STORY: Race car design competition held in China's Hefei to promote NEV talents cultivation 
SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 12, 2023
DATELINE: Nov. 15, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:11
LOCATION: HEFEI, China
CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the event
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LI ZIYU, Student, Hefei University of Technology
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): YAN JIANLAI, Permanent secretary, China Society of Automotive Engineers
4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): LI BIN, Founder and CEO of NIO

STORYLINE:

The 2023 Formula Student China (FSC) was recently held in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province.

The race car design competition is aimed at bringing more young talents to the new energy vehicle (NEV) industry.

A total of 77 electric teams and 31 unmanned teams were registered for the event, with nearly 4,000 participants.

SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LI ZIYU, Student, Hefei University of Technology
"Cutting-edge designs in automobile industry have been widely applied in such competition."

SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): YAN JIANLAI, Permanent secretary, China Society of Automotive Engineers
"We want to discover, cultivate and send talents through the industrial development. As there is a dire need for NEV-related talents during the promotion of NEVs, the 'Formula Student China' was launched as efforts to cultivate talents in the NEV industry for our country."

SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): LI BIN, Founder and CEO of NIO
"We always believe that the youth are the future of industry. With the participation of dozens or even hundreds of students from each university, they would try to make a car from the draft design within a year. It can fully cultivate the abilities of young students in all aspects. 'Formula Student China' is becoming a significant platform for communication between the youth and enterprises."

The event offered a platform for university students to study frontier NEV technologies, and also for the automotive industry to find and cultivate future talents.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Hefei, China.
(XHTV)