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Earlier today, there were media reports that Ulay, which has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange in the United States, is planning to return to Kechuang, with operators such as IDG and Hillhouse Capital. Meanwhile, NIO has closed its Silicon Valley office.

As the new energy between China and the United States is two sets of systems, it has become a consensus that both sides can not occupy it. Li Bin, founder of Xilai Automobile, said internally that he would mainly use the RMB financing market in the future.

In addition, the media has three independent sources of cross-verification, NIO is also continuing a new round of layoffs. One of the people close to the top of the company said that the new round of layoffs will be reduced from 8000 to 5500. A supplier of car companies also told reporters that NIO will continue to lay off staff.

In early April this year, because of persistent losses and difficulties, Lulai announced a "cost-cutting" plan. It plans to lay off 3% of its staff and limit the number to 9500. After that, NIO continued to lay off 8000 people. In response to the layoff storm, Li Bin, CEO of Lulai, responded again on August 16th to call it "normal optimization."

In the past, NIO has set up two offices in Silicon Valley with a total of 640 people. In May, California Job Center documents showed that a total of 70 jobs were laid off in Xilai Silicon Valley, including 20 from San Francisco offices and 50 from San Jose offices. At present, NIO has closed its San Francisco office.

This afternoon, Xilai's official Weibo posted a message in response to earlier media reports that it would close its Silicon Valley office. Wei Lai said that media reports such as NIO's return to Kechuangban and the closure of Silicon Valley offices are false reports.

Silicon Valley office is an important part of NIO's global strategic layout and has been in a normal state of operation. At present, NIO takes the improvement of systematic efficiency as the focus of work, and staff optimization will be carried out in an orderly manner. In addition, NIO said that there are no plans to return to the Kechuang board in the near future.

For the above rumors, people related to Xilai also responded earlier that the office in Silicon Valley was not closed, and now there are more than 500 people. As for the news of returning to Kechuang Board, it said that officials would not comment on the rumor.

According to the first quarter of 2019, which has been released by Xilai, the total revenue of the first quarter of 2019 is about 16%. 3.1 billion yuan, down 52.5% from the previous month; the net loss is about 26%. 2.4 billion yuan, a decrease of 25.1% from the previous month, an increase of 71.4% over the same period in 2018.

On August 12, Xilai released new car delivery figures for July 2019 on its website. The data show that a total of 837 new cars were delivered in July, compared with 673 for ES6 and 164for ES8. At the beginning of this year, Lulai set a sales target of 40, 000 to 50, 000 new cars a year.

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