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On July 16, the self-media Planet Business Review published an article entitled "the person I'm most afraid of is going to build a car." The media said in the article that 360's friends revealed to it that 360 and Nezha had only initialled an agreement, in fact, they had not given a penny, and transferred some safety technicians, who belonged to the spiritual shareholders. Zhou Hongyi has a batch of stocks to cash out and wants to hedge the stock price. The specific contents of the article are as follows:

In response to the content released by the media, 360 and Nezha both issued statements. On July 17, the company issued a statement on its official Weibo, refuting false news posted by the self-media Planet Business Review. 360 stressed that the cooperation with Naha Automobile has always been carried out in a normal and orderly manner in accordance with the preset progress of both parties, and both sides are performing normally in accordance with the requirements of the agreement. This kind of disregard of the facts has violated the relevant norms of the state that "the dissemination of false information is strictly prohibited by the self-media", and has also caused trouble to the daily business work of enterprises of both sides.

The statement pointed out that 360 Company as a listed company, Zhou Hongyi, as the founder, chairman, and actual controller of the company, strictly complies with the relevant state laws and regulations on stock reduction, outbound investment and other related actions, and strictly complies with the disclosure standards of regulators. 360 company and the board of directors welcome the majority of investors and the media to supervise.

The self-media made a mockery of the mainstream values of 360 Company and Zhou Hongyi's gratitude for good development opportunities of private enterprises, and wantonly assumed and maliciously spread false information without verifying the facts with the company concerned. Suspected of disturbing the normal capital market order, misleading investors, resulting in a serious bad impact. We have collected the evidence of the self-media article, sent a lawyer's letter, and reserved the right to further investigate the legal liability for the relevant reprint and diffusion acts. It is understood that 360 company has entrusted a lawyer's office to send a lawyer's letter to the media.

The company and Naga Motor will reserve the right to pursue legal liability for malicious slander and rumor-mongering by the relevant online media, the company said in a statement issued on its official Weibo on July 18. Naha Motors said that in fact, the cooperation between 360 and Naga has always been carried out in a normal and orderly manner in accordance with the preset progress of both sides, and both sides are performing normally in accordance with the requirements of the agreement.

When new energy vehicles become the tuyere, more and more enterprises begin to build cars. After Baidu and Xiaomi, 360 also said that it will enter the automobile market. Hezhong New Energy vehicle Co., Ltd., the parent company of Naha Automobile, has completed seven financing times, of which about 3 billion yuan was completed on April 27th, led by Qihoo 360, according to Tianyan survey data. On May 10, 360 announced that it would join hands with Nahan to enter the field of smart cars. Zhou Hongyi, chairman of 360, said publicly that 360 would not build cars independently, but would cooperate with Naha to build cars. Zhou Hongyi said: "Lei Jun is a year older than me. Lei Jun can do anything about building a car before he retires. What can't I do?"

At the 2021 World artificial Intelligence Congress held on July 8, Zhou Hongyi said that Internet companies will certainly be able to build cars, but they will have to waste a lot of money and step on many holes, but they can also be made up for by financing. In addition, it believes that smart cars can also be made under 150000 yuan. "cars under 150000 in China account for about 70% of the total sales of all models in China. If this market is not opened, it means that smart electric vehicles will always be minority products. It is a toy for a small number of people and cannot be used by the general public. 360 invests in Nahan cars to make more people use "smart electric cars" and create national-level products. "

According to the official website of Nahan Automobile, three products, namely, N01, N01 and N01, are on sale, all priced under 150000 yuan. Zhou Hongyi once said publicly that 360 and Nezha joint car will not be a luxury car, but a smart car that ordinary people can afford, and at the same time, it is not inferior to the car whose price is several times higher in terms of performance, experience and safety. Build a car of about 100000, don't make a toy car, make a real SUV.

Admittedly, when new energy vehicles become a tuyere, many enterprises hope to take a share in this huge market, including housing enterprises, mobile phones, Internet products, home appliances and other industries have entered the bureau to build cars, but the cake is so big, the ones that can go to the end are brands with capital and strength. With regard to the current new energy vehicle market, most of the market share is occupied by Tesla, BYD, NIO and so on, while the rear car brands have been withdrawn one after another, and users will have more and more brands to appear in the automobile market. these brands generally have a certain strength in capital, but it is still unknown whether they can be competitive enough in products and accepted by consumers.

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