Chinese Automotive article

I'd like to share some news from China automotive industry, which you might be interested in.

1. FAW and Dongfeng appoints new chairmen

Today Dongfeng Auto announced that it's chairman Mr.Ping Xu will leave for FAW's chairman vacancy. Dongfeng's chairman position is now taken over by Zhu Yanfeng, former deputy secretary of the CPC (Communist Party of China) Jilin Provincial Committee. 
FAW and Dongfeng are among the Big-Four state giant auto manufacturers in China, the others are SAIC and Changan. source

2. Zotye to establish a new plant in Xiangyang, Hubei province SEO

On April 28th, Zotye Auto signed an agreement with Xiangyang municipal goverment to construct a new plant in Xiangyang. This new plant will have a capacity of 200,000 new-energy vehicles/year, totally investment will be 3.3 billion RMB(that's 532 million USD). The first phase project will start constructing since July 2015. 
Zotye is the first prviate company who received a license for manufacturing new energy vehicles.
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3. Number of registered vehicles by 2014, sorted by provinces.

 

Province	Registered private passenger cars (millions)
Beijing	3.165
Tianjin	1.818
Hebei	5.425
Shanxi	2.55
Inner Mongolia	1.852
Liaoling	4.33
Jilin	1.4647
Shanghai	1.8343
Jiangsu	6.656
Anhui	2.051
Fujian	2.0997
Jiangxi	1.393
Shandong	7.632
Hunan	2.341
Guangdong	10.1306
Guangxi	2.6964
Chongqing	1.0801
Gansu	0.7326
Qinghai	0.2908
Ningxia	0.3992
Xinjiang	2.0862