SAIC'S sales of new energy vehicles surged by 5 billion yuan last year to build a new base for its passenger vehicles.

Shanghai automobile group co., LTD. (Hereinafter referred to as SAIC motor) announced on April 28 that it has officially started the construction of passenger car NINGDE base project. Relying on the policy advantages, geographical advantages and supporting advantages of new energy batteries of FUJIAN province and NINGDE city, SAIC will accelerate the development of new energy vehicles, improve the capacity layout of its own brands, and build a "traffic artery" connecting the southeast coastal and southeast Asian markets. It is worth mentioning that on April 27, Shanghai automotive industry corporation and Shanghai tobacco donated a batch of SAIC chase V80 monitoring ambulances to NINGDE medical institution, which has started to actively participate in local public welfare undertakings and practice corporate social responsibility.

This will be SAIC'S fourth vehicle base for its own-brand passenger cars. According to the plan, NINGDE base covers an area of about 2,200 mu, with a total investment of about 5 billion yuan, and will officially put into production ROEWE and mg brand products in 2019. With the vehicle project as the platform, SAIC will continue to deepen cooperation, promote the synchronous construction of local parts, logistics and other industries, and expand the development space of modern service industries such as finance and post-market.

As the largest vehicle group in China, SAIC has been accelerating independent innovation and improving development quality in recent years. SAIC sold 6.93 million vehicles in 2017. Among them, the sales growth of ROEWE and mg passenger cars of their own brands exceeded 60%. Sales of new energy vehicles grew by more than 150 percent. At the same time, SAIC has always adhered to the concept of basing itself on Shanghai and serving the whole country, and continuously improved its domestic industrial layout. At present, SAIC has established vehicle production bases in SHENGYANG, YANGTAI, Qingdao, YANGZHOU, NANJING, WUXI, Shanghai, NINGBO, ZHENGZHOU, WUHAN, CHANGSHA, LIUZXHOU, CHONGQING and URUMQI. Overseas, we have successfully established vehicle production bases in Thailand, Indonesia and India. Today, FUJIAN NINGDE officially incorporated into the SAIC base planning "territory".

FUJIAN province has been an important port and trade center along the maritime silk road since ancient times. NINGDE city is located in the northeast coast of FUJIAN province, with world-class natural deep-water port SANDUAO; NINGDE times, a leading local enterprise in NINGDE, is a global leader in power batteries and has abundant new energy battery production supporting resources. At present, FUJIAN province is making great efforts to build a new FUJIAN with "dynamic mechanism, excellent industry, rich people and beautiful ecology", and proposes the strategic deployment of "building a strong province of new energy vehicles", actively creating a good business environment.

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