Implementing the industrial doubling strategy and helping build Hubei's strategic pivot — the construction of the full-range new energy commercial vehicle chassis and complete vehicle production line of Chengli Automobile Group has been included in the centralized groundbreaking of provincial major projects!
 

Aerial view of the planned construction of the emerging industrial park for the full-range new energy commercial vehicle chassis and complete vehicle manufacturing of Chengli Automobile Group

 

Wang Zhonglin, Secretary of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and Director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the province's major projects in the second quarter of 2025 and announced the start of construction

 

　　“It is the right time to forge ahead with oars raised, and another spring of colorful blossoms arrives”. At 9:30 a.m. on April 3, the Suizhou sub-venue of the centralized groundbreaking activity for major projects in Hubei Province was grandly held at the site of the Phase IV project of Chengli Automobile Industrial Park, located in the Economic Development Zone of Zengdu District. This activity was led and presided over by the Suizhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, and the Zengdu District Party Committee and District Government. Officials in charge of relevant functional departments of municipal organs, leaders of Zengdu District, Guangshui City, Suixian County and Suizhou High-tech Zone, all members of the leadership team of Suizhou Zengfa Group, District Urban Investment Company and District Township Investment Company, as well as guests including Hubei Daily, Hubei TV Station, Suizhou Daily, Suizhou TV Station, Suizhou Radio and Television Station, Zengdu District Converged Media Center, Suizhou entrepreneur representatives, Suizhou special vehicle internet celebrities and the Chengli live streaming team attended the grand event.

 

Suizhou Mayor Hu Zhili delivered a speech

 

　　The centralized groundbreaking ceremony was presided over by Wu Pihua, member of the Standing Committee of the Suizhou Municipal Party Committee and Executive Vice Mayor. Important leaders and guests attended the meeting, including Ma Zejiang, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Hu Zhili, Mayor, Chen Xingwang and Huang Jijun, Vice Mayors, Jiang Hao, Secretary of the Zengdu District Party Committee, and Cheng Aluo, Chairman of Chengli Automobile Group. Secretary Ma Zejiang and Mayor Hu Zhili delivered important speeches successively. The groundbreaking ceremony first had Jiang Hao, Secretary of the Zengdu District Party Committee, introduce the situation of the centralized groundbreaking of major projects in Zengdu District. Subsequently, Cheng Aluo, Chairman of Chengli Automobile Group, delivered a keynote speech as the entrepreneur representative of the province's centralized groundbreaking of key projects.

 

Cheng Aluo, Chairman of Chengli Automobile Group, introduced the key project situation of the company's full-range new energy commercial vehicle chassis and complete vehicle manufacturing
 

　　It is understood that the full-range new energy commercial vehicle chassis and complete vehicle manufacturing project of Chengli Automobile Group has a total investment of RMB 2.5 billion and covers an area of 260 mu. It plans to build a new energy commercial vehicle full-range chassis production base and research and development center. Phase I will build a production line with an annual output of 10,000 new energy heavy trucks, a production line with an annual output of 5,000 Panda buses, and a new energy special vehicle superstructure assembly production line with an annual assembly capacity of 5,000 vehicles, as well as supporting equipment and facilities such as robot welding stations and ABB spraying robots. Phase II will build a research and development center for the full-range chassis of new energy commercial vehicles, focusing on core technology research and development such as electric drive systems and chassis integrated lightweighting, equipped with WAN vehicle inspection lines, charging piles and 6 intelligent manufacturing production lines for supporting parts, to promote technological innovation and industrial upgrading of new energy commercial vehicles. The relevant details are as follows:

 

　　I. Project overview 

 

　　1. Project name: The production line project for the full-range new energy chassis and complete vehicles of Chengli new energy commercial vehicles.

　　2. Project location: Planned to be located on the plot at the intersection of Xingguang 2nd Road and Yumin Avenue in the development zone, Chengli (Zengdu) Automobile Industrial Park.

　　3. Project content and scale: The project mainly builds three production workshops for the production, research and development, supporting and warehousing of the full-range new energy chassis production line project, with a total building area of about 170,000 square meters.

　　4. Investment scale: The total investment of the project is RMB 2.5 billion, with the first phase investing RMB 1 billion. After the full completion of the project, the estimated annual output value is RMB 8 billion.

 

　　II. Prospects of the proposed project 

 

　　1. Market demand: This project complies with national industrial policies. The new energy passenger vehicle market is booming, and the market demand for new energy trucks will also see great development later. This project has broad prospects. 

　　2. Technical advantages: Chengli Company possesses special vehicle complete vehicle production qualifications and manufacturing capabilities, has mature upstream and downstream supporting industry support, and has mature production and management experience. 

　　3. Social benefits: After the completion of the project, it can provide about 1,000 job positions and pay taxes and profits of more than RMB 100 million, which will greatly promote the development of the local social economy.

    

　　On the day of the centralized groundbreaking of major projects in Hubei Province, 102 projects were started centrally in the second quarter of 2025 in Suizhou City, with a total investment of RMB 62.8 billion; across the province, there were 1,477 private investment projects among the centrally started projects, with a total investment of RMB 674.3 billion, accounting for 59.9% of investment, up 2 percentage points year-on-year; there were 570 government investment projects, with a total investment of RMB 451.4 billion, accounting for 40.1% of investment. The overall economic construction speed of Hubei Province ranks first in the matrix of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, with significant recovery and growth in the economic situation, greatly enhancing the confidence of the whole province in the development of the private economy.