OREANDA-NEWS.  January 30, 2012. Recently, “China Independent Innovation Conference 2011” was held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Owing to unique contributions and achievements in such aspects as technical innovation, management innovation and service innovation, Chery ranked among “China’s top 10 innovative enterprises” in 2011 as the only automaker that made the list.

In 2011, Chery sold 643,000 units and exported 160,200 units, maintaining the lead in sales among proprietary brands for the 11th consecutive year and ranking first in exports for the 9th consecutive year. The record exports in China’s auto industry were attributable to Chery’s persistent technical innovation.
 
Chery has given top priority to product innovation since its establishment in 1997, and invested five to ten percent of sales revenues in technical R & D. Over the decade, Chery has invested nearly 20 billion yuan in R & D and equipment. It is Chery’s perseverance and efforts in independent innovation that has made it an enterprise with the greatest number of patents in China’s auto industry. By the first half of 2011, Chery had applied for 6,083 patents and won 4,230, far ahead of other domestic proprietary auto brands.
 
After more than a decade’s development, Chery has basically wrapped up the construction of its global R & D system, with an R & D headquarters in Wuhu (under which are three passenger vehicle research institutes, a public technology research institute, a perspective technology research institute, an auto technology center, an engine research institute and a transmission engineering research institute) as well as research branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Turin and Tokyo, has developed a complete product R & D system and process involving development, design, development, trial-manufacture and test of vehicles, powertrains and key parts, and has built an international R & D team of more than 6,000 members. Remarkably, Chery’s auto technology test center is Asia’s largest and most functional of its kind. With an area of nearly 300,000 square meters, the center can meet the need for testing 30 new models and 2,000,000 vehicles every year.

Additionally, Chery’s achievements in new energy technology have gained high praise from the evaluation committee. On the basis of the four complete new energy technology systems: energy-conserving vehicle, hybrid vehicle, electric vehicle and alternative fuel vehicle, Chery will focus on developing power battery, motor and new energy technologies, thereby maintaining its domestic leading role in new energy vehicle industrialization.
 
Abroad, Chery has been centering on the strategy of “independent innovation”. On the basis of independence, Chery has kept improving product performance and technical strength with the aim of building a technology-oriented enterprise and going global, and has worked out a set of methods of resource integration. In recent years, Chery has constantly intensified adaptive and innovative R & D in overseas markets. For example, Chery developed an all-black trim system specific to Russia; and developed Flex Fuel mixed in any proportion and won a certificate from the Brazilian government. It is these innovative improvements adapted to overseas demands that have earned Chery overseas praise and major breakthroughs in sales all the time.
 
Because of persistently valuing independent innovation as the essence of corporate development, Chery has created one “number one” after another in the Chinese auto history and led China’s auto industry to one breakthrough after another. At the same time, it is perseverance and efforts of a growing number of Chinese national enterprises like Chery that have made more and more people in the world see the great leap from “China manufacturing” to “China creation”.