Hello everyone, I'm the president of the Electric Vehicle Commune.
The epidemic has been going on for a month now, and the automotive industry, which seems so far away from life, is in a very serious situation.
I'm not exaggerating to make a gimmick, some of my sales friends found that they couldn't sell their cars during the epidemic because no one would risk their lives to go into a store to look at cars at this time.
The OEMs upstream of the 4S stores found they couldn't work either, partly because their employees didn't want to or couldn't go back, and partly because they couldn't work without masks.
Suppliers upstream of the OEMs found themselves out of raw materials, partly because there wasn't enough inventory in the program, and partly because their upstream raw material suppliers couldn't produce either because of the epidemic.
So it was a chain of events, and no one could move. Extending to the upstream and downstream industries of the automobile industry, those affected that are not hundreds of thousands of people, but millions and millions of people.
So that's why, Beijing Benz is now begging grandpa and grandma to get Tianjin to approve the supplier to resume production, according to their own words, "If Beijing Benz can't resume work on ?2? month ?10? day, the economic loss will be more than ?4? million yuan a day?" .
Beijing Benz, which has always been rich and powerful, is begging to resume production, and in fact most companies are getting close to their limits. But that's when one company caught fire.
February 5, Wuling bought 20,000 medical masks from overseas to send to the first line;
February 6, Wuling released a plan to unite suppliers to build masks, changed the supplier 12 production lines, the daily output is planned to end of the month to reach 1.7 million;
February 8, the first batch of 20 masks off the line, in line with the standard of the civilian population, the medical one is in the pipeline;
February 10, Wuling found that the production capacity is not enough, decided to build their own masks;
February 13, their own production masks also shipped, 500,000 / day;
February 14, the 1 million masks off the line, part of which was given to the government, part of which was given to the front-line medical care;
February 19, Wuling's first mask machine came off the production line, just took 76 hours, meaning that Big Brother is not only building masks, but also mask machines.
Today (February 20), Wuling handed the government a batch of intelligent mobile temperature measurement vehicles, which can measure the temperature of large moving crowds within 2 meters 。。。。
From buying the masks, to persuading suppliers to build them, to building the masks themselves, to building the masking machines, to delivering the mobile temperature measuring vehicles today, the whole process took only 15 days.
Sorry I'm an automotive journalist, but I really can't help but want to blow up Wuling on the speed of this fight against the epidemic.
(About why Wuling made the mask, you can poke the picture above to see the previous article)
And this time, Wuling's slogan is also very hard-core, "What the people need, Wuling produces", which is also greatly written on the mask box.
Why did I say I wanted to blow up Wuling?
Today, I have time to turn over a variety of historical materials to find that this slogan is really not blindly shouting Bo gimmick, Wuling in the people around the people from the womb with the characteristics of the present day, and now we marvel at the "speed of the Wuling" is from a long time ago can be seen in the first signs.
This story is very interesting, and will even subvert some of the cognitive, because the slogan from the early years of the country to say:
Wuling is the early years of the country in response to the country's call for the establishment of the plant, "drum up the energy, striving for the upper reaches of the construction of socialism, faster and better," the establishment of the Liuzhou Power Machinery Factory.
Rapidly found that agriculture at that time relied on human and animal power, the country called for the revitalization of industry and development of agriculture, the people people need ah, so they backhandedly dry tractor, but also dry to one of the eight major tractor factory. People's efficiency improved, the national GDP also began to move up under the efforts of all. It's true that those who made supercars made their fortune in tractors.
But soon with the reform of state-owned enterprises, Wuling's tractors suddenly lost sales overnight, not to mention the inventory backlog of 1,713 units, only a few steps away from bankruptcy.
With no help from the state, the only thing Wuling could rely on was to continue to respond to the needs of the people -- to produce what the people needed. At that time, people were in dire need of civilian industrial products to improve the standard of living of our people, Wuling took a look at the people's needs of the people have changed a little, so they left their tractors behind and turned around to work on sewing machines and looms.
But the patchwork in the end is not a permanent solution, at this time in the early 1980s, the Central Agricultural Machinery Department of the Bureau of Military Industry to introduce a Japanese Mitsubishi minivan, the organization of domestic manufacturers related to research and study, but Wuling was not selected.
Not willing to "out" of the Wuling, simply introduce a Japanese minivan, from which more than 2,500 kinds of demolition, more than 5,500 pieces of parts, with a ruler inch by inch, one by one manual measurements, drawings, and then machine tool car, a little bit of hammer out of the first Vanguard brand mini-vans, which opens the era of the Wuling car era. The so-called "Vanguard brand" is just because it can adapt to the different needs of millions of families.
At that time, because of the name and logo also learned together, so the name are more than "Mitsubishi" two diamonds "Wuling", some people do not look favorably, and even think that this is just a cottage.
But then it did use its own sales hit those people hard in the face: from 1991 production and sales of 10,000 units, to production and sales of 100,000 units to become the domestic micro-vehicle industry production and sales of the first, the Wuling only used 7 years. And never from the altar down, after all, understand what the people need, more important than anything else.
In these seven years, Wuling has done a lot of many small things:
I am impressed by the most simple door width, Wuling Hongguang is actually very sophisticated - it is a few millimeters wider than other products.
But just by virtue of these few millimeters, let the market common size door panels can be directly into the Wuling car. To know that many car owners to pull goods to pull building materials, in this other cars can not be stuffed into the door, the Wuling can be the case, Wuling's hot sales is not difficult to understand.
Thousands of small and insignificant things like this, but also little by little to accumulate people's trust in the Chinese manufacturing, after all, such enterprises know the people in the case of the people at that time, the most wanted in the end is what. The people at that time need it ah.
So there was the legend of "Wuling's God":
Up the mountain:
Down the river:
Driving in the wind:
Can be loaded:
Invulnerable:
Inertial drift:
Waterproofing:
Ants fighting elephants:
With the help of the Wuling's God, the company has been able to create an environment where the people of China can enjoy the benefits of the Wuling's power. Ants fighting elephants:
The battle is fierce:
The deep-voiced Wuling, which later even fucked Forbes for a time, "The unassuming and unassuming Wuling is by far the best-selling car in China, an automobile that can be found in any village in the countryside, and which they use to haul any cargo, from electrical appliances to sugarcane. "
--They had to canonize the Wuling, and I'd like to think it's more than just flirting with the idea that in addition to drifting around corners, in addition to running fast, in addition to routinely crashing top-of-the-line luxury cars, it's also because it's helped China's economy, and you'd be hard pressed to imagine how much hard-earned money $30,000 leathery and durable cars have saved the masses of working people.
The president's family in Loudi, Hunan, an ordinary can no longer be ordinary prefecture-level city, in the streets of Loudi, you can see Wuling cars everywhere, and when I was a child in the countryside with my grandparents grew up in the countryside, but also in the countryside is accustomed to seeing the Wuling.
Grandma's home in the mountains there is an open pig farm Uncle Xie, he would usually take the seat ? Pulling pig feed, after all, the family more than 40 pigs count on it. But sometimes he would put the seat back on, saying he was taking his old partner to pick up his little granddaughter from school. I heard my mom say the other day that he's planning to raise 100 pigs if he makes some more money.
Master Zhang, the legendary "black car master", every day driving his Wuling in Loudi to Shuangfeng Zengqiao round trip between 6, 7 trips, and he went back and forth every time there will be a variety of people from all walks of life, a day down to the pull of the passengers to a small 100, most of them do not have a car at home, but also have an urgent matter of waiting for an hour! A bus. Recently, Loudi back to his hometown has a bus, as long as 3 dollars to sit in the whole, half an hour a trip, Zhang's business is not good, but he said that the old house is built, his son has a place to get married.
Li, in the Zengqiao elementary school near the store, usually driving a Wuling Hongguang go to the city to buy goods, every time to go to Loudi, he will also rush to the end of the school day, driving his Wuling to the city key elementary school door, he parked on the side of the road to sit in the car and smoke, a sit is more than an hour, he said he is looking at the city's children are playing what is new, and would like to try to enter a little bit to go back to the sale. He said he'd like to make a few more years of money and open a store by the city's elementary school, and then he'd like to get a new car.
An Saeko, my kindergarten classmates, he did not study in high school, teenagers to work in the construction site. 20 years old on a blind date to meet a girlfriend in a clothing store selling clothes, so he went back to his hometown in Loudi, in the street to open the motorcycle. At that time two people although no money, but he will ride a motorcycle to pick up his girlfriend home regardless of wind and rain, until one day to see his girlfriend under the eaves to hide from the rain, although never complained with him, but he bought a second-hand Wuling the next day with more than 20,000 savings. It was also a rainy day, and the winter in the south was bone-chillingly cold. After getting on the bike, his girlfriend said, "It's a nice bike, and it has warm air. He was secretly determined to marry this girl. Now they are married and had a fleshy little boy some time ago.
You see, no matter how the car elite and car circle V how to flirt, buy it people are still working hard for the future, and the Wuling Hongguang seems to be their good partner on the road, accompanied by them, in the streets and alleys, in the wholesale market, in the countryside, and a lot of sweat in the creation of the future of the people together, have always believed that "destiny can be by the The company's main goal is to make a difference in the lives of the people who live there.
In many families that own a Wuling Hongguang, the car represents the only source of income and the support for a better life, and even earlier, a car could be the hope of a village.
"Behind every Wuling Hongguang, there is a story of a man's entrepreneurship, and the struggles of an ordinary family," is not a faulty statement at all.
And this time, the new crown pneumonia virus is coming on strong, when other car companies kneel down and beg for resumption of work, Wuling looked at the raw materials and processes for building masks, and asked its own supplier of acoustic foam can be built? From communication to remodeling the supplier's production line to the first batch of masks off the line, it took only three days.
Then it was realized that there was still a shortage of masks, and it was not possible to resume work on a large scale anyway, so it just changed its own production line. In addition to building masks, Wuling has started to build mask machines and mobile temperature measurement vehicles, and did all this in just 15 days.
Theoretically, the production environment for the masks, mask machines and cars is the same, so hitch up a machine, buy the materials and pair up the workers, and you can build the things that are currently most needed by the people and by any business that wants to get back to work.
So this time, like every time in history, Wuling still didn't hesitate to build even the tools of production. Like the mold of a simple, unassuming country boy who chases you with everything he has dead to rights and wants to give you 10 bucks when he only has 10 bucks himself.
Well, it's comforting to know that after Wuling, we've also seen a lot of Chinese manufacturing join the ranks:
Battery king BYD, not only followed suit with masks but also disinfectant water;
Shaanxi Automobile, which produces heavy-duty trucks, has begun to build goggles;
SINOPEC, one of the petroleum giants, has quickly begun to produce the raw materials necessary to medical equipment, and with partners has begun to manufacture
Guangzhou Automobile said, "I don't know how, but I can learn," and workers studied for 15 days, and today the first batch of masks came off the line;
Foxconn, which has been making cell phones for Apple, started making masks;
The three-gun clothing that was familiar to us when we were children started making masks;
The three-gun clothing that was familiar to us as children started making masks.
Even the controversial Miss Dong, also said Gree has completed the registration of the production plant of "Gaoge Medical Technology" on February 10, and plans to put in two mask production lines in March, which is expected to reach a daily production capacity of 80,000-100,000 pcs;
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You see, thousands of companies, big and small, have been contributing their share in this epidemic.
Whether it is just to answer the call, or for the sake of the people; whether it is from the past to build tractors, sewing machines, or now masks; these are all the original banal and uninteresting things, but they have become in every stage of history? The backbone of China's economy, and because of such Chinese manufacturing, we believe that we will win this fight against the epidemic.
The president also interviewed a few owners in the front line of the fight these days, they are engaged in different industries, no matter what they are responsible for, they are also working hard with a little bit of their own power, and will share it with you in a few days.
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