Industry | Automotive | ||||||
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Founded | 8 September 2003 [1] | ||||||
Defunct | 1 April 2020 [1] | ||||||
Fate | Absorbed by GAC Honda | ||||||
Successor | Guangzhou Development District Factory | ||||||
Headquarters | , China [1] | ||||||
Area served | Exported worldwide [1] | ||||||
Key people | Yasuhide Mizuno [2] | ||||||
Production output | 10,800 units [3] (2016) | ||||||
Owners |
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Parent | Honda | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 本田汽车(中国)有限公司 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 本田汽車(中國)有限公司 | ||||||
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Alternative Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 本田中国 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 本田中國 | ||||||
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Website | https://www.honda.com.cn/ |
Honda Automobile (China) Co.,Ltd. previously known as China Honda Automobile Co.,Ltd. (CHAC) [4] was a joint venture automobile manufacturing plant owned by Honda and Chinese companies GAC Group and Dongfeng Motor Group. The plant solely produced vehicles for international exports,while vehicles for domestic market supply are manufactured by 50-50 joint ventures Dongfeng Honda and Guangqi Honda. [1]
Honda Automobile (China) Co.,Ltd. was a joint venture of Honda (65%), [nb 1] GAC Group (25%) and Dongfeng Motor Group (10%),incorporated on 8 September 2003. [1] It was located in Guangzhou. Dongfeng and GAC had formed separate joint venture with Honda as Dongfeng Honda (in July 2003) [5] and Guangqi Honda (in 1998) respectively. In 2018,Dongfeng made a public invitation to buy their stake in Honda China. [6]
It was reported in 2004,that the joint venture would export most of their products to Europe,as well as Southeast Asia. [7] [8] Exports to Canada commenced in 2011. [9]
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