Nanjing Automobile
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | 1947 (Nanjing) |
| Headquarters | Nanjing, China |
| Owner | P.R. China |
| Parent | SAIC Motor |
| Website | nanqi.com.cn |
| Nanjing Automobile | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 南京汽车集团有限公司 | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 南京汽車集團有限公司 | ||||||
| Literal meaning | Nanjing Automobile (Group) Corporation | ||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Nánjīng Qìchē Jítuán Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī |
Nanjing Automobile is a state-owned enterprise with a history that dates from 1947, making it the oldest of the Chinese automobile manufacturers although the comparatively younger FAW Automotive was the first to actually make cars.
The group's products have included cars, trucks, and buses.
Nanjing Auto merged with the much larger SAIC in 2007 becoming a subsidiary of that company.
The history of the corporation dates to 1947 during the Chinese Civil War. In the July 1949, a repair service center attached to the East China Field Army (which later became the Third Field Army) took control of an automobile workshop in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, former capital of the Republic of China, after the Red Army had conquered the city.
In the 1950s, oversight of the small automobile workshop that would become Nanjing Automobile was transferred to China's First Ministry of Industrial Machinery. It began making China's first domestically produced light-duty trucks in 1958, the 2½ ton NJ-130, based on the GAZ-51 from Russia. The Ministry branded the truck Guerin (跃进牌汽车 - literally meaning "Leap Forward") and approved the establishment of Nanjing Automobile Works that same year. Truck production continued until July 1987 at which point 161,988 units of various models including the NJ-130, NJ-230, NJ-135, and NJ-134 had been built.
Nanjing Auto has repeatedly used technology transfers to make the company more competitive.
In the mid-1980s, Nanjing Auto purchased designs and moulds from Isuzu and obtained technology from the Italian Iveco, the commercial vehicle unit of Fiat, participating in a spate of technology transfer deals circa 1980 that saw Japanese designs and machinery sold to Chinese buyers.
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