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No media, no guests, no boss Xu, a group of Hengchi "offline" photos suddenly exposed on the Internet these two days. A commissioning car with the serial number NO.00001 appeared in the photo with a big safflower. Next to the car stood two Evergrande factory employees wearing overalls and holding mops. The banner on the scene read "warm congratulations on the completion of the final assembly workshop." this seems to be the latest news of Hengchi car. The other is "I love Hengchi staff cultural activities" and some Christmas decorations on the side, showing that the photos were taken at an internal employee cultural event.

On October 11, at the Evergrande Automobile Strategic Partnership Conference at the Tianjin production base, Evergrande President Liu Yongzhao revealed the new progress of Evergrande car building, saying that Evergrande had begun a three-month battle to ensure that the first model, the Hengchi 5, was offline at the Tianjin factory early next year. The time when Evergrande went into production at the end of this year stems from Evergrande's initial statement. Xu Jiayin summed up Evergrande's road of building cars with only a simple sentence: "Evergrande wants to change lanes to overtake. To sum up: buy, buy, cooperate, circle, big, good, good." Evergrande's production bases in Guangzhou and Shanghai are both planned to have a capacity of 200000 vehicles in the first phase and are expected to start production in the second half of 2021, he said at the time. Xu Jiayin even believes that it is difficult not to succeed with the help of so many leading enterprises on Evergrande's car-building road.

At the end of last year, Xu Jiayin reiterated at the forum of inspecting the Battery Research Institute and the General Research and Development Institute: "I firmly believe that with the hard work of all scientists and researchers, we will certainly be able to build a national brand that is famous all over the world. We will certainly be able to achieve the grand goal of producing and selling 1 million vehicles by 2025 and 5 million by 2035!" This sets the tone for Evergrande's listing schedule, so Evergrande, as a listed company, certainly needs to move forward in accordance with the timetable it has described to investors. However, now there are still a few days to go before the initial production time node, although Hengchi car has been publicized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the more it has not been publicized in the end, if the goal of mass production cannot be achieved, even the first car can not go offline, obviously, this progress is not satisfactory. Against this background, it is natural to understand why Evergrande put forward the slogan "work hard for three months to ensure that the first car goes offline" in October.

Backwards at this point in time, Evergrande exposed the Hengchi through-line commissioning car in the form of internal photos, which implies the problem of putting the production line into production. This is actually a discount on the basis of "the first car off the line", if it is an established operation system, and Evergrande is very important to Evergrande's transformation. When Xu Jiayin visited Evergrande's production bases in Shanghai and Guangzhou earlier, he once lamented, "now I am back to 28 years ago, I was a workshop director in Wugang," and celebrating in such a low-key way is obviously not what the workshop director would like to see. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to understand the current situation of the Hengchi production line as the time is not ripe.

Even so, the message of the above photo has led to two consecutive days of changes in Evergrande's shares on Friday and Monday, rising nearly 10 per cent in both days, a small spring in Evergrande's recent performance. One netizen posted such a Weibo message excitedly: Evergrande rose 9.84% today, supporting domestic new energy vehicles!

On the other hand, netizens who pay attention to the automotive product circle is another kind of performance, and the general response to this news is relatively insipid. Some netizens thought it was a model, while others asked to take a picture of the chassis. The chassis was shot at the Shanghai Auto Show in 2021.

In April this year, nine new Hengchi cars were unveiled at the Shanghai Auto Show with BBA, but they could not see the interior and enter the car up close, so a joke circulated on the Internet at that time. The joke said, "I got nine display cars, but they are not allowed to see them up close." Someone lay down under the car to take a picture, only to find that it was an empty shell. No suspension, no chassis, pure model. Some netizens also claimed that they were "almost carried away by security guards" when shooting the chassis. Evergrande did not respond to this at that time, but no longer allowed exhibitors to shoot the chassis, which attracted more curiosity, but was eventually refused to shoot and persuaded by the staff at the scene.

The technical threshold for the research and development of electric vehicles is lower and the time is shorter than that of traditional fuel-fired vehicles, so it is often found that electric vehicles will complete product development within two or three years. According to a real estate carmaker who revealed to the auto industry that several models are already being tested and can be put on the market within a year if they have the money, they just don't know how long it will take to stay on the market. People always hope for what will happen in the future as the hope and way out of the present predicament, but they just don't know when this future will come.

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