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SAIC-GM-Wuling Manufactured Its 25,000,000th Vehicle In China

General Motors’ SAIC-GM-Wuling (SGMW) joint venture in China recently produced its 25,000,000th vehicle, an unprecedented milestone making it the first Chinese company to reach that number of manufactured units. The automaker held a special ceremony to celebrate that historic moment, highlighting its leading position in the world’s largest auto market.

SGMW is GM’s second joint venture in China, which manufactures and markets the Wuling and Baojun brands, began a major rebranding in 2018 by introducing new logos and a portfolio of modern vehicles. Although it exceeded 25,000,000 units manufactured right in the middle of a challenging environment, this milestone reinforces the company’s positioning and drives its growth strategy.

SGMW’s 25 millionth unit, which rolled off the production line on November 18th at the company’s main plant in the Chinese city of Liuzhou, is an all-new 2022 Wuling Asta in the range-topping Star Edition + trim level, painted in the model’s characteristic Rain Passing Azure color. The compact crossover, also known by the name Xing Chen, is the first utility vehicle in the popular Wuling brand’s global strategy.

This important manufacturing achievement is notably supported by the good sales performance of SAIC-GM-Wuling vehicles in the Chinese market. The joint venture stated that in 2020, its sales volume exceeded 1.6 million vehicles in the Asian country, ranking first among all car manufacturers that only market Chinese brands.

In addition, in the month of October alone, SGMW sold more than 200,000 vehicles, which represents a healthy 12 percent increase over the previous year and that allowed it to remain the most popular Chinese manufacturer. During the first ten months of this year, cumulative sales amounted to 1.43 million vehicles, increasing by 21.2 percent compared to the previous year.

A very important part of SGMW’s success is the Wuling Hong Guang MINI EV, which quickly became the most popular zero-emission vehicle and caused a revolution by democratizing electric drive technology. The minicar, of which more than 450,000 units have already sold, has led the new energy vehicle market in China for 14 consecutive months and since the first quarter of the year, it was ranked as the best-selling EV in the world.

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  1. I wish GM would stop all the pain and bleeding and just move their headquarters to China!!

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    1. Maureen Renaud
      Lots of US companies do very well in China. Doesn’t mean they should move to China.
      Much like every NFL team does well when playing the Lions. Doesn’t mean every NFL team should move to Detroit.

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  2. If I never heard news about GM in China again, that would be fine with me.. Am I alone in the belief that they actually care more about that market than the US? Yea, yea, I know, “it’s a major market.” How much do you wanna bet that marketing money that should be used in the US is instead directed to marketing in China? Given the chance, I actually think GM would be willing to abandon the US market wholly, but keep trucks here and that’s it..

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    1. You’ll need to bury your head in the sand then. China is not going away, sorry.

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      1. Nor is the Chinese market.

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  3. Americans should get familiar with their new overlords… They own you.

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    1. Lol…amazing how these Little men want to be Americans so badly. But, their Country will not allow them to transfer their assets beyond their own borders to do so. Yet, we Americans are supposed to be the inferior or subject too the Chinese. A cold day in hell my friend.

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  4. Barra is happy as a pig in $#!+……..

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  5. Maybe GM needs to worry about selling a few more vehicles in the U.S. rather than letting the Japanese and Koreans have the home soil.

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    1. Blame you fellow car buyers for abandoning GM and buying Asian imports instead of U.S. brands. Toyota and Hyundai sell more cars in the U.S. than in other countries yet no one here complains about it. They earn billions from those sales and that goes to their banks. Yet when GM makes money in China, that money comes here to the U.S. So who is better?

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  6. Why is it if you want to sell cars in China you must partner up with a Chinese auto company?

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