FAW-Volkswagen will have eight new cars on the market this year

On January 17, FAW-Volkswagen held its 2022 Annual Press Conference. The members and secretaries of the Chinese and foreign economic management committees of FAW-Volkswagen Co., Ltd., and the relevant leaders of Volkswagen, Audi and Jetta brands, jointly reviewed the development process of FAW-Volkswagen's new transformation in 2021, looked forward to the 2022 development plan, and conducted in-depth exchanges and discussions on the comprehensive deepening and transformation and upgrading of China's automobile industry in the current era.

In the full year of 2021, the cumulative retail sales of passenger cars in Mainland China reached 20.146 million units, an increase of 4.4% year-on-year. As the largest automobile enterprise in China in terms of production and sales of passenger cars, FAW-Volkswagen focuses on user needs, grabs resources and guarantees production throughout the system, coordinates multiple parties to ensure chip supply, quickly and efficiently adjusts production plans in real time, and hits a record high with a single-day production peak of 10,777 units, and finally achieves annual production of more than 1.7 million vehicles, delivers 1.858 million new cars to users throughout the year, and wins the industry championship in production and sales, and the role of FAW-Volkswagen's industry ballast stone is further highlighted.

Pan Zhanfu, Director, Party Secretary and General Manager of FAW-Volkswagen, delivered a speech

At the press annual meeting, Pan Zhanfu, director, secretary of the party committee and general manager of FAW-Volkswagen, said in his speech that in 2021, FAW-Volkswagen relied on its strong system capabilities, while making every effort to ensure production and operation, it had a deep insight into industrial dynamics, comprehensively deepened transformation and upgrading, and effectively won a tough battle! Looking forward to the future, FAW-Volkswagen will continue to exert the exemplary power of digital and intelligent transformation and innovative development, adhere to the user-centered, deepen the transformation and growth of high efficiency, continue to maintain the scale of production and marketing of enterprises in the first place in the industry, and provide high-quality travel services for the majority of users.

In 2021, FAW-Volkswagen launched a system-wide digital and intelligent transformation, streamlined traditional business organizations, and established a DTO digital transformation office; cooperated with Huawei and Alibaba to cultivate digital talents; took users as the center to reconstruct end-to-end business processes; and expanded OTD online customized vehicles to Volkswagen and Audi, shortening the delivery cycle by nearly 30%. In the field of technology, it has completed and put into use a new energy center and a new technology development center with a total investment of nearly 1.2 billion yuan, which has greatly improved the development and testing capabilities of FAW-Volkswagen in terms of new energy vehicles and vehicle performance, and further consolidated the advantages of FAW-Volkswagen in the field of technological innovation in the future.

In terms of green manufacturing, the formation of a team of experts to study and promote the "carbon peak, carbon neutrality" landing, continue to build green factory upgrades, at present, Chengdu Southwest Base and Foshan South China Base MEB plant used all the electrical energy from clean energy.

In 2022, the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Germany will usher in, and FAW-Volkswagen will also enter a new stage of enterprise development. FAW-Volkswagen will continue to play the leading role of industry leaders, give full play to the exemplary power of digital and intelligent transformation and innovation and development, adhere to the user-centric, deepen the transformation and growth of high efficiency, continue to maintain the scale of enterprise production and marketing in the first place in the industry, and provide high-quality travel services for the majority of users.

At the same time, in the field of traditional energy and new energy, we will continue to launch new models that meet the needs of users, and 8 new cars will be listed in 2022, and the research and development and verification of new products and technologies will be accelerated, and the experience of better equipment and intelligent connection functions will be delivered to users.

(China Daily Jilin Reporter Station)