April 8 is a day of universal celebration, because on this day, Wuhan, which experienced a 76-day closure of the city, was officially unsealed, which means that the epidemic prevention and control has begun to bear fruit, and Wuhan, and even the nation's economy is recovering in an orderly manner.
The fact that the epidemic is basically under control cannot be separated from the efforts of the whole country, especially the staff fighting on the front line. And in addition to these personnel, the swift actions of businesses are also worth remembering. During the epidemic, they all donated funds to support Wuhan, with the people of the country and in the infected area of the brotherhood of enterprises together **** to overcome the difficulties. Today, the wheel brother will take you to review the first response in this epidemic car companies.
The first to donate: BMW China/BMW Brilliance
After the outbreak of the epidemic, major car companies responded with donations, among which, BMW Motorrad acted quite quickly, deciding to urgently donate 5 million yuan to the Hubei Charity Federation at the end of January through the BMW Charity Fund of China Charity Federation for the fight against the new type of coronavirus pneumonia outbreak in Hubei, especially in Wuhan City.
According to Roll's understanding, BMW's donation is mainly used to subsidize the urgently-needed masks, protective clothing, protective masks and other urgently-needed materials for the local hospitals in Hubei Province, especially in Wuhan, as well as the related rescue and treatment work. BMW's donation behavior also gave other enterprises a good start, followed by Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and other multinational car companies, as well as Geely, Chery and other independent brands of automobile enterprises have to pour money to help.
It is worth mentioning that on February 12, BMW announced a further donation of 25 million yuan for the Chinese community to fight against the new coronary pneumonia epidemic. Up to now, BMW's cumulative donation has reached 35 million yuan. It can be said that BMW has fully demonstrated its commitment and high sense of social responsibility as a domestic luxury brand automobile enterprise with its practical actions.
The first company to donate vehicles: Geely
Geely has been supporting Wuhan's fight against the epidemic, in addition to donating more than 200 million yuan, but also research and development of anti-virus cars, as well as donating vehicles to provide support for the logistical support of the epidemic. Sources say Geely is the first passenger car company to donate vehicles.
It is reported that Geely donated 50 Jiaji MPVs to the Wuhan New Crown Pneumonia Prevention and Control Command for the local epidemic prevention and control departments to unify transportation and deployment. At the same time, Geely also donated 34 Jiayi to Guiyang, Xi'an, Taizhou and other places, to support the epidemic prevention and control work in three places.
In addition, Geely Automobile also makes full use of global resources, in Volvo headquarters in Sweden, Geely Belarus factory purchased medical gloves, masks, protective clothing and other medical supplies are transported to the epidemic areas, and even set up emergency prevention and control of the security fleet for Wuhan residents of various communities to provide free travel services.
And in addition to Geely, according to incomplete statistics, including SAIC passenger cars, Brilliance Renault Jinbei and other companies in the epidemic period are to the location of the epidemic prevention department donated vehicles.
The first car companies to switch to the production of masks: SAIC-GM-Wuling
During the epidemic, masks are the most scarce materials, although the country is actively purchasing masks shipped to the affected areas of the epidemic, but want to completely solve the gap in resources masks, or the need to have a sufficient amount of production capacity to ensure. In this regard, SAIC-GM-Wuling has implemented the concept of "what the people need, what Wuling builds" by switching to the production of masks, and changing the workshop for producing automotive NVH acoustic cotton into a dust-free workshop, which is used for the production of N95 and disposable medical masks.
Compared with other procurement of epidemic prevention materials for donation of car companies, SAIC-GM-Wuling joint suppliers to directly organize the production of masks, became the first person in the car circle to produce masks, can be said to be quite hardcore. It is reported that SAIC-GM-Wuling joint upstream suppliers Guangxi DeFuTe Group, through the transformation of production lines to produce masks of the project, from the idea to enter the concrete implementation stage, just with less than 5 days, the efficiency is very high.
A part of the masks produced by SAIC-GM-Wuling will be handed over to the Liuzhou municipal government for unified deployment to support the epidemic prevention line; another part will be given to the epidemic prevention front-line strugglers and upstream and downstream industry chain partners. For example, some time ago, Wuling sent 10 million masks to dealers and suppliers and other front-line employees to support their safe return to work and production.
In addition to this, BYD Auto and Guangzhou Automobile Group have also joined the camp of switching to the production of masks, in which BYD produces 300,000 bottles of disinfectant daily along with 5 million medical masks daily. And Guangzhou Automobile Group has made 30 units of its own equipment in order to boost its production capacity during the production of masks. It needs to be said that the masks produced by these car companies are not used to make profits, but are provided to frontline personnel in the prevention and control of epidemics and public **** services, as well as to the company's staff.
The first brand to announce no dealer target: Volvo Cars
The car companies' anti-epidemic initiatives are also reflected in their care policies for dealers. Because of the obvious decline in customer traffic to auto 4S stores during the epidemic and the difficulty in delivering vehicles for a large number of orders, dealers are under a lot of operational pressure.
In order to reduce the pressure on dealers, Volvo Cars proposed to relax the performance appraisal and not to set a sales target for February, which is the first of its kind in the automotive industry. In addition, Volvo Cars is also offering subsidies totaling more than 10 million yuan directly to dealership staff, taking into account that their incomes may be affected by the epidemic.
In addition to the policies under the outbreak, Volvo Cars has also supported dealers in a number of ways, such as stepping up negotiations with banks to reduce the risk of repayment due to a small number of dealers; extending the waiver period on the basis of the agreed opening date for projects such as new authorized 4S stores under construction; and suspending on-site audits such as dealership standard audits, and so on. This series of initiatives, while reflecting corporate social responsibility, also reflects the importance Volvo Cars attaches to its dealer partners.
The epidemic has once again allowed us to see the responsibility and commitment of car companies, which are sparing no effort to support the epidemic-stricken areas. Now after more than two months of efforts, the epidemic has finally been basically controlled. Although the epidemic is still affecting our lives, we believe that we will be able to overcome it in the near future under the environment of national unity against the epidemic.
This article comes from the author of the automobile home car family number, does not represent the views of the automobile home position.