AutoBeta(AutoBeta.net)02/17 Report--

HerbertDiess, chairman of Volkswagen Group's management board, launched a personal Weibo on Feb. 17, a move he hopes to communicate with Chinese consumers at zero distance and cheer for Wuhan.

In addition to the identity of Volkswagen Group CEO and Volkswagen brand CEO, Dr. Deiss is also the head of Volkswagen China, who officially became the head of the Chinese management board in January 2019, in charge of China business. Deiss has said, "the Chinese market is of the most important significance to the future of Volkswagen Group, and it can even be said that the future of Volkswagen Group will be determined by the Chinese market."

I have been looking forward to communicating with you at zero distance on the Weibo platform for a long time, Mr Deiss said in his first Weibo post. At this special moment, I opened a personal Weibo, refueling for Wuhan, refueling for China!

In the video, Deiss also said: I see hundreds of millions of Chinese people unite as one and go all out to confront novel coronavirus. Although the situation is grim, I am confident that the tenacious Chinese people will win this' war plague'. Finally, he also said in Chinese-come on in China, come on in Wuhan!

Volkswagen has a 20 per cent market share in China, where new car sales reached 4.2336 million in 2019, up 0.6 per cent from a year earlier and accounting for nearly 20 per cent of the Chinese passenger car market for the whole year. The Chinese market is the largest single market of Volkswagen Group in the world. In 2019, Volkswagen Group global sales reached 10.9746 million vehicles, an increase of 1.3% over the same period last year. China contributed 4.2336 million vehicles, accounting for 38.6% of Volkswagen Group's global sales, nearly 40%.

In the pneumonia incident, Volkswagen Group announced a joint donation of 120 million yuan with its Volkswagen brands, Audi, Skoda, Porsche, Bentley and other brands, as well as joint ventures FAW-Volkswagen and SAIC-Volkswagen. The donation is mainly used for Hubei and other provinces and cities with serious epidemic situation to purchase protective equipment, medical equipment, medicine and other materials, and to support the relevant epidemic prevention and control and fight work.

Many netizens commented on Volkswagen group CEO Dis on Weibo and hoped to communicate with Chinese consumers at zero distance, and even made comments to Deiss.

Some netizens said, "look forward to ID." Series of electric cars, at the same time, some netizens hope that Volkswagen will introduce more imported models.

And more netizens put forward suggestions for improvement.

@ diligent Luo Qing: please put the quality, safety and serious reduction of your home first.

@ TheEternalExit: when are you going to test the crash test again?

@ Qiu Tian aBC: to improve product quality is to cheer for China.

@ tyh2020: when will Tuan L be replaced? Now that the demand for MPV in China is increasing, why does the public not pay attention to it?

@ Charon: thank you, buddy, thank you for your support, to overcome the difficulties. But can you tell me what happened to Passat?

Sell: predictably, he will become a centralized petitioner for mass quality problems.

@ think of eternity: don't make it useless! Let's get this straight about SAIC Passat.

Many netizens mentioned the problem of "Passat's poor research performance in PICC" and hoped that the public would make rectification.

Finally, a netizen mentioned the public opinion environment in China. It said, "in China, Volkswagen has such an impressive sales volume and relatively high brand charm. Originally, we bought Volkswagen cars because we believed in the quality of Volkswagen products and the added value of the brand. For a while, driving some types of Volkswagen cars also symbolized the improvement of people's living standards, but now with reduced distribution, Chinese special supply cars and other topics that you know, driving Volkswagen has become a ridiculed topic." Please don't continue to hurt your buyers and let them down! "

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