14 Facts About Dongfeng Motor

Between 1978 and 1985 alongside the market-based Chinese economic reforms instituted by Deng Xiaoping, Dongfeng Motor was transformed from a manufacturer of two heavy-duty trucks with fragmented operations and ownership into a single, centrally managed enterprise.

Chinese partner in many Sino-foreign joint venture companies, Dongfeng Motor initiated most of these cooperative efforts with foreign firms in the early 2000s.

In 2004, intermediate holding company of the group, Dongfeng Motor Group, became a listed company in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange; Dongfeng Yueda Kia remained in the unlisted portion of the group.

Dongfeng Motor announced in November 2006 that they intend to sell their vehicles in Japan.

Dongfeng Motor established its first research and development facility outside of China in October 2012 when it acquired a 70 percent stake in the Swedish engineering company T Engineering AB.

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Dongfeng Motor Skio is a sub-brand of Dongfeng Motor that focuses on producing electric vehicles.

Dongfeng Motor is the Chinese partner in many joint ventures that make trucks and cars.

Dongfeng Motor was reported as having two production bases in China that year.

An equally owned joint venture with Taiwanese automaker Yulon, Dongfeng Motor Yulon, was set up in 2009 and will manufacture Yulon's Luxgen models in China.

Dongfeng Motor Yulon began production of its first model, the Luxgen 7 SUV, on 28 July 2011.

Dongfeng Motor sells products overseas through various legal arrangements that see mostly light commercial vehicles sold under its own brand name in a variety of formats and specifications.

Foreign countries where Dongfeng Motor has or had a presence include: Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Paraguay, Philippines, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom, et al.

Dongfeng Motor has a joint venture for assembly of commercial trucks with Pakistan's Ghandhara Nissan, whereas it assembles DFSK light commercial vehicles in Pakistan as a joint venture with Regal automobile industries limited.

Dongfeng Motor has, at times, exported military spec vehicles to conflict-ridden nations and places including 400 to Myanmar in 2005 and 200 into Darfur, Sudan, that same year.