STORY: Eastern Chinese city boosts NEV development
DATELINE: July 16, 2023
LENGTH: 0:01:19
LOCATION: HEFEI, China
CATEGORY: ECONOMY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of Hefei
2. various of new energy vehicles manufacturing
3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ERWIN GABARDI, CEO of Volkswagen Anhui
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): YU DONGMING, General manager of NIO Hefei branch

STORYLINE:

The eastern Chinese city of Hefei is aiming at building China's capital of new energy vehicle (NEV).

More than 500 enterprises in NEV industrial chain are based in Hefei, including NIO, BYD and Volkswagen Anhui.

From January to May this year, a total of 230,000 units of NEVs were produced in Hefei.

It means in every minute, there was one NEV rolling off the production line.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ERWIN GABARDI, CEO of Volkswagen Anhui
"Hefei is a city with amazing history, culture and people. It is also a place with strong entrepreneurial spirit and plenty of new opportunities as well as a right choice for us to accelerate our e-mobility vision.
Advanced manufacturing and hi-tech innovation have become the city's new calling card. It is at the forefront of high-tech industries like NEVs and artificial intelligence. It is a fertile environment for growing our business.
Since the project was established here in Anhui, the government has given us a lot of preferential policies to promote the rapid progress of the project, and to support our recruitment with attractive talent policies."

SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): YU DONGMING, General manager of NIO Hefei branch
"NIO China was headquartered in Hefei in 2020. And the construction of Xinqiao intelligent electric vehicle industrial park started on April 29, 2021 was another key cooperation between Hefei and NIO to build the NEV industry and relevant ecology of science and technology."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Hefei, China.
(XHTV)