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October 13, 2023
Steven Feng
Chief Financial Officer
NIO Inc.
Building 20, 56 Antuo Road
Jiading District, Shanghai 201804
People s Republic of China
Re: NIO Inc.
Form 20-F for the
Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2022
Response dated
September 1, 2023
File No. 001-38638
Dear Steven Feng:
We have reviewed your September 1, 2023 response to our comment
letter and have the
following comment.
Please respond to this letter within ten business days by
providing the requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond.
After reviewing your response to this letter, we may have
additional comments. Unless
we note otherwise, any references to prior comments are to comments in
our August 24,
2023 letter.
Form 20-F for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2022
Item 16I. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent
Inspections, page 171
1. We note your response
to comment 1, as well as your response to prior comment 3.
Please amend this
section of your filing to disclose the partial ownership NIO China by
four state-owned
enterprises and outlining any ability, either individually or collectively,
to influence your
operations or the direction of your management and policies, including
through the nomination
of directors. Please also clarify for us whether Awesome Pilot
Limited is affiliated
with any government entities. Please further revise to disclose your
conclusion as to
whether Xiaobei Chen is an official of the CCP and how you considered
the material facts
underlying this conclusion, including that she is the director designated
by a PRC state-owned
enterprise and serves as a member of the Chinese Communist Party
Committee of a PRC
state-owned enterprise. Please further revise to identify this PRC
state-owned enterprise,
outline XiaoBei Chen s roles and responsibilities within the CCP
Steven Feng
NIO Inc.
October 13, 2023
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committee as well as the enterprise, and disclose whether she is a CCP
member.
Please contact Christopher Dunham at 202-551-3783 or Andrew Mew at
202-551-3377
with any other questions.
Sincerely,
FirstName LastNameSteven Feng
Division of
Corporation Finance
Comapany NameNIO Inc.
Disclosure Review
Program
October 13, 2023 Page 2
cc: Yuting Wu, Esq.
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