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Renault, also a French brand, had previously announced its withdrawal from the Chinese market, which seemed to accelerate DPCA's hope of "survival" in the domestic market. In the face of the double impact of the frequent shrinking of the market and the epidemic situation, Citroen Motor made another streamlining plan a few days ago.

According to relevant media reports, at the second work meeting after resuming work a few days ago, DPCA mentioned that the company will restart the recruitment competition for employees in the near future, mainly aimed at front-line employees, involving a total of more than 5000 employees, and even nearly 30% layoffs, according to a number of people related to DPCA.

According to the personnel "downsizing" plan, technical personnel will be the first to be affected. According to the plan, the technical personnel will be released on May 8 to determine the number of posts to be reserved, and May 15 will be the time to determine the number of posts to be reserved, and the monitor and maintenance workers will then begin to carry out, while the specific layoffs will be assessed by each department. The competitive employment method will be carried out by some of the six evaluation tools, namely, year-end evaluation, peer evaluation, superior evaluation, theoretical test, team ranking and attendance.

For those who are competitive and laid off, they may be transferred to the Chengdu factory, terminate the labor contract by agreement or stop work. If none of the personnel are selected, they will be paid in full in April, 1 + annual salary in May, and after June with reference to the epidemic period until the new policy is issued in October.

However, for the specific circumstances of the above layoffs, the company's public relations also responded today: "although the current performance of the company is not very satisfactory, after the new chairman team is in place, it is very confident about the future." personnel adjustment is not such a high proportion. "

As a matter of fact, there have been relevant documents on the "slimming plan" for DPCA since August last year. According to the plan, the DPCA factory will be relocated to the DPCA factory as a whole, and the existing factory will be taken over and stored by the government; and the DPCA plant will be sold together with the equipment. At the same time, Dragon has also launched a layoff plan, which will reduce its existing staff from 8000 to 5500 by the end of last year and 4000 by 2020.

As for the "streamlining" plan, some DPCA insiders said that the plan was shelved for various reasons, and now the plan to restart the competition for employment is only a continuation of last year's arrangement.

In addition, the plan to sell a factory of DPCA, which was rumored last year, will continue this year. According to an internal document, the local government will support the company in disposing of spare capacity, disposing of the assets of the No. 1 plant of the company in the form of government collection and storage, launching planning, adjustment and bidding work in April 2020, completing the survey and evaluation audit of land, real estate, equipment and other property rights, completing the investigation and survey of land, real estate, equipment and other property rights in May, preliminary evaluation and audit of ten thousand books in June, and negotiating to determine the compensation price and storage plan in July. It means that a factory plan of the Dragon Company will enter the countdown.

Throughout the performance of DPCA in the past two years, it has been declining all the way, reaching a sales peak of 710000 vehicles in 2015, and then declining year by year. DPCA accumulated sales of 255000 vehicles in 2018 and 113579 in 2019, down 55 per cent from the same period last year and 84 per cent lower than at its peak. After entering this year, DPCA sold only 11607 cars in the first four months, a cumulative decline of 73.74% over the same period last year, which can be said to be one of the largest declines among domestic car companies.

Therefore, in the face of the financial pressure caused by the malaise of sales, the company has to adopt the self-rescue mode to save, so whether it is layoffs or the sale of factories will be a cost-cutting measure for the company. However, for the current DPCA, cost reduction can only be a temporary stopgap measure, not a long-term solution. If a reversal decision cannot be found, it will undoubtedly make it increasingly difficult for DPCA to perform in China.

It is worth mentioning that according to DPCA recently revealed that the company has completed the personnel adjustment again, Zhang Zutong, member of the party committee standing committee and deputy general manager of Dongfeng Motor Group Co., Ltd., will also serve as chairman of DPCA; Gr é goire Olivier, secretary general of Peugeot Citroen Group and head of China operations, will serve as vice chairman of DPCA.

According to public information, Zhang Zutong served as member of the standing Committee of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of Dongfeng Automobile Group Co., Ltd. in January 2018, and general manager of Dongfeng passenger car Company since July 2018. From March 31, 2020, under the transfer order of Dongfeng Group, Zhang Zutong no longer served concurrently as General Manager of Dongfeng passenger cars, but was transferred back to the Group, in charge of Dongfeng Honda, Dragon Company and Dongfeng Hongtai. With the new personnel adjustment, how to help Shenlong out of the predicament will also become a new challenge for Zhang Zutong, chairman of the new Dragon Company.

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