On April 25th, Jiao Mingjun, Member of the Standing Committee of the Yan'ta District Committee of Xi'an and Deputy District Head, led a government inspection team to visit Zero Degree New Energy Technology (Guangdong) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zero Degree Technology") together with the investment team led by Li Shulin, Deputy General Manager of Investment at the Headquarters of Poly Capital. Cheng Yichun, Executive Director and CEO of Zero Degree Technology, led the team to receive them and extended a warm welcome to Deputy District Head Jiao Mingjun and Deputy General Manager Li Shulin and their entourage.

During this exchange, the government inspection team, the Poly Capital team, and Zero Degree Technology carried out in-depth research on issues such as innovative cooperation in the intelligent ship industry and coordinated regional economic development. They also visited the Zero Degree Technology Exhibition Hall and the Zero Degree Scenic Area Ship Big Data Management System, focusing on understanding Zero Degree's technological breakthroughs and industrialization achievements in the research and development, production, and operation systems of new energy autonomous driving cruise ships.

Deepening Intelligent Industry Cooperation

Exploring the Path of High-quality Regional Economic Development

At the symposium, Jiao Mingjun, Member of the Standing Committee of the Yan'ta District Committee of Xi'an and Deputy District Head, highly affirmed the ship innovation strength of Zero Degree Technology during the inspection. Deputy District Head Jiao Mingjun said: "As a gathering place for scientific and technological innovation resources in Xi'an, Yan'ta District is fully promoting the construction of the Future Industrial City. The district has carriers such as the Qin Chuangyuan Innovation-driven Platform and the Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park, and has a complete digital economy infrastructure and a collaborative ecosystem of industry, university, and research. At the same time, Zero Degree Technology's technological layout in the field of intelligent ships is highly consistent with Yan'ta District's development concept of 'technology empowering the city'. We sincerely welcome Zero Degree Technology to settle in, and rely on the regional industrial advantages to jointly build a highland for innovative applications of intelligent ships, injecting new vitality into the development of the urban water area economy."

"The strategic positioning of Yan'ta District coincides with Zero Degree Technology's dual-wheel drive strategy of 'new energy + intelligence'. Zero Degree will take the 'Zero Whale' series of autonomous driving cruise ships as a breakthrough point to deeply participate in the construction of the Future Industrial City," said Cheng Yichun, CEO of Zero Degree Technology. After this in-depth exchange, Zero Degree Technology will promote the establishment of an intelligent ship operation center in Yan'ta District, carry out the research on the topic of "ship-shore collaborative energy management" in conjunction with local universities and enterprises, and promote the establishment of the first intelligent cruise ship testing and certification base in the Northwest, helping the region build a full-chain industrial ecosystem of "technology research and development - scenario verification - commercial operation", and promote the demonstration application of projects in water areas such as Qujiang Pool in Yan'ta District.

The Three Parties' Symposium 

Building a New Benchmark for the Integration of Intelligent Ship Industry and City

Wang Zhipeng, General Manager of Shaanxi Company of Poly Capital, said at the symposium that it will give full play to the advantages of capital empowerment and resource integration, actively dock with the strategic layout of Zero Degree Technology's settlement in Yan'ta District, Xi'an, and focus on supporting the enterprise in the collaborative promotion of intelligent ship research and development testing facility construction, technological achievement transformation and other links. Wang Zhipeng said that Poly Capital can provide diversified cooperation paths for Zero Degree Technology. Through means such as scene opening and industrial chain linkage, it will accelerate the innovative application of intelligent ship technology in the construction of the Future Industrial City, help Yan'ta District build an ecological system of deep integration of technology and urban development, and looks forward to working with Zero Degree Technology to jointly explore an innovative paradigm of balanced development of technology, ecology, and humanities in the blueprint of smart city construction.

"'Smart Waters, Green Future' is the development goal of Zero Degree Technology. The newly independently developed autonomous driving cruise ship - 'Zero Whale X2' will be put into operation on May 1st," said Cheng Yichun, CEO of Zero Degree Technology. "Zero Degree Technology will give full play to the technical advantages of intelligent ships, take autonomous driving cruise ships as a link, promote the efficient linkage of resources among the government, enterprises, and capital, and provide scientific and technological support for creating a green and low-carbon cultural tourism economy. In the future, Zero Degree Technology will give priority to promoting the landing of autonomous driving cruise ships in regional benchmark cultural tourism scenarios, reconstruct the relationship of'ship, water, city' with intelligence as the background and cultural tourism as the carrier, and inject sustainable momentum into the water area economy through lightweight and reproducible solutions."