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According to the Southern Metropolis Daily, on March 18, the 30th meeting of the standing Committee of the 13th Guangdong Provincial people's Congress decided to appoint Sun Zhiyang as vice governor of the Guangdong Provincial people's Government.

According to the data, Sun Zhiyang joined FAW Group in 2001. He has successively served as Director of the overall Planning Office of FAW Group Planning Department and Deputy head of FAW Toyota Project preparation Group Comprehensive Group, Director of Toyota Project Office of Planning Department and Director of overall Planning Office, Deputy General Manager of FAW Jilin, Secretary of FAW Youth League Committee, Vice Minister of Development Department, and Director of Office (Party Committee Office). In 2018, Sun Zhiyang was promoted to China FAW Party Committee standing Committee and Deputy General Manager, responsible for marketing and travel business, and joined the core leadership of the Group. It is worth mentioning that Sun Zhiyang is the youngest executive of FAW Group.

Through the inquiry of FAW Group's website, Sun Zhiyang is no longer among the "leading members of the company". It is worth mentioning that this is the second personnel change in FAW Group within a month. FAW Group announced on March 2 that Qin Huanming was no longer the director and deputy secretary of the party committee of the group company because of his age. Wang Guoqiang was appointed director and deputy secretary of the party committee of the group company, and no longer deputy general manager of the group company.

With the appointment of Sun Zhiyang, there will be two vacancies in the nine-member leadership of FAW Group, but it is still unknown when it will be filled and the candidates.

Data show that FAW Group sold 2.706 million vehicles in 2020, an increase of 7.1 per cent over the same period last year. In terms of specific brands, the best performance of independent brands is FAW Red Flag, which sold only 4702 vehicles in 2017, more than 100000 in 2019 and 200000 in 2020. Especially in 2020, although the epidemic had a serious impact on production and operation in the first half of the year, it still achieved the sales target and exceeded Volvo.

In terms of joint venture brands, FAW-Volkswagen and FAW Toyota achieved steady growth, of which FAW-Volkswagen topped the list of passenger car companies, with cumulative sales up 1.5% to 2.16 million vehicles in 2020 compared with the same period last year, becoming the only car company in China with sales of more than 2 million vehicles. FAW Toyota ranks eighth among joint venture brands, with cumulative sales of more than 800000 vehicles in 2020, up 9 per cent from a year earlier.

Thanks to the performance in 2020, Xu Liuping, chairman of FAW Group, said that FAW Group plans to sell 4 million vehicles in 2021, an increase of 7.9% over the same period last year. This year, joint venture brands FAW-Volkswagen and FAW Toyota will usher in their respective product years. FAW Hongqi, an independent brand, has annual sales of 400000 vehicles. It is still unknown whether it can achieve the target, but it will also bear the sales trend of its own sector.

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