Wuhan on new track of automotive software

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Neusoft, one of the world's top 100 software companies, recently established its third domestic software park at the Wuhan Intelligent Vehicle Software Park of Wuhan Economic & Technological Development Zone (WEDZ).

In recent years, software-defined vehicles have become increasingly integrated into the automotive value chain, accelerating the global automotive industry's transition towards intelligence. Domestic intelligent vehicle companies are also rapidly emerging.

Wuhan is a significant automotive industrial hub in China and a national base for new energy and intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs). WEDZ has gathered 10 vehicle manufacturers, 14 automobile factories, and over 1,200 auto parts suppliers, producing over 1 million vehicles per year. In recent years, new energy vehicle (NEV) manufacturers such as VOYAH, Lotus, and Xpeng have established a presence in the zone, bringing the production capacity of NEVs to 1.46 million vehicles.

Neusoft's third domestic software park in WEDZ. [Photo/Sun Xiaofei]

The park is leveraging the strengths of leading companies such as Neusoft and CECloud in ICV software, digital empowerment, and testing services to strengthen and supplement the industrial chain, attracting upstream and downstream automotive software companies.

To meet the talent needs of enterprises, WEDZ has established software talent training bases by partnering with key universities in Wuhan, such as Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Technology, and Jianghan University.

Neusoft's third domestic software park in WEDZ. [Photo/Sun Xiaofei]

As the core area of the national "Wuhan-Xiangyang-Shiyan-Suizhou" automotive industrial cluster, WEDZ has been promoting technological innovation, standard formulation, testing and verification, and demonstration applications of ICVs in recent years. It has gradually formed a software industrial ecosystem consisting of leading enterprises, professional platforms, industrial applications, and talent cultivation.

By the end of 2025, the zone aims to add 160 high-tech enterprises and 120 technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises. The number of enterprises on the intelligent vehicle software industrial chain is expected to reach 220.