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Three security guards and one cleaning lady are all the employees you can see at the Qiantu Automobile Factory at No. 368 Songhuajiang Road, Huqiu District, Suzhou. ?

"It fell down." The security guard said that the factory has been "quiet" for more than half a year. Except for the driving school students learning to drive on the roadside, there are basically no people around. ?

From the administrative reception desk of the main building to the production workshop in the factory and the R&D center next to it, there is no one there. There are only three Qiantu K50s in the parking lot, which are covered with dust. The three photo frames of Qiantu K50s at the front desk of the lobby are still colorful, and they can vaguely see the glory of the past. ▼

“Empty City” Qiantu?

The 230,000-square-meter Qiantu Factory is so empty that even the security guards don’t want to patrol it. ?

The three security guards basically only stay in the security room at the entrance of the factory. Whether it is the vehicle pre-assembly workshop or the production line, there are no security guards or employees guarding it. ?

On the production line, there are five Qiantu K50s suspended in mid-air. The entire workshop is empty and the door is not locked. In the small lounge at the entrance of the pre-assembly workshop, four round tables and seats were covered with dust. The slogan "Quality products are the golden key to the world of 'Future'" was hung high in the workshop. ?

The employee canteen is also covered in dust. Whether it is the tables and chairs in the canteen or the kitchen in the canteen, it can be seen that no one has been there for a long time. ?

It’s not just the Qiantu Factory that is empty. The country’s first experience store “Qiantu Yi” located in Sanlitun, Beijing, has been withdrawn in November, and the fine decoration two and a half years ago has been bulldozed. Exposed cement wall. The Qiantu experience store and delivery center located in Jingang Auto Park have also been evacuated, and the floor-to-ceiling windows are covered with slogans. The withdrawal of two experience stores indicates that Qiantu Motor has withdrawn from the Beijing market. ?

The Qiantu Experience Store in Shanghai is still holding on. There is only one show car K50 left in the "Qiantu·Yi" on Madang Road in Huangpu District. However, the embarrassing thing is that the store clerk said that there is no car left for sale. A "Qiantu Yi" located in Minhang has also been closed. ?

The direct reason for "closing the store" is that Qiantu Auto cannot pay the rent, and financial problems have plagued Qiantu for a long time. ?

In February last year, rumors of wage arrears were exposed one after another in Qiantu. Many suppliers also said that Qiantu was in arrears with payment for goods. According to Jiemian’s report, Qiantu Motor’s employees at positions A, B, and C have stopped paying their salaries in July 2019, while the wages of employees at positions D, E, F, and G have also been owed in arrears since August and September. Fresh graduates have not received any salary since receiving their salary in August. In addition, Qiantu Motor also forced some employees to use personal information to apply for credit loans. ?

In order to recover back wages, some Qiantu employees even had to sleep in the administration hall of Qiantu Factory. In this regard, Lu Qun, chairman of Qiantu Motor, said, "The company's operating difficulties have brought difficulties to the lives of my colleagues. I am very sorry." However, if extreme measures are taken to disrupt the company's normal working order, he will not accept it. ?

After many adjustments to the employee salary payment time, Qiantu Motor has not yet paid the wages owed to its employees. In March this year, Great Wall Huaguan, the parent company of Qiantu Motor, launched a resignation settlement agreement for employees, providing three options for employees to choose from. One is to voluntarily resign within a week, and the company will settle wages before the end of April without compensation; the other is to The company signs a compensation agreement and resigns, providing compensation according to the N 1 standard stipulated by the state, and settling the salary before August 31, 2020; third, continuing to stay in the company, the company strives to solve the salary problem as soon as possible, and cannot give time for payment in a short period of time promise. ?

Posts from Tieba friends show that Qiantu employees who agreed to settle their wages before the end of April have not received their wages.

Due to labor disputes, Lu Qun has been listed as a restricted high-spending worker by the People's Court of Huqiu District, Suzhou City many times. The latest filing date was November 24. ?

"Unpaid wages" have a serious impact on Qianfu's image and will inevitably affect the company's next financing plan. Previously, Lu Qun emphasized many times, “You have your own way of building a car with 20 billion, and you have your own way of building a car with 2 billion. Don’t compare, money is not that important.

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Currently, "Going to a domestic science and technology IPO" is what Lu Qun wants to do most.? ▼

"Money is not that important"?

“Money is not that important. "When Lu Qun said this, Qiantu K50 had just been launched.

On the one hand, Lu Qun and the Qiantu team consider themselves to be "car-savvy." Great Wall Huaguan, the parent company of Qiantu Motor, is well-known in the industry. A vehicle design company with nearly 14 years of experience in vehicle design and R&D. In 2010, Great Wall Huaguan established its electric vehicle division, the predecessor of Qiantu Motor; in 2015, Great Wall Huaguan was officially established. Listed on the New Third Board; in 2016, Qiantu Motor obtained the qualification to produce new energy passenger vehicles and entered the product catalog of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology two years later, becoming one of the first new car-making forces to obtain "dual qualifications" from the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. ?

Qiantu Motor's capital mainly comes from its parent company. Great Wall Huaguan's revenue in 2014 exceeded 40 million yuan. It can use its own revenue to replenish the early expenses of Qiantu Motor when it turns to vehicle R&D and manufacturing. Funding or technology, does Qiantu have an advantage over other new car-making forces?

On the other hand, Lu Qun hopes that the Qiantu K50 can bring revenue to the company. Great Wall Huaguan will use the revenue generated from vehicle design to cover the early capital consumption of Qiantu Motor. Once the K50 is delivered, it will be able to achieve a "blood transfusion" and solve the financial problem?

Unfortunately, Qiantu K50 has not been launched since 2018. The total sales volume since its launch in 2017 is only 156 units, which cannot alleviate the financial difficulties of Qiantu Motors and Great Wall Huaguan. ?

The K50 is the only model of Qiantu Motors on sale. It is positioned as a pure electric sports car and is available on the market. The price is 754,300 yuan, and the price after subsidies is as high as 686,800 yuan. ?

The cumulative sales of the Qiantu K50 are less than 200, which has oversaturated the production capacity of the Qiantu factory, which was built less than three years ago. The Suzhou production base is the first phase of Qiantu Motor's planned production capacity. It was completed and started trial production in December 2017 with an investment of more than 2 billion yuan. The planned annual production capacity is 50,000 vehicles. In fact, from trial production to the launch of Qiantu K50, The factory's output is far less than Qiantu Motor's annual planned production capacity. Qiantu Motor produced 5,000 units last year. Employees at the factory said that the production workshop was not busy. Since June last year, the production line has been "working four days a week and three days off." Even so, the production of 5,000 vehicles compared to the sales volume of 156 vehicles is too saturated?

For Qiantu, the K50 is obviously not a mass-market model, and Lu Qun also admitted that it is "for practical purposes." "To set the brand positioning and product tone for Qiantu Motors," he put the burden of volume and the expectation of self-transfusion on the K20.?

The second product, Qiantu K20, has not yet been launched. According to According to the plan, Qiantu K20 will be completed at the end of 2019 and will be launched in the first quarter of 2020. It has been postponed to 2021. Now there is no sound?

It is still a funding issue?