The 19th Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition opened on November 19, 2021 with the theme of "New Technology, New Life". Liu Jingxian, Director of the Brand Business Department of Jiangling Motors Sales Co.
Liu Jingxian, Director of Brand Business Department of Jiangling Motors Sales Co.
The following is the transcript of the interview:
Automotive Production Economy: First, you will introduce what you will see at the Guangzhou Auto Show this year. What are the key products of JLM at the Guangzhou Auto Show?
Liu Jingxian: In our booth, pickup trucks have not yet listed new products - 2022 JZZV 7, and JZZZV Fishing Edition, and has been selling the product JZZV 9; light passenger brought four vehicles, including two recreational saloon, the intercontinental rambler intercontinental version of the new generation of the Transit Pro B-type saloon and the new Transit Oxmoor King B saloon, the other two are the new Transit commercial bus and Tesun Space King logistics vehicle.
Automotive Business: Many automotive brands are down this year because of the chip shortage, I wonder what JLT's market performance is like this year?
Liu Jingxian: Jiangling's cumulative sales volume from January to October was 275,000 units, an increase of 8.8%, it should be said that this increase is not too high, such as the chip shortage that you have just said, it's okay for us because on the one hand, we have a wider product line, which can relatively make up for the shortage of some products. The second is that our long-term cooperation with suppliers in the mutual support relationship, also played a certain role in support. In general, under the pressure of the general environment, we still maintain a solid market position, light passenger is always the first, pickup trucks second, light trucks fourth.
Automotive Production: This year, Jiangling has made cross-border cooperation with many famous enterprises, which should also bring some new development direction for the enterprise, can you introduce the situation this year?
Liu Jingxian: Because the entire automotive industry has undergone a series of profound changes over the years, JLT has also participated in them, and on September 9 this year, we released China's first L4-class intelligent driving light bus, which is a mass-produced and designed L4-class vehicle that we have built with Wenyuan Zhixing and Zhongtong. The first batch will be put into the operation of Zhongtong, which is also what we do in the intelligent driving of commercial vehicles.
There is also a strategic partnership that we signed with Unicom not long ago, most notably on the 5G industrial Internet and intelligent manufacturing, as well as some basic cooperation in the area of automated driving, which includes a series of aspects such as big data, cloud computing and other aspects of cooperation. These two are in fact mainly highlighted in our intelligent driving this piece.
In the new energy sector, we are working with Ningde Times to develop the next-generation new energy commercial vehicle platform, as well as with a third-party design company. In addition to these aspects, we are also expanding the customer operation this piece, because the commercial vehicle this piece, especially in terms of cargo demand, to put it bluntly is to transport goods from point A to point B, so we are also with some cross-border head of the logistics company logistics platform for some operational cooperation, in fact, we are from the product to do the overall transportation solutions such an attempt, these are the cross-border applications we can do now! These are all cross-border applications that we can do now. The general direction is also this kind of intelligent, new energy and the whole business model change.
Auto Business: Can you tell us more about the JLR Fishing Edition?
Liu Jingxian: Jiangling Dewoo Fishing Edition this car is we developed in the Dewoo 7 platform, Jiangling Dewoo 7 itself is positioned as a business and passenger, not our previous tool car, not purely as a big toy, it is for this part of the process has been in the cause of the fight there is a certain amount of accumulation, at the same time in the When the career is flourishing, in order to treat themselves well in the process of career development, so that they have a better and more comfortable working environment, the entire interior of the car has been upgraded systematically, including space, including human-computer interaction, including intelligent equipment, in this way, let them use the car as a work, but also be able to enjoy the fun of work, very relaxed. At the same time let them in their spare time can also be used as a family trip or to relax. Because whether it is SUV or pickup truck, he stayed in the outdoors for a particularly long time, his rest, supplies are not enough to be guaranteed, and we have this JLR Fishing Edition is a multi-functional suitable for the fishing scene of a caravan concept, in addition to just talking about some of the special equipment, fishing rods, tanks and oxygenation equipment, etc., and a lot of resting space, including beds, kitchens, and even solar energy! Power supply, but also to meet many needs of outdoor camping. This car for fishing enthusiasts not only meet the tool transportation attribute, but also enriches his fishing fun, there are more connotations of the extension.
The design of this car is also based on our JZDT platform "1+X" concept, "1" is our JZDT, "X" refers to a platform on which there are several scenarios of customization and personalization. There are a number of scenarios of customized personalized development, fishing version is one of them, after that we will have more versions out, such as photography version, taking into account the carrying of professional photographic equipment, we can do according to the needs of reasonable customization of the place to be placed; and then the cross-country version, or to meet the special customized version of the different sports, which is the "1 + X This is the concept of "1+X".