4月28日,上海汽车集团股份有限公司正式启动乘用车宁德基地项目建设,这也是继上海临港工厂、南京浦口工厂、郑州工厂之后上汽集团自主品牌乘用车的第四座工厂。根据规划,上汽集团宁德基地占地面积约2200亩,总投资50亿元左右,将于2019年正式投产,未来该基地将主要用于上汽乘用车旗下新能源车型的生产(包括荣威、名爵品牌产品)。上汽集团董事长陈虹表示,宁德基地主要面向东南沿海地区并辐射东南亚汽车市场。发挥上汽在整车制造、以及在电池、电机和电控等领域的核心技术优势,依托福建省与宁德市的区位优势,新能源电池的配套优势,加快建设上汽服务东南沿海、辐射东南亚市场的重要整车基地。2017年,上汽集团实现整车销售693万辆。其中,自主品牌乘用车荣威、名爵的销量增速超过60%;新能源汽车的销量增速超过150%。目前上汽集团已经在沈阳、烟台、青岛、扬州、南京、无锡、上海、宁波、郑州、武汉、长沙、柳州、重庆、乌鲁木齐建立了整车生产基地;在海外,成功建立了泰国、印尼和印度整车生产基地。
SAIC Motor starts construction of Ningde PV production base
SAIC Motor officially started the construction of its PV (passenger vehicle) manufacturing base in Ningde, Fujian Province (hereinafter, Ningde base) on April 28. This is the fourth plant of SAIC Motor Passenger Vehicle following the Lingang plant in Shanghai, Pukou plant in Nanjing and the plant in Zhengzhou, Henan province.
The Ningde base, covering an area of 2200mu (around 1,466 thousand square meters) and involving an investment of around RMB 5 billion, is slated to start production in 2019. Reportedly, the new base will mainly manufacture the NEV models under SAIC Motor PV, including Roewe and MG.
The Ningde base is set to serve southeastern coastal areas in China and influence neighboring Southeast Asia auto market. The automaker will exercise its core technology merits in vehicle manufacturing as well as battery, electric motor and electric control and rely on the regional advantages of Ningde and Fujian province to accelerate the construction of the Ningde base, according to Chen Hong, chairman of SAIC Motor.
SAIC Motor delivered around 6.93 million vehicles throughout 2017. Particularly, both Roewe and MG achieved year-on-year sales growth exceeding 60%, while the deliveries of NEVs skyrocketed 150% from the previous year. Currently, SAIC Motor has quite a few vehicle production bases across China, such as Shenyang, Yantai, Qingdao, Nanjing, Shanghai, Ningbo, Chongqing, and so on. Meanwhile, the company also has vehicle bases in Thailand, Indonesia and India.