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Update: A Volkswagen spokesman said Thursday that the Shanghai plant, which the company runs in a joint venture with SAIC, will be partially closed from Thursday because of difficulties in sourcing parts during the outbreak, but did not provide further details, including when production can resume or which parts and models have been particularly affected.

According to the latest report of Shanghai City Health and Health Commission: March 30,2022,0 -24: 00,355 confirmed cases of local new crown pneumonia and 5298 asymptomatic infections were added. Among them, 252 cases in Pudong New District, 17 cases in Minhang District, 16 cases in Huangpu District, 14 cases in Xuhui District, 9 cases in Jiading District, 8 cases in Changning District, 8 cases in Jing 'an District, 8 cases in Songjiang District, 7 cases in Fengxian District, 6 cases in Putuo District, 5 cases in Qingpu District, 3 in Yangpu District, 1 in Hongkou District, 1 case in Baoshan District.

Ma Chunlei, deputy secretary-general of the municipal party committee and secretary-general of the municipal government, said that in recent times, the number of infected persons has continued to rise, and the epidemic situation has spread widely in Pudong and other parts of the country. If strict control is not implemented, there will be potential risks of outbreak and epidemic. The epidemic situation is very complex and the task of prevention and control is extremely arduous. In order to curb the spread of the epidemic situation as soon as possible, under the guidance of the national expert group, the leading group for prevention and control of Xinguan pneumonia epidemic situation decided to carry out a new round of nucleic acid screening in two batches within the whole city, with Huangpu River as the boundary, striving to thoroughly investigate the source of infection at the fastest speed and at a small cost, and make every effort to cut off the transmission chain.

Shanghai is an international metropolis and a must for many international flights and ports. In this special period, it not only brought economic development to Shanghai, but also brought great challenges. Affected by Xinguan pneumonia epidemic situation, Shanghai City will carry out a new round of block type, grid nucleic acid screening from March 28 to April 5, Pudong, Puxi with Huangpu River as the boundary to implement sealing control. As all personnel in the sealed control area do not leave home, all enterprises implement closed production or home office, Shanghai will temporarily press the "pause button".

In this context, a number of automobile enterprises located in Shanghai vehicle factories will face a short shutdown. As a leading enterprise in Shanghai manufacturing industry, SAIC Group has several automobile factories in Shanghai that have been affected to varying degrees. Take SAIC Volkswagen as an example, it owns Factory No.1, Factory No.2, Factory No.3 and new energy automobile factory in Shanghai City, all located in Anting Town, Jiading District, Shanghai. It is understood that as early as March 14-15 and March 21-22, SAIC Volkswagen has received 48-hour closed-loop isolation control notice from Anting factory successively. However, under the background that the number of infected persons continues to rise, the upgrading of epidemic prevention and control management causes the production of SAIC Volkswagen factory to be affected.

In addition to SAIC Volkswagen, Tesla has announced that it will suspend production activities at its Shanghai plant from March 28 for four days. It is not known whether it will be affected by a new round of epidemic prevention and control. It is understood that Tesla Shanghai factory is Tesla's first overseas vehicle manufacturing factory, located in Shanghai Lingang area, covering an area of more than 1200 mu, including vehicle production area, test area, parts production area and joint workshop (maintenance workshop) and other four areas. It is the first wholly foreign-owned vehicle manufacturing project in China and shoulders Tesla's production responsibilities in China and Europe. According to its official website, Tesla currently takes 16-20 weeks to pick up cars in China, and temporary shutdown may lead to an extension of delivery time for new cars and a certain impact on delivery volume.

In addition, SAIC GM also has several factories in Pudong District of Shanghai. Workers are sleeping on factory floors to keep operations running, Reuters reported. It is understood that SAIC GM's epidemic prevention work is meticulous to the placement of hand sanitizer. In addition, in order to avoid cross-infection, the production rhythm of the two shifts is also separated by an hour. The joint venture did receive a permit to continue deliveries to the plant, producing Chevrolet, Buick and Cadillac models, the report said. GM said the plant was operating normally but did not comment on worker arrangements.

According to the National Health Commission: March 30,0 - 24,31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 1803 new local cases, including 1340 cases in Jilin Province, including 997 cases in Changchun City, 333 cases in Jilin City, 6 cases in Siping City and 4 cases in Baicheng City. Headquartered in Changchun, Jilin Province, FAW Group owns independent brands such as Hongqi, Pentium and Jiefang, as well as joint venture brands such as Volkswagen, Audi and Toyota. The above brands are all built in Changchun City. Earlier, a document issued by Changchun City Bureau of Industry and Information Technology,"In order to cooperate with the overall situation of provincial and municipal epidemic prevention and control, FAW Group decided to have a planned shutdown from March 13," pointed out that FAW Group decided to arrange for the planned shutdown of all the five major vehicle factories in Changchun City, and initially planned to stop production until March 16. However, according to the existing information, FAW Group related vehicle factories are still in a state of shutdown.

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