June 5 witnessed the second anniversary of the operation of GWM's Tula factory 
in Russia. Since the first batch of HAVAL F7, HAVAL F7x, HAVAL H9 and other 
models got mass-produced, HAVAL-branded automobiles have ranked high in sales 
volume for many years, and HAVAL JOLION recently approved for marketing has 
also attracted many users' attention. All of these prove that the Tula factory 
has become GWM's model in the international market.

The Tula factory is the first overseas vehicle manufacturing plant of a Chinese 
automobile enterprise, covering four major production processes: stamping, 
welding, painting and final assembly. At the early stage of construction, for 
the purpose of accelerating localization, GWM specially built a special 
railroad to connect the factory to Russia's road network and introduced 
international manufacturing processes and quality management and environmental 
protection measures to boost the creation of a local automobile manufacturing 
industry cluster. Currently, the factory boasts an annual production capacity 
of 150,000 units and ensures smart, safe and efficient production. The parts of 
stamping equipment are transported using linear seven-axis robots produced by 
ABB in Sweden, and continuous mode presses by FAGOR in Spain. The welding 
workshop is equipped with ABB's robots and EMS's automatic distribution system, 
with the automation rate of the main welding line reaching 100%. The inspection 
line of the final assembly workshop conducts vehicle testing with the 
comprehensive test benches of Dürr in Germany. They fully manifest the new 
height of China's automobile manufacturing. Moreover, to build a global supply 
chain, GWM has established an engine factory in the Tula factory and plans to 
provide and install engines for this factory on more than 90% of HAVAL 
automobiles by 2022.

Based on superior geographical location, the Tula factory can reach out to 
neighboring countries in Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Northern Europe, 
which is significant for GWM's globalization strategy and will be an important 
node to connect the Asian and European markets. In addition, GWM's Rayong 
factory in Thailand has recently announced a plan to launch 9 new vehicles in 
the next 3 years, including the two hot-selling models HAVAL H6 and ORA Good 
Cat, and is committed to promote Thailand as a new generation of automobile 
manufacturing center in the ASEAN region, and provide GWM with a strong 
guarantee to enter the world's major automobile market.

The completion and operation of the three overseas vehicle plants have laid a 
solid foundation for GWM to further expand its global business. In the future, 
while accelerating its globalization, GWM will make more efforts to build a new 
image of "Created in China" on behalf of Chinese automobile brands.

SOURCE  GWM

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