Great Wall Motor's major personnel changes, vice chairman resigned
Recently, according to the announcement released from the official website of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, Ms. Wang Fengying, vice chairman and general manager of Great Wall Motor Co., Ltd., and Ms. Yang Zhijuan, executive director, submitted a written resignation report to the board of directors on the same day. Due to the needs of her work, Ms. Wang Fengying applied to resign as an executive director, vice chairman and strategy and sustainable development committee of the Company, while Ms. Yang Zhijuan applied for resignation as an executive director, but the specific reasons were not elaborated.
Announcement published on the official website of the Shanghai Stock Exchange
However, both Ms. Wang Fengying and Ms. Yang Zhijuan continued to hold important positions in Great Wall Motor Co., Ltd., ms. Wang Fengying continued to serve as general manager after her resignation, and Ms. Yang Zhijuan continued to serve as assistant general manager of the Production Technology Development Center. The announcement also pointed out that in accordance with the provisions of laws, administrative regulations, departmental rules and the articles of association of the company, the original directors should still perform the duties of directors before the newly elected directors take office.
In addition, the announcement also pointed out that there are new successors within Great Wall Motors, namely Mr. Zhao Guoqing and Ms. Li Hongshuo, who have been nominated so far, but they still need to be elected by the shareholders' meeting before they can officially take office.
Great Wall Cannon
Tank 300
For Great Wall Motors, this personnel change can be described as a major event, although the specific reasons have not been publicly disclosed, but for the automotive industry, executive personnel changes are a common thing, after all, the development of enterprises is also constantly changing.
WEY Macchiato DHT-PHEV
Sharon Mech Dragon
In recent years, the domestic traditional automobile market has gradually shown signs of cooling, on the contrary, the new energy vehicle market is growing, Great Wall Motors is also gradually transforming, the newly launched Great Wall DHT hybrid system, has been installed in the WEY brand of Macchiato, latte and other models, while a large number of new pure electric vehicle models in research and development, such as Euler's ballet cat, lightning cat, the new brand salon car mecha dragon, etc., have opened people's eyes.
Euler Ballet Cat
Euler Lightning Cat
Therefore, this important personnel change is closely related to the strategic transformation of Great Wall Motors, and how Great Wall Motors will continue in the future is indeed worthy of attention.
Great Wall Motor's revenue in 2021 will exceed 136.3 billion yuan
Not long ago, Great Wall Motors has released its sales results in 2021, with a cumulative sales volume of 1280993 vehicles throughout the year, selling better and better. On January 23, they also released the 2021 performance express, in 2021, the total operating income of Great Wall Motors reached 136.317 billion yuan in 2021, an increase of 31.95% year-on-year, at the same time, the net profit reached 6.781 billion yuan, an increase of 26.45% year-on-year.
Great Wall Motors' brands have always been relatively best-selling, among which Haval's H6 has long occupied the throne of SUV sales. However, Haval is not a car fighting, the personalized positioning of Haval dogs, just like opening the door to a new world, the Haval God Beast listed at the end of last year shows the distinctive side of Haval in terms of design.
Haval Divine Beast
Of course, Great Wall Motors this year's most popular is the tank brand, from the WEY brand independently, tank 300 has been a sought-after goods, positioning more high-end tank 500 orders are also very hot, after the official release of data show that tank 500 last November pre-sale effective orders reached 27048 units. Following this trend, the tank 500 is now ordered to far exceed this figure.
Tank 500
The same hardcore Great Wall pickup truck not only achieved excellent sales with the Great Wall Gun, but also had good results in overseas markets. In 2021, great wall pickup trucks sold 43,599 vehicles overseas, maintaining the first domestic and export sales for 24 consecutive years.
In addition to the hard-core side, Great Wall Motors also for the sake of female car owners, its Euler brand focuses on the female user market, with black cats, good cats and other cute, personalized models, combined with pure electrification and intelligent product characteristics, in the field of new energy vehicles to achieve sales is a success.
Euler Good Cat GT
At the same time, the high-end brand WEY also gradually joined the DHT hybrid technology last year, and applied it to macchiato, mocha and other coffee series models. Its high-efficiency and energy-saving characteristics will bring weY stronger product advantages.
Macchiato DHT-PHEV
Overall, the five major brands under Great Wall Motor have a fairly good sales performance this year, so both in terms of total operating income and net profit, they have achieved good results. However, there are still many uncertainties in the domestic auto market in 2022, and the impact of the epidemic and chip shortage on production still exists, and it is also facing challenges and pressures from new car-making forces, which is still not easy for Great Wall Motors.
Changan New Energy will launch 5 new cars
Changan New Energy officially released a new model product plan on January 24, and will expand the pure electric vehicle product line in the future, and successively launch 5 new pure electric vehicle models.
Changan New Energy New Vehicle Planning
Among the 5 new model products, 4 are based on the EPA1 pure electric platform, and the new car C385, which has been released first, is the first model based on this platform. The C385 is also one of the five upcoming new products, and its first engineering prototype was officially rolled off the production line at the end of last year, and it is expected to be available this year.
At the same time, Changan New Energy also announced more related technical information of C385, in the future, in addition to its L3+ level advanced assisted driving, APA7.0 remote unmanned valet parking and other advanced technologies, it also has AR ecological intelligent cockpit, super-collector electric drive, high pulse heating, zero fire battery and other technologies.
The second model created by the EPA1 platform will be a cross-border SUV model, code-nameD C673, and the third and fourth cars have not yet had much news. In addition to the models built based on EPA1, Changan New Energy will also launch a mini car based on the EPA0 platform, code-nameD A158, which is similar to Wuling Hongguang MINIEV, Chery QQ Ice Cream and other models, mainly based on transportation. The car is expected to be released in March-April and officially delivered in June-July.
Changan New Energy has also set a new target, with sales of 700,000 vehicles in 2025 and becoming the "world's first-line mainstream electric vehicle brand".
Wuling Hongguang MINIEV
Chery QQ Ice Cream
Although there is not much product news revealed at present, according to the current development trend, the 5 new products launched by Changan New Energy are generally inseparable from the characteristics of pure electrification and intelligence, after all, almost all new energy brands are currently developing in this direction.
However, Changan New Energy not only focuses on products, but also on the positioning and creation of brands, they have begun to reshape their image, and create a new service system and way to promote brand development with innovative thinking. Only in this way can this new energy automobile brand, which was born from the traditional automobile brand, have the capital to compete with the new car-making forces.