Tesla Model Y Purchased by State-owned Enterprises in Lingang New Area, Favored in Government Procurement
TapTechNews July 5th news, according to the public account of Lingang New Area Investment Promotion Service Center, recently, several state-owned enterprises including Chengtou Xinggang Group and Lingang Investment Control Group have taken the lead in purchasing a batch of Tesla Model Y vehicles as the company's functional vehicles. This is also the positive response of Lingang New Area in Shanghai to implement equal treatment of domestic and foreign-funded enterprises in government procurement activities.
On July 1st, the foreign investment work symposium held in Beijing emphasized that it is necessary to support domestic and foreign-funded enterprises to participate in government procurement without discrimination. It is necessary to continuously build a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based and international, and support domestic and foreign-funded enterprises to participate in large-scale equipment renewal, government procurement, bidding and other activities without discrimination.
Tesla said that from May alone, and in the week of June 17th to June 23rd, the sales volume of Model Y ranked first on the domestic passenger car best-selling list.
TapTechNews noticed that 5 years ago, as the first wholly foreign-owned complete vehicle manufacturing project in China, Tesla built the first overseas super factory in Lingang New Area, Shanghai, setting the speed record of starting construction, completing construction, starting production and going public in the same year.
5 years later, Tesla chose Lingang, Shanghai again. On May 23rd, 2024, the Tesla Shanghai Energy Storage Super Factory started construction, and it only took 1 month from negotiation to signing.
In addition, Tesla Model Y has also been included in the procurement catalog of government vehicles in Jiangsu Province, which is the first case in the country that Tesla enters the government procurement catalog.