Company profile1.1 About the base in HefeiTCL Household Appliances (Hefei) IndustrialPark, located in Anhui Feixi Taohua Industrial Park, is the largestworld-class refrigerator and washing machine park in Asia ascreated by TCL Group as well as the first industrial headquartersof TCL Household Appliances Group beyond Guangdong. It hadfoundation laying on April 17, 2013 and started operation onOctober 10, 2014. With vigorous support and help by AnhuiProvincial Government, the Park will be developed into anall-industrial chain industrial park integrating research, design,production and sales of refrigerators and washing machine todevelop smart, efficient, energy-saving and healthy refrigeratorand washing machine products.TCL Household Appliances (Hefei) IndustrialPark Project, located in Taohua Industrial Park, borders on WenshanRoad to the east, Chuangxin Avenue to the west, Sanhe Road to thesouth and Hudong Road to the north. It covers2,247 mu ofland in total and 1.35 million m2 oftotal building area. Among them, Phase I covers 700,000m2 ofbuilding area, and Phase II 650,000 of building area. Theconstruction items include workshops, all material storages,R&D buildings, comprehensive buildings, living support, mown,supporting facilities, etc.1.2 Economic indicators:TCL Household Appliances (Hefei) IndustrialPark has achieved an annual output capacity of 2 millionrefrigerators and 2 million washingmachines for 15years. With gradual spread of construction, PhaseII may accumulatively have 6 million refrigerators or washingmachines of capacity on start of operation. Phase III, generallycovering 2,000 mu of land, will have 8 million refrigerators andwashing machines of annual manufacturing and R&D capacity byeight production lines.1.3 Social contribution(1) On completion, the Park will have over8,000 employees and effective drive to the localemployment;(2) It will have over RMB 5 billion ofsupporting industrial output contribution;(3) It has over 8,000employees of consumption to drive the economy of theneighborhood.ComapnynewsIn 2016, TCL Refrigerators and Washing Machines won 4 internationalawards:-- 3 IFawards: TCL Wind Health Refrigerators, TCL Big Hole - CrystalRoller and TCL Blue Arc Impeller. -- Red Dot Award: TCL 460 Four-doorRefrigerator. It became the first brand winning awards ofthree categories in Chinese refrigerators and washing machineindustry and created the new height of theindustry.TCL Refrigerator and Washing Machines joinedDesignaffairs Design and Consulting Company in Germany. The latterprovides continuous cross-industry strategic support during theentire design and development process and fulfills product designand interactive design. It conducts comprehensive in-depthcooperation in early product investigation, market strategy,product line strategy, industrial design, interactive design, etc.It has developed product line series characteristic of TCL and wonhigh recognition from the market.TCL Dirt-free Washing Machine had its firstglobal release at Appliance & Electronics World Expo and firstglobal sale together with Suning. Meanwhile, it has completedall-channel sale layout and started the new era of healthy washingmachine! TCL Dirt-free Washing Machine has a brightfuture!TCL Washing Machine overthrew outdatedphilosophy, broke confinement and introduced the wisdom and spiritof great people to the revolution of washing machine; for threeyears rejected numerous plans, and dramatically changed theinternal structure of washing machine. TCL Dirt-free WashingMachine appeared with epoch-making glory, broke industrial barrier,created industrial new categories, fundamentally solved laundry bydirty water and helped all families say farewell to the oldpractice!As the blockbuster products developed by TCLRefrigerator and Washing Machine for three years. Dirt-free WashingMachine is a brand new creative type of products. It is called theepoch-making landmark work in the washing machine industry. Onrelease, it received unanimous praise and expectation from theindustry, users and all walks of life. The dirt-free washingmachine of all-sealed cylinder strikes very pain of the industryand the consumers, i.e. laundry by dirty water. By applying threeinnovative technologies, it has not only broken the industrialtechnology barrier and thoroughly solved the problem of laundry bydirty water but said farewell to laundry by dirty water and starteddirty-free new category of washing machine. Firstly, thefull-sealed structure adopts hole-free design of inner cylinder, utilizes thewater-sealing structure of one-way valve, avoids water interactionbetween the inside and outside, and blocks the remaining dirt fromthe space between the inner and outer cylinders to the innercylinder to pollute the clothes; secondly, the unique cleanablestainless steel impeller and wholly stainless steel bottom furtherimprove the hydrophobicity, facilitate the independent cleaning ofthe consumers, timely clean the dead areas on the impellers andbottoms and create acompletely healthy washing environment;The dark horse of the household appliancesindustry has become the white house appliance enterprise of thefastest growth in the industry.TCL white householdappliances: Therefrigerator industry has achieved the first in growth for sevenyears in a row, and washing machine industry thethird.Â