A GAC wheel hub and its centre-cap emblem

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GAC Group

The company behind AION UT and AION V, and the ambition that built it.

We are committed to building a world-class company which wins customers’ trust, ensures staff’s well-being and meets social expectation.

Guangzhou

Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd.

GAC Group (6601238.SH, 02238.HK) is headquartered in Guangzhou and listed on both the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges. It employs about 100,000 people and ranks 181st on the Fortune Global 500. Holding to independent innovation alongside joint-venture cooperation, the group is transforming itself into a technology-based enterprise, guided by the enterprise concept of Humanity, Credibility and Creativity.

The Guangzhou skyline

Key figures, 2024

Employees

100,000

Personnel in upstream and downstream industry chains

800,000

Total operating income100 million RMB

4,017

Output10 thousand vehicles

192

Consecutive years on the Fortune Global 500

13

Rank, top 100 Chinese automotive supply chain enterprises

6

Sales volume10 thousand vehicles

201

Group brand

Detailing · Greatness

What is the soul of an enterprise? It is the unswerving persistence of creating high-quality products, and the ambition held in the business world. GAC has long engraved Detailing · Greatness deep in its brand genes: a subtle insight into everyone’s needs, craftsmanship applied to every technological process, intensive study approached with a pragmatic attitude, and every opportunity for innovation explored with an open mind. All of these are for every one of you.

GAC vehicles displayed under glass domes

Recognition

Awards

The J.D. Power China Initial Quality Study trophy

GAC MOTOR ranked first for eight consecutive years in the J.D. Power China Initial Quality Study (IQS).

The 2023-2024 Global Intelligent Vehicles Brands award

GAC MOTOR named in the 2023-2024 Global Intelligent Vehicles Brands Top 10.

The Most Recommended SUV award from Arabs Turbo

The Most Recommended SUV award, conferred by Arabs Turbo on the GAC MOTOR GS5.

Investment structure

An all-in-one car manufacturer

GAC Group’s investment structure covers seven major sectors.

  • Research and development
  • Vehicles
  • Parts
  • Energy and ecology
  • Internationalisation
  • Commerce and transportation
  • Investment and finance
Robotic assembly line at a GAC plant

Strategic planning

To become a world first-class enterprise by 2030

The Panyu Action outlines the group’s development as 1578: one goal, five areas, seven segments, eight actions.

Achieve 1 goal

1

  • Production and sales of 4.75 million vehicles
  • Revenue ofRMB 1 trillion
  • Pre-tax profits ofRMB 100 billion

Develop 5 areas

5

  • Vehicle transformation and upgrading
  • Parts and components supply chain
  • Smart business and travel
  • Energy and ecology empowering
  • Commercial services and mobility

Fortify 7 segments

7

  • R&D
  • Vehicle
  • Parts
  • Trade services and mobility
  • Energy and ecology
  • Internationalisation
  • Investment and finance

Implement 8 actions

8

  • Deepen system and mechanism reform
  • Emphasise high-tech innovation and investment
  • Fully enhance proprietary brands
  • Strengthen and extend the supply chain
  • Develop energy ecology comprehensively
  • Deepen the layout of software business
  • Break through in prioritised overseas markets
  • Innovate the smart travel mode

14th Five-Year Plan

The 1615 strategy

Achieve 1 goal

1

By the end of the plan, production and sales of 3.65 million vehicles, a compound annual growth rate above 12%, revenue over RMB 700 billion and total pre-tax profits over RMB 66 billion.

Enhance 6 business sectors

6

R&D, vehicles, components and parts, business services, financial services and mobility services.

Highlight 1 focus

1

Enhance the capability for independent innovation, to achieve higher-quality development.

Make 5 improvements

5

Electrification, intelligentisation, digitalisation, ride-sharing and internationalisation.

Action plan

Smart Mobility 2027

Consolidate three major technologies, provide two major guarantees, and lead in two major aspects.

Technology

GAC AI Large Model Platform

Technology

GAC X-Soul EE Architecture

Technology

GAC Intelligent Connectivity Big Data Platform

Leading in product experience

  • Intelligent driving.Two technology routes, multi-sensor fusion and mapless pure vision, remove the dependence on high-definition maps and enable driving with navigation alone
  • Intelligent cockpit. The industry’s first GAC vehicle-cloud integrated large model agent, entering mass production this year

Leading in travel scenarios

  • A three-dimensional smart mobility mode covering private to ride-sharing, individual to group, and land to low-altitude travel
  • An intelligent travel scenario built from intelligent cars, flying cars, ROBOTAXI and ROBOBUS

Intelligent ecology

In-depth cooperation with Huawei, Tencent, Didi, iFlytek and NVIDIA to build an intelligent ecological circle.

R&D and talent

An industrial fund of RMB 30 billion to develop key core technologies and build an intelligent talent team around leading experts.

NEXT plan

New EV + XEV transition

As the multi-energy era arrives, GAC follows a two-track route of EV+ICV (electric plus intelligent) and XEV+ICV (hybrid plus intelligent). On the basis of AION’s lead in EV, GAC Trumpchi transitions to XEV: plug-in hybrid, extended-range electric and hybrid.

e-TIME action

Released 22 November 2019

A medium- to long-term development strategy, focused on customer experience and oriented to future high-quality development.

Experience

Technology

Intelligence

Manufacture

Electrification

GLASS

Green Clean Project

Green, low-carbon, for achieving sustainable success. GAC targets carbon neutrality across the whole product life cycle before 2050, with 2045 as the challenge date.

Full cycle management

  • Carbon emission management across the whole chain, from R&D to production and from purchase to use and recycling
  • Consumer carbon-reduction activities, including a car owner’s carbon account
  • Tree planting and afforestation to develop carbon sinks

Zero-carbon factory

  • GAC AION built into the group’s first zero-carbon plant, reaching zero carbon emissions in 2023
  • A zero-carbon automobile industrial park based on the GAC Zhilian New Energy Automobile Industrial Park

More electric vehicles

  • GAC Trumpchi fully hybridised
  • New energy vehicles to account for 50% of independent-brand sales in 2025
  • Alternative fuel vehicles developed, including hydrogen power

Sustainability

A group held to a global standard

See how that ambition is measured every year, in ESG and CSR terms.