On the afternoon of May 13, CAAM held the monthly press conference in Beijing Auto Museum, on which the April economic operation of the automotive industry, the April power battery data of NEVs and the April promotion and application situation of EV charging infrastructures nationwide were released. The reporters from over 70 medias, such like the Xinhua News Agency and CCTV, attended the press conference.
Mr. Shi Jianhua, the Deputy Secretary General of CAAM, participated in.
Mr. Xu Haidong, the Secretary General Assistant of CAAM, hosted the press conference.
Mr. Chen Shihua, the Secretary General Assistant of CAAM, informed the April economic operation of the automotive and motorcycle industries. He gave a comprehensive introduction on those major indicators.
1. Sales and Production: In April, the decrease rate enlarged comparing with the same period last year. This month, the production and sales of automobiles reached 2.052 million and 1.98 million respectively, down 19.8% and 21.4% than that of last month, and down 14.5% and 14.6% year on year. The decrease rates enlarged 11.7 percentage points and 9.4 percentage points comparing with a year earlier. For the first four months, the accumulated production and sales were 8.389 million and 8.353 million, down 11% and 12.1% year on year, with which the decrease rates enlarged 1.2 percentage points and 0.8 percentage points than that of Q1.
As seen in April, the overall downward trend of the industry was not effectively alleviated. Although the yearly decrease rate of March narrowed comparing with that of the first two months, considering that March was the last month of Q1, of which the enterprises had performance assessment needs, the situation of hitting the volume could be seen in production and wholesale. As for the total of March and April, the accumulated production and sales reached 4.61 million and 4.5 million, down 8.3% and 9.6% year on year. The decrease rate was still in a relatively high level, though 1.5 percentage points and 2 percentage points narrowed than that of the first two months. Currently, the sluggish market was mainly driven by the lack of consumer confidence, also affected by the switchover from China V to China VI emission standard as well as the waiting status for state policies to stimulate consumption. With the gradually settled-down of a series of state policies, like tax reduction, fees cutting, etc. and the gradual improving of capital investment to consumer market, we were full of confidence in the whole-year stable development of auto market. In perspective of major markets worldwide, the US, Europe, Japan and India were all lower than the sales volume of the same period.
2. Operation Features: The sales and production of automobiles dramatically decreased with continuous decline of passenger cars on yearly basis. However, the commercial vehicles kept growth. So did the NEVs. A high-speed growth could be seen. The market share of Chinese brand passenger cars declined. The sales of Top 10 enterprises were down comparing with the same period last year. The auto export witnessed decline as well. The economic benefit growth rate of key enterprises was lower than a year earlier. As for the situation of motorcycles, the sales and production were basically in line with that of the previous year. But the export witnessed decline.
3. Chinese Brands: For the first four months, the top 15 enterprises were SAIC, Geely, Changan, Dongfeng, Great Wall, BAIC, FAW, Chery, JAC, BYD, SINOTRUK, GAC, Brilliance, Shaanxi Automobile and Zotye in terms of the sales of Chinese brand automobiles. While for Chinese brand passenger cars, the top 15 were SAIC, Geely, Great Wall, Changan, Chery, Dongfeng, BYD, BAIC, GAC, Zotye, JAC, Brilliance, FAW, Hawtai Motor and Liebao Motors; and for Chinese brand commercial vehicles, the top 15 were Dongfeng, BAIC, SAIC, Changan, FAW, SINOTRUK, JAC, Shaanxi Automobile, Great Wall, Chengdu Dayun, Brilliance, Chery, Tang King Auto, Zhejiang Feidie Automobile and Zhengzhou Yutong.
Mr. Wang Yao, the Director of Technology Department of CAAM and the Deputy Secretary General of China Auto Power Battery Industry Innovation Alliance, informed the April power battery data of NEVs. In April, the total production of power batteries reached 7.3GWh, down 10.9% than that of last month. As seen by type, the production of ternary battery was 4.3GWh, down 21.4% than that of last month, accounting for 59.0% of the total; the production of lithium iron phosphate battery was 2.8GWh, up 12.0% than that of last month, accounting for 38.2% of the total. As for the first four months, the accumulated production of power batteries in China reached 27.1GWh, of which the accumulated production of ternary battery reached 16.4GWh, accounting for 60.6% of the total; the lithium iron phosphate battery was 9.9 GWh, accounting for 36.5%; others accounted for 2.9%.
In April, the loading capacity of power batteries was 5.4GWh in total, up 43.9% year on year, and up 6.3% than that of last year. For the first four months, the accumulated loading volume reached 17.7GWh, up 116.7% year on year. The growth rate fell back comparing with that of in March. This month, the lithium iron phosphate batteries loaded on CVs were up, reaching 1.5GWh; while such figure for ternary batteries were 3.8GWh, slightly lower than that of last month. As for the first four months, there were totally 60 power battery manufacturers nationwide achieving loading, of which the loading volume of the top 3, top five and top 10 reached 13.5GWh, 14.5GWh and 15.9GWh respectively, accounting for 76.5%, 81.7% and 89.8% of the total. In terms of loading capacity in January to April, the top 10 enterprises were CATL, BYD, Guoxuan High-Tech, Farasis, United Auto Battery, Lishen Battery, CALB, BAK, EVE and DFD New Energy.
Mr. Tong Zongqi from Information Department of EVCIPA informed the April promotion and application situation of EV charging infrastructures nationwide. Up to this April, the numbers of public charging piles submitted by the alliance members reached 391 thousand units, of which AC charging point 223 thousand units, DC 168 thousand units, AC/DC integrated 500 units. Comparing with that of in March, the public charging piles increased 7,464 units. From last May to this April, the monthly average increase of public charging piles were about 10,748 units. This month, an increase of 49.2% could be seen on yearly basis.
Besides, the leaders present answered the questions of the reporters regarding to the industrial hot issues.
