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Tesla has informed employees in Shanghai to prepare for a return to work next week, according to people familiar with the matter, Phoenix Technology reported today. In addition, it was revealed that closed-loop production will be adopted from April 17, employees will eat and live in the factory, regular nucleic acid testing, Tesla will arrange buses to pick up employees back to the factory. Yesterday, Tao Lin, vice president of external affairs of Tex, also issued a document refuting a rumor that Tesla could resume work as early as mid-May, saying: This is a rumor.

Since the outbreak of the Shanghai epidemic, Tesla's Shanghai plant has been shut down several times since March, stopping production for two consecutive days from March 16 to 17, and on March 28, Tesla's Shanghai plant announced another four-day shutdown. Subsequently, due to the impact of the epidemic, the original plan was to stop production for 4 days from April 28 to March 31, but Tesla cancelled the production plan from April 1 to April 3 due to policy changes and resumed production on April 4. On April 3, news broke that Tesla had emailed employees on April 3 to inform them that they were still required to stay home and comply with community rules because the epidemic was still severe. As of April 17, Tesla's Shanghai plant had been shut down for up to three weeks.

Tesla's Shanghai factory, Tesla's second overseas super factory, mainly produces Model 3 sedan and SUV Model Y. According to the data, Tesla's Shanghai factory delivered 484,000 vehicles in 2021, up 235% year-on-year and accounting for 51.7% of Tesla's total global deliveries. Tesla relies on its Shanghai factory to deliver 484,000 new vehicles throughout the year, of which 321,000 are sold domestically and the remaining 163,000 are mainly exported to Japan, Europe and other countries. In the Chinese market, 169853 Model Y and 150890 Model 3 will be sold in 2021. It is not difficult to see how important the Shanghai factory is to Tesla. Of course, in addition to Tesla, there are many car factories forced to stop production because of the epidemic. On April 9, NIO Automobile issued an announcement saying that due to the epidemic situation, the supply chain partners located in Jilin, Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places stopped production for six times, and NIO suspended vehicle production due to this impact. On April 13, the tank brand issued an announcement saying that 8 supplier partners of the tank 300 model were shut down and stopped due to the epidemic situation in Shanghai, Jilin, Jiangsu and other places, and the production of the tank 300 model was suspended from April 14.

According to the National Health Commission, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 3896 new local cases from 0:00 to 24:00 on April 15, including 3590 cases in Shanghai and 195 cases in Jilin. There were 20895 new asymptomatic infections, including 19923 in Shanghai and 1528 in Jilin. According to the data, the epidemic situation in Shanghai and Jilin is still very serious. Shanghai and Jilin also happen to be important automobile production areas in China, accounting for more than 20% of the total automobile output in the country, and many automobile enterprises have production and R & D bases here. With the intensification of the epidemic situation, a number of automobile enterprises have stopped production one after another, which also caused concern in the industry.

However, today, in Jilin Province government information office held a press conference, Jilin Province industry and information department deputy director Song Xiaohui said: Automobile industry is an important pillar industry in Jilin Province, will take the lead in realizing resumption of production. Hongqi Ulsan Factory has taken the lead in starting resumption of production, 47 suppliers of the first batch have also resumed production simultaneously, other main engine plants have been prepared for resumption of work in advance, and will resume production in batches and orderly, so as to minimize the impact of the epidemic situation on the industrial economy of the whole province. Yesterday, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also said that it would give priority to ensuring that key enterprises in Shanghai resumed work and production, thus preventing the smooth operation of the industrial chain supply chain.

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