Huang Qiang meets with Luo Wenjin, President and CEO of Volvo Cars.

  This newspaper(Sichuan Daily reporter Li Miao) On May 16th, Huang Qiang, deputy secretary of the provincial party committee and governor, met with Luo Wenjin, president and CEO of Volvo Cars, and his party in Chengdu.

  Huang Qiang welcomed Luo Wenjin to visit Sichuan after his first visit to China, and briefly introduced the economic and social development of Sichuan. He said that Sichuan is facing great opportunities such as the construction of the twin-city economic circle in Chengdu-Chongqing area and one of the "four poles" of national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation. At the same time, it has unique advantages in clean energy, huge potential in the consumer market, especially the automobile market, and a solid foundation in the automobile industry, which provides a broad stage for Volvo Cars to invest and develop in Sichuan. Sichuan attaches great importance to the development of new energy and intelligent networked vehicles, and hopes that Volvo Cars will seize the opportunity to accelerate the production of existing new energy vehicles and achieve efficiency, and continue to deploy more new energy vehicles with the right production and sales in Sichuan, continue to deepen cooperation in key parts manufacturing, automobile R&D and design, give priority to the development of new technologies and new formats such as electrification, intelligence and autonomous driving in Sichuan, fully introduce core supporting enterprises in the supply chain system, continuously improve the local supporting rate, and jointly plan a green, clean and sustainable world-class new energy automobile industry blueprint to better boost Sichuan. Sichuan will, as always, support the development of Volvo Cars in Sichuan, strive to provide high-quality and efficient services, and promote more pragmatic cooperation results.

  Luo Wenjin said that he is very optimistic about the development prospects of Sichuan, and will continue to expand investment in Sichuan, promote more new energy vehicles to be launched in Sichuan, accelerate the building of Chengdu into an important new energy vehicle production base for Volvo Cars, and build Volvo Chengdu factory into a benchmark enterprise, deepen all-round exchanges and cooperation, and achieve mutually beneficial and win-win development.

  Wang Fengchao, mayor of Chengdu, Zeng Qing, secretary-general of the provincial government, and responsible comrades of relevant provincial departments attended the meeting.