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Today, a netizen who claimed to be an employee of Huatai Automobile reported to us that Huatai Automobile Company continues to owe wages, and the salaries of outgoing employees have not yet been settled, resulting in employees who do not dare to leave, for fear that they will not be able to come in and ask for wages after leaving.

The picture also shows that in front of the office with the label of Huatai Automobile Chairman, it was blocked by a rights banner, "Huatai owed eight months' wages."

As early as July 19, a person familiar with the matter revealed to us that Huatai Automobile employees had organized an action to safeguard their rights because they had been owed wages for eight months, and a banner saying "pay me back" was posted in front of the same chairman's office. in front of the door, a large number of Huatai Automobile employees were gathered to ask for wages on the spot.

It is understood that Zhang Xiugen is the actual controller and old chairman of Huatai Automobile Group. At present, the chairman of Huatai Automobile Group is Zhang Hongliang, Zhang Xiugen's son, and the legal representative of the company is Zhang Xiugen's little uncle, Miao Xiaolong. Miao Xiaolong has been listed by the court as "restricted consumers".

Huatai Automobile is a traditional independent car manufacturing enterprise founded in 2000, headquartered in Beijing. Huatai develops its own brand Huatai Automobile by purchasing foreign technology and absorbing itself. At the same time, Huatai also has three major automobile production bases in Tianjin, Shandong Rongcheng and Ordos.

According to the official website, Huatai currently has only two major series of cars, including Santa Fe and Lusheng, and the corresponding new energy products. In 2018, Huatai's cumulative annual sales were 120700, down 9% from the same period last year, and only 60.4% of the annual target of 200000. The annual report also shows that Huatai Motor lost 1.6 billion yuan in 2018, with debts totaling 37.566 billion yuan at the end of the year.

In 2019, Huatai car sales continued to decline, three major production bases were exposed to be in a state of suspension, at the same time, there is also a situation of arrears of employees' salaries.

Shandong Rongcheng factory is the starting point of Huatai, which was established in 2000 at the same time as Huatai. Data show that the plant mainly produces Santa Fe, Politics and new energy vehicles. Now it has been exposed by the media that Huatai Rongcheng factory is no longer in production.

Tianjin Huatai production base mainly produces new energy vehicles. An employee told the media that the factory has been in a state of "semi-shutdown" since the second half of last year, with a monthly start time of about 3-5 days and a daily output of about 30 vehicles. There are also some months without production. At the same time, a large number of employees in Tianjin Huatai have left. There were more than 1000 production workers in 2017, but now there are only about 200, and there are repeated cases of wage arrears.

According to a media visit, thousands of licensed Huatai New Energy vehicles have been parked on an open space at the Huatai production base in Tianjin, whose bodies have been covered with a lot of dust.

The Huatai Ordos factory, which originally took 6000 mu of land, 1 billion yuan in government loans and two coal mines, has also been shut down, with a vehicle production of only 17600 vehicles in 2017. In January this year, an employee of the Huatai Ordos factory said: the factory has long been shut down, and even the staff canteen of the base was closed half a year ago. only more than 30 people were left at work in the factory area, and the electricity and electricity of the dormitory building was also cut off.

In fact, the rapid development of China's automobile industry to the decline stage, has caused a series of chain reactions, independent car brands have also entered the reshuffle period, the current situation of Huatai Automobile has basically lost its development ability. The decline in sales comes as the news that factories stop production, employees owe wages and suppliers owe money is frequently exposed, and Huatai Motor has long been in operational crisis.

As an established independent company, the current situation of Huatai Automobile is sad, and it is still unknown how long it can last. At the same time, it is also unknown for employees to get back the arrears of wages.

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