Changan Automobile personnel reform results released 33 senior personnel reappointed, the joint venture plate intensive adjustment

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The results of Changan Automobile's internal personnel reform have been released one after another. On February 23, a list of Changan Automobile's latest appointments exclusively obtained by the Daily Economic News reporter showed that 33 senior personnel were reappointed, with ranks between L17 and L19.

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"In addition to the change of many senior executive positions, some people have been arranged to study at the Chang'an Learning Center." A Changan Automobile insider, speaking on condition of anonymity, revealed.

On February 8, Changan Automobile held a cadre meeting to promote the tenure system and contractual management, first dismissing and re-hiring all general manager-level personnel of all second-level units; completing the employment of general managers (unit heads), deputy general managers, and non-manufacturing unit managers on February 9 and February 10; and completing the recruitment of vacant positions without suitable candidates for manager-level positions in manufacturing units on February 13.

The reporter noted that with the deepening of the personnel reform, a wider range of personnel adjustments have begun inside Changan Automobile, not only limited to the autonomous plate, but also the joint venture plate of Changan Ford and Changan Mazda has also entered the intensive personnel adjustment.

Autonomous plate "leading the way"

According to the above-mentioned latest list of employees, Changan Automobile has made personnel adjustments to its own vehicle brands, factories, research institutes, overseas businesses, and parts.

For example, in the personnel adjustment of the vehicle brand under Changan Automobile, Ye Mingxin concurrently served as the general manager of Auchan Automobile Division; recommended Chen Weiming as the general manager of Chongqing Changan Kaicheng Automobile Technology Co., Ltd.; Ming Qiang as the general manager of Beijing Changan Automobile Company; and recommended Zhang Yuxiang as the general manager of Nanjing Changan Automobile Co., Ltd.

In addition, Lin Xuebin served as the general manager of the Yubei plant, Wu Jiayang served as the general manager of the Liangjiang plant, Tanaka Tao served as the general manager of the Jiangbei engine plant, Huang Lejin served as the executive deputy general manager of the mold division, Zhan Zhangsong served as the general manager of the Changan Automotive Engineering Research Institute, and Shen Mingjun concurrently served as the general manager of the overseas business development department.

Judging from this latest list of appointments, most of the executives have risen in rank, and some have not changed. It is reported that the employment of the position of general manager (unit head) of Changan Automobile is carried out through the method of "self-recommendation + communication brewing + organizational recommendation"; L15 level and above deputy general manager level personnel and current general manager level self-recommendation, the leader in charge of the company puts forward candidate suggestions; the recruitment of deputy general manager and manager level position, through the "communication brewing + organization recommendation" method, by the company in charge of the company leaders, general manager jointly brewed for selection.

In the view of the above-mentioned Changan Automobile insiders: "This personnel adjustment is mainly focused on the company's key management, and if it is significantly adjusted, it may affect the development of the next business." ”

The reporter learned that in this personnel reform, Changan Automobile issued a total of three appointment notices, the above is only one of the post adjustments for senior personnel, and the other two are about the appointment notices of other grades. Changan Automobile said in the above notice that the term of office of the personnel involved in the adjustment is consistent with the term of office of the company's leadership team.

The reform was extended to the joint venture sector

The tentacles of Changan Automobile's personnel reform have reached the joint venture sector.

The reporter found in this latest list of appointments that Fu Yuanhong is also the general manager of the joint venture cooperation department, with the rank of L19, and is no longer recommended to serve as the executive vice president of Changan Mazda Automobile Co., Ltd. According to the news on February 22, this position was taken over by Wang Hui, who had served as executive vice president and party secretary of Changan Mazda Engine Co., Ltd., and head of the Changan Mazda new energy cooperation project.

In addition to Changan Mazda, on February 18, Changan Ford released the news that Chen Xiaobo was appointed executive vice president of Changan Ford's national sales and service organization, and Qin Hong was appointed as the vice president of the sales network management center of Changan Ford's national sales and service organization.

Just the day before, on February 17, Avita Technology announced that Wang Jinhai, former executive vice president of Changan Ford's national sales and service organization, officially served as vice president of the company and concurrently served as deputy general manager of the user development center, in charge of sales, service and channel development and other related businesses.

The industry believes that a series of job changes in Changan Ford, Changan Mazda, and Avita personnel are inseparable from the personnel reform of Changan Automobile's executives " standing up as a whole" personnel. Changan Automobile believes that this reform is carried out from the direction of optimizing job matching, talent structure, age structure, etc., and the ultimate purpose is to stimulate vitality and enhance the competitiveness of Changan Automobile. "The performance of the cadre team today is the competitiveness of Changan Automobile in the next 3 to 5 years." Let the right people flow to the right posts, so that the 'capable people are up, the mediocre are down, and the inferior are eliminated' with greater intensity. Changan Automobile said.

At present, such personnel adjustments are still continuing inside Changan Automobile. On the evening of February 22, Changan Automobile said in an announcement, "According to the recommendation of the actual controller, the board of directors nominated Ye Wenhua as a director of the company, and the term of office is consistent with the term of the eighth board of directors of the company." ”

Investment plans have surfaced this year

With the gradual landing of personnel reform, Changan Automobile's investment plan for 2022 has also surfaced.

On the evening of February 22, Changan Automobile announced that the investment plan of the company and its holding subsidiary in 2022 is about 8.05 billion yuan. Among them, the fixed asset investment is about 3.246 billion yuan, including the upgrading of new energy special production capacity, high-end new energy and light vehicle product projects and other continuous construction projects; product upgrading, new product production line construction, high-end new energy products, three electric capacity and channel capacity building and other newly opened projects; light vehicle factory manufacturing capacity improvement, build high-end brands, etc.

The equity investment of about 4.804 billion yuan is mainly used to support independent new energy brands, double upgrade of scale, expand overseas markets, deepen capital relations with partners, create controllable full-stack intelligent capabilities, and continue to layout travel and industrial ecological expansion. In addition, the 35th meeting of the eighth board of directors of Changan Automobile also deliberated and passed the proposal on the financing plan for 2022, and agreed that the company should carry out interest-bearing liability financing of not more than 2.1 billion yuan.

According to the "new car, new ecology" strategy, Changan Automobile will invest a total of 150 billion yuan in the whole industry chain in the next five years, and plans to achieve 3 million Sales of Changan brand by 2025, of which new energy vehicles account for 35%; by 2030, sales will reach 4.5 million, and new energy vehicles will account for 60%. In order to achieve the set strategic goals, 2022 is considered to be a key year for Changan Automobile, which will usher in a number of new products and replacement models. On February 21, the UNI-V, the first sedan of the UNI sequence, began pre-sale, with a pre-price of 108,900 to 131,900 yuan, and it is expected to launch a blue whale hybrid version in the second half of the year; CS75, CS95, UNI-K, CS55PLUS, and CS35PLUS will successively launch the redesigned models. In terms of new energy vehicles, the C385, which is based on the new dedicated electric vehicle platform, will be launched within the year, and the Avita E will be officially listed within 11 years to achieve mass production delivery.

Shao Jiang, an analyst at Minsheng Securities, believes that Changan Automobile's traditional fuel vehicles are competitive, and the new energy differentiated dual brands superimpose a variety of new cars are expected to bring performance growth.

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