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Great Wall Vice President Fu Xiaokang made it clear at the internal meeting that Great Wall Chairman Wei Jianjun had made it clear at an internal meeting that Great Wall focused on building cars, neither mobile phones nor flying, said Fu Xiaokang, vice president of Great Wall Motors, at a media conference at the Joint meeting of Brand officials of China Automobile Enterprises (CB20) on whether Great Wall will enter the mobile phone, flight or satellite industry. Wei Jianjun also said in an introduction and interview: "Great Wall Automobile for so many years, has not crossed the business that has nothing to do with cars, such as some people invest in real estate, some people invest in finance, but we have been working hard in the automobile industry."

Notably, in June this year, Great Wall released its 2025 strategy, which said that by 2025, Great Wall plans to achieve its annual global sales target of 4 million vehicles, 80 per cent of which will be new energy vehicles, with revenue exceeding 600 billion yuan. To achieve this goal, Great Wall Motor will invest a total of 100 billion yuan in research and development in the next five years to ensure technological leadership. In the past two years, Great Wall Motors is also accelerating the pace of globalization. There were earlier media reports that Nissan plans to sell its factory in Barcelona, Spain, to Great Wall Motors. Great Wall has expressed a positive attitude towards the acquisition of Nissan's Barcelona plant, and is still discussing whether to acquire other factories. At present, Great Wall Motor has successfully acquired two overseas factories. In November 2020, Great Wall announced that it had officially taken ownership of GM's plant in Thailand. On August 18, Great Wall acquired Mercedes-Benz factories in Brazil, which also accelerated the development and strategic landing of Great Wall Motor in the South American market, and further promoted the transformation of Great Wall Motor into a global technology travel company. Great Wall Motor said that delivery of the Brazilian plant is expected to be completed by the end of 2021, and the revamped plant will have an annual production capacity of 100000 vehicles, creating nearly 2000 local jobs. So far, Great Wall Motor has four overseas full-process vehicle factories, including Tula in Russia, Talegang in India, Luoyong in Thailand and Brazil.

With the promotion of the wave of intelligence and new energy, various industries have also announced to enter cross-border areas, such as Xiaomi, Baidu, Skyworth and other enterprises have announced cross-border car building. As for car companies, many car companies have announced that they will go deep into the fields of flying cars, mobile phones and so on. On October 24th, on the third 1024 Science and Technology Day of Xiaopeng Automobile, Xiaopeng Motor announced the sixth generation flying car of Xiaopeng Huitian. It is understood that the flying car released by Xiaopeng will have two different driving modes, that is, land state and flying state, and as a flying car, it not only has all the functions of a car, but also can support flight. With regard to this flying car, Xiaopeng aims to achieve mass production by 2024 and keep its price within 1 million yuan. Previously, Xiaopeng CEO he Xiaopeng said publicly that he Xiaopeng will be able to ride in a flying car by the end of 2021, and he Xiaopeng will see that China's ultra-low-altitude or low-altitude areas will be open to civilian use in the next few years. On September 28, Geely holding Group announced that Hubei Xingji Times Science and Technology Co., Ltd., founded by Li Shufu, chairman of Geely Holdings, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Wuhan Economic and technological Development Zone, officially announcing its entry into the mobile phone field.

However, cross-border success in other areas is not easy, from Xiaomi, Baidu, Skyworth to Geely, Xiaopeng Motor and other giants try to build more smart terminals across the border, many of which end up as foil. Geely will also face great difficulties if it wants to enter high-end mobile phones. Earlier, Gree Group also announced the cross-border construction of mobile phones, but the result was a fiasco. Although the cross-border development of intelligence is an inevitable trend, it does not mean that it can all be successful. As for Xiaopeng's flying cars, some industry insiders said: flying cars are difficult to achieve commercialization, it is impossible to replace cars on a large scale, and the market prospect is very limited.

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