Embracing the upward power, FAW Toyota Asian Dragon AVALON won the 2019 Global Car of the Year Award after three rounds of fighting

International Online Car Channel News: On December 26th, the 2019 Global Car Awards Ceremony was officially held at Beijing Jingyuan Art Center. The famous singer Li Tianhua officially opened the 2019 Global Car Awards Ceremony with a song "Wait until the flowers bloom in front of you" sung for the first time for the Global Car Annual Ceremony. The green picture of the first annual car is still vivid, and all kinds of questioning and impossible voices are still in my ears. In the blink of an eye, the 6th Annual Car has become more and more professional and more recognized by the industry. Driven by the previous evaluations of the Global Car of the Year and the video review of the event site, the atmosphere of the scene was ignited step by step. More than 300 experts, leaders, cross-border people and media from inside and outside the automotive industry gathered together to witness this event.

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2019 Huanyu Automotive Annual Festival

With its principles of "professionalism, impartiality, and rejection of tricks", as well as the features of on-site public voting and full supervision by notaries, the Global Car of the Year event has attracted widespread attention in the industry and has become an annual "major event" in China’s automotive industry.

In recent years, with the rapid development of China’s auto industry, various car evaluation activities have emerged one after another, but most of them are short-lived and difficult to stir up water. To be precise, the annual car event can be regarded as a process of big waves and sand. Wu Yingqiu, chairperson and CEO of Huanqiu Automobile Group, at the 2019 Huanqiu Automobile Annual Ceremony, starting from the current background of China’s auto market, he believes: "Chinese cars also need to be summarized, need role models, and need new representatives. This year’s Huanqiu Automobile Annual Ceremony will start with Chinese cars and bring everyone’upward power ‘."

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Wu Yingqiu, Chairperson and CEO of Huanqiu Automobile Group

Li Hongwu, president of Huanqiu Automobile Group, told his thoughts on the future automotive industry around the "basic disk". In Li Hongwu’s view, for automobile companies, the basic disk may be different, but the largest common divisor and the largest concentric circle must be the user. The essence of change in the new automobile era is from a product-centered operating model to a user-centered operating model. User operation may not sound new, but in the new automobile era, car companies need not only to produce cars according to user requests, but also to change the operating model according to user requests. This means that car companies are not just car manufacturers, or even just travel service providers. What else can we be in the future? What else can we do? This is a question that requires the entire automotive industry to think and explore together.

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Li Hong, President of Huanqiu Automobile Group

As a participant in the six Global Car of the Year, Wang Xin, editor-in-chief of Global Auto Group, reviewed the changes in China’s car market in 2019 and raised key issues for the development of the industry. Wang Xin said: "The Global Auto Annual Festival has advocated upward power for Chinese cars in 2019. I think this is definitely not a slogan, but a real reflection from Global Auto itself as a member of the automotive industry. In the past we talked about speed, and in the future we will talk about accuracy; in the past we talked about scale, and in the future we will talk about quality; in the past we talked about efficiency, and in the future we will talk about creating impact; in the past we talked about sales, and in the future we will talk about corporate development sustainability. Not only auto companies, but also all the industries around auto companies, we have to see that change is an eternal topic, but the change in 2019 is no longer about sewing and mending, but about scraping bones and healing wounds. In the past 40 years, the automotive ancestors have laid a foundation. Starting in 2019, we really need our generation to think about how the next Chinese cars will go. "

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Wang Xin, Editor-in-Chief of Huanqiu Automobile Group

As we all know, in the past year, a lot of big things have happened in China. Whether it is Li Hongwu’s belief that "car companies need to change their operating models according to user requests" or Wang Xin’s statement that "starting in 2019, how the next Chinese cars will go, we really need our generation to think about it." This is a true portrayal of the Chinese auto market. According to Li Keobo, executive vice president of the China Institute of Economic Thought and Practice at Tsinghua University, the worst era of the Chinese auto market is over.

As we all know, the annual Global Car Festival is not only a car festival, but also a summary and prospect of China’s manufacturing and automobile industries. Li Keobo, as an important economic guest of the 6th Global Car of the Year, brought three judgments to the scene based on the new economy, new manufacturing and new development. Li Keobo said: "The first judgment is that China’s car ownership is far from reaching the saturation period. The second judgment is that China will definitely become the core of the world’s automobile manufacturing in the future, or even the only core. The third judgment is that the worst time has passed, and the car situation next year will definitely improve next year."

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Li Keobo, Executive Vice Dean of the China Institute of Economic Thought and Practice, Tsinghua University

In addition to cars, "people" have also become an important part of the 2019 Global Automotive Annual Festival. This automotive era needs more spiritual power, as well as the power of role models. We need the spirit of never admitting defeat in the industry, and we need to bring these real role models to the ground. We need to find some people who can be called role models to bring us more power.

At this year’s annual ceremony, Global Auto selected two role models through different judging criteria, they are "Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of New China · China Automobile Man of the Year Award" – Xu Heyi, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairperson of Beijing Automotive Group Co., Ltd., and "Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of New China · China Automobile Annual Outstanding Contribution Award" – An Conghui, President of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group and President and CEO of Geely Automobile Group. In the thunderous applause of the audience, former Minister of Machinery Industry He Guangyuan, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Automotive Industry Branch, China International Chamber of Commerce Automotive Industry Chamber of Commerce President Wang Xia, Global Automobile Group Chairperson and CEO Wu Yingqiu presented awards to Xu Heyi and An Conghui respectively.

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Xu Heyi, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairperson of Beijing Automotive Group Co., Ltd.

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An Conghui, President of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, President and CEO of Geely Automobile Group

As a representative of the upward power of Chinese automobiles, Shao Jingfeng, deputy chief designer and global design president of SAIC Technology Center, Shen Ziyu, CEO of Yikatong Technology Co., Ltd., and Li Yujun, executive vice president of BAIC New Energy Research Institute, paid tribute to Chinese automobiles from three fields: Chinese automobile design, intelligent networking and new energy technology.

As representatives of Chinese automobile joint ventures, Wang Zhiwei, chief technician of Beijing Hyundai, chief craftsman of BAIC Group, Chang Xiaonan of GAC Honda Yizhuang Store, Jia Jianduo, a special quality information officer and expert technician of FAW-Volkswagen, and Zhao Jing, sales and service manager of SAIC-GM Beijing Macro and Tongda Automobile, respectively, described the achievements of China’s automobile opening and development in the fields of technology, sales and service for decades.

At the same time, representatives from four innovative car companies also won the "70th Anniversary of the Founding of New China · China Automotive Innovation Personality Award". They are Fu Qiang, co-founder and president of Aichi Automobile; Zhang Hailiang, chairperson and CEO of Skyline Automobile; Shen Hui, founder, chairperson and CEO of Weimar Automobile; and Zhang Yong, president of United Company.

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Fu Qiang, Co-founder and President of Aichi Automobile, Zhang Hailiang, Chairperson and CEO of Skyline Automobile, Shen Hui, Founder, Chairperson and CEO of Weimar Automobile, Zhang Yong, President of Hezhong Company

After an intense evaluation activity on December 12, the Global Car of the Year jury selected 11 finalists from nearly 60 models through layers of screening. They are: joint venture brand SUV of the year – FAW Toyota’s new RAV4 Rongfang, joint venture brand sedan of the year – FAW Toyota Asian Dragon AVALON, pure electric model of the year – Aichi U5, Chinese brand SUV of the year – WEY VV7, Chinese brand MPV of the year – Geely Jiaji, Chinese brand SUV of the year – Geely Xingyue, luxury brand sedan of the year – Volvo’s new S60, joint venture brand SUV of the year – GAC Honda, Haoying (BREEZE), pure electric model of the year – BEIJING-EU7, luxury brand SUV of the year – innovation BMW X7, luxury brand SUV of the year – FAW-Volkswagen Audi, the new Audi Q8.

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FAW Toyota Asian Dragon AVALON won the 2019 Global Car of the Year Award

According to the selection rules of this year’s car of the year, after 11 rounds of 7, 7, 3, and 1 rounds of open anonymous on-site voting, FAW Toyota Asian Dragon AVALON finally won the 2019 Global Car of the Year Award.

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Group photo of the 2019 Huanyu Automobile Annual Ceremony

What can be seen is that the Global Car Annual Festival has stood at a new height in terms of professionalism and industry influence. Compared with previous Global Car Annual Events, the 2019 Global Car Annual Festival is more like a microcosm of the automotive market. This annual car event not only hides the ups and downs of the entire auto market last year, but also puts forward new thoughts and expectations for the future auto market. (Photo courtesy of Universal Auto)