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At the beginning of 2020, novel coronavirus was raging, which triggered a large-scale new pneumonia epidemic and left most of China in "silence".

This Spring Festival, people who are "grounded" at home, while lambasting those shameless people who steal "games", are worried that the raging virus will come to your door at any time. During the Spring Festival, prevention and control measures were taken to close cities and roads in many parts of the country.

People behind closed doors make the Spring Festival, the traditional peak consumption season, almost useless. As one of the pillars of the national economy, the automobile industry has almost stopped at the supply end, the production end and the consumption end in this special period. In this situation, it is almost an indisputable fact that automobile production and sales will drop sharply in the first quarter of 2020.

From parts to automobile manufacturers, delaying the resumption of work has become the norm.

Due to the spread of the epidemic, the State Council issued a notice on June 26th, 65438/KLOC-0, and decided to extend the Spring Festival holiday beyond February 2nd. Subsequently, many places across the country responded to the State Council's call to extend the holiday, and released the timetable for returning to work during the Spring Festival holiday according to the development trend of the epidemic.

1 At the end of the year, multinational auto companies, including Toyota and Honda, said that they would postpone the start of the Spring Festival holiday in their factories in China. Among them, Toyota decided to postpone the start of four factories in China until February 10. On the other hand, Honda decided to suspend the production of cars and motorcycles in China until February 9.

Then, car companies including SAIC-GM, Chery and Geely all decided to postpone the spring break. Dongfeng Motor, located in Hubei Province, the hardest hit area, may extend the factory resumption time to February 14.

In addition to the general delay in the start of the entire automobile supply chain, there has also been a large-scale shutdown. For example, Delphi, Valeo, Virginia, Visteon, Webster and other well-known auto parts suppliers have gathered in Wuhan, the hardest hit area. With the spread of the epidemic, seven employees of Webasto were unfortunately infected with novel coronavirus. At present, Webster has banned German employees from travelling to and from China and closed its factory in Stockdorf, Germany.

In addition, Bosch is also paying close attention to the development of the China epidemic, and Bosch CEO Volkmar? Dunner once admitted: "If this situation continues, Bosch's global supply chain will be interrupted."

In fact, due to the large-scale outbreak of the epidemic, some car companies have had to stop local vehicle production caused by the interruption of spare parts supply in China. According to reports, Hyundai Motor has announced that it will suspend the production of the Korean SUV model Palisade; Ssangyong Motor also announced that it will suspend production at the Pyeongtaek plant in South Korea on February 4-6 due to the interruption of parts.

The automobile industry is one of the important carriers to support the real economy, with a long industrial chain, which often affects the whole body. At present, the spreading epidemic has forced the automobile industry to stagnate at the production end.

No one in the store, the dealer initiated "online car viewing"

The performance of the sales side is also not ideal.

With the increasing efforts of the government to prevent and control the epidemic, "don't go out and wash your hands frequently" has become a recognized means of prevention and control by the people. In the face of the epidemic, the prevention and control measures that have to be taken can be imagined. Throughout the Spring Festival, major shopping malls and supermarkets were almost empty, and car dealer stores were even "empty".

1 At the end of the year, with the escalation of local government's prevention and control efforts, car dealers who had been "all year round" also announced that they would postpone their business hours. However, during the "behind closed doors" period, in order to facilitate consumers to see cars, major dealers have started online exhibition halls. For example, some car dealers in Changsha, Hunan Province have launched sales models such as VR panoramic car viewing and online live broadcast; Car home, Che Yi and other vertical automotive media. Com cooperates with dealers to buy cars online.

In addition, for customers whose insurance is about to expire and have after-sales maintenance needs, many 4S stores said that they can apply for auto insurance online and make an appointment for after-sales maintenance services, and many brands have customized policies to extend the three-month maintenance cycle, regardless of time and mileage.

Of course, in the face of the difficulties of dealers under the epidemic, car companies have also taken countermeasures in order to tide over the difficulties with dealers. For example, Volvo said that it would not assess the performance of dealers in February, and it would also provide a total subsidy of more than RMB 1000 million for dealers' employees; At the same time, it also negotiates with banks to reduce the pressure on dealers' loans and alleviate the current situation of tight funds for dealers.

According to a dealer employee who asked not to be named, the online car viewing launched today is just one of the means for dealers to keep in touch with consumers during the epidemic, and its purpose is to collect information about potential car owners. The real transaction volume is not large. But after the epidemic, these potential customers are likely to turn into order customers after the actual test drive.

As we all know, the first quarter after the Spring Festival is the off-season of automobile consumption, but this year, due to the sudden outbreak of the epidemic, some customers who had the intention to buy a car years ago postponed their car purchase plans. "Although the epidemic has blocked the car purchase plan, the customer's demand for cars is still there. After the epidemic has passed, these customers will still firmly buy. " The sales consultant of a shop in 4S said.

Can the Beijing Auto Show be postponed?

The large-scale outbreak of the epidemic has added a pessimistic view to the automobile market in 2020.

Previously, the China Automobile Association had predicted that the decline in the auto market in 2020 was expected to narrow to 2%. Nowadays, the uncertainty of the auto market brought by the epidemic has increased, and the industry expects that the auto market will decline by more than 3% this year.

There is also a voice in the industry that due to the continuous spread of the epidemic, the government has intensified its prevention and control efforts, and public transportation has stopped in a large area, which will stimulate the consumer demand in the private car market. "After the epidemic, some popular models may be in short supply, and models with air purification systems may become more and more popular with consumers."

In addition, many people will compare this epidemic with the SARS epidemic in 2003. However, judging from the coverage of the epidemic and the number of confirmed cases, the new pneumonia epidemic is far more harmful to the economy than the SARS epidemic in 2003.

As far as the impact of the epidemic on the automobile industry is concerned, in 2003, when SARS broke out, China's automobile market achieved a year-on-year growth of 70%. At that time, the production and sales of automobiles in China just exceeded 2 million, private cars just started, the overall market environment was improving, and consumer demand was strong. After 17, China's automobile production and sales scale reached 20 million, close to the peak. In the past two years, the overall automobile market environment has continued to decline and consumption has been weak. Therefore, the negative impact of the epidemic on the China auto market seems to be far greater than the positive.

At present, there is another "big event" that worries the majority of autobots, that is, whether the Beijing Auto Show originally planned for April this year will be postponed. The author believes that this problem depends on the effectiveness of the government in epidemic prevention and control. At present, the start-up time of major car companies is basically around February 10. However, at present, both confirmed cases and suspected cases are increasing, and the form is still very serious. If the epidemic develops further, the time for car companies to return to work will change.

Some analysts believe that the epidemic will not be completely eliminated until at least the end of April. According to this prediction, the postponement of this year's Beijing Auto Show will become a high probability event. If the Beijing Auto Show cannot be held normally, it will be another blow to the already difficult China auto market.

Write at the end: Although the current epidemic situation is bound to have a certain impact on this year's auto market, I believe that the majority of auto people have the ability to resist market fluctuations. At the same time, the epidemic is not all negative. At present, it has promoted the transformation and reform of the automobile industry. At present, with the help of developed network communication conditions and rich communication platforms, enterprises can still promote the normal operation of business activities to cope with the short-term impact of the epidemic. In any case, the difficulty is only temporary. Now that the whole industry is taking action, the prospect of China automobile market is still improving. I hope that the majority of autobots will join hands to overcome the difficulties.

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.