The 10,000th Great Wall Motor in Pinghu rolled off the assembly line yesterday

“I announce that the 10,000th complete vehicle of Great Wall Motor Pinghu Branch will roll off the assembly line.” Yesterday morning, in the assembly workshop of Great Wall Motor Co., Ltd. Pinghu Branch, with the Secretary of the Party Working Committee and Director of the Management Committee of the Pinghu Economic and Technological Development Zone Hu Hongtian announced that a vehicle labeled “Chitu 10000” was slowly driving off the production line, which meant that the 10,000th vehicle of Great Wall Motor Pinghu Branch was successfully rolled off the assembly line.

The overall design capacity of Great Wall Motors Pinghu Branch is 100,000 units, which is divided into four workshops: stamping, welding, painting, and final assembly. The final assembly workshop is the last pass for the vehicle to roll off the assembly line. In the huge assembly workshop, the reporter saw the production lines lined up, and the staff were busy working around the vehicles at their respective workstations. In a short while, the bones of each car became “full”. “At present, our assembly workshop has 3 main lines, 4 laying lines, and 3 inspection lines. Each line has been divided into labor and cooperation to continuously promote the rollout of the whole vehicle.” Hao Chuan, director of the assembly workshop, said that they currently have employees in their workshops. Approximately 300 people will implement a single-shift operation mode. The monthly output is expected to reach 4,200 units. It is expected that the dual-shift operation mode will be implemented in August.

While the overall production capacity has increased, the unit efficiency has also increased. “At present, we can take a complete vehicle offline every 210 seconds, which is 18 seconds faster than the original 228 seconds.” said Bai Long, general manager of the Pinghu branch of Great Wall Motor Co., Ltd.. The 18-second speed increase is mainly due to the production process. The streamlining and optimization of the production process not only reduces the labor intensity of employees, but also improves production efficiency and achieves a “win-win”. It is expected that the company’s annual output this year will reach 40,000 units and sales will reach 4.7 billion yuan.

Seeing the smooth rolling off of the entire vehicles and the step-by-step progress towards the design capacity goal, Bailong said that this is inseparable from the solid foundation of the auto parts industry in Pinghu. Before the Great Wall Motors complete vehicle project settled down, Great Wall Motor’s headquarters reviewed the buyers and found that auto parts from Zhejiang accounted for 17% of the total. Pinghu is a national auto parts manufacturing base with obvious advantages in the parts industry, which has become an important reason why they chose to settle in Pinghu.

The industrial advantage that was initially seen is now becoming its own development advantage. “According to the pre-confirmation by many parties, Pinghu’s Oudien company has entered the procurement catalog system of our Great Wall Motor headquarters, and one is in contact.” Bailong said that this is also their Great Wall Motors as a complete vehicle company to actively open up The mentality to absorb the important step of cooperation between parts and components companies is also a modest contribution to promoting the coordinated and accelerated development of the Pinghu automobile industry.

The production side is busy, and the R&D side is also accelerating. As the first R&D center project of Great Wall Group to start construction outside the headquarters in China, Great Wall Motors Pinghu R&D Center is currently in full swing. After the project is completed, it will form a project covering automotive technology research and development, entrepreneurship, etc., which can accommodate more than 5,000 intermediate and senior technical personnel. R&D center. “Next, we will focus on informatization, intelligence, networking, etc., speed up the progress of the whole vehicle project, and strive to reach the design capacity as soon as possible.” Bailong said.