Among them, Qixiang Automobile Company, which has taken up the banner of expanding production and sales, announced that it has completed the latest phase of its production expansion plan. After the expansion, the production capacity of its various brands of cars will skyrocket to 150,000 vehicles per year.
Zhongyuan Automobile Company is not far behind. Starting this year, their production capacity of various types of cars will also increase to more than 100,000 vehicles!
Even if Zhaoqing Machinery Company has just entered the automobile market, their production and sales volume will reach more than 20,000 vehicles.
Other automobile companies have more or less, but in total they have tens of thousands of vehicles.
The total production capacity of various types of automobiles is expected to reach about 350,000 units this year.
Although there is a gap between this figure and the auto market potential estimated by Imperial last year at 500,000 units, it is almost the same.
However, the previous estimate of the Imperial car market reaching 500,000 vehicles was based on last year's statistics. At that time, the prices of cars were still relatively high, and the cheapest one cost more than a thousand Tang Yuan to buy. Imperial
But starting this year, the price of cars has dropped significantly. After a batch of cheap cars appeared on the market, the car market has been greatly expanded. This has made many people who could not afford cars before now also be able to afford cars. When they can afford
, then they will consider buying, which further expands the capacity of the entire market.
At this time, the statistics agency of the Ministry of Commerce was very optimistic that after the automobile market rose significantly, the market potential may reach one million vehicles.
This judgment is based on the judgment that an ordinary middle-income family can afford an ordinary car with two years of income.
An ordinary low-end car now sells for about 400 to 500 Tangyuan, which is roughly the income of a middle-income family for two years.
The substantial reduction in selling prices directly expanded the capacity of the entire market.
This situation, in turn, has given major automobile companies greater confidence.
Since last year, major automobile companies have begun to launch cheap models and cut prices. Although there is competition, the main purpose is to sink cars and compete for more incremental markets.
Allowing more people to afford cars will bring them greater benefits.
Nowadays, the development of the automobile industry in the Tang Empire is very clear and no one can stop it!
Officially, Emperor Sheng personally gave instructions to support the development of the automobile industry. Officials in charge of industry and commerce also hope to use the automobile industry to continue to stimulate economic development.
Other related industries, including steel, machinery, petroleum, rubber, cement and even construction companies, support the development of the automobile industry.
With the development of automobiles, the above-mentioned industries will become beneficiaries. Even cement companies that seem to have nothing to do with each other will start building cement roads on a large scale in various places, thus gaining huge room for development.
How should I put it? The automobile industry is currently receiving strong support from quite a few industries.
Especially the oil giants are eager to go out in person and give cars to everyone in the country so that they can drive and refuel...
Of course, the interests of some groups will also be lost in this process, such as the traditional carriage industry, such as the horse herding industry in the animal husbandry industry.
These two industries are actually huge!
The carriage industry and horse herding industry in the Tang Empire were complementary to each other and had developed extremely rapidly in the past few decades. This was because after the rapid development of the empire, the demand for the transportation industry increased sharply.
This led to the large-scale emergence of various types of horse-drawn carriages, leading to the horse-drawn carriage industry.
The carriage industry is no longer the small workshops of the early years. It is also a typical industrial production. Those large carriage companies also use flow production to produce carriages. The carriages these days are actually industrial products.
In the carriage manufacturing industry, they have actually been trying to transform in the past few years. Several large carriage manufacturing companies have basically been involved in the automobile industry, either by providing parts or by simply manufacturing complete vehicles themselves.
As for the horse breeding industry, the demand for horses in the empire is still huge in a short period of time. However, many large livestock companies have begun to guide their cooperative herdsmen to slowly reduce the number of horses and increase the number of beef cattle, dairy cows, sheep and other livestock.
of breeding volume.
In any case, the rapid development of the automobile industry in the Tang Empire has become a foregone conclusion. Even if the government no longer provides strong support, the power of capital and technology itself is enough to push the automobile industry to a huge height.
Even Emperor Sheng couldn't help but worry about a problem after seeing a series of reports on the automobile industry. What should we do if there is a traffic jam in Jinling City in the future?
The narrow streets of Jinling City cannot accommodate too many cars.
You must know that Jinling City is not the same as the urban area of Songjiang Prefecture. The urban area of Songjiang Prefecture has only gradually developed in the past few decades, and in this process, the government has taken the lead in planning. There is no way, most of the urban areas of Songjiang Prefecture
The land belongs to the Songjiang Prefecture government, and they can develop it however they like.
As for development led by the government, many things need to be taken into consideration. For example, aesthetics is very important. If the city is prettier, it can also be regarded as a face-saving project. Therefore, the roads in Songjiang Prefecture are wide and flat.
Among them, Yanjiang Road, a typical face-saving project, is more than 100 kilometers long, all high-grade asphalt roads, and has more than a dozen lanes in both directions...
This kind of highway is rare even in the 21st century.
However, Songjiang Prefecture is a relatively special city. Many other cities in the empire do not have such convenient conditions. The main reason is that most of the land in other cities is in private hands.
Therefore, officials from various places in the Tang Dynasty often did not like to develop in the old city. Instead, they liked to go to the suburbs to build new cities and adopt the so-called flat development.
In this case, the effect is actually similar to that of Songjiang Prefecture. Although the old town is a bit sloppier, the new town is definitely taller and there will probably be no traffic jams.
But in Jinling City, this problem is more complicated.
Although Jinling City has chosen to expand its urban area, it has Dongcheng District, Xicheng District, and Nancheng District, and is also planning to develop Jiangbei District on the north bank of the Yangtze River.
However, the old city in Jinling City is still the core of the entire Jinling City, and even the core of the entire Tang Empire.
Because this is where the imperial palace is located, most of the capital institutions of the Tang Empire are located, and many universities in the empire are located.
Even though during this process, the government has successively acquired a considerable amount of private land in the old town of Jinling City, strictly speaking, the privatization of land or buildings in the old town is not serious.
But the problem is that this small place is crowded with countless institutions, companies, and schools, and the land use is very tight.