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Today, a video quickly became popular on the Internet, a video spontaneously recorded by a number of BMW Brilliance foreign employees, in which they used shorter words to announce to the world: "I'm in China!" (I'm in China) Come on, China!"

Although the video is only 2 minutes and 45 seconds long, there are about 27 BMW Brilliance foreign employees from Germany, Austria, Britain and other nationalities leaving the country, and everyone uses the shortest words in the video to announce to the world: "I'm in China!" (I'm in China) Come on, China!"

In addition, Martin Orotelli, a BMW employee from German nationality, said at the beginning of the video,"I saw on the Internet that Chinese people were treated badly abroad because of the epidemic in China. I think it is necessary to cheer up my colleagues and Chinese people in China at this time!" Encounter this kind of predicament of epidemic situation, it is the time that we need to face together, extend help. At this time, we must stand up for China! It's also in line with our BMW culture."

It is understood that most of the 27 foreigners in the recorded video are employees working in BMW Brilliance Shenyang factory, and many of their employees have lived in Shenyang for a long time, the longest time is about five years, so in their view China has become a second home.

Although each employee in the video has different nationalities and length of life in China, and different understanding of Chinese culture, they all express that they like China and love China! Therefore, this move has been praised and forwarded by many netizens on social media.

Affected by the new coronavirus epidemic, BMW is also one of the early companies to make donations and epidemic prevention and control plans.

On January 26, BMW Group officially announced that BMW China and Brilliance BMW Automobile Co., Ltd. decided to urgently donate RMB 5 million yuan to Hubei Province Charity Federation through BMW Love Fund of China Charity Federation to fight new coronavirus pneumonia in Hubei Province, especially in Wuhan City. The donation will be mainly used to fund the mask, protective clothing, protective mask and other scarce materials urgently needed by local hospitals in Wuhan and related treatment work in Hubei Province.

At the beginning of February, BMW Group announced that its Brilliance BMW Dadong plant and Tiexi plant in Shenyang, China would extend their holidays until February 9, but as the epidemic failed to be brought under control, Brilliance BMW decided to postpone the resumption of work again and tentatively resume the opening and operation of the plant and office on Monday, February 17.

For this reason, affected by the epidemic situation and production shutdown time is relatively long, the company said earlier, the Brilliance BMW factory located in Shenyang has about 18,000 employees, the factory shutdown accompanied by certain cost expenditure, will also bring a lot of economic losses to the factory.

According to the data, Brilliance BMW has built Tiexi Factory and Dadong Factory in Shenyang, producing BMW 1 Series, BMW 2 Series wagon, BMW 3 Series (including standard axle and long axle), BMW 5 Series (long axle version), BMW X1 and BMW X3. Among them, Dadong Factory is divided into Dadong New Factory and Dadong Old Factory. Among them, Dadong New Factory has a production capacity of 200,000 vehicles/year, and the production model is the seventh generation BMW 5 Series (long axis version).

BMW Group (BMW and MINI) sold 723680 vehicles in China in 2019, up 13.1% year-on-year, according to BMW's latest sales figures. BMW's sales figures also allowed it to overtake Mercedes-Benz and BMW and win the first place in sales of luxury brands in China in 2019.

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