SAIC Group spends 5 billion yuan to lay the foundation for Ningde Base

The power battery giant industry agglomeration effect is further expanding. Previously driven by the Ningde era, Xiamen Tungsten New Energy, Shanshan Technology, Dongguan Kaixin, Zhuo Gao New Materials, Kedali and other well-known materials and structural parts companies have successively laid out Ningde, and now there are new vehicle production bases for new energy vehicles. Settled in Ningde.

On April 28th, SAIC officially launched the construction of the passenger car Ningde Base Project. Fujian Ningde officially incorporated the “Layout” of the SAIC Group Base Plan. According to the plan, the Nanjing Automobile Group's Ningde Base covers an area of ??2,200 mu with a total investment of 5 billion yuan. It will be officially put into operation in 2019,  mainly produces products of two independent brands, Rongwei and MG.

At the launching of the project, Chen Hong, Chairman of SAIC Group, said: “The development orientation of Ningde Base is to give play to the core technological advantages of SAIC in the fields of vehicle manufacturing and 'three powers', relying on the location advantages and new energy of Fujian Province and Ningde City. The supporting advantages of the battery will speed up the construction of an important vehicle base for the SAIC service southeast coast and radiating the Southeast Asian market."

As the largest vehicle group with the largest production and sales in China, SAIC Group has continued to accelerate the process of independent innovation in recent years. In 2017, SAIC achieved sales of 6.93 million vehicles. Among them, the sales growth of self-owned brand passenger cars Roewe and MG exceeded 60%; the sales volume of new energy vehicles exceeded 150%. With the landing of the Ningde base project, the layout of SAIC's new energy vehicle products is expected to expand, thus promoting the further growth of sales of new energy vehicles.

According to industry analysis, SAIC and Ningde era will strengthening Joint and collaborative development, which will create a competitive full-selling model for the new energy automobile industry, and will also benefit the local economic development of Ningde.

It is understood that Ningde is building a 100 billion industrial cluster of lithium-ion new energy, and is committed to building the largest and most competitive lithium-ion new energy industry base in the country. It is estimated that by 2020, the total scale of Ningde's new energy industry will exceed 100 billion yuan, which will become the main force driving the city's economic growth.

Batteries, electric controls, and motors are the three major components of new energy vehicles. In addition to the power battery package in the Ningde era, the traditional industry of Mindong, the motor industry, is transforming and upgrading, seeking cooperation. Last year, Ningde Times and Yanan Electric Group jointly established Ningde Times Motor Technology Co., Ltd., which will focus on the research and development of new energy vehicle powertrain systems and key components to jointly promote the development of new energy automobile industry.

In order to build a new energy automobile industry cluster, Ningde City has intensified efforts to launch investment in the industrial chain of new energy vehicles. As of mid-April, the first batch of 35 new energy vehicle supplier companies have landed in the supporting park of SAIC Ningde Base.

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