TapTechNews August 9th news, SAIC Group announced on July 18th that Jia Jianxu, the president of SAIC Group, will no longer serve as the general manager of SAIC Volkswagen; Tao Hailong, the former general manager of Huayu Automotive Systems Co., Ltd., takes over as the general manager of SAIC Volkswagen.
As the saying goes, a new broom sweeps clean. Less than a month after taking office, Tao Hailong began his bold reform. The 21st Century Business Herald reported that SAIC Volkswagen plans to optimize more than 2 billion yuan in structural costs this year, of which the development license fee accounts for nearly 60% of the total estimated potential for optimization, followed by the optimization of sales expenses and personnel expenses, accounting for 18% and 8% respectively.
TapTechNews learned from public information that Tao Hailong was born in 1968, a member of the Communist Party of China, a bachelor of engineering, a senior engineer, and has more than 30 years of experience in the automotive industry. He has long worked in the quality assurance department and manufacturing department of SAIC Volkswagen. Then he served as the executive director and deputy general manager of the quality assurance department of SAIC Group Passenger Vehicle Branch.
In addition, Tao Hailong has also served as the general manager of Shanghai Automobile Transmission Co., Ltd. and the general manager of Huayu Automobile, a leading enterprise in China's auto parts, and has accumulated rich management experience in the parts supply chain business field, and led the enterprise to steadily promote the extension from manufacturing digitization to management digitization, and continuously improve the core competitiveness of the enterprise through digital empowerment based on application scenarios.
SAIC Group said that Tao Hailong is familiar with the operation of the whole vehicle enterprise and the parts supply chain system, has rich enterprise management experience and team leadership ability, and is full of innovation spirit. Tao Hailong's return to SAIC Volkswagen again will further promote the integration and win-win situation of all parties, lead the enterprise to accelerate the building of a new automotive industry ecological chain by connecting the upstream and downstream; deeply promote technological innovation and accelerate the new energy transformation and upgrading of the Audi brand and the Volkswagen brand; and respond to market challenges efficiently and agilely to promote the high-quality and sustainable development of the enterprise.
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Tao Hailong takes over as the general manager of SAIC Volkswagen and once served as the general manager of Huayu Automobile, a leading auto parts enterprise.