Automobile overview｜Chinese car companies’ “War against the Epidemic”

An unexpected epidemic made the spring of 2020 different from the past. Faced with the severe situation of the epidemic, all walks of life across the country have actively made contributions. The latest statistics show that the prevention and control of the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic has achieved remarkable results, and the trend of the epidemic outbreak has been controlled. Looking across the country, on this smokeless battlefield, there are Autobots everywhere. Among them, there are state-owned enterprises such as FAW, Dongfeng, SAIC, BAIC, and GAC, private brand backbones such as Geely, Great Wall, and BYD, as well as new car-making forces such as Xpeng, NIO, WM, and Nezha, as well as Ford Motor Co., Ltd. Yao Glass, CATL, Bosch China and other Chinese and foreign parts giants. "In this epidemic, whether it is responding to the national call to carry out emergency production tasks or actively donating money and materials, our entire Chinese automobile company and every Chinese automobile person are fully prepared to win this war." epidemic'." Changan Automobile told reporters. Countless Autobots responded quickly and calmly to the test of the current situation, responded to the country's urgent needs and provided for the country's needs at the critical moment of the country's needs, and worked tirelessly to secure the maximum manpower and material resources for the frontline of the epidemic. Support, in this sudden "big test", we submitted "answer sheets" that showed sincerity and responsibility. Don't give up day and night? "Infrastructure madmen" are working together. Now, Wuhan Fangcang Hospital, Leishenshan Hospital, and Huoshenshan Hospital have successively received and cured batches of patients. The completion of these major facilities is a success of united efforts and coordinating the efforts of all parties. example. During the construction process of Leishenshan and Huoshenshan, 40 million netizens supervised the work on the entire network. Construction machinery such as excavators, cranes, cement mixers, and forklifts working on the front line were given various nicknames, such as Chajiang, Shoveljiang, and Dabai. Rabbit, long-necked green, little green... quickly became popular and became a breath of fresh air in the "Internet celebrity" world. Behind the popularity are the fierce battles between Beiqi Foton, SAIC Hongyan and other automobile people who are on standby at any time. The "Little Green" SAIC Hongyan and Auman muck trucks operate for more than 20 hours on average per day; the "Long Neck Green" Lesa pump truck can work continuously for up to 114.8 hours; the concrete mixer truck "Vomit Sauce" provided by China National Heavy Duty Truck Non-stop transporting cement mortar... Behind the support of these heavy industrial machinery are countless national automobile companies who have the courage to take on their responsibilities and work day and night. These "mechanical fighters" stepped forward at the most critical moment in Hubei, worked tirelessly day and night, and achieved "high-rise buildings rising from the ground" in just ten days, creating a "Chinese miracle" that cannot be underestimated at home and abroad. Some people call them "infrastructure maniacs", while others praise them for creating "miracles". But there is no miracle, it is just a group of ordinary workers who work hard, bit by bit, to build a tower. Racing against time? Aiding the frontline "armor" On January 25, SAIC Maxus Wuxi Shenlian Special Purpose Vehicle Co., Ltd. received the task of delivering 60 negative pressure ambulances before February 5. As the "armor" of frontline medical workers, under normal circumstances, the production cycle of these vehicles takes at least one month. It is indeed a considerable test to compress the construction period to 10 days while maintaining quality and quantity. The epidemic is an order, and the life and death of frontline patients and medical staff cannot tolerate any hesitation. Xu Hongyi, deputy general manager of SAIC Maxus, held an emergency meeting overnight to implement work arrangements for the entire industry chain including technology, procurement, logistics, and production. Employees are returning to factories and workers are returning to work. During this Spring Festival, SAIC people bid farewell to vacations and reunite with their families. They race against time and go all out to support Wuhan. In addition to SAIC Maxus, Chery River, Beiqi Foton, Jiangling Motors, Brilliance Automobile and other car companies have also joined the battle to support the "Armor". "After receiving the company's emergency start notice on New Year's Day, I immediately drove from my hometown in Xuancheng to Wuhu," said Zhou Xiao, an assembly technician on the Chery River ambulance production line. Since the emergency start on New Year's Day, He has been working overtime for more than ten consecutive days, until 9 or 10 o'clock every night. Ke Chuandeng, general manager of Chery River, mentioned in the interview that in order to overcome the problem of manpower shortage and poor logistics during the Spring Festival, Chery River chose to pick up goods directly at the door of some suppliers, arranged transportation for returning employees, and implemented the implementation quickly and timely. arrangements for resumption of work.

In addition, Beiqi Foton also donated 40 Foton Tuano negative pressure ambulances known as "mobile purifiers" to fight side by side with frontline medical rescue personnel. But it is not only necessary to provide vehicles, but also how to deliver emergency supplies to the front lines of prevention and control more efficiently and quickly is also an issue that Foton Motors is considering.

Only by sending ambulances to the battlefield as soon as possible can we provide the most timely help to medical workers on the front line of fighting the epidemic. The most efficient way is to donate directly. The 40 Tuano negative pressure ambulances donated by BAIC Group and Foton Motor on February 1 were sent directly to the epidemic areas through the China Charity Federation. This direct donation of negative pressure ambulances is a timely help to frontline medical staff. Non-stop? Logistics emergency "blood transfusion" Logistics and transportation are the main artery in the fight against the epidemic. Ensuring that large quantities of medicines, medical and life support materials are transported to all parts of Hubei Province as soon as possible is a key to winning the battle against the epidemic. JAC told reporters that from the beginning of planning and scheduling material transportation, JAC completed the equipment, inventory and transportation of materials in the shortest time. Back at 9:30 in the morning on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Huang Rongquan, who was on duty at Jiangqi Logistics Company, received a call. The company needed to select multiple Jiangqi semi-trailers to transport vegetables. Huang Rongquan quickly informed his subordinate supervisors and dispatchers to calculate the number of drivers in Hefei. workers and empty trucks that have not been loaded; at 13:00 p.m., qualified drivers gather at the company; at 15:30 p.m., drivers check the condition of their respective vehicles, and the vehicles are lined up waiting to be loaded; at 6:00 a.m. on the sixth day of the first lunar month , after the inspection of materials and personnel was completed, the team set off with the love and hope of Hefei people and JAC people; at 1:00 a.m. on the seventh day of the first lunar month, JAC completed the material handover and then left the site in an orderly manner. Providing vehicles is one aspect, aiming at the characteristics of long-distance transportation, and more importantly, ensuring vehicle condition and travel safety. Foton Motor has launched the epidemic service concept of "regardless of brand, free rescue", providing free technical support for material transportation vehicles, and technological advantages such as artificial intelligence and cloud computing to provide fuel consumption analysis and route planning for truck drivers in transportation operations; SAIC Hongyan is staying at home Provide free repair services for transport vehicles at various stations on the "main artery" of the motherland. In order to support epidemic prevention and control, Jiujiu Logistics has 22 five-star fleets across the country, Yunche Logistics has 18 special vehicle fleets, and Guizhou Fengmao Logistics has 20 logistics fleets... They provide transportation services to the government and public welfare organizations free of charge. The anti-epidemic gift packs provided by SAIC Hongyan, including masks, disinfectant wipes, hot water, and convenient food, brought bursts of warmth to long-distance transport drivers and warmed up the cold and chilly early spring.

Global mobilization? Overseas "sweeping goods" In addition to supplying its own vehicles, the sudden epidemic has caused frequent shortage alarms for medical material reserves, and mobilizing all forces to ensure the supply of materials to the epidemic areas has become a top priority. Taking advantage of their accumulated overseas procurement channel advantages, various car companies have "changed their careers" to become overseas "purchasing agents" for Chinese medical supplies.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, different from the New Year greetings received in previous years, more than 20 overseas directors of the Chery International team also received an urgent task from Zhang Guibing, General Manager of Chery International—— The Chery Holding Group's anti-coronavirus epidemic team requires international companies to immediately start overseas anti-coronavirus material procurement and raise medical masks, medical gloves, surgical gowns, goggles, protective clothing, thermometers and other medical supplies that are in short supply in China globally. resource. Chery International General Manager Zhang Guibing issued procurement tasks to more than 20 overseas directors. This time, the supplies purchased were not auto parts or other machinery manufacturing equipment, but masks, gloves, surgical gowns, goggles, protective clothing, and thermometers that were in short supply. resource. In just a few days, Chery delivered approximately 150,000 pieces of anti-coronavirus supplies purchased from Brazil, Russia, Kuwait, Argentina, Vietnam and other countries to government departments for epidemic prevention and control.

Geely Holding Group actively launched its "circle of friends" to urgently purchase anti-epidemic materials in Sweden, Spain, Germany, Belarus and other European places. Geely's Belarusian "Medical Supplies Procurement Donation Action Team" urgently purchased 37,000 pairs of medical gloves, 19,000 medical masks, 3,773 pieces of medical protective clothing and other materials. The first batch purchased by Geely's European team from Sweden, Spain and other countries included 250,000 Medical supplies, including masks, are continuously sent back to China from all over the world, sending hope to Wuhan and everywhere in need in the motherland. In just a few days, "compatriots" in the automobile industry at home and abroad have fulfilled their responsibilities as automobile companies with practical actions, and warmed this somewhat cold early spring with love. Guards of online ride-hailing "rebels" "On New Year's Day, when I drove down the street, I couldn't hold back and cried loudly!" 41-year-old Zhang Shaohua said, "I have never seen such a silent Wuhan." When Wuhan launched the "city lockdown", the city implemented a ban on motor vehicles, and private cars were not allowed to move around.

The city's emergency travel cannot be delayed for a moment. In order to solve the travel problems in the city's 1,159 communities, Dongfeng Travel and Caocao Travel were ordered to take on the task of ensuring the city's travel needs. During the days when the country began to quarantine at home, , countless "rebels" traveling through the city have taken on the responsibility of guarding the city. Dongfeng Travel urgently coordinated resources from all parties and issued an initiative to recruit volunteers for emergency fleet driving. 50 volunteers were recruited within 2 hours; Oule Travel, a subsidiary of Great Wall Holdings, established the "Oule Travel Fighting Epidemic Emergency Support Fleet" for 24 hours Always available. In response to traffic control in some cities, FAW has organized a "special love fleet" for the government to call from time to time.

Master Lei, who traveled to Cao Cao, had to get up at 5 o'clock to wait outside in order to accommodate patients' medical treatment during the anti-epidemic period, and often had to work from noon to 9 o'clock in the evening. Master Zhou, who took the initiative to sign up for Cao Cao's trip during the epidemic, said emotionally when being interviewed by reporters, "This is our common home. I am so young, I am healthy, and I must be on the front line!"

< p>Cao Cao’s travel driver disinfects the vehicle. Chen Chen, 31, was not born and raised in Wuhan, but after living in Wuhan for 11 years, it has been regarded as her second home. She told reporters that in the community she was responsible for, a 75-year-old man had a history of cerebral infarction and had to be sent to the hospital for rescue within 3 hours after he fell ill. After learning the news, she called the elderly at scheduled times every day to inquire about their health. She also kept in regular calls with those who were sick or living alone. She felt that as long as she asked "How are you" on the phone, the old man would feel more at ease.

Resuming work to build cars? Also making masks

“What do the people need? Wuling will make it.” This is the slogan on the box of protective masks produced by SAIC-GM-Wuling Motors.

At the Liuzhou factory, the production line that originally produced SAIC-GM-Wuling automobile interiors has become 14 mask production lines, including 4 N95 mask production lines and 10 general medical protective mask production lines. The daily production The volume is expected to reach more than 1.7 million.

Today, car companies and upstream and downstream companies in the industrial chain are gradually resuming work and production. However, the shortage of epidemic prevention materials such as protective clothing and masks is an urgent problem that car companies and suppliers need to solve. Many companies have launched overseas Procurement, or finding the location of the branch to help coordinate, but "far away water cannot quench the near thirst", so the car-making production line was transformed into a mask-making production line. After the epidemic, the market attention of protective products such as gloves and masks has increased. During this "mask shortage", some automobile companies have realized that the mask production and automobile production processes "coincide", such as dust-free workshops, and this can show that at the infrastructure level, automobile companies have the ability to switch to mask production. condition.

For this reason, BYD, SAIC-GM-Wuling tried to "save the country" by switching to the production of masks.

“Drawings are produced in 3 days, equipment is produced in 7 days, and products are produced in 10 days!” Zhao Changjiang, general manager of BYD Auto Sales Co., Ltd., said on Weibo. Time is tight and the task is heavy. From automobile manufacturing to mask production, automobile companies are racing against time to carry out technical research.

GAC took 14 days to complete the production of masks: On February 7, the GAC Parts Technology Center sent engineers to Dongguan to study research on mask equipment related technologies and production processes; on the 9th, the first The prototype of Taiwan's mask production line was completed; on the 10th, the first protective mask production equipment was assembled and debugged; on the 20th, five production lines were installed and mass production began. Looking back at the past, SARS in 2003, the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008... In every major emergency, car people donated money and materials and rushed to the front line. As the responsible person of China's manufacturing industry, as long as the country needs it, China Automobile People are never absent. In addition to supporting the front line, tens of thousands of Autobots are now gradually moving to work. Many car companies are facing the dual test of the epidemic and the pressure of competition on the stock of the car market, but Autobots believe that the tempered car companies will eventually usher in spring. “As a member of society, companies should have a sense of mission and responsibility, take the initiative to consider cooperating with the country, overcome difficulties, and contribute to the epidemic. They must actively fulfill their corporate social citizenship responsibilities, and at the same time, they must also do a good job in internal prevention and control to protect us. Every employee of Changan Automobile. From the epidemic to the market, every Chinese car person is fully prepared to win this war against the epidemic.

"Confidence is more important than gold. I believe that with the joint efforts of all parties, we will be able to survive this epidemic smoothly." A Dongfeng Nissan source told reporters.

This article comes from the author of Autohome Chejiahao and does not represent the views and positions of Autohome.