Founded in 1986, the company is a scientific and technological manufacturing enterprise with new energy vehicles as its core business. It has 20000 employees, a-share listed companies and top 500 Chinese enterprises. The business involves the research and development, manufacture, sales and service of new energy vehicles and core three power, traditional vehicles and core component assemblies.
In 2022, the operating income was 34.105 billion yuan, up 104 percent year-on-year; Among them, the annual revenue of new energy vehicle business was 24.934 billion yuan, up 482.8 percent year-on-year, accounting for 73.1 percent of the company's operating income. As the core growth engine of the company, the new energy vehicle business continued to exert force. In 2022, the cumulative production and sales of new energy vehicles were 139,132 and 135,054, respectively, with a year-on-year growth of 233.6% and 225.9%, the data growth rate far exceeds the industry average.
The company always adheres to innovation-driven, long-term doctrine and business success. Adhering to the mission of "promoting the transformation of automobile energy and chuangxiang smart mobile life", we have deeply cultivated technological innovation, focused on self-research of technology, and worked in the third power technology, extended range technology, electronic and electrical architecture and super electric drive intelligent technology platform (DE-i) are in the leading position. In 2022, the R & D investment was 3.106 billion yuan, and the core R & D investment in AITO has exceeded 12 billion yuan.
The main products include AITO series of high-end intelligent new energy vehicles, blue electric new energy vehicles, ruichi electric commercial vehicles, scenic SUV, etc.
The company has leading intelligent manufacturing capabilities. The intelligent factory of Celis automobile takes digitalization, intelligence and internet of things as its core, adopts advanced manufacturing operation management system and manufacturing process, and adopts real-time online response mode, quickly and accurately carry out large-scale customized production. The factory implements strict quality control standards, 100% automatic production of key processes, and empowers high-quality delivery with high-level intelligent manufacturing strength.
The whole vehicle of the company is exported to more than 70 countries and regions around the world, and its two major brands, SERES and DFSK, intelligent electric vehicles, are successively exported to Germany, France, Britain, Italy and other countries, and built a vehicle smart factory in Indonesia along the Belt and Road.
The company first tested the Hybrid Economy, and cooperated with Dongfeng company to produce automobiles in 2003, which made the model of hybrid system in China's automobile industry. In 2020, the two sides deepened strategic cooperation, and the cooperation rose from subsidiaries to the level of joint-stock companies. After the reorganization, Dongfeng company became an important major shareholder.
In 2021, Huawei, the world's leading ICT Enterprise, created a precedent for deep cross-border integration of joint business. The two sides gave full play to their respective advantages and conducted in-depth cooperation in core technologies, products and channels, AITO series of new energy vehicle products jointly created by both sides are very popular with the market and users. At the same time, it has established a long-term strategic cooperative relationship with Ningde era, a world-leading new energy innovation technology company, to provide a strong guarantee for the delivery of new energy vehicles.
At present, the company deeply practices the core values of "everything for users, super struggle, embrace change, honesty and reliability, and value sharing", and adheres to the concept of "software defines cars and serves users wholeheartedly, from traditional cars to intelligent cars, from traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing, pursuing high-quality development, pursuing green and low carbon, actively fulfilling social responsibilities, actively participating in public welfare donations, anti-epidemic relief, targeted poverty alleviation, rural revitalization and other activities strive to achieve the vision of" Becoming a Global Smart car brand enterprise.