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On July 19, Huayu Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Huayu Automobile") issued an announcement that the meeting elected Wang Xiaoqiu as chairman of the 10th board of directors of the company, and by-elected Jia Jianxu and Xu Ping as non-independent director candidates for the 10th board of directors of the company. Xu Ping was appointed general manager of the company.

According to the public information, Xu Ping is an old steam man who used to be the project manager of the Engineering Department of Shanghai General Motors Co., Ltd., project chief engineer, senior assistant to the general manager, senior project planning manager of the engineering support department, project management director, deputy director of powertrain, project management executive director, and executive director of the planning and development department of Shanghai General Motors Co., Ltd. Deputy Director and Executive Deputy Director of the Technology Center of Shanghai Automobile Group Co., Ltd., General Manager of Shanghai Automobile UK Holdings Co., Ltd., Executive Deputy General Manager of Pan Asia Automobile Technology Center Co., Ltd., Deputy General Manager of passenger car Branch of Shanghai Automobile Group Co., Ltd.

On July 10, the official of Shanghai Automobile Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "SAIC") announced the decision of the main leaders to adjust: Chen Hong, the former chairman, resigned as chairman and other positions due to his retirement age. Wang Xiaoqiu was appointed chairman of SAIC and Jia Jianxu was appointed president of SAIC.

It is understood that after Wang Xiaoqiu became chairman of SAIC, he began to adjust the executives of various major sectors.

In addition to appointing Xu Ping as general manager of Huayu Automobile, SAIC announced yesterday that Jia Jianxu would no longer serve concurrently as general manager of SAIC Volkswagen after he was promoted to president of SAIC. The position would be replaced by Tao Hailong, former general manager of Huayu Automobile. It is understood that Tao Hailong, who was born in 1968, is also a veteran of the Shanghai Automobile Department. he has worked in the quality Assurance Department and Manufacturing Department of SAIC-Volkswagen for a long time, and has since served as executive director and deputy general manager of the quality Assurance Department of the passenger car Branch of SAIC Group. General Manager of Shanghai Automobile Transmission Co., Ltd. And general manager of Huayu Automobile, a leading Chinese auto parts company.

According to media reports, Cui Weiguo, deputy general manager of SAIC passenger car Company, will serve as SAIC General Manager; Deputy General Manager of SAIC data Business Department, Chief Digital Officer (CDO) and Marketing Executive Director of SAIC passenger car Company, and Zhang Liang, who is fully responsible for all aspects of SAIC Mingjue brand sales, marketing and public relations, will serve as SAIC Zhiji General Manager. Lu Yong, executive vice president of the Innovation Research and Development Institute of Shanghai Automobile Group Co., Ltd., will take over as general manager of SAIC Chase; for now, with the exception of Xu Ping and Tao Hailong, other positions have not yet been officially announced, pending further official disclosure.

SAIC, the largest auto group in China, is constantly strengthening the development of its own brands, but it is bound to be difficult for elephants to turn around. At present, in the special period of the reform of new energy vehicles, the exchange of market positions of independent joint ventures, and the obstacles for Chinese cars to go to sea, SAIC is also facing various challenges. In any case, the succession of Wang Xiaoqiu will be the beginning of SAIC to get rid of long-standing abuses and build confidence in the transformation of new energy, while the change of managers of major sectors is one of the strategic choices to deal with market changes and accelerate the transformation of new energy. Fundamentally speaking, the transformation of automobile enterprises requires new leaders to change the relatively old internal organizational structure and management system in the past, and to create a new team to lead the company to go on better.

In the first half of the year, SAIC sold a total of 1.827 million vehicles, down 11.81% from the same period last year, of which 461000 new energy vehicles were sold, up 23.90% from the same period last year. In terms of specific brands, in the joint venture sector, SAIC Volkswagen grew 1.75% year on year, SAIC GM Wuling increased 9.60% year on year, while SAIC GM declined 49.98% year on year. SAIC passenger cars are down 18.49% year on year. SAIC Chase is down 9.18%, while as its high-end pure electric brand, SAIC Zhiji soared 129.34%, but its overall market share is not high. Cumulative sales of only 22452 vehicles

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