On May 31^st, 2018, sponsored by Shanghai Data Solution, an industry-leading enterprise in Shanghai data communication, value-added network service and IT system integration market, and the Auto Industry Finance Service Committee of Shanghai Federation of Modern Services, the ‘Cloud Data Enables Auto and Intelligent Transportation: Ways Leading to Future’ Symposium was held in the SDS IDX JinQiao Data Center. It is one of the offline activities of a great event in 2018, the Lujiazui Industry Finance Forum.

As everyone knows, currently, the automobile and intelligent transportation industries are experiencing rapid and extensive changes in a critical moment of its development. Driven by the technological development in new energy, internet of vehicles (IOV) and auto pilot markets, the trend of automobiles changing from a traditional and single-function tool of transportation to a ‘multi-functional terminal’ is getting increasingly clearer. And the markets also start building greater expectation in auto industry, hoping that it could eventually give birth to a synergetic ‘auto-life’ ecosphere. Beyond question, this posed a great challenge to all players in the auto industrial chain. Considering ‘mass auto-data processing’, a key point in this industrial upgrading wave, providing whole process (from auto production to auto using) digitalized operation service will inevitably be one of the key directions of industrial development in future. 

Before the Symposium began, all attendees had a site-tour in the facilities of SDS IDX JinQiao Data Center and looked into its operation and maintenance condition. 

At the beginning of the Symposium, Mr. Yao Gang, the Vice GM of SDS, first of all, expressed his gratitude to everyone in the presence for their kind support. Then, he delivered a key-note speech on the development trends in Cloud data service market. He said that, as a member of the Auto Industry Finance Service Committee of Shanghai Federation of Modern Services, SDS had been following the development in auto industry closely and would fulfill its commitment of providing innovative IT services for the auto manufacturing and travel service industries to accomplish their digital, IT and rule-complying objectives. 

On key topics around intelligent travel services, i.e. the changes and developments in relevant security standards and regulations, the opportunities such changes could bring to the Cloud service industry, the broad prospects of auto-finance industry in this smart Cloud era, the cross-Cloud (private and public) deployment, etc, leaders from key organizations operating in relevant industries and social sectors shared their insights with audiences, including Mr. Chen Ning, Information Security and Process Management Director of Information Strategy and System Support Department of SAIC Motor, Mr. Wang Yuanxin, Deputy Director of GM Office of Dazhong Transportation Group, Mr. Lu Yong, Vice President of Shanghai Data Exchange Corp., Mr. Li Zunan, Vice O&M Director of Shanghai YiHai Car Rental Co., Ltd., Mr. Yu Xingchun, IT Manager of Shanghai Huizhong Automotive Manufacturing (SHAC), Mr. Zheng Minjun, IT Architect of SAIC GMAC, Mr. Zhang Shaojun, Senior Manager of Project Management, SAIC Finance, Mr. Xu Xiaoqing, Information System Manager, SAIC, Mz. Shi Qi, Vice Director of GM Office of China YONGDA Automobiles Services Holdings Limited, Mr. Lu Junhui, Channel Business Department Director of SDS, and Mr. Bao Kai, Marketing and Sales Department Manager of SDS.

Experts from AIWAYS, Lianlu Intelligent Transportation Technology (Shanghai), China Pacific Property Insurance, Shanghai Dazhong Travel Information Technology, HASCO, Best Tone Information Service, Shanghai Song Hong Intelligent Auto Technology, Price Water house Coopers Zhongtian Certified Public Accountants, Shanghai FSGPlus, Bureau Veritas Group, and Round Stone Finance Academy, and leaders from the Auto Industry Finance Service Committee of Shanghai Federation of Modern Services also took part in the discussion enthusiastically. 

Mr. Shen Yichen, Secretary-general of the Auto Industry Finance Service Committee and Special Assistant of Shanghai Federation of Modern Services, extended a warm thank to SDS for everything it had done to host this Symposium, and to all participants for their kind support. He said that, united efforts that are centered on Cloud data service and the current condition and future development of Chinese auto industry, and those efforts of converging the resources of different parties via different channels in order to create a new landscape for digitalized life integrating human, auto and living together, are of great social significance and business value.