As one of my country's major auto industry bases, Chongqing's auto industry production capacity exceeded 2 million vehicles last year, with an output value of 300 billion yuan. According to the 2014 industrial development goals established by Chongqing, it will continue to do a good job in vertical integration, achieve an additional production capacity of 350,000 vehicles, and ensure that the scale of output value will be further accelerated and expanded. With the rapid development of Chongqing's automobile industry, the upstream supporting market is also attracting more and more attention. Especially as the leading material in automobile manufacturing, the automotive steel market has already shown a blowout trend.

At present, major domestic automobile steel production enterprises, such as Baosteel, Anshan Iron and Steel, Wuhan Iron and Steel, have invested and set up factories in Chongqing, in order to further conform to the relevant policies of Chongqing to accelerate the realization of supporting localization. The steel giant Posco in South Korea cooperated with Chongqing Iron and Steel on the FINEX project to seize the Chongqing market. How to realize the integrated development of the iron and steel industry and the Chongqing automobile industry has become the focus of the industry.

It is against this background that the Western International Automobile Steel Exhibition and Application and Purchasing Conference to be held at the Chongqing International Expo Center from March 27 to 29 came into being. As a large-scale exhibition and conference with the theme of "automotive steel" in China, the exhibition has received active participation from Baosteel, Posco, Anshan Iron and Steel, Panzhihua Iron and Steel, Wuhan Iron and Steel, Maanshan Iron and Steel, VAMA and other famous steel enterprises. Major companies will bring their automotive steel technologies and products to the exhibition.

The "Western International Automotive Steel Application and Purchasing Conference" held on March 28th attracted the attention of the industry. Bao Ping, chief engineer of Baosteel, Chen Jun, technical director of Panzhihua Automobile Steel Marketing Center, and other representatives of iron and steel enterprises will introduce their respective automotive steel technologies. Ma Mingtu, a material expert and deputy chief engineer of China Automobile Research Institute, will introduce the application of high-strength steel in automotive lightweighting. He Ping, an expert from Changan Automobile Technology Department, will introduce the technical status and procurement process of Changan automobile steel. In addition, more than 200 industry professionals from OEMs, parts factories, scientific research institutes and other units will gather together to discuss the focus of the industry.

Here, we sincerely welcome the majority of people in the industry to visit and participate in the conference.