Apart from donating money, these practices are equally admirable.

On the occasion of the Spring Festival, the epidemic situation of pneumonia infected by novel coronavirus in Wuhan is rampant. After several days of strict prevention and control, the epidemic situation is still complicated and severe. It is said that a friend can see the truth when he is in danger. When the medical supplies in the Wuhan epidemic area are in emergency, the cohesion of the China nation is reflected, and all walks of life are taking action for the "war epidemic", which fully embodies the China spirit of "one party is in trouble and all parties support", and the automobile industry is no exception.

According to incomplete statistics, since the first donation of Dongfeng Motor on January 23, 22, in less than two weeks, there have been more than 12 complete vehicle enterprises, refitting enterprises, parts suppliers, dealer groups, charging enterprises, logistics and travel companies, etc., which have contributed more than 1.2 billion yuan to the fight against the epidemic.

it is worth noting that in the past two years, the automobile industry has been in a downward phase, with production and sales of 25.721 million vehicles and 25.769 million vehicles respectively, down by 7.5% and 8.2% respectively. Many enterprises are "tightening their belts", but in the face of novel coronavirus virus, major car companies have generously contributed.

these donations are not simple donations. they are not just money. they also include car companies trying their best to use domestic and foreign channels to snap up medical materials, including the day-and-night struggle of their travel companies in the front line of Wuhan, including the tenacious production of negative-pressure ambulances by car companies when the supply chain is basically interrupted during the Spring Festival holiday. When the country encounters difficulties, it is also the time when the social values of these enterprises are reflected.

Help with money and materials

Dongfeng Group, a native of Hubei Province, was the first to bear the brunt. After Dongfeng Motor donated 1 million yuan to Wuhan Charity Federation on January 23, on January 26, Dongfeng Motor Corporation announced an additional donation of 26 million yuan with its subsidiaries, with a total donation of 36 million yuan. Dongfeng Xiaokang also donated vehicles such as Dongfeng Scenery 58 and Dongfeng Scenery ix7 to Hubei Charity Federation, with a total value of about 5 million yuan. Roughly speaking, Dongfeng Motor Group has donated 41 million yuan to the epidemic area.

In addition to Dongfeng Group, large state-owned automobile groups such as FAW Group, Guangzhou Automobile Group, SAIC Group and BAIC Group have also extended a helping hand. Among them, China FAW and FAW-Volkswagen (including Volkswagen, Audi and Jetta) and FAW Toyota donated 81 million yuan. Guangzhou Automobile Group and its subsidiaries, such as Guangqi Honda, Guangqi Toyota and Guangzhou Automobile Passenger Cars, have donated more than 22 million yuan. Ten auto-related units under BAIC Group donated 17 million yuan.

In addition, BYD donated 1 million yuan and N95 masks worth 1 million yuan; Jianghuai Automobile donated 1 million yuan in cash, and also donated 3 tons of fresh vegetables to be transported from Hefei to Wuhan. Great Wall Motor donated 5 million yuan and 1.15 million yuan worth of Great Wall artillery pickup trucks to support the epidemic prevention emergency work in Chongqing. LI, Nezha Auto, Xpeng Motors and many other new car-making forces donated money and materials to fully support Wuhan in fighting the epidemic. Luxury brands such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Volvo have also set an example, and Tesla has introduced the policy of charging China for free during the epidemic. And Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited, Fuyao Group, Didi Chuxing and other auto parts manufacturing or service enterprises have also generously donated their hearts.

It is worth mentioning that although Jaguar Land Rover is a luxury brand, its sales volume has plummeted this year. Today, Jaguar Land Rover has fallen into a state of low sales volume. When the epidemic struck, it still donated 8 million yuan. In 219, Weilai Automobile became the most loss-making automobile manufacturer in China, and its founder Li Bin also became the "worst person in 219", while Weilai Automobile donated 5.3 million yuan. Even the new special car, which is difficult recently, has tried its best to produce tens of thousands of sets of protective clothing materials. In addition, as a car company that can't be ignored in the field of new energy vehicles in the future, Evergrande has always been concerned, but in fact, Evergrande has not yet launched a model. In the end, Evergrande still generously donated 2 million yuan.

Set up a special fund to continuously support epidemic prevention

As we all know, Li Shufu is a "philanthropist" in the automobile industry. Li Shufu has been devoted to charity in China, and in this epidemic prevention war, Geely Automobile is really giving its true feelings.

Shortly after the outbreak of the epidemic, Geely Automobile announced the establishment of a 2 million yuan special fund for the prevention and control of new pneumonia epidemic to support the hardest hit areas. The special fund will purchase urgently needed medical materials according to the actual needs of areas with serious epidemic situation throughout the country; Support the construction of temporary hospitals in epidemic areas; Provide necessary help and support for those who are fighting in the front line of fighting the epidemic. At the same time, support institutions such as China Center for Disease Control and Prevention to develop vaccines and cure drugs for new viruses such as novel coronavirus.

In addition, Geely Automobile announced on February 4th that it will invest 37 million yuan in advance to start the research and development of "all-round healthy car" with virus prevention function. Geely Automobile said that "all-round healthy cars" are mainly aimed at ordinary consumers. This model can not only isolate harmful substances in the outside air, but also focus on breaking through the virus prevention function and technology in the car, effectively inhibiting and reducing the virus's harm to the human body.

On January 31st, Volvo Car (Asia-Pacific) Investment Holding Co., Ltd. announced the establishment of a special fund to fight against novel coronavirus. The first donation of 1 million yuan will support the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center. At the same time, Volvo Cars also donated 1 million RMB of medical emergency materials and equipment for epidemic prevention and control. Both donations will be made by Volvo Cars and the special fund for epidemic prevention and control of Li Shufu Public Welfare Foundation.

In fact, the establishment of a special fund can scientifically plan the direction and pace of fund use according to the needs of the epidemic situation, and support the national epidemic prevention and control work in a sustainable way.

Global Goods Sweeping of Aid Materials

During the outbreak of the epidemic, you can always see the information of protection materials from the front line for help. Due to the lack of production capacity and other reasons, there is a serious shortage of front-line protective masks and protective clothing. Many domestic car companies take advantage of overseas layout to buy and raise masks and protective clothing all over the world to support Wuhan.

at 5: a.m. on January 3th, 6, ***2.38-ton masks raised by SAIC from overseas landed at Shanghai Pudong Airport on time. After receiving the masks, a green channel for emergency delivery of medical supplies was opened and the masks were immediately sent to Wuhan. On January 31st, 4, sets of protective clothing delivered from Sydney to Shanghai by SAIC passed through its logistics company and were directly delivered to local hospitals in Wuhan.

Geely Holding Group actively cooperates with overseas subsidiaries to purchase urgently needed medical materials in Sweden and other countries. The first batch of medical masks, totaling 25,, has been sent from Sweden to China and will be used to support epidemic areas. At the same time, Geely Automobile donated 5 MPV models Geely Jiaji to Wuhan COVID-19 Prevention and Control Headquarters, which will allocate and use them. Chery has made full use of the advantages of global channels to raise medical protection materials that are in short supply in China from more than 1 countries including Israel, Brazil, Russia and Argentina, and has arrived in China one after another to help prevent and control the epidemic.

In addition, some joint ventures, such as Hyundai Motor Group, donated 5 million yuan worth of medical materials in addition to 1 million yuan in cash. Considering the shortage of domestic materials in China, Hyundai Motor Group will purchase protective clothing, masks and goggles from South Korea, as well as personal protective materials urgently needed by people in severe epidemic areas, and deliver them in the fastest way to solve the urgent needs at the front line of the epidemic.

working overtime to produce negative pressure ambulances

Many provinces and cities, including Wuhan, are in critical condition, and negative pressure ambulances are one of the key materials needed to fight the epidemic. In order to support the epidemic prevention and control, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a negative pressure ambulance production task to a number of car companies.

On New Year's Eve, SAIC Chase received an urgent order from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, requesting to deliver 6 negative-pressure ambulances for treatment in Wuhan COVID-19 before February 5. After receiving the task, SAIC Chase officially resumed work on the first day of January 25, and continued to work overtime to ensure delivery as scheduled before February 5. The production-related staff of Brilliance Auto returned to their posts one after another on the second day of the Lunar New Year, and the engineers and employees in the production line worked overtime to ensure the production progress and ensure the delivery of 1-15 negative-pressure ambulances on February 5.

As the largest ambulance manufacturer in China, Jiangling Ford donated 1 existing negative pressure ambulances to support Wuhan at the first time. Then, Jiangling Ford received more than 1,9 ambulance production orders. After several days of overtime work, on the morning of February 3, 18 Ford Transit negative pressure ambulances made by Jiangling stepped up their efforts to set off for Wuhan, including 8 vehicles and 2 vehicles that were urgently rescued the day before yesterday. A total of 1 vehicles will be donated to Wuhan for free to fight the epidemic, contributing to the epidemic prevention and control in key epidemic areas.

Beiqi Foton has actively resumed production, and the Tuyano negative pressure ambulance production workshop has all arrived in advance, and more than 1 workers are fighting in the production line. At the construction site of Huoshenshan Hospital, hundreds of machines were started at the same time, and Beiqi Foton products such as Ou Man trucks and Reza pump trucks were impressively listed. At the same time, batches of Beiqi Futian Ou Man heavy trucks, loaded with epidemic prevention and control materials from all over the country, rushed to the front line of the epidemic and became "retrograde" in fighting the epidemic.

Travel platform and "war epidemic"

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, Wuhan public transportation system has been shut down one after another. In order to eliminate the worries of white retrograde people in the front line of war and epidemic, the technology travel platform cooperates with "war and epidemic" to ensure the basic transportation in the epidemic area, which can be said to be a timely help for medical staff and ordinary people.

On January 23rd, T3 announced the establishment of Wuhan Special Operations Team to support the transportation of medical staff. From January 25th, CAR Inc. will provide free vehicles for relief agencies nationwide. Didi Chuxing has also set up a "medical support team" in the local area to provide free travel services for medical workers in hospitals in Wuhan, and is always on standby during the Spring Festival, and all expenses are borne by Didi.

on January 26th, according to the official wechat content of Dongfeng Travel, Dongfeng Travel set up a community motorcade consisting of 1, vehicles (including 7 online cars and 3 taxis) to provide free services to the targeted communities according to the requirements of the headquarters. On January 28th, the Great Wall set up an emergency support team to fight the epidemic in Europe, and established instant communication channels with the transportation authorities and transportation management agencies. Drivers were on call 24 hours a day to provide transportation services for medical staff.

BAIC New Energy Light Travel announced on January 3th that from now on, it will provide free car service for front-line medical and rescue personnel and media workers involved in epidemic reporting in 2 major operating cities across the country, and provide service cars for medical aid institutions and media workers who need cars for more than one month.

Cao Cao Travel (Wuhan), a travel service platform under Geely Holding Group, has also set up an emergency prevention and control support team to provide free travel services for residents in various communities in Wuhan. In addition, BYD's wholly-owned and joint-venture travel platforms, such as Wuhan Green Movement and Yadi, called on hundreds of drivers and employees to support the front line, and formed a community security convoy and a voluntary emergency convoy of parade vehicles to pick up and drop off medical staff to and from work to ensure the emergency travel of the masses.

As a national pillar industry, although the automobile industry is experiencing the test of market decline in the past two years, and even though this sudden epidemic will make their production and operation face many uncertainties (the stock prices of most listed automobile companies suffered heavy losses and collectively plunged on the first trading day of A-share after February 3rd), these timely assistance and donations fully reflected the social responsibility of the automobile industry in China and showed the feelings of home and country that a damp industry should have.

In fact, the outbreak of the epidemic is not only the responsibility of a certain enterprise or an organization. Each of us can do a lot to prevent and control the epidemic. I hope everyone can pay attention to the prevention and control of the epidemic, and we don't ask everyone to donate money. We just hope that we can protect ourselves and our families and prevent the epidemic from deepening.

This article comes from the author of Chejia, car home, and does not represent car home's standpoint.