Li Shufu,
the chairman of Volvo Cars and Håkan Samuelsson, president and chief executive
of the car maker, met Li Keqiang, Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of
China and Charles Michel, Prime Minister of Belgium, on June 2nd in
Brussels.
The two
Prime Ministers were, as part of an official visit, treated to a presentation
of the CMA small car platform, on which Volvo will base its 40 series cars.
Volvo also demonstrated key innovations within autonomous driving and
connectivity.
The XC40,
Volvo’s first car based on the new CMA platform, will be built at its plant in
Ghent, Belgium where the company has manufactured cars since 1965. The Ghent
plant currently employs 5,500 people, making it the third biggest industrial
employer in the country.
The
acquisition by Geely Holding of Volvo Cars in 2010 was at that time the biggest
Chinese investment into Europe. Still today it is the 5th biggest Chinese
investment into Europe.
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