Weilai Automobile, one of the top four new forces, is now the fifth largest in the world in market value, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the new force boss. GAC Weilai, as we have said several times, is a GAC "Godson" enterprise that is a joint venture between GAC and Weilai.
So now if I want to tell you that another "joint venture Weilai" is about to appear, do you subconsciously think that this company must be of the same nature as GAC Weilai? For example, if this company is called Changan Weilai?
No, no, the life experience of Changan Weilai, an unestablished company, is much more complicated than GAC Weilai, and the future is much brighter.
Changan Weilai? You have to know that this is really just a name.
We talked about GAC Weilai. In fact, the reason why GAC Weilai, a car company that has nothing to do with Weilai, wants to be named Weilai is actually very simple: GAC Wei The frame of the car that comes is from Weilai, and the smart driving and man-machine interface of the car are also from Weilai, and the name of Weilai deserves it.
But this is the first time we have heard of Changan Weilai, but it is far from simple. Remember the day before yesterday that we once pushed an article about Huawei building a car, right? Huawei’s official attitude is "We will never build cars," but Huawei did not say that they will not join forces with other brands to build cars.
So what we see now is that Changan Automobile announced that it will join hands with Huawei to build a high-end pure electric vehicle brand. Although Changan Automobile’s explanation did not mention what each of Changan Huawei’s two companies is responsible for, it can be imagined. Changan is responsible for the development and manufacturing of new cars, and Huawei provides support for various intelligent systems. The company has two external names, the Chinese name is Changan Weilai, and the English name is CHN.
Do you think this is just a cooperation between Huawei and Changan? No, there are a total of 4 partners of Changan Weilai. In addition to Changan and Huawei, there are also the official Ningde era and Weilai Automobile written in the name. In fact, the English name of Changan Weilai is very interesting. The official definition of the three letters of CHN is "the initials of the three companies in the era of Changan, Huawei and Ningde". However, anyone who has read foreign news knows that CHN is used in many countries. Occasionally, it is usually the Chinese abbreviation (the official English abbreviation is PRC, but CHN is used in many cases).
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, these four companies are all very difficult. Chang'an itself is an old state-owned enterprise and military-industrial complex. Although Huawei is a private enterprise in name, do you really think that Huawei today is just a pure private enterprise? Although Ningde era is a private enterprise in name, it is similar in nature to Huawei, and it is also the kind of enterprise that is by no means simple. Needless to say, Weilai is a new private company listed on the US stock market on the surface, but one of Weilai’s major shareholders is the Hefei Municipal Government.
See here, you understand what's going on, this company with the name "Changan Weilai", its essence is expressed by the three English letters of CHN, this is a company that can represent the highest level of domestic car manufacturing Yes, it's not simple, it's basically a national car company.
So how do you characterize this "new car company" that has not been officially announced or established? It is nominally a new force for building cars, but almost no one will really regard it as a new force. It is by no means a traditional car company, because the company itself is not a pure industrial company. How to characterize it? We feel that "national auto companies" should be the clearest definition of this company.
This article comes from the author of Autohome and does not represent the viewpoint of Autohome.
