When it comes to the Chinese New Year, the new coronavirus infection in Wuhan is rampant, after several days of strict prevention and control, the situation is still complex and severe. It is said that in times of crisis see true love, in the Wuhan epidemic area of medical supplies in an emergency, the cohesion of the Chinese nation is embodied, all walks of life in the "war epidemic" and action, fully embodies the "one side of the disaster, eight parties to support" the spirit of China, and the automotive industry is no exception. The automobile industry is no exception.
According to incomplete statistics, since the first donation of Dongfeng Motor on January 23, 2020, the automotive industry in less than two weeks, a total of more than 120 vehicle companies, tuning companies, parts suppliers, dealer groups, charging companies, logistics and travel companies, etc., to fight the epidemic donations exceeded 1.2 billion yuan.
It is worth noting that over the past two years, the auto industry has been in a downward phase, with production and sales of 25.721 million and 25.769 million vehicles, down 7.5 percent and 8.2 percent year-on-year, respectively. Many companies are "belt-tightening" life, but in front of the new coronavirus pneumonia virus, the major car companies have been generous.
These donations are not simply donations, it is not just money, it also includes car companies to use all possible channels at home and abroad to buy medical material, including car companies under the travel company in Wuhan front day and night, including car companies in the Spring Festival holiday supply chain is basically interrupted in the case of the tenacity of the production of negative pressure ambulance. At a time when the country is experiencing difficulties, it is also a time when the social values of these companies are being realized.
Money and materials to help
The first to bear the brunt of the Hubei Province-based Dongfeng Group, following the January 23rd donation of 10 million yuan to the Wuhan Charity Federation, on January 26th, Dongfeng Motor Co. once again announced an additional donation of 26 million yuan, with its enterprises, for a cumulative donation of 36 million yuan. Its Dongfeng Xiaokang also donated vehicles such as Dongfeng Fengguang 580 and Dongfeng Fengguang ix7 to Hubei Charity Federation, *** worth about 5 million yuan. Roughly calculated, the cumulative donations of Dongfeng Motor Group to the infected areas have reached 41 million yuan.
In addition to Dongfeng Group, large state-owned automobile groups such as FAW Group, GAC Group, SAIC Group and BAIC Group have also extended their helping hands. Among them, China FAW with FAW-Volkswagen (including Volkswagen, Audi and Jetta) and FAW Toyota donated 81 million yuan. GAC Group, together with its GAC Honda, GAC Toyota and GAC Passenger Vehicles, donated more than 22 million yuan. BAIC Group's 10 automobile-related units **** the same donation of 17 million yuan.
In addition to this, BYD donated 10 million yuan as well as N95 masks valued at 1 million yuan; JAC donated 10 million yuan in cash, in addition to 300 tons of fresh vegetables shipped from Hefei to Wuhan; Great Wall Motors donated 5 million yuan as well as Great Wall Cannon pickup trucks with a total value of 1.15 million yuan to support epidemic prevention and emergency response work in Chongqing; Ideal Motors, Ne Zha car, Nezha Automobile, Xiaopeng Automobile and many other new car-making forces donated money and goods to support Wuhan's fight against the epidemic. Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Volvo and other luxury brands have also set an example, and Tesla has even thoughtfully launched a policy of free supercharging in China during the epidemic. And Ningde Times, Fuyao Group, dropshipping and other auto parts manufacturing or service enterprises have also been generous, to offer their piece of mind.
It is worth mentioning that, although Jaguar Land Rover is a luxury brand, but this year's sales were plummeting, now Jaguar Land Rover has been deep in the sales slump, the epidemic came, still came up with 8 million yuan to donate. Azure automobile in 2019 became the country's most serious loss of automobile production enterprises, its founder Li Bin also became "the most miserable people in 2019", and Azure automobile donation amounted to 5.3 million. Even the recent difficulties of the new special car, also did everything possible to come up with tens of thousands of sets of protective clothing materials. In addition, as the future of the new energy automobile field can not be ignored in the field of a car company, Evergrande Automobile has been much attention, but in fact, Evergrande Automobile has not yet a model on the market, and ultimately Evergrande Automobile is still a generous donation of 200 million yuan.
Establishing a special fund to provide continuous support for epidemic prevention
Li Shufu is known to be a "philanthropist" in the automotive industry, who has been committed to China's charitable causes, and in the defense of the epidemic, Geely Automobile has indeed been paying its dues with sincerity.
Shortly after the outbreak of the epidemic, Geely Automobile announced the establishment of 200 million yuan of new pneumonia epidemic prevention and control special fund to support the epidemic-hit areas. The special fund will purchase urgently needed medical supplies according to the actual needs of the epidemic-stricken areas across the country; support the construction of temporary hospitals in the epidemic-stricken areas; and provide necessary help and support for the personnel fighting on the front line against the epidemic. At the same time, it supports the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and other organizations in researching and developing vaccines and curing drugs for new coronaviruses and other new viruses.
Additionally, Geely announced on Feb. 4 that it will invest 370 million yuan to start research and development of an "all-around healthy car" with virus-prevention features. Geely said the "all-round health car" is mainly for ordinary consumers. The car not only can isolate the harmful substances in the external air, but also focus on breakthroughs in the car virus prevention function and technology, effectively inhibit and reduce the virus on the human body.
On January 31, Volvo Cars (Asia Pacific) Investment Holdings Ltd. announced the establishment of a special fund to fight the new coronavirus, with the first batch of 1 million yuan in donations directed to support the Shanghai Municipal Public **** Health Clinical Center. At the same time, Volvo Cars also donated 10 million RMB in medical emergency supplies and equipment for the prevention and control of the epidemic. Both donations will be made by Volvo Cars together with the Li Shufu Public Welfare Foundation Epidemic Prevention and Control Special Fund***.
In fact, the establishment of the special fund can be based on the needs of the epidemic, scientific planning of the direction and rhythm of the use of funds, sustainable support for the national epidemic prevention and control work.
Response materials global sweep
During the outbreak of the epidemic, at any time you can see from the front line of protective materials for help information, due to the lack of production capacity and other multiple reasons, the first line of protective masks and protective clothing is seriously insufficient, the domestic many car companies to take advantage of the overseas layout of the advantages of the world to buy and mobilize masks, protective clothing, etc., to support Wuhan.
At 5 a.m. on Jan. 30, 60,000 ***2.38 tons of masks raised by SAIC from overseas landed at Shanghai Pudong Airport on time, and after receiving the masks, they opened a green channel for emergency delivery of medical supplies and immediately sent the masks to Wuhan. on Jan. 31, 40,000 sets of protective suits transported from Sydney to Shanghai ***40,000 sets of protective suits from SAIC were shipped directly to Wuhan's local hospitals through its logistics company. .
Geely Holding Group has actively joined forces with its overseas subsidiaries to purchase much-needed medical supplies in Sweden and other countries, and the first batch of medical masks totaling ***250,000 have been shipped from Sweden to the country and will be used to support the infected areas. Meanwhile, Geely Automobile donated 50 MPV models of Geely Jiayi to the Wuhan New Crown Pneumonia Prevention and Control Command, which will be deployed and used by the Prevention and Control Command. Chery played a global channel advantage, from Israel, Brazil, Russia, Argentina and other more than 10 countries to raise the domestic shortage of medical protection materials, has been arriving in China, to support the epidemic prevention and control.
In addition, some joint ventures, such as Hyundai Motor Group, have donated 5 million yuan worth of medical supplies in addition to 10 million yuan in cash. Considering the shortage of supplies in China, Hyundai Motor Group will purchase protective suits, masks and goggles from South Korea, as well as personal protection materials that are urgently needed by people in the severely infected areas, and deliver them in the fastest way to solve the urgent needs of the front line of the epidemic.
Overtime production of negative pressure ambulance
Including Wuhan, a number of provinces and cities, the epidemic is critical, negative pressure ambulance is one of the key needs of the fight against the epidemic materials. In order to support the epidemic prevention and control, the State Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on a number of car companies issued a negative pressure ambulance production tasks.
On the night of New Year's Eve, SAIC Datsun received an urgent order from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China (MIIT), requesting the delivery of 60 negative pressure ambulances for the rescue and treatment of pneumonia in Wuhan Xinguan before February 5th. After receiving the order, SAIC Datsun officially resumed work on the first day of the Lunar New Year, January 25, and continuously worked overtime for production to ensure delivery on schedule before February 5th. Brilliance Automotive returned to work on the second day of the Lunar New Year, and the engineers and employees on the production line worked overtime to ensure the production progress, and to ensure the delivery of 10-15 negative pressure ambulances on February 5th.
As the largest ambulance manufacturer in China, JLF donated 10 existing negative pressure ambulances to support Wuhan at the first time. After that, JFW received more than 1900 ambulance production orders, after a few days of overtime, the morning of February 3, JFW stepped up the production of 18 Ford Transit negative pressure ambulances sent to Wuhan, of which 8 plus the day before the emergency aid of 2 a total of 10 will be donated to Wuhan free of charge to the front line of the fight against the epidemic, for the focus of the epidemic area of the epidemic prevention and control to contribute to the power of JFW.
Beijing Automobile Foton actively resumed production, and the production workshop of Tuyano negative pressure ambulance has been fully staffed in advance, and more than a hundred workers are working hard on the production line. At the construction site of Vulcan Mountain Hospital, hundreds of machines were working at the same time, and BAIC Foton products such as Ouman trucks and Raisa pump trucks were listed. At the same time, a batch of BAIC Foton Ouman heavy trucks, loaded with epidemic prevention and control materials from all over the country, rushed to the front line of the epidemic, and became the "retrograde" in the fight against the epidemic.
Travel platforms work together to "fight the epidemic"
Since the outbreak of the epidemic, Wuhan's public **** transportation system has been suspended. For the front line of the war epidemic white shirt against the line to eliminate worries, technology travel platform hand in hand "war epidemic", to protect the epidemic areas of basic transportation can be said to be for the medical staff and the general public in the snow.
January 23, T3 travel announced the establishment of Wuhan special action fleet, support for the transportation of medical personnel. January 25 onwards, Shenzhou car rental will be in the country for the rescue agencies to provide free car. The company has also set up a local "medical protection fleet" to provide free travel services for medical workers in hospitals in Wuhan, and is on standby for the Spring Festival, with all costs borne by the company.
On January 26, according to the official WeChat content of Dongfeng Travel, Dongfeng Travel set up a community fleet of 1,000 cars (including 700 online cars and 300 cabs) to provide free services for the targeted communities according to the requirements of the command department.
On January 28, Ou Travel, a subsidiary of the Great Wall, set up an emergency protection fleet for the fight against epidemics and established an immediate communication channel with the competent traffic authorities and transportation management agencies. instant communication channels, and the drivers were on standby 24 hours a day to provide transportation services for healthcare workers.
Beijing New Energy announced on Jan. 30 that it will provide free car service for front-line medical and rescue workers and media workers involved in the epidemic coverage in 20 major cities across China from now on, and will provide cars for more than one month to medical aid organizations and media workers in need of cars.
Cao Cao Travel (Wuhan), the travel service platform of Geely Holding Group, has also set up an emergency prevention and control protection fleet to provide free travel services for residents in various communities in Wuhan. In addition, BYD's wholly-owned and joint venture Wuhan Green Motion, Yadui and other travel platforms called on hundreds of drivers and employees to support the front line, forming community protection fleets and cruisers voluntary emergency fleets to transport medical personnel to and from work and to protect the public emergency travel.
As the national pillar industry of the automobile industry, although in the past two years is experiencing the test of the market downturn, although this sudden epidemic will also make their production and operation will be more facing a lot of uncertainty (February 3 after the year the first trading day of the A-share, most of the listed automobile companies shares suffered a heavy setback, the collective plunge), but these timely assistance and donations, but also fully reflects the The auto industry's social responsibility in China shows the kind of family sentiment that a booming industry should have.
In fact, the epidemic is not just the responsibility of a certain company or organization, each of us can do a lot of things for the prevention and control of the epidemic, and I hope that everyone will pay attention to the prevention and control of the epidemic, and I don't ask everyone to donate money, I just hope that I can protect myself and my family, and not to let the epidemic deepen the contagion again.
This article comes from the author of the automobile home car family number, does not represent the views of the automobile home position.