated implementation of the project, Lishui Economic Development Zone has established a special service team led by the main leaders, adopting the “division of labor and cooperation, active intervention, early pre-examination, and service relay” model, tracking and agency throughout the process to safeguard the project construction. “The special team staff serve online 24 hours a day to ensure that things are not too late and help the project achieve ‘acceleration’.” said Wan Jian, head of the Major Project Promotion Office of Lishui Economic Development Zone.
