On September 23, at the Hainan special forum held during the 2026 World New Energy Vehicle Congress, Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) donated Apollo autonomous driving vehicles to Hainan College of Economics and Business and the Chengmai County Education and Technology Development Foundation. This initiative aims to support Hainan's efforts in cultivating talent for the intelligent connected vehicle industry, promoting technology education, and facilitating demonstration applications, thereby injecting fresh momentum into the development of related sectors.
Xu Yanqing, a member of the Party Committee and Vice President of Hainan College of Economics and Business, stated that the donated vehicles will be specifically allocated for teaching practice, scientific research, technical testing, and talent development within the college's new energy vehicle programs. The institution plans to fully leverage the vehicles' practical training and research value by opening the vehicle experiment platform to both faculty and students. This will support classroom instruction, curriculum design, and research projects, while enabling technical validation and exploration in intelligent connected vehicle technologies. The initiative is expected to deepen industry-education integration, foster mutual enhancement between teaching and research, and provide robust hardware support for cultivating high-quality innovative talent in the automotive field.
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