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Today, according to the official website of Shunwei Capital, Hu Zhengnan, former director of Geely Research Institute, joined Shunwei Capital as an investment partner. And Hu Zhengnan also said to join Shunwei Capital, follow-up focus on the ecological field of smart car technology, there are good projects, innovative technology, welcome to recommend. It is understood that Shunwei Capital is an investment company founded by Lei Jun, and this personnel change is also considered by the outside world that Xiaomi car-making may usher in a general.

And why Hu Zhengnan joined not Xiaomi car, but Shun for capital? Some netizens speculated that, or Hu Zhengnan is still in the competition agreement, waiting to formally join Xiaomi car. As for Hu Zhengnan to join Shunwei Capital, the new travel CEO he Lei commented: "this is the first auto circle boss that Guan Xuan joined." Hu Zhengnan, president of Geely Research Institute, appeared on Xiaomi's Shunwei capital management page, why Shunwei is not Xiaomi car? It should be the evasion of the competition agreement. Next, there are several millet cars one after another. "

For the news that he joined Xiaomi, there were media reports earlier: Hu Zhengnan, director of Xiaomi Geely Research Institute, offered an equity plus salary of 1 billion yuan. Later, Hu Zhengnan responded in the moments: "there are many rumors, but also trouble friends in the circle of care and greetings." I will not reply one by one, the news is not true.

According to relevant data, Hu Zhengnan graduated from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. At the age of 30, he founded the automobile design company Shanghai Longchuang. At the end of June 2012, Hu Zhengnan left Shanghai Longchuang. Join Geely as chief engineer in charge of Boyue project. In 2016, after Feng Jingfeng was promoted to Geely CTO, Hu Zhengnan took over as director of Geely Research Institute. Mr. Hu Zhengnan has nearly 25 years of relevant experience in the field of automotive product development and R & D management. I have to say, Hu Zhengnan's arrival can really help Xiaomi build a car quickly.

On Sept. 1, a spokesman for Xiaomi Company announced on Weibo that it had officially completed its industrial and commercial registration. The name of the company is "Xiaomi Automobile Co., Ltd." with a registered capital of 10 billion yuan. Lei Jun was appointed as a legal person and headquartered in the capital Beijing. Xiaomi Group said that in the five months since it announced its entry into the automobile industry, the Xiaomi automobile team has conducted a large number of user research and industry chain investigations, and conducted more than 2000 interviews. Visit and in-depth communication with more than 10 industry counterparts and dozens of industry partners, while vigorously promoting the product definition and team building of the automobile. So far, Xiaomi has formed a team of about 300 people. On Aug. 25, Xiaomi Group announced that it had entered into a share purchase agreement with relevant contractors of Deepmotion, a self-driving technology company, for a total transaction value of about $77.37 million.

Since Xiaomi announced the construction of the car in March, it is not difficult to see that it is getting ready in terms of talent and technology, and the Xiaomi car, which has got the ticket, is speeding up. After Lei Jun announced "car-building" in a high profile, it did attract the attention of the market, but the production mode of Xiaomi car has not yet been finalized. How to speed up the construction of a complete automobile production chain may be an urgent problem for Xiaomi at present.

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