On August 2, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) announced in Geely's Ningbo manufacturing company that Zhejiang Geely Automobile Co., Ltd. has successfully passed the AQSIQ's on-site inspection and become the first automaker in Zhejiang Province to enjoy the exemption from export inspection. Meanwhile, Geely Emgrand will obtain a "green passport", becoming China's first auto brand that is exempted from export inspection.
Being a special mode for export commodity inspection, "export inspection exemption" is a preferential policy made by the government to encourage the export of high-quality products and promote the foreign trade and economic development. This is the highest honor granted by AQSIQ and is known as a "golden brand" or "green passport" for Chinese enterprises to compete in the global market. During its validity period, products with the certificate of export inspection exemption can directly go through the customs clearance procedure, greatly improving the speed of customs clearance, lowering its cost and increasing economic returns. Those inspection-free commodities represent all the products made in China, therefore, AQSIQ is very strict in verifying the products' qualification to gain the certificate. After two years' hard work, Geely finally got this certificate.
In 2012, Geely Group has exported more than 100,000 vehicles, creating the best performance in the history. Zhejiang Geely Automobile Co., Ltd. annually outputs 120,000 finished cars under the brand of Emgrand which have been exported to more than 40 countries and regions including Russia, Iraq and Iran. According to the statistics released by China Association of Automobile Manufactures (CAAM), by this July, Emgrand has topped the monthly sales list of self-brand cars for 14 consecutive rounds, with an export increase of over 50 percent. In July, Geely has exported 12,423 vehicles, among which 8,904 are Emgrand. By then, the export of Emgrand has added up to 35,559 units in 2013.
According to the 2013 Chinese Automobile Brand New-Vehicle Sales Satisfaction Index released by the organizing committee for Chinese automobile satisfaction survey a few days ago, with its excellent market performance, Geely Emgrand ranked the first among all the self-owned brands.
The great performance of Emgrand has been hailed as "Emgrand phenomenon" by insiders. Experts said that the great achievement of Emgrand has a strong relationship with the implementation of its early strategic transformation and overseas acquisitions. Now, Geely begins to benefit from overseas acquisitions, and advanced technologies acquired from overseas companies start to yield profits, bringing unique advantage over other self-owned brands.