China FAW Group

China FAW Group
legal form	Centrally managed company
founding	July 15, 1953
Seat	Changchun , People's Republic of China
management	Xu Liuping (Chairman)
Branch	Automotive industry
Website	www.faw.com

FAW trucks at the IAA 2008

The China FAW Group , a renaming of First Automotive Works ( FAW ) ( Chinese  中国 第一 汽车 集团 , Pinyin Zhōng Guó Dìyī Qìchē Jítuán  - "Chinese number one automobile factory"), is a state-owned vehicle and engine manufacturer in the People's Republic of China .

The company, headquartered in Changchun, manufactures diesel engines , passenger cars as well as medium to heavy buses and trucks . FAW produces in several different locations mainly in the northeast of China.

Corporate development

Parade with the first trucks produced (1956)

Built at FAW: Hongqi CA72 , the first Chinese representative limousine

FAW Junpai D60

Check out T77

VW Sagitar from FAW-Volkswagen

The company was founded in 1953 with Soviet support as the first automobile factory in China and began production of a copy of the ZIS-150 (Jiefang CA-10) in 1956 . In 1958 a copy of the ZIL-157 (Jiefang CA-30), the middle-class car Dongfeng CA71 and the prestige limousine Hongqi CA72 came into the range. While the production of the middle class model was given up again in 1958 after only 30 copies, the Hongqi series with the models CA72 and its successor CA770 became a great success. The model remained in the range until the 1980s.

The Dong Feng plant was spun off in the late 1970s and has been trading under the name Second Automotive Works ever since.

Since opening in the 1980s, FAW has entered into joint ventures with several foreign automobile manufacturers.

In 2006, the group produced around 110,000 vehicles, generating sales of over 1.6 billion yuan (over 170 million euros).

The German engine construction company Deutz AG in Cologne has been involved through a joint venture since 1996 and has taken over 50% of the company shares in diesel engine construction and management in this area from FAW since December 7, 2006. FAW, however, states that there is a connection between FAW Jiefang Truck and Deutz. From 2001 to 2004 FAW also bought Etsong (Qingdao) Vehicle Manufacturing , which was founded in 2000 . This was ultimately sold on to SAIC Motor .

For the full year of 2019, the China FAW Group was the second largest truck manufacturer in the world in the field of medium and heavy trucks. In that year, the company sold 284,889 trucks over six tons.

Brands

The group operates a number of vehicle brands.

• Jiefang , a truck brand since 1956.
• Dongfeng , a brand of passenger car that was only used in 1958.
• Hongqi , mainly for luxury vehicles since 1958.
• FAW , the Group's parent brand, has been used for passenger cars since around 1993. Sub-marks are often appended to this abbreviation .
• Bestune , previously Besturn , Chinese Benteng, since 2006 for cars.

Group companies

• FAW Car was created in 1997 from a spin-off of the car department from First Automotive Works
• FAW-Volkswagen is a joint venture founded in 1991 with Volkswagen AG
• FAW Jiefang truck for commercial vehicles

In addition, FAW has taken over and renamed several companies and joint ventures in whole or in part:

• FAW Haima Automobile Company
• FAW Hongta Yunnan Automobile Manufacturing
• FAW Huali (Tianjin) Motor or FAW Huali (Tianjin) Automobiles
• FAW Jilin Automobile
• Sichuan FAW Toyota Motor Company together with Toyota
• Tiantin FAW Toyota Engine together with Toyota for engine construction
• Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor Company also together with Toyota
• Tianjin FAW Xiali Automobile together with Daihatsu

criticism

The Chinese carmaker uses patents and design documents from VW, in violation of the contract, to build engines and transmissions for its own division. These vehicles are also sold in countries where VW is a competitor.

See also

• Passenger car brands and lines with the highest sales in China

Web links

Commons : China FAW Group  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Group website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ About FAW: Executives (accessed July 18, 2020)
2. ↑ The Jiefang CA30 6X6 off-road army command vehicle at the Dalian Classic Car Museum
3. ↑ Current pictures from the subject . In: Motor vehicle technology 10/1958, p. 396
4. ↑ Information from FAW on other joint ventures (accessed on July 18, 2020)
5. ↑ (photo gallery :) 10 photos: Daimler far ahead of Traton: These are the ten global truck giants. Manager magazine online, July 17, 2020
6. ↑ ^{a b} Eligiusz Mazur: 2005 · 2006. One of the largest car directories in the world. World of Cars. Worldwide catalog. Encyclopedia of today's car industry. ( online ; English)
7. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 452 (English).
8. ↑ Hongqi China Sales Figures (accessed July 18, 2020)
9. ↑ Bestune China Sales Figures (accessed July 18, 2020)
10. ↑ Information from FAW on FAW Jiefang Truck (English, accessed on July 18, 2020)
11. ↑ ^{a b} Information from FAW about FAW Toyota (English, accessed on July 18, 2020)
12. ↑ Affair in the most important market: China steals Volkswagen patents. In: Handelsblatt . July 27, 2012, accessed June 27, 2016 .