On February 22, Yi Lianhong, secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, went deep into Shangrao City to investigate the progress of industrial projects at the remote car Shangrao low-carbon digital intelligence factory, accompanied by Shi Wenbin, member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and secretary general of the Provincial Party Committee. Zhou Jianqun, chairman of Geely Commercial Vehicle Group, introduced the production of new energy commercial vehicles in the remote car Shangrao low-carbon digital intelligence factory.
In July 2021, Jiangxi Shangrao Low-carbon Digital Intelligence Factory was officially put into operation, as the base with the highest level of construction and the largest investment scale in the remote automobile sector, it is an internationally advanced and domestic leading resource-saving and environment-friendly smart factory built with digitalization and intelligence as the core, which complements the natural environment of Shangrao's green waters and green mountains. Up to now, Shangrao low-carbon digital wisdom factory has put into production new pure electric light truck remote Xingzhi, remote E200, extended range power remote Xingzhi and other new energy urban logistics vehicles. Among them, the remote E200 pure electric light truck is exported to Uruguay and Israel, and a variety of products are sold simultaneously in Chile, Costa Rica and other countries. Through technology output and brand output, long-range vehicles have seized opportunities in the process of globalization and fully entered the new blue ocean of the global commercial vehicle market.
The remote automobile Shangrao low-carbon digital wisdom factory plays a leading role in the "Jiangxi Automobile City" industry, driving the high-quality development of Jiangxi's new energy automobile industry and creating high-quality employment opportunities for the local area. With the upstream and downstream industrial chain, we will jointly promote the upgrading of Shangrao's commercial vehicle industry and create value for China's automobile industry.
In January 2022, long-range vehicles continued the growth momentum in 2021, achieving a good start in sales, and the overall sales of new energy commercial vehicles increased by 54% year-on-year. Among them, the new energy light truck market put into operation at the Shangrao plant is particularly prominent, with sales volume increasing by 196% year-on-year and a market share of 30.57%, continuing to consolidate the first position in the industry with obvious advantages.
With R&D as the forerunner and business model as the basis, long-range vehicles have undergone 8-year-forward layout, and the products have covered 5 major product lines of heavy trucks, light trucks, small micro trucks, LCVs, and buses, becoming the first commercial vehicle brand in China to complete the multi-energy layout and new energy of the whole series of products. And in Sichuan Nanchong, Jiangxi Shangrao, Anhui Ma'anshan, Shandong Zibo, Shanxi Jinzhong, Zhejiang Huzhou completed six major manufacturing bases, forming a "manufacturing center + business ecology" layout, and around a new generation of new energy intelligent commercial vehicles, in series of intelligent transportation platform and green energy supply network, to promote the realization of China's zero-carbon land transport.