He Xiao Jing: Roewe technology and grade of core brand values Editor's Note: 2010 Beijing International Auto Show in April 23, SINA auto send lineup reported this car show, the introduction to "reads" as the theme of family planning, invited all automotive group leaders, business executives and industry celebrities visit SINA auto Beijing auto show live rooms, corporate strategy, industry topics, hot cars, car Expo and other users interested in the topic in depth explanation. Following is a question by the Shanghai Automotive marketing communications director Ho Xiao's visit to the SINA interview room.
Shanghai Automotive marketing communications director He Xiao Jing
Host: you good afternoon 2010 here chezhanxin wave access between Beijing, today we invite to Shanghai Automotive marketing communications director He Xiao Jing, Hi!
He Xiao Jing: SINA Netizen everyone.
Moderator: we see the majestic products from 750 to 350, are your products open cross, sell expensive after cheap, this will not affect the majestic brand?
He Xiao Jing: we want to send this brand further expansion, 350 more extensive coverage of the population, the price of 8.97-12.47 million. Recent concerns about 350 on the network are very high, the car integrates Shanghai Automotive in technology research and development of major breakthrough. 350 is based on consumer demand and new models for the network age.
Moderator: 350 has a great wisdom like stocks, does this mean that your product and is different from other products?
He Xiao Jing: 350 Internet times, including in the Conference also describes the major features of several important. For instance, we can then 350 itself see the stock market, and online transactions, and of course in the road safety conditions. In addition we have a very good feature, you can globally speaking, whenever you are in 350 car you and your friends is not subject to geographical restrictions for online communication, such as I am in Beijing, he was in Shanghai, we can also be done by this vehicle intercom, not only can you one-to-one or one-to-many, these are 3 g network transport this functionality in the General's car.
Hosts: as MG6 and 350 listing, selling of brand integration is also very good, SAIC in double brand strategy on how the planning?
He Xiao Jing: we are in the 11th Beijing International exhibition on two models, one is A majestic-class cars, the other one is a 350 MG brand new Zero MG concept car, the car represents our double brand strategy development. Majestic is the embodiment of taste, technology, implementations, MG brand proposition personality, temperament, creativity. Today, many consumers see MGZero the car is a pan-90 crowd, the car very personalized, and many of the features of digital technology. We hope that a step by step to Shanghai Automotive products and quality on a high level of international enterprises.
Moderator: MG brand what posture in the future or the future development of how did you consider?
He Xiao Jing: MG is a nearly 100-year history of the international brand, in fact we from strategic perspective, we will put this brand as an international comparison in high-end brand to development. Its models in the segment markets are relatively high-end routes, including MG7 and MG6, there are to be listed at the beginning of next year, the market segment in the MG3 are relatively high-end, MG is emphasised individuality and creativity, very suitable for young consumers.
Host: now requires you to do something about Shanghai Automotive competitor, scale, many new cars?
He Xiao Jing: we have a total of 14 cars exhibitors with majestic and MG s models have been listed, including MG6, listing the near MG3W-the city's Nordic-type car, majestic's 750--is the official Shanghai Expo, this time introduced our full-time online intermediate car 350. So this time Beijing is Shanghai Automotive largest exhibition ever.
Moderator: Shanghai Automotive in the current exhibition in your opinion what is the biggest highlights? today's theme in the past?
He Xiao Jing: the biggest highlights 350, we have organized a professional media test drive, media response was very positive and very fond of, sell us network consumer group on the car's expectations and discussion is also a very warm, many consumers on a relatively modern new technological products is a fond of. We also believe that the coming of the car will be popular.
Moderator: see last year's Shanghai Automotive performance is very good, 246.7 million, is 18 million units this year, industry growth is 15%, what do you think is to support its high growth?
He Xiao Jing: Shanghai Automotive has always been relatively rapid development, including the majestic brand and MG brand, last year, the overall market situation is very good, China and other countries are different, the majestic 550 last year overall sales volume is reached 7 000 000, so our January majestic 550-sold more than 1 million units, it is in A + grade market was the main product, Shanghai Automotive on SAIC group has spent a very large fund that we are very down-to-Earth, we almost every year a new product, suitable for different consumer groups of products. The last two years we caught Chinese automobile market opportunities of development, a solid development.
Moderator: at the upcoming Expo, Shanghai as agents, SAIC, the spread of the Expo? you think on this brand sales what help?
He Xiao Jing: when everyone is period to China Olympic Games, there are 1 million passenger trips to attend the Expo, overall brand communication and publicity opportunities are very large, Shanghai Automotive the Shanghai Expo the highest level of partner. We are the world's fair of SAIC, and General Motors with built in GMAC Museum, we will certainly look into the larger effort. We all care about and a lot of people will visit and we also would like to take this opportunity to spread more our own brand of culture and some characteristics of the product.
Moderator: see recall event also enterprise is dragging the stability and development of products for high demand, you believe in the development of enterprises which potential crisis?
He Xiao Jing: we are pursuing sales at the same time, consideration is not really meet the needs of consumers, including on product quality, stability, after-sales service, use the value, and so on these aspects. The Chinese automobile market of the past two years than we had imagined development better, some manufacturers may in pursuit of sales, in some ways less emphasis on our Shanghai Automotive, SAIC Group on these aspects is the special attention, especially consumer experience, consumer services, consumers have any ideas and comments to feedback. The last time we remember our group Chairman and CEO, referred to the issue of quality is the life of the company, including Toyota event for us, is a warning, not the pursuit of sales, the pursuit of profit in the long term give lost, we also manufacture process including the plant's construction, we have the best in automotive assembly plant, equipped with the best technology for manufacturing base, at the same time, we sucks the industry was strong management engineering, management, manufacturing system to manage these projects.
Host: you launch 750, 350 and 550 price and joint venture brand closer. Such a statement, as we say in the future joint-venture plant will die out, independent brand to kill venture brand, you think that this joint venture brand is not the China market in a transition symbol?
He Xiao Jing: joint venture with China Automotive development is made a great contribution to, including certain technical, personnel, equipment, and so on, are constantly learning and improving your own in the process, we stated that, as Chinese people want your brand to get better, because someone else's brand is owned by profit and many others all of that intellectual property is owned by someone else, we hope that all of their core technology to your own industry will be made. We think that no matter how joint venture, we are trying to do, the key is to Chinese consumers want to get the kind of service, are brand culture, to see who could do a better for consumers.
Reporter: in automobile market has many branded consumer in mind, in your eyes MG in a few years later want it on consumers as a kind of image?
What we do know world: brand-building hope this brand can associate it with its core values, majestic from 3 years building the brand we focus on its core values of brand building, we have been speaking of science and technology and good taste. We put the technology into the era of the automobile manufacturing industry, we are very much emphasized-taste, this is a lot of consumers of rational and emotional needs of the collection. When we do MG brand, and the original old MG is slightly different from last year Guangzhou motor show is our new MG brand positioning of publication, we find that your core values are different, the brand is personality, creativity, emphasize creativity, we hope to play a young group of creativity and imagination. We hope that in product design and functionality to embody this idea in General, we think of MG was very individuality and creativity of the brand.
Reporter: past 2009 Chinese automobile company, is developing very fast, last month the first-quarter sales and also very good, how do you define China's car in the Chinese market position? Shanghai Automotive in China automotive market what location?
He Xiao Jing: I feel that regardless of the joint venture or independent brands, including we are to build its own international brand, we have to be practical to do it, the most critical consumers recognize your brand values, your product. China now, the Mainland enterprises is very hard, and product quality, technical ability, core technologies, automobile terribly integration technology is evolving and such as Germany, the United States automobile industry, of course, they still have a lot of our advanced worth learning, but I believe that we must be able to do, because we are very wise national and industrious people.
Reporter: this auto show with the direction of environmental protection is a theme, Shanghai majestic in China is very early car in new energy in the direction of what design?
He Xiao Jing: Group and we are a booth, a majestic 750 hybrid cars, we will soon be volume production of the car, is to adapt to the Expo, the World Expo in new energy of sedan, SAIC group is a socially responsible enterprise, for the environment including in our own living conditions, energy, oil or very precious, SAIC also spent a lot of energy and financial resources, so we set up a new energy companies, who specializes in the next few years can truly to volume production of the car.
Reporter: will the mass production of the car is going to a large number of sales in the market?
He Xiao Jing: the present in order to provide the needs of the future World Expo, our group also E1 pure electric cars, this may be a delay because the involved technical breakthroughs, including batteries and other aspects of qualitative, should be in the next few years to achieve this goal.
Moderator: The end of today's chat.