Delphi China's turnover increased by 21% in 2011

Shanghai, China – In the past year, Delphi has continued to expand its investment in the localization of the Chinese market, further increasing the company’s production scale and local R&D capabilities in China. Delphi has “made in China” to achieve “creation in China”. Thanks to the company's continued expansion of local production, research and development capabilities, and products and technologies that meet market demand, Delphi China business continued to grow strongly in the past year. In 2011, Delphi China's turnover increased by 21% over the previous year.

Mr. Ai Bobin, president of Delphi Asia Pacific and president of China, said: “Delphi has a clear and consistent strategy in the Chinese market, which is to continuously expand production, R&D, localization of talents, support the development of the local market, and become a part of the Chinese market. Delphi is The Chinese market has been growing at a rate of more than 10% above the market level for many years, which proves the results of our efforts."

In the past year, Delphi China continued to increase its investment in local production capacity. In October 2011, Delphi officially broke ground for the expansion project of its petrol engine management system and parts production base that it invested in Beijing. It will build a modern gasoline engine management system supply base integrating production and R&D in Beijing to meet the needs of Europe. The production of the advanced gasoline engine management system and its parts and components in the IV, V, and V standards will increase exponentially. In December 2011, Delphi Pike Electric Systems Co., Ltd. Shanghai A6 factory in Shanghai International Automobile City, Anting Town, Jiading District, Shanghai was officially started, enabling Delphi to invest and establish 17 wholly-owned and joint-venture production bases in China, marking Delphi in China. The strength of the production is further strengthened. As the brand new production base for Delphi automotive wire harness products, the A6 plant will primarily serve the Chinese auto brand and provide tailored electronic/electrical architecture solutions.

In terms of increasing local R&D strength, Delphi China has also made continuous investments and achieved numerous results. In 2011, more than 600 engineers and technicians joined the Delphi China R&D team. Delphi’s China R&D team obtained more than 70 patents based on international advanced technology and local demand for R&D. At the same time, the technology led by Delphi China team to participate in or lead R&D has won numerous domestic and international technology awards. The “Automotive Supplier Outstanding Contribution Award” (PACE) of the “Automotive News” of the United States is an Oscar for the global automotive industry. The fatigue life prediction technology for automotive wire harnesses led by Delphi's Asia Pacific technical team has been finalized for the 2012 PACE Awards. stage. This is the first time that the technology developed by the R&D personnel in the Asia-Pacific region has been short-listed for this award, which fully reflects the strong R&D strength of Delphi's Asia Pacific region. The Delphi MyFi intelligent voice 3D image navigation system led by the Delphi China Science and Technology Research and Development Center won the "2011 China Automotive Industry Informatization Achievement Award" awarded by the China Information Center. This technology has been applied to Shanghai GM's next-generation GL8 commercial vehicle.

While expanding local production capacity and research and development capabilities, Delphi China is also actively developing strategic cooperation with domestic self-owned brand auto manufacturers to support independent brands to go abroad and go global. In August 2011, Wingle pickup of Great Wall Motor Company, which was powered by Delphi and Great Wall Motor Co., Ltd., was officially launched in the Italian market, marking the success of China's domestic self-owned brand diesel vehicles in Europe. The pace of the market. In November 2011, Delphi and Great Wall Motor Company formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Both parties will develop electronic/electrical architecture systems, electronic and safety, and powertrain systems on the basis of existing electronic control systems, fuel pump and other products. Deep system cooperation such as heat exchange system. In addition, Great Wall Motors and Delphi also signed a letter of intent, and both parties will jointly research and develop active safety and navigation products and apply them to future models of Great Wall Motors.

Aibo Bin said: “Delphi has established a reasonable production layout, strong local technology R&D strength and a flexible and lean product structure in China, which has laid a good foundation for our future development. China is an important development market for Delphi. We will continue to work hard to increase our investment in the Chinese market. We hope to build on this foundation and continue to support the development of the Chinese automotive market.