While it is well known that automobile manufacturing in China is on the rise, what is less known is the fact that the manufacturing equipment used to make these cars is underdeveloped. Thus, there is a great market for this kind of equipment in mainland China today.

In case you have not yet heard, it is estimated that by the year 2020, China will be the world’s largest automobile producer, with a yearly output of nearly twenty million cars. At this rate of growth, China is destined to become one of the world’s automobile super powers, with a subsequent rise in car manufacturing equipment and technologies.
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With the help of Volkswagen, they could be getting there.
It was announced in early 2007 that the Volkswagen cars currently being manufactured in China would lower the exhaust emission and fuel consumption by over twenty percent. Their deadline for fulfilling this obligation is the year 2010. This new development will coincide with the introduction of Volkswagen’s latest gearboxes and engines.

Volkswagen has committed to spending more than $600 million on its advanced engines. This decision was made in response to the Chinese government’s goal to cut energy per gross domestic product in the next few years. This is a measure that has been put in place in order to ensure environmental protection in a country where there are more and more cars being manufactured each year. In fact, China is slated to become the world’s largest automobile producer by the year 2020.
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One of the more ambitious players in the Chinese automobile market is Brilliance China Automobiles. They manufacture sedans and minibuses, mostly. Brilliance is based in Shenyang, Liaoning. The Brilliance story began in the year 2003, when they signed a deal to start making sedans in China with the BMW company.

Now, Brilliance has emerged as one of China’s leading car companies, thanks to their innovative assortment of joint ventures, subsidiaries, and associated groups. Some of Brilliance’s most popular brand names include Granse, Zhonghua, and JinBei. But it was their decision to start making three and five series BMW sedans in the country that really sealed Brilliance’s fate as one of the country’s most popular car makers.

In addition to their manufacturing of automobiles, Brilliance is also engaged in making car parts. They are responsible for gasoline engines, strips, axles, window moldings, stamped parts, and many more key car components.
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It was in the year 1998 that China’s first independent car maker was born. Geely Cars had started their history as a maker of refrigerator and motorcycle parts, before eventually acquiring minivan manufacturer’s license and graduating to the automobile industry. After making motorcycles for a few years, they began making their first cars.

Geely is known for being a highly ambitious company. Ever since the company was founded, their primary goal was to do business internationally. They officially launched their car campaign in July of 2002 with 20 million RMB. They were granted a license to import and export, and began exporting their first products in the year 2003. By the end of 2005, they were regularly exporting their cars to Africa, South America, Central America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Geely also has trade agreements in Russia, South East Asia, Western Europe, the United States, and other territories. Geely was successfully listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in early May 2005.
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It is expected that this will be the year that the first Chinese cars will be sold in the United States. The deal was struck, between the Chinese car manufacturer Chery and an American group called Visionary Vehicles back in the year 2005 to begin selling imported Chery automobiles in Canada and the United States beginning in 2007.

Chery is one of the more ambitious car manufacturers from China. They are a relatively new company, only founded in the year 1997, but now already sell their vehicles in well over two dozen countries. They are also planning to start selling their cars in the European Union territory.

Chery’s origins are rather humble. They were started in the province of Wuhu, an area where there was much need for a company like Chery in order to provide jobs to the local denizens. The company is owned by the local government, and nearly fell apart in the very beginning owing to a lack of demand for their vehicles. Then, one day they received an order for taxis by the local government, and were thus saved from extinction.
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