Changhe
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| Founded | Early 1970s |
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| Headquarters | Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China |
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BAIC (70%), Jiangxi Provincial State-owned Enterprise Assets Operation (Holdings) Co. (30%) |
| Website | changheauto.com |
| Jiangxi Changhe Automobile Co Ltd | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 江西昌河汽车有限责任公司 | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 江西昌河汽車有限責任公司 | ||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Jiāngxī Chānghé Qìchē Yǒuxiàn Zérèn Gōngsī |
Changhe, officially Jiangxi Changhe Automobile Co Ltd, is a Chinese automobile manufacturer based in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China.
Currently a majority-owned subsidiary of BAIC, Changhe is engaged in a joint venture with Suzuki Motor Corporation of Japan, and some of the products it manufactures carry the Suzuki brand.
Making passenger cars and microvans, small trucks and vans for commercial purposes, Changhe has an estimated 200,000 (227,000 to 260,000) units/year production capacity as of 2010. Production capacity figures may consider engines and vehicles as discrete.
Until recently a subsidiary of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), Changhe is currently owned by BAIC Group and the Jiangxi Provincial State-owned Enterprise Assets Operation (Holdings) Co.
Changhe was well established by 1973, the year in which trial production of buses began. Originally only making buses, the introduction of a small passenger vehicle (the Suzuki Carry ST90V) began in 1982 and sparked a long relationship with the Japanese automaker. Currently, Changhe companies make both Suzuki and Changhe-branded vehicles. In 1995, Suzuki and Changhe joined forces to form a joint venture company, Jiangxi Changhe-Suzuki Automobile Co Ltd. This JV does not make all the Suzuki-branded automobiles sold on the Chinese market as some are produced by the Japanese company's other Chinese joint venture, Changan Suzuki. Imported models are marketed by Suzuki Motor (China) Investment Co Ltd.
Suzuki may currently be unhappy with its Chinese partners. Despite being an early entrant in the Chinese auto market, this Japanese company has lackluster sales in the country. Suzuki's efforts to change the situation by merging its two joint ventures—since Chinese business law does not allow any foreign company more than two—have so far been stymied by its Chinese partners, who instead hope Suzuki will improve their situation. The Chinese State may also not want new foreign-Chinese joint auto-making ventures at this time. An effort to sell the entire Suzuki model range at unified dealerships fell through in 2008. (This may have been tried again in 2010.)
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