2021 is coming to an end, for Chery Group, which will usher in the 22nd anniversary of the first car off the production line on December 18 this year, this year's "12·18" has a different significance - statistics show that from January to November, Chery Group has sold 850,000 cars, an increase of 38.3% year-on-year, much higher than the industry growth rate of 4.5%, and operating income of 130.18 billion yuan, an increase of 42.8% year-on-year.
Whether it is the overall sales, revenue, or segmented overseas exports, new energy, today's Chery Group has reached a new historical height, and will soon reach a "new milestone" - annual sales of more than 1 million vehicles, global users exceeded 10 million, annual operating income exceeded 150 billion yuan.
In the face of the upcoming 2022, Chery Group has put forward the goal of ensuring annual sales of 1.5 million vehicles, striving for 2 million vehicles, and annual operating income of 200 billion yuan. Chery will enter a new milestone in the scale of enterprise development on the occasion of the "25th anniversary of entrepreneurship" in 2022.
The rapid growth of Chery's sales this year is inseparable from its diversified product layout and the help of overseas markets. At present, Chery Holding Group has a number of brands such as Xingtu, Chery, Jietu, Kaiyi, etc. With the in-depth transformation of the automobile industry to the direction of the new four modernizations, Chery's passenger car brands have also moved closer to youth, intelligence and electrification. Among them, Tiggo 8, Tiggo 5X, Jietu X70 and other star models have been favored by users through continuous evolution of product strength, and sales have continued to rise.
Of course, the quality of the product is also a key factor in determining sales volume. Chery is known as "Technology Chery", up to now, Chery Automobile has a total of 9 engines won the title of "China Heart" Top Ten. And this year, Chery Automobile released the "Kunpeng Power CHERY POWER", which includes fuel and hybrid solutions. Not only that, Chery has long been laid out in forward-looking technologies such as new energy, intelligent networking, and automatic driving. And the deepening of the user-centered mechanism, as well as the acceleration of electrification, intelligent strategic layout.
Nowadays, the first phase of Chery's intelligent network future factory has been completed, and will be officially put into production in 2022, and the first large-scale application industrial Internet platform in the automotive industry built with Kaos will help Chery's digital construction, cross-field and cross-industry empowerment of related enterprises; Chery Group also relies on the dual main business layout of "advanced manufacturing + modern service industry", technology + manufacturing, wisdom + Internet, pre-production + post-production and other multi-path innovation, and was selected as a national pilot of "two industries integration" this year.
This year, Chery also achieved good results in overseas markets, with cumulative exports exceeding 240,000 units from January to November, an increase of 138% year-on-year. At this stage, exports have accounted for nearly one-third of Chery Group's total sales, and in this context, Chery Group has proposed a target of exporting 500,000 vehicles in 2022. At this year's Guangzhou Auto Show, Chery Automobile officially released its new product series OMODA for the global market and the first model of the series, OMODA 5, and it is expected that OMODA 5 will be launched for the first time in China in the first half of next year. With the launch of the OMODA series of products, Chery's road to the sea may become wider and wider.
In fact, it can be seen that the domestic market has long been a stock market. As a veteran domestic car company, Chery must not only continue to deepen the domestic market, but also look for more incremental markets. Therefore, Chery Group is also constantly expanding its overseas business, and its export volume is also growing. Thanks to the "double cycle" strategy at home and abroad, Chery Group's sales volume has also "risen in the water".
Up to now, Chery Group has more than 9.9 million global users, including more than 1.9 million overseas users, ranking first in the export of Chinese brand passenger cars for 18 consecutive years, and winning the "Best Overseas Image Top 20 Enterprises" for 5 consecutive times. In addition to sales and exports, the first phase of Chery Intelligent Network Future Factory has also been completed and will be officially put into operation in 2022.