Although Nanwan Motors has been making small cars for nearly ten years and has accumulated sales of more than 1.5 million small cars, its presence in the minds of Chinese people is not very strong.
This is normal. The 1980s and 1990s were the period when China was most obsessed with worshipping foreign things. The moon in foreign countries was rounder and brighter than the moon in China. In the process of local brands being acquired and destroyed by foreign capital, it was a miracle that anything of Nanwan Group could survive. Don't expect people to have a special impression of you.
But at this Shanghai Auto Show, Nanwan Auto's series of actions finally attracted people's attention.
Especially the documentaries about Nanwan car test drives played at the booth made people feel for the first time that there are such conscientious and high-quality car companies in China.
When I looked into the car prices at the South Bay Consortium, I was truly amazed at how innocent they were.
The cheapest Panda car costs only over 30,000 yuan.
Even though China's per capita income was still not high in 2001, a small car worth more than 30,000 yuan was really not considered a luxury.
The average monthly sales volume of a car in Nanwan is around 4,000 units. An increase of 10% to 20% in sales volume would mean around 500 to 1,000 units, which is already a very substantial increase.
Moreover, after it was confirmed that the civilian version of Great Wall vehicles would be launched in September and October, orders from direct dealers across the country poured in, and the first batch of orders for Great Wall vehicles exceeded 10,000 vehicles.
The sales growth of the cooperative enterprises is also obvious to all. The four enterprises of Guangwan, Xiwan, Chengnan and Tiannan now almost dominate the market of models below RMB 150,000. In this field, any car company that wants to get in will forget about it if it does not have a diamond head.
The exception here is Geely Auto.
Geely Auto and Nanwan also have a close relationship. The engine and gearbox of Geely Haoqing come from Nanwan, and the Qingfeng car is also transplanted from Nanwan, so Geely also has a place in this field.
Although the sales volume is not as good as the cars of the South Bay Consortium, it is not difficult to sell 18,000 units a year.
The cooperative enterprises occupied the low-end car market, while Nanwan itself began to challenge the 200,000 to 300,000 yuan segment that belonged to foreigners.
After transferring all the low-end cars, Wanfeng focused on mid-to-large and mid-to-high-end cars with the momentum of fighting from the brink of death.
The flagship Great Wall is expected to officially enter the civilian market in October, while the most luxurious version, the Peak, will be available next month.
This top-of-the-line luxury model is equipped with a turbocharged 482 Cyclone engine with a displacement of 1968ml, a six-speed manual automatic transmission, the most advanced and stable independent rotary suspension, and four-wheel drive, making it fearless in any corner of the world.
It is equipped with a leather steering wheel that can be adjusted forward, backward, left and right, a large LCD screen MP3 player and stereo system, adjustable leather seats, automatic air conditioning to the rear air outlet, driver and passenger airbags, and LED taillights at the rear.
There are also some other electric functions.
It can be said that this top model is almost the best-configured car that Nanwan can currently offer, and even so, the price is only 26800 yuan.
This pinnacle model will first impact the South Bay's market of over 200,000 models.
On July 5th, Qidian.com’s first author gathering was held in Nanwan.
Forty authors from all over the country attended the first Qidian Writers' Conference.
Most of these authors came by train, and the author who lived the farthest away came by plane.
Anyway, no matter how you get here, Qidian will reimburse your round-trip travel expenses.
The signing date was July 5th, so authors arrived one after another from the 3rd to the 4th. Their unified residence was the Nanwan Group Guesthouse in front of Nanwan Learning and Entertainment Middle School.
Before the annual meeting, these authors got to know each other and chatted in their spare time at the Wahou Market, and studied and entertained at the Nanwan Learning and Entertainment Center in the evening.
By the deadline for registration, all invited authors had arrived.
Once all the authors arrived, the annual meeting officially began.
On the first day they visited the starting center as a group.
At this time, the renovation and expansion projects in the Starting Point Center have been completed, and the eight-story building has also been completed and put into use.
The writers visited the Qidian office building and then held the first Qidian.com author meeting in the conference room on the top floor of the building.
Wan Feng would naturally participate, and his task was to introduce the future development trends of online literature to these online writers.
Wan Feng started with martial arts, but his speech on this aspect was very short, and he quickly moved from martial arts to fairy tales and fantasy.
Although martial arts is still the mainstream of online literature at present, the trend of martial arts will soon be marginalized and replaced by fairy tales and fantasy.
In order to help these authors avoid detours, Wan Feng focused on the upgrade system of online literature and directly defined the concept of upgrade.
In order to prevent the chaos of one author creating an upgrade system in later works of immortal heroes and fantasy, he unified the names of the upgrades.
For example, the Xianxia has unified the process from the initial stage of Qi Condensation to the foundation building, elixir building, and Nascent Soul riding on the cauldron to become an immortal.
The advantage of this is that future Xianxia readers will not have to adapt to the new system of the new author after reading the Xianxia works of one author and moving on to the works of another author.
This will also prevent future web authors from adding water to the system.
This is also a way to save the author a lot of energy. The general upgrade framework is fixed in advance, so that the author doesn't have to rack his brains to invent a system. You just need to concentrate on writing the story according to this system.
In order to help them understand quickly, Wan Feng used the story outline of the book "A Mortal's Journey to Immortality" by the platinum master Wang Yu from the previous life of Qidian Xianxia as an example, and explained it like telling a story. Of course, he edited out the long-winded parts in the early part of the book.
Just as each reader has different hobbies, the author's personal writing preferences are also different. Some like martial arts and fantasy novels, while others like urban reality.
Wan Feng also introduced the characteristics and types of urban writing to urban authors, still using the storytelling method.
What Wan Feng said stunned the forty-odd authors. It was as if a door had been opened in front of them.
Everyone’s forehead was filled with exclamation marks: It turns out that novels can be written like this.
Although they are called online writers, their works actually still belong to the category of traditional literature. It was not until this time that they began to understand the tricks of online literature.
The lecture part alone took up two days of this annual meeting.
On the third day of the annual meeting, Qidian.com awarded first, second and third prizes to various works of the year based on readers' choices, with prize money ranging from 5,000 to 1,000 yuan.
Next is to travel and enjoy the scenery.
There was no need to go to Wanfeng. Zhang Xuan and Haiyang Lan led the team to visit the Black Reef Beach and Hongya Bingyu Valley.
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