Make an appointment again next year! Guangzhou Auto Show closed today, attracting 690,000 visitors in ten days.

Reporter Zhang Aili reports: Today (25th), the 16th Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition (hereinafter referred to as "Guangzhou Auto Show") closed, and the ten-day exhibition attracted 690,000 visitors. The auto show focuses on the integrated development of electrification, intelligence and networking, looks forward to a new era of continuous changes in travel modes caused by new technologies such as electric drive, artificial intelligence and mobile internet, and shows the beautiful vision of human beings for future car life in the new era of technological change.

Seven-seat cars have attracted much attention.

On the day of the closing ceremony, the auto show was still popular, and at around 12 noon, the crowds still lined up. The reporter saw that it coincided with the weekend, and many families went into battle together. Especially with the liberalization of the two-child policy, seven SUV and MPV models were more favored by consumers, and some parents took their children to the auto show to have a real car experience.

As a large-scale comprehensive international automobile exhibition, Guangzhou Auto Show attracted the attention of global automobile enterprises. The total scale of this year’s Guangzhou Auto Show reached 240,000 square meters, and the total number of cars exhibited reached 1,085, including 48 first cars in the world, 6 first cars from multinational companies and 28 concept cars. On the day of Media Day, 84 press conferences were held, and 9,971 journalists from 2,473 domestic and foreign media participated in the coverage of the exhibition.

As the release stage of car companies’ strategic planning for the next year, the intelligent network connection is very popular at the just-concluded Guangzhou Auto Show in 2018. Almost all independent brands take car interaction and intelligent network connection as their main features, and this trend has even extended to models below 100,000 yuan.

New energy vehicles become a new kinetic energy for the growth of the automobile market.

It is worth noting that the new energy vehicle technology represented by electric vehicles has been widely recognized by the automobile industry. The data shows that in October 2018, the domestic new energy vehicle market sold 138,000 vehicles, an increase of 51%; From January to October, it sold 860,000 vehicles, with an increase of 75.6%; It is expected to exceed 1 million vehicles in the whole year, and the sales volume will reach more than 50% in the world. New energy smart cars have gone through the initial stage of development. With the continuous support of national policies, continuous technological breakthroughs and gradual improvement of the industrial chain, they are welcoming a new round of explosive growth, and will become the new kinetic energy for the transformation and upgrading of China’s automobile industry.

The above trend is reflected in the booth layout of this Guangzhou Auto Show and the number of new energy vehicles on display. According to the organizing committee, at this auto show, 150 new energy vehicles were exhibited by participating auto companies at home and abroad, including 44 from foreign companies. The exhibition attracted mainstream electric vehicle companies at home and abroad, such as Tesla, BMW, GAC, FAW and BYD.

The reporter also learned from the organizing committee that the 17th Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition will be held in the exhibition hall of China Import and Export Fair from November 22nd to December 1st, 2019 (November 22nd is media day).