At the port of Tianjin, trailers loaded with electric vehicles of various self-owned brands lined up in a long line, and were ordered to board a large roll-on-roll-off ship, ready to be sold to the global market.

"As of the end of October, Great Wall Motors' overseas sales this year exceeded 130,000, a year-on-year increase of 18.55%. Electric vehicles, in particular, have become a new growth pole for our exports." said Fu Xiaokang, vice president of Great Wall Motors Co., Ltd. In Europe, ASEAN, Middle East, South America, Oceania, South Africa and other global markets, the company has also established full-process vehicle production bases in Thailand and Brazil, and the global R&D system is gradually advancing.

It is understood that in the first half of 2022, global sales of new energy vehicles exceeded 4.22 million, a year-on-year increase of 66.3%. Among them, China's new energy vehicle sales accounted for more than 60% of the world's sales, a year-on-year increase of 115%.

The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers recently disclosed that from January to October this year, China exported 499,000 new energy vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 96.7%. The production and sales of new energy vehicles in China have ranked first in the world for many years in a row, entering a period of comprehensive market expansion.

Since the beginning of this year, China's major ports have witnessed the accelerated "going out" of China's electric vehicles and related industrial chains: in the first three quarters, the export of electric vehicles in Tianjin increased by 667.7% year-on-year; the export of electric passenger vehicles in Ningbo surged 12.3 times; The total export of passenger vehicles, lithium batteries and solar cells increased by 143.3%...

The European market has become a major new export destination for many Chinese-made electric vehicles. According to statistics from the General Administration of Customs, in the first half of 2022, the Western European market accounted for 34% of the exports of new energy passenger vehicles, and Belgium was the country that imported the largest number of new energy vehicles from China in the first half of the year.

Many Chinese electric vehicle independent brands have strengthened their cooperation with world-renowned car companies, rushing into the established car manufacturing powerhouse.

Recently, a large German car rental company signed a cooperation agreement with BYD. In the next six years, it will purchase at least 100,000 electric vehicles and put them in the German high-end car rental market. It also stated that it will explore further cooperation opportunities with BYD; BYD Japan Branch held a brand conference in Tokyo, announcing its official entry into the Japanese passenger car market, and unveiled three models.

Bai Ming, a researcher at the International Trade and Economic Cooperation Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, said that under the background of chip shortages and rising raw material prices that have put pressure on global auto companies, China's electric vehicles will take advantage of the strength of the domestic auto industry chain supply chain and advanced intelligent network technology. , occupies an increasingly important position in the global new energy automobile industry chain, and becomes a new fulcrum to stimulate China's foreign trade.

According to the "report card" of foreign trade in the first 10 months of this year released by the General Administration of Customs of China not long ago, the export of electric passenger vehicles has doubled, and the export of electromechanical products such as lithium batteries and solar batteries has increased by about 80%, reflecting the upgrading and optimization of China's export structure.