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Native name
  
北京现代汽车有限公司

Industry
  
Products
  
Automobiles

Founded
  
18 October 2002

Type
  
Private joint venture

Area served
  
China

Headquarters
  
Beijing Hyundai httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaenthumbf

Owner
  
Beijing Automotive Group (50%)Hyundai Motor Company (50%)

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Beijing Hyundai Motor Co., Ltd. is an automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Beijing, China, and is joint-venture between Beijing Automotive Group and Hyundai Motor Company. Established in 2002, it manufactures in Shunyi District, a satellite city of Beijing, producing Hyundai-branded automobiles for the Chinese market.

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In 2016, the company was reported as selling nearly 1.8 million vehicles.

History

In May 2002, Hyundai Motor and the Beijing Automotive Group signed a memorandum of understanding with the aim of creating a joint venture based around an existing Beijing factory. Hyundai begun to improve the plant's installations, and on 18 October 2002 an equally owned joint venture between the two companies was established. While it was not the first arrangement between a foreign and a domestic automaker, Beijing Hyundai was the first to be approved by the Chinese government after its entry into the World Trade Organisation. Beijing Hyundai initially expanded its production output through importation of key parts from South Korea and the creation of an integrated, Korean-owned supply network inside China. As of 2012, average per year production since 2003 stands at roughly 370,000 vehicles, but yearly output continued to grow over the lifetime of the project.

2014 saw the company sell 1,120,000 vehicles. Were it not a subsidiary such sales figures would have placed it as the sixth or seventh most-productive Chinese automaker.

Products

At least four Hyundai models have been solely sold on the Chinese market. These are: BT01, indigenously designed; Lingxiang (Chinese: 领翔), an interior-and-feature localized Sonata NF; Elantra Yuedong, a localized version of the Elantra; and Verna, a city car. All are tailored to Chinese tastes. The 5th generation Elantra is sold in China as the Langdong, but little localization is likely to have occurred.

Shouwang brand

Cheaper products may be sold under a new, China-only brand name, Shouwang. A concept vehicle was shown at car shows in China in 2011 and 2012, but the brand does not appear to have been launched.

Production bases and facilities

As of 2013, the company has at least three production bases as well as an R&D center, all of which are probably in the Linhe Industrial Development Zone of the Shunyi District, a satellite city of Beijing. Two of these produce automobiles and the other, engines.

Its first automobile production base was completed in 2003 and the second in April 2008. Construction on a third Beijing base begun in late 2010 should be complete in the second half of 2012. At least one of these facilities is 17 km from Shunyi Yangzhen.

References

Beijing Hyundai Wikipedia


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