Some analysts believe that China's mainstream automobile brands have made great progress, one is that the technical ability has been fully constructed, from the vehicle, body, chassis, engine to transmission and other core components have fully equipped with independent research and development capabilities; second, product innovation continues, Chinese brands have formed brand characteristics such as beautiful shape, high appearance, high technical configuration, new technology application, etc., to meet the needs of consumer upgrading in the Chinese market; third, the quality of Chinese brand cars has reached or even exceeded some international brands. The failure rate of 1,000 vehicles of mainstream brands has exceeded the average of international brands. At present, a new round of technological change is bringing opportunities for the great development of China's automobile industry, and is facing the challenge of competing with international brands. "We must seize the opportunity period of development in the next 3-5 years." I believe that in the next 10 years, world-class Chinese brands will be born. Zhu Huarong, rotating president of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, said recently. Jiangqi Group is the most important vehicle manufacturing enterprise in Hefei. The state-owned automobile company, which built a factory in 1964, can be said to be the cradle of Hefei's automobile industry. In 2021, this long-established leading enterprise lived up to expectations, performed exceptionally well, delivered excellent answers, and continued to lead the overall level of the industry in terms of annual growth.
According to the December 2021 production and sales express report of Jiangqi Group, the cumulative sales volume of the whole year last year was 524,000 units, an increase of 15.63% year-on-year, and the growth rate was much higher than the national level. Recently, through big data analysis, based on the public opinion influence of the event, the significance of the event, the influence in the industry, the volume of communication and other dimensions, the top ten events of Jiangqi Group in 2021 have been summarized and sorted out, and readers have shared to explore the anhui power on the road of China's automobile manufacturing power!
1. Xiang Xingchu became the chairman of Jianghuai Automobile
On April 28, 2021, Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Co., Ltd. issued an announcement that Amgen, chairman of Jianghuai Automobile, has submitted a resignation report due to retirement reasons, and Xiang Xingchu, former vice chairman and general manager, has been promoted to chairman of Jianghuai Automobile and has become the company's legal representative.
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As one of the top ten automobile groups in China, Jianghuai Automobile has completed the replacement of the old and new leaders this year. As the new helmsman of Jiangqi Group, xiang Xingchu was not optimistic about the market environment in his first year as commander. In 2021, whether it is the domestic new crown epidemic spread in many places or the global chip crisis, it has brought unprecedented challenges to the overall development of Jiangqi Group.
Looking back at xiangxing's first year of taking charge, in the face of challenges, Jiangqi Group handed over a brilliant report card: from January to November, Jianghuai sold 482,000 cars, an increase of 15.7% year-on-year, and Jiangqi Group almost reached the set target of 500,000 vehicles in only eleven months. At present, JIANGHUAI Automobile is fully accelerating the transformation to intelligent networking and new energy vehicles, deepening open cooperation with partners such as Volkswagen and Weilai, and the future of Jianghuai Automobile is full of expectations.
2. JAC joined hands with NIO to establish Jianglai Advanced Manufacturing Technology Co., Ltd
On March 4, 2021, Jianghuai Automobile announced that Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Co., Ltd. and WEILAI Holding Co., Ltd. have officially signed a joint venture letter of intent, and the two sides will jointly establish Jianglai Advanced Manufacturing Technology (Anhui) Co., Ltd. Through cooperation, the two sides will make more active innovation and exploration in new energy vehicle manufacturing, service model, management mechanism, etc., on this basis, the two sides are more likely to build a network, platform, big data, artificial intelligence and other technology platforms." The new ecology of advanced manufacturing + industrial Internet will further promote the sustainable development of the new energy automobile industry of both sides.
The establishment of Jianglai Advanced Manufacturing Technology (Anhui) Co., Ltd. means that NIO and JAC Automobile have become important partners for common growth and progress, and the two sides hold the key to the door to the high-end intelligent electric vehicle market and move forward steadily. Jiangqi Group will adhere to the development of intelligent new energy vehicles, while vigorously developing its own brand, through in-depth cooperation with Weilai Automobile, go to the blue ocean of the new energy vehicle market, and constantly create new energy vehicle products beyond expectations for users and create a better car life. Through deepening cooperation with strategic partners, Jiangqi Group draws on the strengths of all and continues to promote intelligent networking and green development. Haitong Securities said that the in-depth cooperation between Jianghuai Automobile and Weilai and Volkswagen is expected to open up long-term growth space.
3. Jiangqi Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Horizon
On April 19, 2021, Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Co., Ltd. and Beijing Horizon Robot Technology R&D Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation agreement, and the two sides carried out in-depth cooperation in the fields of intelligent driving, intelligent networking and artificial intelligence, and reached a comprehensive strategic partnership.
The first model jointly created by the two sides is the Sihao QX unveiled at the Shanghai Auto Show, which has aroused great concern. Sihao QX is equipped with the first domestic vehicle specification-level AI chip Journey 2 independently developed by Horizon, which deeply integrates vision, voice and other perceptual data to achieve intelligent cockpit interaction and advanced driving assistance functions. Sihao QX can carry out rapid iterative evolution of intelligent scenarios according to user preferences, and will use extreme performance and super intelligence to bring consumers a new driving experience, which has won the praise of users. Jiangqi Group and Horizon will start the mass production of domestic independently developed high-end models of autonomous driving based on the Zhengcheng 5 chip, and accelerate the transformation to vehicle intelligence. In June 2021, the new product Sihao Flower Fairy, which is equipped with the journey 2 independently developed by Horizon, was officially launched, and successfully set off a huge wave in the market.
In the future, the results of the cooperation between the two sides will be further applied to the full range of models of Jiangqi Group.
4. Jiangqi Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement with iFLYTEK
On June 9, 2021, Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Co., Ltd. and iFLYTEK Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement. The two sides will cooperate in business areas such as intelligent cockpit, intelligent vehicle networking, intelligent driving, and intelligent sales services to promote mutual benefit and win-win results and achieve common development.
Automotive intelligence is accelerating industrial restructuring, supply chain enterprises will re-examine and reshape the business form, optimize products and business structure, seek opportunities for co-creation cooperation and market increment, and transform a single supply and demand relationship. The cooperation between JAC and iFLYTEK has broken the original supply chain hierarchy, and the new supply chain ecosystem will open up new and greater development space for supply chain enterprises.
At present, the vehicle voice noise reduction solution jointly developed by Jiangqi Group and iFLYTEK - "Zhiling" car networking system has been updated to version 4.0, with scene wake-free, context interaction, main and auxiliary driver sound source positioning and other leading technologies, which can cover a total of 272 functions of the user from the car to the parking scene, the speech recognition accuracy rate is as high as 95%, bringing users a millisecond-level rapid response, which has been installed and used in a variety of products, with a total of more than 350,000 mass production applications.
5. MIS Haoxue architecture was officially released Sihao Automobile into the era of comprehensive architecture car manufacturing
On April 19, 2021, at the 19th Shanghai International Auto Show, Sihao brand officially released the high-intelligence, high-performance, "MIS Haoxue Intelligent Vehicle Modular Architecture" technology brand, referred to as MIS Haoxue Architecture. According to Si Han, after The QX, there will be more models based on the MIS Haoxue architecture launched, which is expected to quickly build a rich and competitive new product matrix. At the Guangzhou Auto Show, based on the modular architecture of MIS Haoxue Intelligent Vehicle, Sihao Passenger Vehicle launched THE HOL-Pilot Intelligent Driving Technology, planned to develop triple assist driving technology, and built a safer and more stable intelligent driving assistance function. Focusing on intelligent new energy vehicles, Jiangqi Group has created a relatively complete product matrix such as Sihao E10X, Sihao E40X, and Sihao E50A.
This is a demonstration of jiangqi group's latest achievements in the field of advanced energy saving. Mis Haoxue architecture adopts a hybrid special DHE with a thermal efficiency of up to 43%, builds a multi-mode hybrid system, and combines the weight reduction of the whole vehicle to achieve more than 40% energy saving and consumption reduction.
In recent years, Jiangqi Group has improved its organizational structure, strengthened its core technology capacity building, especially in the field of advanced energy conservation, continuously improved its positive design development and test verification capabilities, and promoted the improvement of independent research and development capabilities. Jiangqi Group is practicing the concept of energy conservation and emission reduction with practical actions, taking social responsibility as its responsibility, and contributing to the early realization of carbon peak and carbon neutrality.
The first product based on mishosy architecture, Sihao QX, was officially unveiled and opened for pre-sale. On June 26th, the first model of MIS Haoxue architecture, Sihao QX, built with the theme of "Haoqi Heart to Haoqi Star", was officially launched.
6. Dr. Jianghuai Bing, "Cold Chain No. 1", injects new vitality into the circulation of agricultural products
On December 29, 2021, JAC Light Truck released the "Cold Chain No. 1" Dr. Jianghuai Bing Refrigerated Truck, bringing a new high-value solution to the agricultural product supply chain industry with an intelligent and technological cold chain transportation mode.
With the optimization and upgrading of consumption in recent years, consumers' demand for healthy life has been further enhanced, and the development momentum of the agricultural product supply chain industry is full of momentum. Cold Chain No. 1 Dr. Jianghuai Bing Refrigerated Truck brings new high-value solutions to the agricultural product supply chain industry with intelligent and high-tech cold chain transportation mode, and injects new momentum into the development of the industry. In 2021, dr. Jianghuai Bing refrigerated truck of "Cold Chain No. 1" was released, bringing a new intelligent high-value solution to the logistics industry.
In the first 11 months of 2021, Dr. Jianghuai Bing's refrigerated truck market performed excellently, with a year-on-year increase of 46.6%, much higher than the industry growth rate. In order to help the innovative development of the agricultural product supply chain and the cost reduction and efficiency of upstream and downstream enterprises, JAC Light Truck has renewed and upgraded the Dr. Bing series of refrigerated trucks, and officially released the "Cold Chain No. 1" Dr. Jianghuai Bing Refrigerated Truck at this annual meeting, promoting the transformation and upgrading of the cold chain transportation industry for agricultural products, and giving higher value to the cold chain logistics of agricultural products with smart cold chain and green cold chain.
7. Jianghuai Automobile's digital transformation achievements have been recognized
A few days ago, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission issued the Notice on Releasing Typical Cases of Digital Transformation of State-Owned Enterprises in 2020. Among them, the "JAC Auto Intelligent Cloud Interconnection Digital Marketing Ecosystem" was selected as an excellent case of digital transformation of state-owned enterprises in 2020. In addition, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council announced the list of state-owned key enterprise management benchmarking creation action benchmarking enterprises, benchmarking projects and benchmarking models ("three benchmarks"), and the project "Digital Transformation of Jiangqi Group Based on the Integration of The Two Modernization Management System" was selected as the state-owned key enterprise management benchmarking creation action benchmarking project.
After the SASAC website announced the news, xinhua news agency "Economic Reference News" took the lead in making a report "Jianghuai Automobile Intelligent Cloud Interconnection Digital Marketing Ecosystem Recognized by sascovania", Xinhua News Agency media matrix has paid attention to the report. It is worth mentioning that there have been some achievements in digital transformation. Jianghuai Automobile was successfully selected as the "Innovative Enterprise" of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China in 2017, the Industrial Internet Pilot Demonstration Project of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2018, the Industrial Internet Benchmarking Factory of the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor in the Yangtze River Delta in 2020, and the "Digital Ecosystem of Marketing Services of Zhiyun Interconnection" was selected as one of the top 30 excellent cases of digital transformation of state-owned enterprises under the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council in 2020.
As a leading enterprise in Anhui automobile industry and the cradle of Hefei automobile industry, Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Co., Ltd. is integrating into the tide of transformation and upgrading of the automobile industry with a high attitude, while strengthening the genes of scientific and technological innovation, accelerating the development of digitalization, networking and intelligence, and stepping out of the wisdom road of "digital Jiangqi".
8. Many models of Jianghuai Automobile have won honors and the brand influence has been continuously improved
According to a brand value survey report cooperated by kantar and Google, Jiangqi Group ranked 40th among the top 50 Chinese brands and 5th among China's local car brands. On August 4, 2021, Sihao A5 won the second place in the 9th Annual Altair Enlighten Award for Automobile Lightweight, which is also the first time that a Chinese car company has won the international award. At the 2021 World Intelligent Connected Vehicle Conference, Sihao QX won the "Popular Model of Intelligent Connected Passenger Car" for its excellent performance in intelligent networking. On March 21, Jiangqi Group ranked at the forefront of many lists of the "Anting Index". Ranked ninth in the China Automobile (Passenger Vehicle) Enterprise Innovation Ranking, fifth in the Independent Enterprises of the China Automobile (Passenger Vehicle) Enterprise Innovation Ranking, and fifth in the China Automobile (Commercial Vehicle) Enterprise Innovation Ranking.
The many awards and honors won by Jianghuai Automobile in 2021, the high recognition of the brand of Jiangqi Group, and the great affirmation of the technical and technological strength of the Sihao brand. It highlights the influence and reputation of Jiangqi Group in the eyes of global consumers.
9. Jiangqi Group's annual sales volume in 2021 is ahead of the overall level of the industry
On January 6, Jiangqi Group released the "Jiangqi Group 2021 December 2021 Production and Sales Express", which shows that in December 2021, Jiangqi Group's sales volume was 42,000 units, an increase of 14.73% year-on-year; the cumulative sales from January to December were 524,000 units, an increase of 15.63% year-on-year. According to the China Automobile Association, the national automobile sales in 2021 will be about 25.8 million units, which is basically the same as in 2020. This means that the annual sales growth of Jiangqi Group is ahead of the overall level of the industry.
The eye-catching market performance in 2021 proves the strength of Jiangqi Group, and Jiangqi Group has exceeded the annual sales target! In 2022, Jiangqi Group will continue to embrace user needs, steadily improve product quality, price positioning and even the overall brand level, meet the diversified needs of consumers in the new era with more excellent products, and bring users a better travel experience.
10. In 2021, jiangqi group kazakhstan plant successfully achieved annual vehicle production of more than 60,000 units, and the international business development of jiangqi group reached a new level.
Kazakhstan is the largest market in Central Asia and one of the key markets of countries along the "Belt and Road". Since entering the Kazakh market in 2014, jiangqi group has continued to cultivate the local market for 8 years, providing convenient travel solutions for the kazakh people with high-quality products and services, and gradually becoming the largest automobile group in Kazakhstan, with a sales network all over the place
14 states, 3 municipalities directly under the central government, production and sales ranked first in China, the top ten global brands. Hailed by Kazakhstan's own media and government as a model of "Made in China". (Miao Chen)