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New Year message | The blind box is slowly opened, we are full of expectations!
author：
Gui Junshong
2024 is gone, 2025 is here!
Outside the window, there is a quiet, the wind is blowing gently, the golden sun is covering the earth, the world is so quiet, people have not come out, everything has not happened...
But here, in 2024, is a battleground. Business battle superposition collision of ideas, market disputes with traffic fighting, reflected in the battle of each competitive model, in the struggle for every trace of network traffic, in each product price close hand to hand combat, in the various forums in the war of words, of course, also in the international automotive landscape in the clouds...
These are the true back of 2024 Chinese cars.
But the 2024 of Chinese cars is definitely more than that, because at the same time we can see -
On July 16, Changchun, FAW's 60 millionth car rolled off the assembly line; October 19, Wuhu, Chery's 15 millionth vehicle off the production line; November 14, Wuhan, China's new energy vehicle annual 10 millionth reached; On November 18, in Shenzhen, BYD's 10 millionth new energy vehicle rolled off the assembly line; On November 26, Shanghai, SAIC renewed its contract with Volkswagen of Germany, extending the joint venture to 2040; And - the penetration rate of Chinese brand passenger cars has reached more than 65%; China's new energy passenger vehicles account for nearly 70% of the world's total; China exported nearly 6m cars; China's automobile production and sales have ranked first in the world for 16 consecutive years.
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Compared with these facts, and the iconic meaning behind the facts, the undercurrent and the sword in front are more like the mood of 2024 China Automobile, and these are the spirit of 2024 China Automobile.
2024 is destined to be recorded in history with these new scales, new heights and acceleration, and achieve the mainstream narrative of Chinese automobiles!
Together with the previous 2023, 2022, 2021... Together, they connect the main line of development of the rise of Chinese automobiles. And the longer the timeline, the more clearly you can see --
When you look back to 2014, you will see the extraordinary 10 years of new energy vehicles, and the new forces represented by "Wei Xiaoli" have been building cars for 10 years;
When you go back to 1984, you see the 40 years of joint ventures and the urgency of transformation.
When you go back to the early 1950s, you will see the magnificent 70 years of Chinese cars...
From such a historical perspective, it will be found that at the historic intersection of the world automobile for a hundred years, the "China Automobile 2024" created by thousands of Chinese auto people is roaring past with its own unique wind.
2025, is roaring with the same wind...
Although the world is quiet, there is nothing, but everything is about to happen, about to write!
As for how to write, what kind of masterpiece to write, whether it is prose or poetry, whether it is quatrains or seven rules, it depends on ourselves!
- depends on our inheritance of history! The great cause of building an automobile power is written by people, but we cannot write it at will, but in the inheritance of history and strong inertia. So, what there is 2024, there may be what 2025. The "only way" upheld in 2024 is destined to continue, the rise continues, and the volume will continue!
- Depends on our interpretation of the future! The "future" is never an absentee from practice. Judging tomorrow's action today, it is a large number of automotive strategists who have risen in the wave of reform and opening up that can do this. They are responding to "the biggest changes in a century" in the car industry. Today's results repay their past passion, and they sow the future with double passion.
- Depends on our actions today! Today, the intersection of history and future. It gives history its future and the future its history. Automotive strivers, who can not grasp today in this vast space and time world? It is this kind of cherish of the present time that allows the subjectivity of "China Automobile 2025" to continue to play, and will evolve into a "Chinese story" that is constantly described, excavated, explored, discriminated, deconstructed and sublimated by our journalists in the next 365 days.
2025, it will not be a simple continuation of 2024. It is itself!
The blind box is slowly opened, and we are full of expectations...
Outside the window, there is a quiet, the wind is blowing gently, the golden sun is covering the earth, the world is so quiet, people start to come out, everything starts to happen...
Originally published by China Automotive News, January 2, 2025
