The General Motors-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Automotive Research has been established in Shanghai.
GM plans to invest US$4 million in the coming five years to promote its cooperation with Shanghai Jiaotong University on collaborative automotive technology and research work as well as talent training. The parties say that they will make full use of each of their advantages to build the General Motors-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Automotive Research into a comprehensive automobile technology research and development and talent training organization.
Besides the establishment of the General Motors-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Automotive Research, GM has also announced the foundation of the GM Advanced Manufacturing Processes Collaborative Research Lab, which is said to be the first GM research and development CRL in China and the 12th in the world. The new CRL will focus on the research of manufacturing and lightweight materials processing.
Until now, GM has set up eight joint ventures and two wholly-owned companies in China with a total of more than 200,000 employees. The company has also cooperated with 26 Chinese universities and seven key national laboratories in research and personnel training.
