Company type | Joint venture | ||||||||||||||||
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Industry | Automotive | ||||||||||||||||
Founded | 18 October 2002 | ||||||||||||||||
Headquarters | , China | ||||||||||||||||
Area served | China | ||||||||||||||||
Products | Automobiles | ||||||||||||||||
Owner | BAIC Motor (50%) Hyundai (50%) | ||||||||||||||||
Number of employees | 15,000 [1] | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 北京现代汽车有限公司 | ||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 北京現代汽車有限公司 | ||||||||||||||||
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Beijing Hyundai | |||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 北京现代 | ||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 北京現代 | ||||||||||||||||
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South Korean name | |||||||||||||||||
Hangul | 북경현대 | ||||||||||||||||
Hanja | 北京現代 | ||||||||||||||||
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Website | www |
Beijing Hyundai Motor Co.,Ltd. is an automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Shunyi,Beijing,China,and a joint-venture between BAIC Motor and Hyundai Motor Company. Established in 2002,it manufactures in Shunyi District,a satellite city of Beijing, [2] producing Hyundai-branded automobiles for the Chinese market.
In 2016,the company was reported as selling nearly 1.8 million vehicles. [3]
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, [4] 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 Organization. [5] The joint venture 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. [6] [7] Beijing Hyundai's sedan sales in 2005 were 224,700 units,ranking fourth in the country. By 2010,Beijing Hyundai sales reached 700,000,and Hyundai Motor Group became the number 2 carmaker in China behind Volkswagen.
2014 saw the company sell 1,120,000 vehicles, [8] and in 2016,Hyundai reached its peak,selling 1.14 million vehicles. [9]
However,following various issues,including the rise of Chinese car companies,marketing problems, [9] and the 2016 THAAD controversy,in which South Korea allowed the US military to deploy THAAD missile systems despite warnings from the Chinese government, [10] Beijing Hyundai sales collapsed,dropping to just 248,839 by 2022 and 240,792 in 2023. [11]
After the collapse in sales,the company sold its first factory in Beijing in 2021 to Li Auto,and in 2024,it sold another factory in Chongqing for just $226 million,less than half its listing price. [9]
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. [12] All are tailored to Chinese tastes. The 5th generation Elantra is sold in China as the Langdong, [13] but little localization is likely to have occurred. Current products available exclusively in China includes
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Cheaper [14] products may be sold under a new, China-only brand name, Shouwang. [15] A concept vehicle was shown at car shows in China in 2011 and 2012, but the brand does not appear to have been launched. [16]
As of 2013, the company has at least three production bases [13] 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. [17] Two of these produce automobiles and the other, engines. [17]
Its first automobile production base was completed in 2003 and the second in April 2008. [18] Construction on a third Beijing base begun in late 2010 should be complete in the second half of 2012. [19] At least one of these facilities is 17 km from Shunyi Yangzhen. [20]
A new site outside Beijing was inaugurated in 2016, and this Hebei location was producing a small city car, the Accent, as of 2017. [21]
In 2017, Beijing Hyundai opened its Chongqing plant, Which produces the Reina subcompact sedan until 2021. [22]
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