"Airborne soldier" Gong Xin took over as the general manager of Cao Cao Travel in response to the statement that "it is a matter of normal corporate governance adjustment"

Reporter Yang Rangchen Zhang Jiazhen reported from Shanghai

Technology travel platform Cao Cao Travel is ushering in a new round of management innovation.

A few days ago, Cao Cao Travel Operating Company Hangzhou Youxing Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Youxing Technology") has completed the change of industrial and commercial registration data, Cao Cao Travel founder Liu Jinliang no longer serves as the company's legal representative, cao Cao Travel CEO Gong Xin took over, and Gong Xin "took over" Dong Kainan as general manager.

Cao Cao is a technology travel platform created by Geely Holding Group to lay out the strategic investment business of "new energy vehicle sharing ecology", and Youxing Technology, which is invested and controlled by Geely Technology Group, is responsible for the specific operation. According to the official website, Cao Cao Travel has now laid out its travel business in 57 cities such as Shanghai, Hangzhou and Wuhan, with more than 40,000 drivers.

(Cao Cao Chuxing has laid out its travel business in 57 cities across the country)

According to the data, Gong Xin traveled in Cao Cao with the identity of an "airborne soldier". In May this year, Gong Xin joined Cao Cao Chuxing as CEO, after serving as general manager of Didi's chauffeur business unit, responsible for the chauffeur, chauffeur and regional online ride-hailing businesses.

Liu Jinliang, a "veteran" of Geely Holding Group, joined the company as early as 1995 and was responsible for sales and new energy vehicles. In 2015, Liu Jinliang, then president of Geely Technology Group, led the founding of Cao Cao Chuxing and served as the chairman and legal representative of the company, leading Cao Cao Chuxing to expand from private cars to hitchhiking and corporate vehicles.

For the issue of personnel changes, the relevant person in charge of Cao Cao's travel recently said in an interview with the China Business Daily reporter that the change of legal representative is "a matter of normal corporate governance adjustment". "This adjustment will further improve the efficiency of the company's internal approval and management, fully implement the responsibilities and objectives of operation and management, and respond to market needs and changes in a more flexible and efficient manner."

Gong Xin once said that 2015 to 2020 is the 1.0 stage of shared travel, and now the industry has entered the era of shared travel 2.0 promoted by the ecological advantages of "car + energy + driver". In this context, Gong Xin proposed Cao Cao's new travel strategy - "N Strategy". Among them, "N" (N cube) refers to New Car (customized car), New Power (new energy), and New Ecosystem (ecosystem).

It is understood that as of now, Cao Cao Chuxing has completed two rounds of financing, of which the B round of financing in September this year reached 3.8 billion yuan, and the investors are Suzhou Xiangcheng Financial Holding (Group) Co., Ltd., Suzhou High-speed Rail New City State-owned Assets Holding (Group) Co., Ltd., Suzhou Urban Construction Investment and Development Co., Ltd., ABC International Investment (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. and Soochow Innovation Capital Management Co., Ltd. The round of financing also set a record for the highest amount of single financing obtained by online ride-hailing companies at that time, and the headquarters of Cao Cao Travel has also been relocated to Suzhou.

The reporter combed and found that the new energy field is the main direction of Cao Cao's travel development at present, and the headquarters site in Suzhou is also based on the consideration of promoting the development of new energy and intelligent vehicle networking. It is understood that the current main model of Cao Cao Travel is Geely Emgrand EV pure electric vehicle, and the future model of Cao Cao Travel will be updated to Geely's latest power replacement model Maple Leaf 80V.

Cao Cao said in an interview with reporters: "Suzhou, as a strong city in traditional manufacturing, has actively promoted the transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing in recent years, continuously introducing emerging innovative industries, and the intelligent car networking industry is the focus of Suzhou Xiangcheng District. ”

"As an Internet travel platform project incubated by the main engine factory, Caocao Travel has continuously introduced Internet of Things technology to be applied to intelligent travel, and the positioning of Caocao Travel's new energy online ride-hailing platform is also consistent with Suzhou's advocacy of green travel development concept." Cao Cao said in terms of travel.

At the same time, the investor Geely Holding Group also provides a guarantee for Cao Cao's future new energy travel layout. It is understood that in 2020, Geely Holding Group has gradually laid out the intelligent power exchange ecological network in Chongqing, Hangzhou and Jinan, and it is expected that by 2025, the scale of the power station replacement will reach 5,000.

According to the "2021 Q3 Mobile Internet Industry Data Research Report" released by Aurora Big Data, as of the end of the third quarter, the number of monthly active users of CaoCao Travel was 11.015 million, an increase of 62.5% year-on-year. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Transport, in November this year, Caocao Travel's order compliance rate ranked 10th among 17 online ride-hailing platforms with orders of more than 300,000 orders, and the order volume fell by 16.8% year-on-year compared with the previous month.

However, the compliance rate of the vehicle receiving the order, the compliance rate of the driver who received the order and the compliance rate of the order all increased year-on-year, of which the order compliance rate was 64.7%, up 3.2% from the previous month.

(Editor: Zhang Jiazhen Proofreader: Zhang Guogang)