Outside the Beijing Olympic Park at minus 5°C, five blue-and-yellow new energy mobile food trucks are steaming. At night, the logistics support personnel of the Winter Olympics who had just changed the guard stopped in front of the dining car, took a cup of hot water to drink, and stretched out their bodies. These new energy mobile food trucks from the geely commercial vehicle group's remote brand series started from Huzhou South Taihu New Area one month before the opening of the Winter Olympics and came to Beijing one month after another to serve the logistics support personnel of the Winter Olympics and help the "Zero Carbon Winter Olympics".
"In less than a year, the Huzhou factory has turned from a vision to a reality, and this speed has allowed us to have the privilege of catching the shuttle for the Winter Olympics." Mao Liming, general manager of Geely Commercial Vehicles Huzhou plant, said.
In March 2021, he came to Huzhou to negotiate, officially signed the contract in April, and the technical transformation of the production line was initially completed in November. What is the story behind the 264 days of rapid running?
Geely Commercial Vehicle Huzhou Plant
36 days——
Project signing runs out of "new district speed"
When Geely's plan to build a commercial vehicle production base in Zhejiang was just introduced, it happened to encounter an idle factory building in Huzhou that met the demand, and the two sides hit it off.
"The process of acquiring land, planning and building is too long. We want to be fast!" Mao Liming said frankly that the group has a research and development team of more than 20,000 people and has mature product development capabilities. Being able to achieve rapid production and seize the market is an important consideration when selecting a new project.
Previously, the Group searched for many places, but it was difficult to meet the goal of "signing the contract immediately and putting it into production in one year" of Geely's commercial vehicle project, and it was difficult to find a suitable place to settle down. "Knowing that Huzhou South Taihu New Area is revitalizing a new energy vehicle enterprise in the global governance of industrial land, 379 acres of land, nearly 100,000 square meters of factory buildings and hardware conditions for the production of modified buses immediately moved us." Mao Liming said excitedly.
Geely Group has its own strategic development and planning department, "landing" a new project, it is bound to think about it again and again.
"Because of the tight time, the negotiation and research were carried out at the same time." After in-depth investigation in Huzhou, Mao Liming said, "Huzhou's location advantage is obvious, and the new energy industry concentration is very high, just like a 'foothold' tailored for our new projects, which is very suitable for the needs of enterprises, and it is inevitable to choose here." ”
Negotiations began on March 8, 2021, and after several rounds of efficient consultations, the two sides signed a contract on April 12. In just 36 days, Geely Commercial Vehicle Group's first new energy commercial vehicle project in the Yangtze River Delta region was settled in Huzhou.
Signing ceremony
With the settlement of Geely Commercial Vehicle Huzhou Factory, South Taihu New Area has also made up for the new energy vehicle and key parts industry, an important part of the vehicle manufacturing.
Yin Xiaoping, member of the Party Working Committee of the South Taihu Lake New Area and director of the Economic Development Bureau, said: "The landing of the 'Golden Phoenix' - Geely Commercial Vehicle Huzhou Factory is a major breakthrough in the work of 'changing cages for birds and phoenix nirvana' in the new district. ”
At this stage, the transformation of Geely Commercial Vehicles Huzhou plant is being carried out simultaneously with market orders, and it is expected to be fully operational in the first half of 2022.
192 days -
36 new energy buses were put into operation
With ready-made plant equipment and accurate customized transformation, Geely Commercial Vehicle Huzhou Factory achieved the signing of the contract in the same year, the completion of the technical transformation in the same year, and the invoice sales in the same year.
192 days after the project landed, 36 long-distance new energy buses were put into operation in Huzhou.
This is the "acceleration" spawned by industrial agglomeration. "In Huzhou, a large number of key components of new energy vehicles such as micro-macro power, Tianneng lithium battery, Yongxing materials and so on have gathered. In the production process, some spare parts can be purchased directly from surrounding suppliers, shortening the transportation radius, reducing procurement costs and inventory pressure. Mao Liming said.
Compared with the hard environment, the soft power of Huzhou's business environment also made Mao Liming feel deeply: "At the beginning, the idle factory building could not meet the production standards of Geely commercial vehicles. The South Taihu Lake New Area innovatively proposes a cooperation model in which state-owned companies acquire idle assets and enterprises produce technical operation teams, and then deliver them after transformation according to the needs of enterprises, shortening the construction cycle of more than one year for enterprises. ”
Lin Xiaohu, vice president of Geely Commercial Vehicle Group, revealed that such a cooperation model has been learned from the headquarters of Geely Commercial Vehicle Group and is expected to be replicated and promoted in other cities in China.
In addition, from the signing of the contract to the landing, the project involves many problems such as policy disposal, plant reconstruction, power communications, etc., and through the coordination meeting, the docking meeting is timely docked and solved on the spot, which promotes the landing of the project.
Mao Liming said: "The staff of the South Taihu Lake New Area's work style of 'words must be done, deeds must be fruitful, and fruit must be believed', as well as accurate and efficient services, so that the project can be put into production at the fastest speed, providing us with strong confidence in the future." ”
210 days -
Achieved sales of nearly 60 million yuan
The rapid commissioning of the project has seized the opportunity for enterprises to open up the market.
After the news of the landing of Geely's commercial vehicle Huzhou plant spread, orders poured in. At the 3rd Investment, Trade and Science and Technology Talent Fair held in South Taihu New Area on November 26, 2021, Meixinda Group, a local enterprise in Huzhou, made a cooperation intention with the company and ordered 6 remote brand 18-ton pure electric fog cannon trucks.
On January 20, 2022, Geely Commercial Vehicle Group and Meixinda Group will join hands again, and the two sides will cooperate on new energy commercial vehicles from product research and development to market operations to recycling and remanufacturing business, reduce the carbon emissions of new energy commercial vehicles throughout the life cycle with electrification and intelligent innovation technology, and drive the high-quality development of surrounding industries.
"This cooperation has helped the promotion of new energy sanitation vehicles in Zhejiang, and also provided an effective reference sample for the high-quality development of the new energy commercial vehicle industry combined with the territory in the province." Mao Liming said.
In the 210 days from the team's settlement to the end of 2021, Geely Commercial Vehicle Group's remote brand buses and special vehicles were invoiced and sold at the Huzhou factory, with sales of nearly 60 million yuan. Recently, Geely Commercial Vehicles' plans to enter the postal industry are also under negotiation.
"Location advantage for enterprises, is productivity, competitiveness, is attractive." Mao Liming said, "Taking root and tapping the Huzhou market is the first step, next, we will face Zhejiang, radiate the Yangtze River Delta, and step by step build a strategic deployment of carbon neutrality in the whole value chain." ”
According to reports, after the completion of technical transformation of all production lines, the output value of enterprises in 2022 is expected to exceed 500 million yuan. At the same time, the company plans to achieve a comprehensive utilization rate of 40% of green electricity in 2025 and a carbon reduction of 90% in the whole life cycle of the whole vehicle in 2030, boosting the transformation of the industry to low-carbon and high-quality.