As an important carrier of intelligent manufacturing, the robot is known as “the pearl on the crown of manufacturing industry”. In the industrial robot field, Chery has incubated Chinese leading enterprise with the largest production and sales volume of home-made industrial robots - EFORT Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. (EFORT). EFORT is also the first Chery-incubated company listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board.

EFORT used to be an Equipment Manufacturing Department with less than 10 employees affiliated to Chery Equipment Department. In the past, the industrial robots on the domestic automobile production lines were imported; therefore, related technologies were restricted by the suppliers. To master automobile high-end equipment core technologies, Chery established Wuhu Chery Equipment Co., Ltd. to independently research and develop “Made in China” industrial robots. With the increasing development of technical strength and business, in August 2007, the industrial robot business became independent from Chery system. EFORT Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. emerged as the times required, and has rapidly grown into the first echelon enterprise in Chinese industrial robot industry.

Driven by leading enterprises, Wuhu, where Chery’s headquarters is located, has built a national-level Wuhu Robot industrial park and a Wuhu Robot Industry Incubation Base. After years of development, Wuhu’s robot industry cluster district has become an important base of Chinese robot industry, where the robot enterprises from all walks of life “give full play to their own strong points”. Some excellent robot enterprises have broken through key core component technologies, and took the lead in achieving localization of core parts and components, its approximation to international first-rate level in the robot body structure, increasingly-mature all-industry-chain development trend in the robot system integration. The self-developed home-made industrial robots have been applied to automobile manufacturing, medicine, sanitary ware, brewing and other fields. The robot industry has become one of the pillar industries of Wuhu local economic growth.

Under the guideline of national industry development policies, Chery Group successfully incubated a modern agricultural machinery industry cluster development base with outstanding characteristics and obvious advantages in Wuhu Anhui. Being one of the first batch of 14 strategic emerging industry development bases in Anhui Province, such base has clustered well-known enterprises such as Zoomlion, Y&C Engine, Guwang Dryer, Pengxiang Axle, Electrical Machinery, Jinguang Auto Parts, etc., forming a complete industrial ecosystem of modern agricultural machinery.

As of September 2019, Wuhu modern agricultural machinery base has developed into a manufacturing base with the completest agricultural equipment products series, from only two settled enterprises in the beginning to more than 100 settled enterprises involving machinery production, core parts and components and industry chain supporting (including 81 industrial enterprises above designated size), output value exceeding RMB 17.7 billion. Such base has achieved rapid growth and improvement in industrial scale, product types and product quality, with many indicators ranking top in China.

Based on independent R&D advantages of automobile engine, Chery allied with CETC Wuhu Diamond Aero Engine Co. Ltd. to develop aero engine, which fills the gap in key core technologies of local aviation industry.

Today, the general aviation industry has become one of Wuhu’s local strategic emerging industries, clustering more than 50 aviation industry chain projects. With the entry of projects in the industrial segments, the full industrial chain of the general aviation, involving R&D, manufacturing and operation came into full play, achieving independent production of general aircraft, UAV, aero engine, propeller, avionics system, simulator, aviation components and accessories, and other products in the general aviation manufacturing industry chain. Wuhu Aviation Industrial Park was successively approved as one of National General Aviation Industry Comprehensive Demonstration Areas, Anhui Provincial Strategic Emerging Industries Cluster Development Test Base, Anhui Provincial General Aviation Military-Civilian Integration Industry Base and Anhui Provincial Special Aviation Town.

With China’s consumption upgrading and industrial structure adjustment, the automobile camping industry is regarded by the industry as the “next trillion-level” emerging industry. The automobile camping business has been laid out since 2012, and has been built as one of Chery Group’s seven business sectors. In just a few years, Chery Group has cultivated a leading enterprise in national RV camping real estate industry - To Journey, established a national camping base network layout, and formed high-end RV manufacturing capability through joint venture and cooperation with American REV Group.

The reasons why Chery Group develops the automobile camping industry are that, Chery Group accurately masters national industry policies and market demands, and wants to achieve resources sharing and mutual supplement of automobile ecosystem, automobile after-service market and automobile manufacturing business based on its own manufacturing industry advantages. To Journey currently has 8 regular camps and 52 franchising camps on a national scale.