On October 18, Yulon Group CEO Yan Chen Lilian announced that its Nazhijie will be the first customer of the Honghua Advanced Electric Vehicle Platform jointly invested with Hon Hai Group Gou, and the first electric vehicle will be the Model C SUV electric vehicle mass-produced in 2023.
Three years ago, yan Kaitai, the former chairman of Yulon Group, was shocked to hear that he died suddenly, as a wife, Yan Chen Lilian, in front of a pair of children is still young, forced to endure grief, the former women's basketball captain transformed into "Iron Lady", shouldered the burden left by her husband, and took the first step in her wife's father's ambition. Many people question where she will take Taiwan's car giant Yulon Group?
Yan Chen Lilian announced: Na zhi jie will launch Honghua electric vehicles
Gou Taiming (5th from right), Yangwei Liu (5th from left) and Lilian Yan Chen (4th from left) attend Hon Hai Science and Technology Day
Gou's "car building" has finally taken a substantial step, and on October 18, the 2021 Hon Hai Science and Technology Day held in the second hall of the Nangang Exhibition Hall in Taipei City, for the first time, showed three self-developed electric vehicles.
This year's Hon Hai Science and Technology Day, focusing on the four themes of "feeling, technology, software and experience", is naturally the most concerned by the outside world, and the "Hon Hai Group" jointly founded by Hon Hai Group under Gou Tai Ming and Taiwan's car giant Yulon Group, for the first time, showed three self-developed electric vehicles. Hon Hai founder Terry Gou and Yulon female helmsman Yan Chen Lilian combined to build a car, and finally took a key step.
The three electric vehicles that debuted on this year's Hon Hai Technology Day include the Model C RV, Model E Sedan and Model T Electric Bus.
Liu Yangwei, Gou's Hon Hai baton takeover and chairman of Hon Hai Group, said in his speech that the electric vehicles developed by the group not only have performance, intelligence and efficiency, but also are universal, easy to use and practical, and will follow up with relay show software (Note: software) and semiconductor achievements, and in the development of electric vehicles, "it is ready." ”
Liu Yangwei said in response to outside questions about Hon Hai car manufacturing: "Half a year has passed, Hon Hai is no longer New kid in town. ”
Hon Hai Group and Liu Yangwei, Chairman of Hon Wah Advanced
As many people question the impact of a big guy PPT car, some people have watched the impact of the trailer released by Hon Hai a few days ago, and also questioned whether Hon Hai's electric bus is made with virtual animation. Liu Yangwei, chairman of Hon Hai Group and Hon Wah Advanced, claimed that he thought these people were mistaken, and they managed to drive electric buses into the exhibition hall.
The three debut electric vehicles on display this time, the Model C is an SUV model, which accelerates from 0 to 100 km in only 3.8 seconds and provides a range of 700 km/ h. Model E is the flagship sedan, the performance of the maximum 750 horsepower, 0-100 km acceleration of only 2.8 seconds, the endurance of up to 750 km, Liu Yangwei said, this is the past only top motorhome or sports car specifications.
Liu Yangwei said that it is not easy to develop 3 electric vehicles in one year, in addition to the common site developed by Hon Hai, it is also necessary to add Yulon's 70 years of car manufacturing experience and the endless efforts of Honghua's advanced colleagues.
Hon Hai under Gou Taiming is a global electronic foundry giant, and when Hon Hai wants to promote major corporate strategies such as electric vehicles, many people question it seems to be a bit "pompous". Honghua Advanced, established in October 2020, is the main enterprise of Guo Dong Honghai's car manufacturing, which was jointly created by Hon Hai and Yulon Chairman Yan Chen Lilian. Among them, Honghai sent Chairman Liu Yangwei to personally serve as the chairman of Honghua Advanced, and Yan Chen Lilian, the female head of Yulong, sent Zuo Zisheng to serve as vice chairman of Honghua Advanced.
Yulon Chairman Yan Chen Lilian appeared on the Model C
On October 18th, Hon Hai Technology Day, three electric vehicles debuted. What is refreshing is that Hon Hai founder Terry Gou and Yulon Chairman Yan Chen Lilian both appeared in a special way.
Among them, Gou Taiming personally drove the Model E sedan, while Yan Chen Lilian, female helmsman and CEO of Yulon Group, appeared in the Model C SUV electric vehicle.
Yan Chen Lilian said: Honghua Advanced, a joint venture between Yulon and Hon Hai, has produced results in just one year, which not only shows the decades of independent research and development energy of Taiwan's vehicle industry, but also allows people to fully understand the "Hon Hai Speed". At the same time, not only the speed, the product is full of technology and advanced, which is amazing.
She also pointed out that Yulon Group's Luxgen and CMC independent brands will be the first customers of Honghua's advanced product platform MIH.
Liu Yangwei, chairman of Honghua Advanced, also revealed that Honghua Advanced is positioned in principle to provide design, site and customer IDM, and in the Honghua advanced product platform MIH, all participating MIH alliance members can participate in business opportunities, even as a member of Hon Hai, in the parts and products are to compete with everyone. Yibo said that many previous articles have stated that Honghua's advanced product platform MIH is the "soul" of Gou's car and is also the core element.
Regarding cooperation with major car companies around the world, Liu Yangwei said that automobiles are a very large product, and the probability of re-export in Taiwan is almost zero. He hopes that in the United States, Southeast Asia, Europe, Chinese mainland and Taiwan, there are opportunities to cooperate with major car companies, and Hon Hai can lead the way to open up the sea, driving the MIH Alliance to be more competitive.
Another close partner of Hon Hai Car, Yulon Female CEO Yan Chen Lilian, said that Nazhijie debuted Honghua's advanced electric vehicle, and the first car will be the Model C SUV that will be mass-produced in 2023.
The husband died suddenly, the children are still young, how did the former women's basketball captain become the "Iron Lady"?
Yulon Group CEO Yan Chen Lilian
When mentioning Yan Chen Lilian, CEO of Yulon Group, we must mention the legendary Yulon Group behind her. Yulon Group, which started in the textile industry, has always adhered to the founder's concept of "loading wheels for the Chinese nation" and the belief of "developing its own brand", and today it can join hands with Gou to create a new energy electric vehicle, which is also the wish and inheritance of the Yulon Yan family for generations.
Yulon Automobile is the core industry of Yulon Group and the leading manufacturer of Taiwanese car companies. Yan Qingling, the founder of Yulon Automobile, returned from his studies in Germany and returned to the Dalong Machine Factory founded by his father Yan Yutang in Shanghai in 1931, and with a mechanical engineering background, he began to develop pumps and diesel engines for oiling and pumping. In order to continue his father's idea of "industry to save the country", after he and his wife Ms. Wu Shunwen moved to Taiwan in 1948, they were determined to serve the country with an engine and create a car that belonged to the Chinese.
In 1953, Yan Qingling founded "Yulon Machine Manufacturing Co., Ltd.", and three years later developed the first self-made jeep produced on the island in Taiwan, which opened the prelude to Taiwan's automobile industry. In 1960, Yulon made its own BLUEBIRD car, which once again opened a door for Taiwan's automobile industry. By 1976, Yulon introduced the Sunny series.
When Yulon's first female helmsman, President Wu Shunwen, Yan Qingling's wife, took the helm, she established the "Yulon Automotive Engineering Center" in Guishan, Taoyuan, in 1981, and released the first self-designed car "Flying Antelope 101" in 1986, and has since developed the "China Willy" commercial vehicle.
Yan Kaitai and Chen Lilian
Yan Chen Lilian's husband, Yan Kaitai, the second-generation successor of Yulon Group, is also known as the "father of Na Zhi Jie". In 1989, he returned from overseas to continue his parents' car dreams and inject reform vitality into Yulon, launching the CEFIRO premium sedan in 1996.
In 2005, Yulon Automobile invested in "Huachuang Auto Electric", and in 2008, it revived its own brand, launched LUXGEN (Nazhijie), and promoted it in the mainland market after 2010, and exported to overseas markets such as Southeast Asia, Russia and the Middle East.
Incidentally, Yulon's LOGO was not the current style at the earliest, after 1990, with the Yulon Group's diversified operations across automobiles, textiles, finance, environmental protection, information, etc., on September 15, 1992, Yulon Automobile announced a new LOGO.
In Taiwan, if pineapple is a famous specialty, then Yulon Automobile is a "specialty" of Taiwan's industry, comparable to the "Hongqi" car on the other side of the strait. Chen Lilian's husband, Yulon 'ZTE Young Lord' Yan Kaitai, said before his death: "Equate life with Na Zhi Jie!" Doesn't stop. ”
Inheriting his parents' mission of "putting on the wheels for the Chinese nation", Yan Kaitai, the former chairman of Yulon Group, once said: "It is my mission to be a brand car. If I don't do it, I will look up to the sky and bow down to the ground! ”
Yan Kaitai died on the afternoon of December 3, 2018, at the age of 54, leaving a 13-word last word before his death: "Everything is from Jane, please let me go quietly." "He had esophageal cancer before, and after his condition improved, it recurred. From the mainland to Taiwan, the Yulon Yan family has been "rich for three generations", but with wealth, it is not prosperous, to Yan Kaitai's father, Yulong founder Yan Qingling, and then to Yan Kaitai and his son, it is already a "second generation single transmission".
Yan Kaitai died at the age of 54, and at the age of 40, Chen Lilian gave birth to a daughter, and by the time he was 50, Chen Lilian gave birth to his only son. The lack of children has become the biggest risk to the inheritance of the Yan family's family business, and because of this, Yan Kaitai's mother Wu Shunwen, and then Yan Kaitai's wife Chen Lilian's second generation of mother-in-law, have to "go out for their husbands" and shoulder the responsibility of enterprise management.
Yan Kaitai and his mother Wu Shunwen (right)
Yulong Yan family, is Taiwan's industrial family, to Yan Kaitai is the third generation, born in Taipei in 1965 Yan Kaitai, his grandfather Yan Yutang is known as the "father of cotton and iron" of the Republic of China, ancestral home in Shanghai (formerly Jiangsu Wu County, Huxi Yan family house), Yan Yutang raised 7,000 taels of silver in 1902, founded the old society famous factory "Shanghai Dalong Machine Factory".
Yan Kaitai's father, Yan Qingling, was the fifth son of Yan Yutang, and under the arrangement of his father, he and his wife Wu Shunwen set foot on the island of Taiwan, and later cooperated to establish the Yulon Group. After the death of Yulon founder Yan Qingling in 1981, his wife Chengfuzhi and Wu Shunwen became the chairman and general manager of Yulon and became the core leaders of the company.
On the island, Wu Shunwen is known as "China's first female industrialist", she also topped the "textile queen", "car queen", and "iron lady" and many other laurels, the United States "Time" magazine said, Wu Shunwen called "Taiwan's Ford". Wu Shunwen, once the "richest woman in Taiwan", led by Yulon Group, has been ranked among the top ten enterprises in Taiwan for consecutive years, and is the champion of the 1985 tax ranking. Wu Shunwen, who died in 2008, lived to the end of his life, and at the age of 90, he still insisted on commuting to work every day until he retired at the age of 92.
Wu Shunwen, whose ancestral home is Wujin, Jiangsu Province, graduated from the Department of Literature of St. John's University in Shanghai and received a master's degree in literature from Columbia University in the 1950s. Wu Shunwen, who came from a famous family, and his father Wu Jingyuan was a well-known industrialist in the textile industry in modern China and one of the founders of the Zhonghua Bookstore. His second brother, Wu Jingyi, was the father of Wu Jieping, former vice chairman of the National People's Congress, outstanding leader of the Jiusan Society, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and "the first person to implement the 8-hour work system." In other words, Ms. Wu Shunwen is Wu Jieping's cousin.
When Wu Shunwen had not yet graduated from the girls' high school, his father promised him to another textile giant on the beach in the old society, and in 1931 she married Yan Qingling. After moving to Taiwan, she and her husband founded the largest textile company on the island of Taiwan, "Taiwan Dollar Textile", and even the name of the factory "Taiwan Dollar" was Wu Shunwen.
In March 1981, Yan Qingling died of cerebral nerve atrophy, and Wu Shunwen, who was 68 years old at the time, was devastated, but she suppressed tears and sat on the throne of the chairman of Yulon when her husband was alive. At that time, many business giants were interested in acquiring Yulon, but Wu Shunwen refused: "This is a business that my husband has worked hard to start, and I will not sell it!" ”
Yan Chen Lilian
The former women's basketball captain and housewife, as Yan Chen Lilian, the widow of Yan Kaitai, she could never have imagined that her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law would be on the same trajectory as her mother-in-law Wu Shunwen. 37 years ago, his mother-in-law Wu Shunwen also had to go out on his own because Ofan Kaitai was young and became the helmsman of the Yulon Group.
Yan Kaitai died of cancer in December 2018, and the responsibility of leading the Yulon Group fell on Yan Chen Lilian's shoulders like her mother-in-law Wu Shunwen. Born in 2005, the eldest daughter Michelle was only 13 years old at the time, and the only son, John, was born in 2015 and was only 3 years old.
Her husband, Yan Kaitai, was only 24 years old when he returned to Taiwan in 1989 to take over the job, he became a family and established a business, and held a wedding ceremony with Chen Lilian in the same year.
He met her husband, Yan Kaitai, and quarreled. Yan Kaitai, who likes to play basketball since he was a child, ran to his "Taiyuan Women's Basketball Team" with his good friends when he was bored at the age of 19. At that time, Chen Lilian was a "national hand" and also the captain of the Taiyuan women's basketball team, Yan Kaitai came to their rest time, and the coach called her a few people to accompany her in order to please the "Shaodong family".
Chen Lilian was furious when she heard it: "This little boss has come to play with you, really, we practiced very hard in the morning!" Yan Kaitai, who was scolded, was also aggrieved, he just came to play, and did not mention this "special" request! Chen Lilian, who is straightforward in nature, after learning of the situation, caught up with the "little boss" Yan Kaitai, who wanted to apologize, but did not expect this chase, "mistakenly into the giants". After marriage, Chen Lilian has not been involved in the company's affairs, like basketball, she often goes to the scene with Yan Kaitai to cheer for her team Taiyuan women's basketball team.
At the Spring Festival group meeting of Yulon Group in February 2019, Yan Chen Lilian stood on the hosting stage for the first time, when she deliberately brought a pair of young children to attend, and also showed her deep meaning of Ke Chengfu zhi to the company's colleagues and senior executives. Although she became the head of the Yulon woman, Yan Chen Lilian faced many tests, and the stall left by her husband was not as brilliant as the outside world imagined, on the contrary, it was full of crises. Several banks with long-term dealings with Yulon gave her a red warning: if she did not actively rectify her finances, she would immediately shrink the loan amount to Yulon.
In the face of the cruel reality, the former women's basketball captain, Yan Chen Lilian, who had no company management and operation in the past, was forced to become the "Iron Lady", she did not hesitate, and showed the determination of "strong men and broken wrists" in dealing with loss-making businesses, while also promoting corporate governance. This time, joining hands with Gou to launch three electric vehicles is also a major measure for her to accelerate the pace of transformation and upgrading.
Many people may not be so optimistic about Hon Hai and Yulon electric vehicles; I think, after a brief introduction to the history and inheritance of Yulon enterprises, do you have any ideas? Finally, it is worth quoting a phrase that Wu Shunwen, Yan Chen Lilian's mother-in-law and the richest business goddess in Taiwan in the past, often said: "As long as I have a candlelight that can illuminate the darkness, there is hope!" ”
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