Lifan Group ranked 355th among the top 500 Chinese enterprises in 2005, with a brand value of 2.706 billion yuan. On June 5438+065438+ 10, 2004, two registered trademarks "Lifan" and "Lifan" in chongqing lifan were recognized as well-known trademarks by the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, becoming the only enterprises in Chongqing to receive this honor. In 2004, the sales revenue was 5.9 billion yuan. Engine production and sales, export earnings, patent ownership and comprehensive value of production and sales rank first in the domestic industry, and its comprehensive strength ranks first in the domestic industry.
Brief introduction of Lifan Automobile Company
The passenger car project of chongqing lifan Industry (Group) Co., Ltd. is located in the automobile park in the northern new area of Chongqing, with an overall planning land of 700 mu and a first-phase construction of 300 mu. The factory is close to National Highway 2 10, National Highway 2 12, National Highway 3 19 and Zhonghuan Road, which can directly reach major and medium-sized cities in China. It is about 1 km away from Cuntan Container Terminal, the largest container terminal in Chongqing, and it can lead to all navigation ports in China, with very convenient transportation.
Lifan plans to invest here to build an annual output of 6,543,800+0.5 million vehicles, and establish an automobile production base and an automobile research institute with 200,000 automobile engines according to the requirements of the automobile industry development policy. Lifan car project will invest 2.4 billion yuan in three phases. At present, the first phase of the project has been completed (all the investment is self-raised), four production lines of stamping, welding, painting and assembly have been built, and an automobile research institute has been established. The second phase of the project has now begun.
In response to the country's initiative to upgrade from "Made in China" to "Created in China", Lifan Automobile insists on independent research and development. Product development mainly adopts the way of joint development and technology purchase, and obtains independent intellectual property rights by obtaining technology ownership, creating core strategic resources for Lifan automobile business to cross industrial competition barriers and realize sustainable development, thus obtaining broad development space. In the process of independent development, Lifan also attaches great importance to the protection of intellectual property rights. Up to now, Lifan Automobile has obtained more than 70 patents.
In order to effectively implement the independent R&D strategy, Lifan Automobile has set up an R&D team in an innovative way, integrating technical resources from all over the world and introducing senior talents from the international automobile industry. Appointed Dr. Wang, former technical executive officer of Chrysler, a leading international manufacturer, to join as the head of Lifan team and introduced nearly 30 technical backbones from Chrysler; At the same time, hundreds of people were introduced from major domestic automobile manufacturers to form an R&D team.