The Chery Group concluded 2022 with 105,483 units sold in December, totalling a record 1,232,727 units globally in 2022 (up 28.2 per cent year-on-year), of which 451,337 units were in exports (up 67.7 per cent YoY).

This marks the first time Chery’s annual sales have breached the 1-million-unit barrier. Furthermore, it’s also an annual export record that means Chery has now topped Chinese-brand passenger car exports for 20 years in a row.

In total, the marque has 11.2 million global users that comprises 2.4 million units outside their native China.

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2022 saw the company break its own monthly export record four times consecutively with four months of exports exceeding 50,000 units. The biggest push in the record-setting export figures were driven by the Tiggo 7 and Tiggo 8 series.

Chery’s cumulative export volume accounts for a fifth of the total export volume of Chinese vehicles during the same period.

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In view of the automotive industry’s accelerated transformation, Chery has introduced top global professionals, established a team of chief scientists and led the creation of its technological innovation factory to constantly develop new technologies through new products.

Chery has applied for a total of 25,795 patents by the end of 2022 and were granted 17,177 of them. Of that, 27 per cent was for inventions, placing it amongst the top in the industry.

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The company has joined hands with Haier, Huawei, Luxshare Precision, CATL, iFLYTEK, Horizon Robotics and other first-class enterprises in various industries in the fields of industrial internet, intelligent solutions, traction battery systems and ecosystem cooperation.

Another proud achievement for the automaker in 2022 was development and implementation of the industrial internet platform HiGOPlat. It was built together with COSMOPlat and was put into operation in their Chery Qingdao Super Factory and Chery Wuhu Super Factory in succession.

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The primary reason behind this was to establish a new production mode of mass individual customisation and creating a pace-setting “beacon factory,” which became a successful practice for Chery in exploring an intelligent factory construction empowered by the industrial internet.

2023 will see the Chery Group strive to maintain growth in annual sales volume and in other major business indicators, to achieve a sustained improvement in business quality in order to successfully rank among the world’s top automotive enterprises in the near future.