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According to the recruitment information published on ideal Automobile's official website, ideal Automobile is urgently looking for positions such as "Factory Manager-(Beijing) Manufacturing Base" and "Project Management Senior Manager (Beijing Factory)", all of which are based in Shunyi District, Beijing.

According to the recruitment information, the main work of the "Factory Director" includes overall responsibility for the planning, construction, operation and management of the new plant; organize and implement the production and operation management of the factory (production, equipment, technology, logistics, quality, cost, safety, etc.); be responsible for the construction of the factory's manufacturing lean system; be responsible for achieving the performance of the factory core team and building the echelon of personnel. The responsibility of the "Senior Manager of Project Management" is to be responsible for the project management of the new base construction project; to be responsible for the on-site operation and installation of the new base construction, including project planning, cost control, quality control and safety management; responsible for equipment entry, installation and commissioning and product introduction project management.

According to media reports, the first Hyundai factory in Beijing, which appears in the document, has been closed for two years. It is the earliest vehicle manufacturing plant established by Hyundai Motor in China. It was put into operation in 2002, with an annual production capacity of 300000 units. It has produced Sonata, Tusheng, Yassente, Mingzhi, Reina, Elantra and other models. According to media visits, at present, the factory's gatekeeper kiosk and electric telescopic doors are affixed with the "planned retention" sign. At that time, ideal Motor responded "no comment" on whether its global flagship factory would be located in Shunyi District of Beijing.

At the end of May this year, several media quoted a document signed for Shunyi District as saying that ideal Automobile will add a new factory in Shunyi District, Beijing, with a total investment of 6 billion yuan, relying on the former Beijing Hyundai factory and land resources. to build a digital, flexible and intelligent manufacturing factory. To carry out research and development of key technologies such as complete vehicles, core parts and self-driving, there will be more than 2000 scientific and technological talents such as autopilot, artificial intelligence, big data, industrial Internet and so on. The project is scheduled to be put into production in 2023, with an industrial output value of 30 billion yuan in 2024.

It is worth mentioning that according to the attachment of the 14th five-year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of Shunyi District and the outline of long-term goals for the year 2035 released on the official website of the people's Government of Shunyi District on May 14, among the major projects to be implemented in Shunyi District during the 14th five-year Plan period, the annual production capacity of the second production base of ideal cars is 250000. Zengji pure electric SUV production base "is included in the" high-tech industry ", the construction content is" annual production capacity of 250000 vehicles, Zengji pure electric SUV production base ".

In addition, Beijing ideal Automobile Co., Ltd. was established on April 9 this year, and its legal representative is Shen Yanan, co-founder of ideal Automobile, whose business scope includes manufacturing new energy smart vehicles; manufacturing new energy smart vehicles refitted cars, new energy vehicle mobile charging cars, container self-unloading new energy feeder vehicles, etc.

Hyundai Motor has five complete vehicle production plants in Shunyi, Beijing, Cangzhou and Chongqing, with an annual production capacity of 1.65 million vehicles. It is understood that Beijing Hyundai sold 1.14 million vehicles annually in 2016, reaching the peak of sales and maintaining Beijing Hyundai's expanded production capacity. However, sales of Hyundai in Beijing after the expansion fell far short of expectations, with total sales falling to 790000 vehicles in 2018, meeting only 87 per cent of the 900000 sales target. At the beginning of 2019, it was revealed that Beijing Hyundai would cut 2000 jobs at its first, second and third plants, and planned to stop production at the No. 1 plant. According to foreign media reports on April 24, Hyundai Motor decided to close the first Hyundai factory in Beijing. Since then, Beijing Hyundai has also had a hard time, with cumulative sales of 716000 vehicles in 2019 and falling to 502000 in 2020 under the influence of the epidemic. Of course, Beijing Hyundai has also taken rescue measures, such as launching new Elantra, 10th-generation Sonata, brand-new ix35, brand-new Mentu, brand-new Tusheng L and other models in 2020, making the products younger. However, in terms of sales, the new car can not drive down the overall sales of Hyundai in Beijing. After the launch of the low-end model Elantra, it has become the main sales force, but the lower price is difficult to bring considerable profits to the dealers. Sonata, which sells at a higher price, is slow to sell, and there is great competition for products at the same price, which makes it difficult to bring Beijing Hyundai back to its peak. According to data from the Federation of passengers, Beijing Hyundai's cumulative sales in the first five months (narrow sense passenger car wholesale sales) were 162000, only 28.9% of the 2021 sales target (560000), falling out of the top 15 ranking of domestic manufacturers.

At present, the ideal car has only one factory in Changzhou, with an annual production capacity of 100000 vehicles. The data show that the ideal ONE delivered a total of 22441 vehicles from January to May. On February 22 this year, Li Xiang said in an internal letter that the strategic goal of ideal Automobile in 2025 is to gain 20% market share and become the number one smart electric vehicle company in China. He predicts that China will sell more than 8 million smart electric vehicles in 2025, which means that ideal cars will need to sell 1.6 million smart electric vehicles in 2025. The above goals mean that ideal cars urgently need to expand their production capacity.

From the establishment of the new company, to the relevant government documents, and then to the official website of ideal Automobile to openly recruit employees in the new plant, a series of actions indicate that the new factory of ideal Automobile is in full swing. Of course, ideal car does not publicly admit that what it is about to start production is the factory of Beijing Hyundai, but such doubts have to arise in the context of a relative fit of all kinds of information.

Some netizens said that it would be ironic if Beijing Hyundai's first factory was taken over by ideal car, which, after all, is a member of the new car-building power, and Beijing Hyundai, a joint venture brand that once sold millions of vehicles a year, now its sales are so low that it gives way to electric car brands. it's really sad.

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