(Reuters) -China Evergrande Group’s electric vehicle unit said on Friday it was laying off workers and cutting the salaries of some employees as a part of its cost-reduction measures.
The unit, China Evergrande New Energy Vehicle Group Ltd, also said it was arranging for some employees to take a break from work.
The statement comes after Reuters reported that the unit was planning to lay off 10% of its workers and suspend salary payments to 25% of its workers for between one and three months.
The unit also said that it is continuing mass production of its Hengchi 5 electric sport-utility vehicle and has delivered 324 units of the model to customers.
Reuters reported earlier this month that the company had suspended mass production of the model because of a lack of new orders.
The EV unit is key for the transformation plans of Evergrande, once China’s top-selling property developer and now at the center of a deepening debt crisis.
(Reporting by Himanshi Akhand in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur and Devika Syamnath)
