Dongfeng Motor Company Limited ( abb. DFL), most commonly known in English-language sources as Dongfeng Nissan, is a Chinese automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Wuhan, Hubei. It is a 50–50 joint-venture between Dongfeng Motor Group and Nissan Motors. It produces passenger cars under the Nissan marque and commercial vehicles under the Dongfeng marque.

Name

Dongfeng Motor Corporation ( and previously 东风汽车公司) is a separate legal entity from Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd.. Dongfeng Motor Corporation is a Chinese, state-owned automaker while Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. is a joint venture between Dongfeng Motor Group and Nissan. Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. had a subsidiary Dongfeng Automobile Co., Ltd. (DFAC, ) which also had a similar name with Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd.. , according to Reuters, about 68% of Dongfeng Motor Group products were connected to Nissan, and, as of 2006, the company was being referred to as "the biggest Sino-foreign vehicle joint venture".

History

Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. (DFL) was formally established on 9 June 2003 and began operations on 1 July 2003. Initially headquartered in Shiyan, it moved closer to its Chinese parent relocating to Wuhan in June, 2006. In September 2010, DFL unveiled a new automobile marque, Venucia, to sell vehicles tailored specifically for second- and third-tier Chinese cities in the poorer interior of the country. In 2011, a roadmap for additional investment in Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. by its Japanese and Chinese parents was drawn up as part of a plan to boost annual sales from around 1.3 million vehicles in 2010 to over 2.3 million by 2015. In April 2012, it was announced that Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. would begin manufacturing models from the range of Nissan's luxury marque, Infiniti, beginning in 2014. In 2017 the majority stake of Zhengzhou Nissan, was acquired from the listed subsidiaries Dongfeng Automobile Company for CN¥788 million.

Production bases and facilities

As of 2006, the company reportedly had factories in Hubei, Guangdong, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and Zhejiang. As of 2015, a subsidiary, Dongfeng Nissan Passenger Vehicle Company, is listed as having a R&D center as well as a variety of factories including sites in: Dalian, Huadu, Xiangyang, and Zhengzhou. The Dalian location may be the same site that was in the planning stages as of 2012 and slated to produce Nissan-branded automobiles. A corporate campus and design center in Huadu, Guangzhou, was announced in 2017. In 2018, Dongfeng Motor's overall sales volume reached 1.547 million vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 3.9%.

Subsidiaries

, DFL had the following subsidiaries:

Dongfeng Nissan

Products

Former Products

Zhengzhou Nissan

After the majority stake of Zhengzhou Nissan, was acquired by Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd., there are three brands of products sold under the firm, including Dongfeng, Fengdu, and Nissan.

Dongfeng products

Dongfeng Ruitaite products

Electric commercial van products.

Fengdu products

Nissan products

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