Since the outbreak of the emerging coronavirus-infected pneumonia epidemic, all walks of life have rushed to the front line of the fight against the epidemic, according to incomplete statistics, the automotive industry has accumulated donations and donations, more than 600 million yuan.
This, there are in the car market in the winter has been the growth of the car companies, such as BMW: January 26, that is, the second day of the New Year 15:43 pm, BMW announced that it will be through the China Charity Federation BMW Love Fund, urgent to the Hubei Provincial Charity Federation donated 5 million yuan, used to fight the Hubei Province, especially Wuhan City, a new type of coronavirus pneumonia outbreak; and then Mercedes Benz car Mercedes-Benz also announced on the evening of the second day of the Lunar New Year that it would donate RMB 10 million through the Mercedes-Benz Star Wish Fund of the China Youth Development Foundation to support the prevention and control of the nationwide pneumonia epidemic.
More automobile companies in the center of the epidemic area, such as the Dongfeng Group, donated 10 million yuan to the Wuhan Charity Federation on January 23, when the epidemic was still spreading, and then donated 26 million yuan to the front line of the fight against the epidemic on the second day of the Lunar New Year, together with its companies. Similar to the Dongfeng Group additional donations of peers also belong to the State-head automobile enterprises of the FAW Group: January 27, FAW Group with FAW-Volkswagen, FAW Toyota donated 17 million yuan to support the national, especially Wuhan City, a new type of coronavirus infected with pneumonia prevention and control of the epidemic work. February 2, FAW Group announced that the FAW Group with FAW-Volkswagen to additional donations of 81 million yuan, and set up a special fund for epidemic prevention and control;
Beijing Automobile Group (BAIC) also made an additional donation of 26 million yuan, and on February 2, BAIC again announced that it would donate an additional 17 million yuan. In addition to the cumulative donation of 43 million yuan, the organization's travel enterprises provide related services. Responding to the call, BAIC Light Travel will provide free car service for more than one month in 20 cities across China for frontline medical and rescue personnel and media workers involved in epidemic coverage; BAIC Huaxia Travel will provide more than 2,000 light trucks, medium-sized and small-sized logistic vehicles free of charge for the government, public welfare organizations, industry associations and enterprises involved in epidemic prevention and distribution by providing "motorcycle" services. The company provides free "Mo Fan Express" support to governments, public welfare organizations, industry associations and enterprises for epidemic prevention and distribution to ensure the distribution of epidemic prevention materials and protection of people's livelihood materials.
In the team doing its best for the epidemic, there are not only these market-leading automobile enterprises and state-charactered conglomerates, but also more emerging automobile enterprises that are struggling or just stepped into the automobile industry and haven't yet gained a foothold, which are also doing their best to make their own "modest contribution" to the fight against the coronavirus.
JAC passenger car sales in 2019 were 163,000 units, down 17.8 percent year-on-year. Despite this, JAC announced on Jan. 29 that it was donating 10 million yuan in cash through the Wuhan Red Cross to aid Wuhan in preventing and controlling the pneumonia outbreak caused by the new coronavirus infection. A day later, JAC again dispatched nine Golfa heavy trucks and one Ruifeng M6 commercial vehicle, together with three heavy trucks from other logistics companies, to form an emergency fleet, loaded with eight varieties and 300 tons of fresh vegetables to Wuhan.
Small Peng Automobile 2019 cumulative sales of only 16,608 units. In the current situation of the epidemic, Xiaopeng Automobile has launched an aid operation to donate supplies worth 3 million yuan (mainly in protective clothing, goggles, masks, etc.) to Wuhan and other medical institutions to support the front-line epidemic prevention work. At the same time, it will also donate vehicles for local hospitals in Wuhan, and provide free travel services for the designated treatment hospital in Guangzhou to facilitate the rapid travel of medical and scientific research workers.
Weimar likewise didn't sell more than 20,000 vehicles last year, with only 16,876 cumulative deliveries. But facing the epidemic, Wilma announced a donation of 4 million yuan to Huanggang City, Hubei Province, including masks and other medical supplies, anti-epidemic work vehicles and cash payments, etc., to fully support the local anti-epidemic work. Epidemic at present, these facing financing, product, market and other factors under the pressure of still struggling to survive in the cold winter of the automotive enterprises generously out of these behaviors, as the cold dark night lighting candles, candlelight is weak but still can illuminate themselves, warm others.
This article comes from the author of the automotive home, does not represent the views of the automotive home position.