On January 7, Chery Holding Group released its annual sales data, and December ended with 112015 monthly sales, and Chery Group's cumulative sales of cars in 2021 reached a historic 961926 units, an increase of 31.7% year-on-year.
This is also Chery's highest sales record in 24 years since its establishment in 1997. At the same time, according to the growth rate of more than 30%, Chery is also expected to break through the million mark this year.
Among them, 269154 units were exported, an increase of 136.3% year-on-year; sales of new energy vehicles 109028 units, an increase of 144.6% year-on-year. So far, Chery Group's global auto users have exceeded 10 million, including 1.95 million overseas users.
Although the new crown epidemic, the "chip shortage" and the "labor shortage" once put the auto market under pressure, Chery firmly changed and innovated, consolidated its foundation through "technology Chery", accelerated the transformation with user thinking and Internet thinking, and maintained the trend of "attacking" growth.
In terms of specific brands, Xingtu Automobile's cumulative sales in 2021 were 37,155 units (including exports), an increase of 121% year-on-year. According to the official data calculation, the average monthly sales of Xingtu Automobile in 2021 will exceed 3,000 vehicles, which is also possible as a luxury brand of Chery Group, at least much stronger than Qoros and Borgward.
Chery Automobile's cumulative sales volume for the whole year of 2021 was 656846 units (including exports), an increase of 46% year-on-year. As an important contributor to Chery Group's sales, Chery Automobile accounted for more than 68% of sales, while the best-selling model was the Tiggo 8 family, with cumulative sales of more than 160,000 units in the whole year.
Jietu Automobile, deeply engaged in the "Travel +" market segment, achieved sales of 154,077 units (including exports) in the whole year, an increase of 17.9% year-on-year. Jietu X70 Zhuge and Jietu X90 Zilong two IP models were newly unveiled, and the cumulative total sales of Jietu Automobile exceeded 460,000 vehicles.
Chery Group's main passenger car brands focus on different market segments, and in the past year, they have successively listed more than 20 new products such as Xingtu Lanyue, Tiggo 8 PLUS Kunpeng Edition, Jietu X70 Zhuge Ge, Chery New Energy Small Ant Sweet Powder, QQ Ice Cream, And Kaiyi Xuanjie Pro, which have driven the brands to run out of the "acceleration" of sales growth.
In the new energy market where many car companies have increased their weight, with the steady development of Chery's new energy products such as passenger cars, commercial vehicles, buses, and special vehicles, the total sales of new energy vehicles will reach 109028 units in 2021, an increase of 144.6% year-on-year. The cumulative sales of the star model Ant have exceeded 250,000 units since its listing in the past four years, and Chery QQ Ice Cream has received more than 70,000 orders since the blind booking began in July. In 2022, Chery QQ Ice Cream and Little Ant will jointly achieve an annual sales target of 300,000 vehicles.
It is worth mentioning that its core model "60,000 yuan boutique pure electric car" Small Ant continues to refresh the highest monthly sales, in the past December again achieved monthly sales of more than 10,000 units, reaching 10,141 units, the annual cumulative sales reached 77,003 units, and won the cumulative production and sales of 250,000 units of this milestone moment.
Chery Little Ant can maintain its vibrant development potential with a strong growth trend, which is inseparable from the strong product force created by Chery New Energy Brand and its more than 20 years of technical accumulation, continuous iterative evolution of product quality and marketing concept focusing on users to create product rejuvenation.
The year 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of China's accession to the World Trade Organization. Chery, which has been abroad for 20 years, has also accompanied China in accelerating the pace of high-level opening up and handed over an excellent answer sheet for globalization.
Chery Group's exports exceeded the 20,000-vehicle mark eight times in a single month, and the export of Chery Group exceeded 30,000 vehicles in a single month in December, with a single month of 31,253 vehicles, an increase of 126.7% year-on-year, to promote the new "coordinates" of 270,000 vehicles adjacent to the annual export.
As the business card of Chinese auto brands "going out", Chery's global development has entered a new stage of brand "going up". Up to now, Chery Group has accumulated nearly 10 million global automobile users, including more than 1.95 million overseas users, and the domestic and international "dual market" pattern has been further consolidated, winning the "Best Overseas Image Top 20 Enterprises" for five consecutive years, and becoming the "Chinese business card" loved by car owners in more than 80 countries and regions around the world.
In 2021, Chery has set a target of annual sales of 1 million yuan and annual operating income of 100 billion yuan. At present, Chery has exceeded the operating income target of 100 billion yuan. According to the sales trend of the past two months, Chery's total annual sales will also be infinitely approaching or even exceeding 1 million vehicles. Under the substantial growth of sales and operating income, Chery Group sees a better prospect, so in 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 stage of enterprise development scale on the occasion of the "25th anniversary of entrepreneurship" in 2022 and accelerate the new mileage towards the next 10 million vehicles.