At the same time, the signing ceremony of major industrial projects in Hefei in 2020 was also held in Jianghuai Weilai Factory. Among them, Weilai China headquarters project finally settled in Hefei, with an investment of more than 654.38+0 billion yuan.
This means that the previous cooperation between Yizhuang Guotou and Weilai may be ruined.
Weilai financing blood and tears history
From last year to this year, counting the history of Weilai financing is like a tragicomedy that is constantly exposed and denied.
At the end of May last year, at the conference call of Weilai 20 19Q 1 Financial Report, Weilai revealed that Weilai Automobile announced the establishment of a new entity "Weilai China", and Beijing Yizhuang International Investment and Development Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Yizhuang International Investment and Development Co., Ltd.") will contribute 65.438+00 billion yuan to Weilai China in cash.
Yizhuang SDIC subsequently confirmed the news and told the media that Yizhuang SDIC would assist Weilai China to build or introduce a third party to build Weilai China's advanced manufacturing base to produce the company's second-generation platform models. Both parties are continuing to work hard to complete the final binding transaction document.
On July 24th, 20 19, Weilai Automobile Technology Co., Ltd. was incorporated in Yizhuang. This is regarded as a real hammer for Weilai to settle in Yizhuang, China.
But after that, there was no news from both sides.
The new news of Weilai's financing everywhere has also been constantly exposed.
Last June, 5438+ 10, Netcom Weilai was negotiating a financing intention of over 5 billion yuan with Wuxing District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Weilai will build a factory with an annual output of 200,000 vehicles in Wuxing District. At the same time, the related documents about the discussion of Weilai automobile project in Huzhou and Wuxing District also came out on the Internet, emphasizing that the introduction of Weilai smart car project is not only a huge opportunity, but also a certain risk. Subsequently, the Xing Wu District Government denied this.
Wei Lai revealed that it is indeed conducting financing negotiations with many parties.
June 5438+1 October 65438+May, 2020, some media revealed that GAC will invest about1billion USD in Weilai and is raising funds. Subsequently, Guangzhou Automobile Group announced: "The two sides have discussed Weilai's financing plan, but it is still in the early stage."
The latest rumor is that Geely Automobile will invest 300 million US dollars in Weilai Automobile, which is expected to become the third largest shareholder of Weilai Automobile.
Judging from the news that Weilai China has settled in Hefei, it may be Anhui Province or Hefei City that will finally lend a helping hand to Weilai.
According to Anhui local media reports, the total investment of the eight projects signed this time is 654.38+002 billion yuan, of which four projects including Weilai China Headquarters all exceed 654.38+000 billion yuan, with the largest investment reaching 40 billion yuan.
This means that Weilai may obtain more than RMB 654.38+0 billion in financing in China through this project. Of course, the additional condition must be to fall in Hefei.
From the perspective of industry, the eight contracted projects are concentrated in high-end frontier industries such as new energy vehicles, integrated circuits, medical and health care, industrial Internet, and equipment manufacturing.
According to local media, this is highly consistent with Hefei's key industrial clusters such as integrated circuits, new energy vehicles, biomedicine and high-end equipment manufacturing, which is of great significance for China's communication industry and high-end intelligent electric vehicles to achieve autonomous and controllable development and cope with international competition.
The cooperation between Weilai and Jianghuai is expected to continue.
This move will also consolidate the cooperative relationship between Jianghuai Automobile and Weilai Automobile.
Starting from 20 16, the two sides will comprehensively promote the industrial chain cooperation between new energy vehicles and intelligent networked vehicles. These include: technological innovation based on the Internet and the Internet of Things, deepening the construction of advanced manufacturing bases, and forming a highly intelligent, highly automated and highly integrated manufacturing system. Optimize and integrate the resources of the supply chain system, strengthen the technical cooperation of core key components such as batteries, motors, electronic controls and automotive electronics, and build a world-class supply chain capability system.
According to the announcement at that time, the overall cooperation scale was about 654.38+0 billion yuan.
Subsequently, the intelligent high-end electric manufacturing base jointly built by Jianghuai Weilai started construction in June of the same year and was officially put into use in the second half of 20 17.
Jianghuai Weilai Manufacturing Base is located in Hefei Economic and Technological Development Zone, covering an area of about 839.6 mu, with a total construction area of 23 square meters. According to the plan, the annual production capacity of the manufacturing base can reach 654.38+10,000 pure electric vehicles.
Since its establishment three years ago, this high-end manufacturing base has become a model project in Hefei and Anhui, and has received many national leaders and visiting groups at home and abroad. Even the CEO of Audi AG, Diss, praised it after the visit.
After Weilai's headquarters in China landed in Hefei, it means that the models of Weilai's second-generation platform may also be produced in Hefei. Weilai did not disclose whether to continue production in Jianghuai factory or build a new factory. Che Yun guessed that it would continue to cooperate with Jianghuai in manufacturing.
Earlier, Li Bin, founder, chairman and CEO of Weilai, told Che Yun that he was very grateful to JAC. When Weilai had only a few PPT, he was willing to believe that Weilai could come up with real money and build a new factory with Weilai.
JAC executives also told Che Yun that JAC needs to actively learn from a new car-making enterprise with innovative thinking and Internet genes like Weilai at the moment of great changes in the automobile industry. Weilai did sell more than 400,000 vehicles and more than 30,000 vehicles in two years. This is what China's independent brands need to learn.
At present, Weilai has not confirmed the news of financing. It is reported that Weilai will announce the latest financing progress in the financial report.
This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.