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| Company type | Joint venture | ||||||||
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| Industry | Automotive | ||||||||
| Founded | Shiyan,Hubei, China 9 June 2003; 22 years ago (9 June 2003)[1] | ||||||||
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| Headquarters | , China | ||||||||
| Products | Automobiles | ||||||||
Production output |  1,501,562[2] (2017) | ||||||||
| Revenue | CN¥169.144 billion (2017) | ||||||||
| CN¥13.860 billion (2017) | |||||||||
| Total assets | CN¥141.409 billion (2017) | ||||||||
| Total equity |  CN¥41.256 billion (2017) | ||||||||
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Number of employees | Approximately 70,000[1] | ||||||||
| Subsidiaries | Dongfeng Automobile Company[3] | ||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 东风汽车有限公司 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 東風汽車有限公司 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Dongfeng Motor Company Limited | ||||||||
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| Website | www | ||||||||
| Footnotes / references Figures obtained fromDongfeng 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 asDongfeng Nissan,[nb 1] is a Chinese automobile manufacturing company headquartered inWuhan,Hubei. It is a 50–50joint-venture betweenDongfeng Motor Group andNissan Motors. It produces passenger cars under the Nissan marque and commercial vehicles under the Dongfeng marque.[1]
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 subsidiaryDongfeng 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]
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]
In 2017, the majority stake of Zhengzhou Nissan was acquired from the listed subsidiariesDongfeng Automobile Company forCN¥788 million.[13][14][15]
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] In 2018, Dongfeng Motor's overall sales volume reached 1.547 million vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 3.9%.
In November 2024, Dongfeng Nissan andHuawei signed a strategic cooperation agreement. The two parties will build a new car's intelligent cockpit system based on the HI model, making Dongfeng Nissan the first Sino-foreign joint venture automaker to cooperate with Huawei.[19]
As of 28 December 2020[update], DFL had the following subsidiaries:
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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, andNissan.
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