BYD’s “detoxification” doubts

“Detoxing day and night is unbearable…” Recently, many residents living near the factory in BYD’s Yuhua District, Changsha reported that they and their children had symptoms such as nosebleeds, dizziness, and nausea. Residents believed that their adverse reactions were probably caused by paint-smelling gas emitted from factories in BYD Yuhua District, Changsha, and they spontaneously organized banners at the factory entrance.

At 10:00 p.m. on May 7, BYD issued a statement on its official Weibo account on “the discharge of Changsha Yuhua District Industrial Park leads to complaints from surrounding residents”. BYD stated that the situation of “excessive discharge causing nosebleeds” circulating on the Internet is a malicious fabrication and the company has made a police report and will investigate the legal responsibility of the relevant personnel.

At present, the Changsha Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have established an investigation team to organize government functional departments, third-party testing agencies and relevant experts to enter the BYD Yuhua District factory to conduct investigations.

It is understood that the Changsha Yuhua District factory is the first project of BYD Group in the central region, and it is also the main production base of BYD DM-i models. Some people in the industry believe that painting is one of the necessary links in vehicle manufacturing. If the BYD factory in Changsha needs to stop work, stop production or cooperate with rectification to conduct an investigation due to this incident, it will affect the production and manufacturing of the factory’s cars to a certain extent, and further affect the automobile. delivery.

Radar Finance noticed that in recent years, BYD does not seem to be “peaceful”, and it has been exposed before that employees jumped off buildings and died suddenly.

BYD is caught in the sewage storm

Recently, some media reported that hundreds of residents gathered at the gate of the factory in BYD’s Yuhua District, Changsha, and dragged the equipment with “day and night detoxification, misery, harming the people, tossing and turning” and “blessings, blessings, every day.” Poison! We want blessings, not poison” banners. It is understood that the cause of the spontaneous gathering of residents is related to the recent physical discomfort of many nearby residents and children.

According to a report by Chinese philanthropists, many residents and children living in Jiahecheng Community, Yuhua District have experienced physical discomfort recently. These residents have symptoms such as nosebleeds, dizziness, nausea, and coughing; while Shazitang, Yuhua District, Changsha City Among the more than 40 students in the first class of Jiahe Primary School, at least 21 students had symptoms of nosebleeds in the past two months.

Radar Finance found through Tencent map query that the walking distance between Changsha BYD Automobile Co., Ltd. and Jiahecheng Community is about 708 meters, and the walking distance between the company and Shazitang Jiahe Primary School is only 750 meters.

According to media reports, the Environmental Law Enforcement Brigade of Yuhua District, Changsha City replied to the residents about the sewage storm. Before BYD built the factory, the planned use of this land was industrial land, and the emission standard was the industrial standard; the planning department also stated that , whether it is the planned land for the BYD factory or the planned land for the community, it is reasonable and legal, and there is no problem. Although there is not enough evidence to show that the symptoms of physical discomfort of residents are directly related to the BYD factory in Changsha, this is not enough to dispel the doubts of nearby residents.

At 10 p.m. on May 7, BYD issued a statement on its official Weibo account on “Changsha Yuhua District Industrial Park caused complaints from surrounding residents”, responding to the pollution incident. According to BYD, BYD’s industrial park in Yuhua District, Changsha was put into operation in 2012, and the discharge of the park complies with relevant national regulations and standards. For some residential areas close to the industrial park, or the existing odor situation, the company has taken relevant measures and actively improved it.

In the early morning of May 8, the Standing Committee of the Yuhua District Committee of Changsha held an emergency meeting to study the gas emissions of BYD’s painting workshop. On the same day, the Changsha Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have established an investigation team to organize government functional departments, third-party testing agencies and relevant experts to enter the BYD Yuhua District factory to conduct investigations.

According to a local government official, the investigation team has just been established and the investigation is expected to last for several days.

Radar Finance noticed that as early as April this year, many netizens had reported similar problems on the leadership message board of People’s Daily Online. These netizens said that the BYD factory in Yuhua District, Changsha City recently built a new paint factory. Many residents in the nearby community reported smelling pungent gas, and many children also showed symptoms of discomfort.

According to feedback from one of the netizens, the community had communicated face-to-face with the BYD factory before, and the factory promised to carry out rectification. Subsequent residents reported that they could not smell irritating odors during the day, but they were often awakened by peculiar smells at night. In this case, the factory changed the time to emit exhaust gas to late night.

Residents nearby believe that the factory is close to residential areas, and there are public places such as kindergartens and primary schools near the factory. If the factory’s exhaust emissions do not meet the corresponding standards, it will have a negative impact on nearby residents. Standard monitoring, and set up air quality monitoring equipment nearby to ensure the environmental safety needs of surrounding residents.

In fact, Changsha BYD Automobile Co., Ltd. has previously been regarded as a key complaint company due to exhaust emissions. According to the website of Changsha Ecological Environment Bureau, in June 2019, Changsha BYD Automobile Co., Ltd. was required to make rectifications because the pollutants emitted by the production exhaust gas of the spraying workshop affected the lives of nearby residents. It is reported that at that time, BYD commissioned a third party to carry out a total of 4 self-environmental monitoring from July 2018 to June 2019, and the test results showed that the exhaust gas was discharged up to the standard.

At that time, BYD stated that the company’s No. 13 recasting workshop started production in March 2016, and 7 sets of waste gas treatment facilities were installed. After receiving feedback from the surrounding people, the recasting workshop was completely stopped and relocated on December 31, 2018. The principle workshop is used as a warehouse.

In addition, in 2016, BYD Shenzhen’s Baolong Industrial Park in Longgang District also experienced a problem of disturbing residents due to exhaust emissions. Some residents said that they did not dare to open their windows at night, and sometimes they were even woken up by smoke.

If it is necessary to stop production and stop production, BYD’s delivery will be affected to a certain extent

Before the large-scale spread of the pollution incident, BYD just handed over a dazzling transcript. According to BYD’s financial report released on April 28, the company recorded a total revenue of 66.825 billion yuan in the first quarter, a year-on-year increase of 63.02%; the net profit attributable to shareholders of the listed company was 808 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 240.59%.

It is worth noting that on April 3, BYD announced that it will stop the production of fuel vehicles from March this year, and the company will focus on the creation of pure electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. BYD has become the first car manufacturer to “cut off oil” among many traditional car companies in China.

In 2021, BYD sold 593,700 new energy passenger vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 231.6%, of which 272,900 DM models were sold throughout the year, accounting for 45.97% of the total number of new energy passenger vehicles. The factory in Yuhua District, Changsha, which is associated with the discomfort, is the main production base for BYD’s DM-i models.

According to media reports, in 2009, BYD took the Changsha Yuhua District factory as the group’s first project in the central region. Since then, the total investment of the BYD DM-i super hybrid factory project in Yuhua Economic Development Zone has reached 3.7 billion yuan, accounting for 3.7 billion yuan. The land is 650 mu and the building area is 600,000 square meters. BYD sees the DM-i super-hybrid as a masterpiece of the company’s accumulation, saying it “will play the role of a disruptor to gasoline-powered vehicles.”

On April 12 this year, according to the minutes of BYD’s investor meeting, BYD’s DM-i hybrid model has been well received by the market after its launch, and the orders in hand are full. Will this incident affect the delivery of BYD vehicles?

Data show that from January to April, BYD sold a total of 392,400 new energy vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 387.94%, of which the cumulative sales of plug-in hybrid models were 189,600, a year-on-year increase of 699.91%. In the first two months of this year, the BYD Yuhua Economic Development Zone project produced and sold 39,000 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 373.8%, basically reaching full production and sales. A year-on-year increase of 271%.

Some industry analysts believe that painting is one of the indispensable links in vehicle manufacturing. If the BYD factory in Changsha needs to suspend production, stop production or cooperate with rectification for the investigation of this incident, it will affect the production and manufacturing of the factory’s cars to a certain extent, and further affect the production. Delivery to the car.

BYD frequently exposes negative incidents

It is worth mentioning that the BYD Changsha Yuhua District factory, which is at the center of the sewage storm, was recently exposed to the incident of employees jumping off the building. In April of this year, employees of BYD’s Changsha Yuhua District factory revealed to the media that multiple jumping incidents occurred in a week in the staff dormitory of the park where they were located.

The employees said that many employees in the factory were aware of the incident. The three recent jumping incidents occurred at 10:00 pm on April 19, April 25 and 12:00 noon on April 26, respectively. It is a man and a woman, and the two parties involved in the latter two jumping off the building are both boys.

Subsequently, the police station investigated the case and carried out rectification work on the industrial park of BYD Changsha Yuhua District. According to the local police station, the jumping incidents on April 25 and April 26 were both true. Among them, the person who jumped off the building on April 25 has unfortunately died, and the possibility of a criminal case is ruled out; the person who jumped off the building on April 26 was stopped in time; the staff of the police station expressed inconvenience to disclose the incident of jumping off the building on April 19. . After the incident was exposed at that time, the staff of BYD Group responded that the headquarters did not have a detailed grasp of these matters and was inconvenient to respond.

According to public information, in the Yuhua District Industrial Park, where BYD has been involved in public opinion turmoil twice recently, the affiliated companies are Changsha BYD Automobile Co., Ltd., which is located at No. 88, Environmental Protection East Road, Yuhua District, Changsha City, Hunan Province.

According to Tianyancha, the company was established in August 2009 with a registered capital of 1 billion yuan. BYD Auto Industry Co., Ltd. and BYD Auto Sales Co., Ltd. hold 87.5% and 12.5% ​​of the shares respectively; the company’s main business is automobiles, Manufacturing of car bodies, trailers, etc.; BYD founder, chairman and president Wang Chuanfu served as the company’s legal representative before replacing He Zhiqi in April 2020.

It is worth mentioning that the company has been involved in dozens of legal disputes before, including 33 disputes involving labor disputes, 11 disputes involving sales contracts, and 1 disputes involving the right to life, the right to health, and the whole body. In addition, the company’s case as a defendant or appellee involved an amount of more than 1.4369 million yuan.

Radar Finance noticed that in addition to the “jumping off the building” and sewage storms in the Industrial Park of Yuhua District, Changsha, in May, October and November 2021, BYD also exposed a number of car spontaneous combustion incidents.

In addition, in November 2021, a 36-year-old BYD employee was found suddenly dead in a rental house. According to the employee’s clock-in record, in October last year, the employee worked 26 days for about 12 hours. Before the incident, the employee worked 7 night shifts in a row, of which 6 days worked for about 12 hours. The family members inferred that the employee The sudden death is related to the continuous high-intensity work before death.

A month later, BYD was notified by the police of a knife-wielding incident in the Wangcheng Economic and Technological Development Zone of Changsha City, which resulted in 3 deaths and 2 serious injuries.

The successive incidents related to employees have aroused the attention of the outside world on the compensation of BYD employees. According to Flush IFind data, as of December 31, 2021, BYD had more than 288,000 employees, with a per capita salary of 110,400 yuan and a senior executive’s per capita salary of 3,177,700 yuan. The average salary of BYD’s executives in 2021 is the average salary of employees. In the same period last year, the average salary ratio of BYD executives and employees was 25.48:1.