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According to foreign media reports, automobile is strengthening the brand strategy offensive in the Chinese market. Next year, about 300000 Volkswagen electric vehicles will be delivered to Chinese customers. By 2025, the number will be about one million. By 2023, Volkswagen will provide 10 models based on MEB platform in Chinese market. At the Guangzhou International Automobile Association Exhibition, the Volkswagen brand led its three new heavy-duty models to meet with consumers. Among them, the most concerned is the first show of ID. concept car in Asia. At that time, the appearance of this new car was considered as a strategic change of VW for the Chinese market. The car is expected to start mass production by the end of 2020. SAIC Volkswagen will produce id.3 models at Anting's new plant. In this way, Volkswagen has also made clear its corporate goal in China: the brand is moving towards carbon neutrality. "We give our brand a new image, a new role, a new corporate goal, full attention to decarbonization and new cars," said the president of Volkswagen Group in China at the new brand design event in Guangzhou. Volkswagen will continue to introduce attractive models to the market, including those with efficient internal combustion engines. However, id.next and id.3 show that we are moving towards an electric vehicle that is carbon neutral. " In order to achieve this ambitious goal, the Volkswagen brand will launch 10 electric versions with models in the Chinese market - cars and all electric vehicles, and produce the first ID. series models in China by the end of 2020. Volkswagen's model offensive also includes efficient internal combustion engines. Since the beginning of 2018, Volkswagen has launched 14 new models in China, including 5 new models. The most noteworthy are tacqua SUV and viloran, both of which are equipped with efficient internal combustion engines.