Recently, Yan Yan, who graduated from Shandong's Zhuzhou Advanced Technical School, rushed through the phone at home. “I just signed a contract with Foton Motor.†There were 2,000 workers who had been recruited to Futian with Xiu Yan. In the first quarter of this year, Foton Motors not only did not lay off staff and did not reduce their salaries, but the wages of the employees also rose in recent months.
Although the international financial crisis continues to spread, Foton Motors, the leader in domestic commercial vehicles, has grown against the market and sold.
The volume reached 235,000, an increase of 8% year-on-year, ranking first in China's commercial vehicle industry. In particular, the level of profitability is surprising: the profit level in the first five months has exceeded the full-year level last year. Zhao Jingguang, deputy secretary of the Foton Motor Party Committee, said: "In the overall downturn of the commercial vehicle industry, Foton Motors has weathered the crisis and recovered rapidly through a series of effective measures such as structural adjustments. The production and sales of medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles have grown month by month. Improve, all indicators have created the best level since its establishment."
"To build green competitiveness, Foton Motor is relying on independent innovation." Zhao Jingguang said that from 2001's 170 million yuan to more than one billion yuan in R&D investment in 2008, the average annual investment of Foton Auto's independent innovation reached 3.5% of sales revenue. % to 4%. Zhao Jingguang said: "In the past few years, investment has begun to bear fruit."
At the 10th Beijing Auto Show, the tailpipe of Futian Automotive's hydrogen fuel cell bus was directly inserted into the large fish tank next to it. The exhaust gas discharged from the tube stirred up the water in the fish tank, and the goldfish were still swimming freely in the water. Come and go. “The passenger car uses hydrogen and oxygen as fuel, and the emission is pure water, free from harmful gases, and it can be directly consumed.†Deputy Director of Foton Motor and Dean of Automotive Research Institute Yan Xuebin confidently visited Introduced.
It is this self-developed clean passenger car by Foton Motor that achieved zero emissions and zero failures during the Beijing Olympics and demonstrated to the world the achievements of China's new energy bus development.
As oil prices continue to rise and non-renewable resources are increasingly in short supply, the struggle for new energy has become the direction of future development of the automotive industry. Energy conservation and environmental protection are stimulating the most sensitive nerves of global automotive manufacturers. In the domestic enterprises with independent innovation of new energy vehicles, the start of Foton Motor is not the earliest, but it is the earliest industrialization. At present, 30 Futian new energy buses have been officially commercialized on the bus lines in urban Guangzhou.
On June 9, Beijing Foton Cummins Engine Co., Ltd., with an annual output capacity of 400,000 units, went into production. This world-leading engine with eight world-leading technologies not only installs a more energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly "heart" for Foton Motor, but also enables Foton Motor's products to leapfrog the export barriers of developed countries such as Europe and the United States, greatly enhancing Foton Motor's overseas presence. The market's green competitiveness.
"All innovative products must be judged by the market and all innovative technologies must be tested in practice," said Yan Xuebin. Zhang Weixiong, chairman of Guangzhou No.1 Bus Co., Ltd., who purchased Futian New Energy Bus, has calculated an economic account. The average fuel consumption of a Futian hybrid bus is 25% more than the conventional model, which saves nearly 90,000 vehicles a year. The operating cost of the yuan, the eight years of standard service life can save costs 700,000 yuan. After 10 years of use, it can also produce more than 27 tons of carbon dioxide less than traditional models.
After 12 years of development, Foton Motor not only owns 100% self-innovation products, 100% independent brands, but also becomes the largest commercial vehicle company in the world and second in the world. At present, Foton Motor has built China's first world-class energy-saving and emission-reduction laboratory, realized the first domestic market for hybrid bus production, and initiated the establishment of China's first new energy automotive industry alliance. By 2010, Foton will achieve a goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions from a single product by 8% over 2004 and accumulatively reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 100,000 tons.
Since the main innovations to promote development
Green competitiveness has also become a booster for Foton Motor's exports. At present, Foton auto products have been exported to 48 countries and regions in the world. In 2008, the export volume reached more than 30,000 vehicles. It has been the largest exporter of commercial vehicles for four consecutive years. Foton Motor also established overseas CKD factories in Pakistan, Ukraine and Vietnam, and will export to Japan, South Korea and European markets in 2010.
View related topics: New energy vehicles: The magic weapon to deal with energy crisis
Foton Motor: Independent Innovation Enhances Green Competitiveness