FAW-GM Light Duty Commercial Vehicle (FAW-GM) is a commercial vehicle manufacturing company headquartered in

Changchun Changchun (, ; ), also romanized as Ch'angch'un, is the capital and largest city of Jilin Province, People's Republic of China. Lying in the center of the Songliao Plain, Changchun is administered as a , comprising 7 districts, 1 county and 3 c ...

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, and a 50:50 joint venture between

FAW Group China FAW Group Corp., Ltd. (First Automobile Works) is a Chinese state-owned automobile manufacturer headquartered in Changchun, Jilin.

and

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. It was founded in 2009 and its activities include the Harbin Light Vehicle factory and FAW Hongta Yunnan Automobile Co Ltd. The plants were named,''FAW Harbin Light Duty Vehicle Co.'', ''FAW-GM Hongta Yunnan Automobile Manufacturing Co., Ltd.'' and ''Changchun Plant''. The company builds ''Jie Fang'' pickups and light commercial vehicles, with the possibility of building models for GM to sell under their marques. FAW-GM sold a total of 55,609 vehicles in China in 2012.

Products

FAW-GM builds pickups, vans, SUVs, MPVs, 1-ton, 2-ton and 3-ton trucks and exports CKD kits for assembly in

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and

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, and exports to more than 20 countries. In 2011, FAW-GM introduced a new pickup, the Kuncheng. FAW-GM's current products include the following models: *Jie Fang Kuncheng Pickup *Jie Fang 1-ton truck *Jie Fang 2-ton truck *Jie Fang 3-ton truck

References

External links

Official website
(archived, 11 Jan 2013) {{Automotive industry in the People's Republic of China Truck manufacturers of China Chinese-foreign joint-venture companies FAW Group General Motors joint ventures Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2009