{"id":126328,"date":"2018-05-17T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T20:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=126328"},"modified":"2021-01-25T04:48:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T09:48:11","slug":"bmw-opens-new-rd-facility-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2018\/05\/bmw-opens-new-rd-facility-in-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW Opens New R&D Facility in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BMW Group executives mark the opening of the company’s new research and development center in Beijing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The BMW Group opened a new research and development center in Beijing \u2014 its third R&D center in the country.<\/p>\n

The opening of China R&D Center is a significant step in expanding local innovation and moving ahead with the group\u2019s localization strategy of “In China, for China and the world\u201d one step further, officials noted.<\/p>\n

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Product News!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

China became the largest market for the BMW Group last year. With the establishment of R&D centers in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenyang, the Chinese R&D network is unique and by far the biggest presence of BMW research and development outside Germany.<\/p>\n

(BMW Extended Warranty Guide<\/span><\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, China is a driving force of innovation, a place of inspiration particularly in the field of electrification and digitalization \u2013 we think China is the lead market in these fields already today,” said Klaus Froehlich, member of the Board of Management BMW AG, Development, at the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n

(BMW set to\u00a0debut new 8 Series ahead of LeMans return. <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the story.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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BMW’s new research and development campus just opened in Beijing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThis is why we began five years ago to set up a comprehensive R&D network in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenyang.<\/p>\n

“We expect that the increase of our Chinese R&D activities and the collaboration with more and more top class Chinese tech companies will make a strong contribution to our global R&D outcome, especially in areas such as electro mobility and digitalization.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Froehlich added.<\/p>\n

The new space will serve as home for more than 200 employees, bringing the number of employees in the BMW Chinese R&D network to 1,100.<\/p>\n

(<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for more about BMW\u2019s new iX3 electric vehicle.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

China is a driving force of innovation and plays an important role in its transformation into a customer-centric technology company.<\/p>\n

In 2018, BMW\u2019s new R&D Center in Beijing will run more than 70 test vehicles across China, the testing mileage is planned for a historical high of 5 million kilometers.<\/p>\n

The BMW Group is enhancing its R&D capabilities on a global level to focus on developing a customer-centric R&D system as well as future-oriented R&D concepts, that will provide the Chinese and global market with enhanced, and more innovative products and services<\/p>\n

(BMW unleashes its most powerful M5 ever.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0for the story.)<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Across the three locations, the centers cultivate local talent, with the result, that more than two thirds of the R&D professionals are Chinese, BMW noted, adding that while each R&D center has different functions, they complement each other and form a comprehensive innovation network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The BMW Group opened a new research and development facility in Beijing. The new site is the automaker’s third R&D center in China, which became the automaker’s biggest market last year. For more about the new facility, go to TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20009,"featured_media":126327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,12],"tags":[],"make":[36],"post-state":[],"category_old":[150,205,123,287,132,291],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126328"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=126328"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=126328"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=126328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}