Footnotes / references Figures obtained from
Dongfeng Motor Group's annual report; DFL's annual report was not disclosed;[4] production volume included subsidiaries
Dongfeng Motor Company Limited (abb. DFL), most commonly known in English-language sources as Dongfeng Nissan,[nb 1] 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.[1]
Name
Dongfeng Motor Corporation (
Chinese: 东风汽车集团有限公司 and previously 东风汽车公司) is a separate legal entity from Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. (
Chinese: 东风汽车有限公司). Dongfeng Motor Corporation is a Chinese, state-owned automaker while Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. is a joint venture between Dongfeng Motor Group (
Chinese: 东风汽车集团股份有限公司)[nb 2] and Nissan. Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. had a subsidiary
Dongfeng Automobile Co., Ltd. (DFAC,
Chinese: 东风汽车股份有限公司) which also had a similar name with Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd..
As of 2011[update], according to Reuters, about 68% of Dongfeng Motor Group products were connected to Nissan,[5] and, as of 2006, the company was being referred to as "the biggest Sino-foreign vehicle joint venture".[6]
History
Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. (DFL) was formally established on 9 June 2003 and began operations on 1 July 2003.[1] Initially headquartered in Shiyan, it moved closer to its Chinese parent relocating to Wuhan in June, 2006.[6]
In September 2010, DFL unveiled a new automobile marque,
Venucia (
Chinese: 启辰;
pinyin: Qǐ Chén), to sell vehicles tailored specifically for second- and third-tier Chinese cities in the poorer interior of the country.[7][8]
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.[9][10] 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.[11][12]
As of 2006, the company reportedly had factories in Hubei, Guangdong, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and Zhejiang.[6]
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.[16][non-primary source needed] The Dalian location may be[citation needed] the same site that was in the planning stages as of 2012 and slated to produce Nissan-branded automobiles.[17]
A corporate campus and design center in Huadu, Guangzhou, was announced in 2017.[18]
Subsidiaries
As of 28 December 2020[update], DFL had the following subsidiaries:
Dongfeng Motor Parts and Components Group Company[19]
Products
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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.
^"Milestones". dfl.com.cn. Dongfeng Motor Company Limited. 2017.
^Sun, Tongtong (28 December 2020). Sun, Lei (ed.).
"东风有限整合成立5大事业部 启辰品牌重回东风日产" [DFL establishes five business units by integration, the Venucia marque returns to Dongfeng Nissan]. nbd.com.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 6 January 2021.