Dongfeng Motor Corporation (Chinese: 东风汽车公司; Pinyin: Dōngfēng Qichē Gōngsī) is a Chinese automobile manufacturing firm. It manufactures and assembles buses, trucks, cars and parts under its own name and in joint ventures with a variety of international automobile firms. Image File history File links Donglogo. ... Pinyin is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard Mandarin, where pin means spell(ing) and yin means sound(s)). This article describes the most common variant called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: 汉语拼音; Traditional Chinese: 漢語拼音; pinyin: HànyÇ” PÄ«nyÄ«n), also known as scheme... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the form of transport. ... The driver of this DAF tractor with an auto-transport semi-trailer prepares to offload Å koda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales For other meanings, see Truck (disambiguation). ... CAR is a three letter-acronym, that may stand for: Canadian Airborne Regiment Canadian Aviation Regulations Canonical anticommutation relation Caribou Municipal Airport (IATA airport code CAR) in Caribou, Maine, United States Center Axis Relock, a new shooting technique developed by Paul Castle Central African Republic Computer-assisted reporting Cordillera Administrative... A joint venture (often abbreviated JV) is a strategic alliance between two or more parties to undertake economic activity together. ...

Dongfeng (which means "East Wind") was founded at the behest of Chairman Mao Zedong in 1968. As part of his "Third Front" strategy, it was located in Hubei Province, far inland, to protect it from foreign invasion. It has become the second-largest automobile manufacturer in China. The company will make an Initial Public Offering in December 2005, though it will remain 70% owned by China's central government. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Not to be confused with the unrelated province of Hebei Hubei (Chinese: 湖北; pinyin: Húběi; Wade-Giles: Hu-pei, also seen as Hupeh), abbreviated to 鄂 (pinyin: È, WG: O), a province of the Peoples Republic of China, lies to the north of the Dongting Lake, giving it the... An initial public offering (IPO) is the first sale of a corporations common shares to public investors. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

A report published in June 2006 by Amnesty International, about Chinese arms exports to countries with poor human rights records, noted that Dongfeng had supplied military trucks to the governments of Myanmar (Burma) and Sudan. [1] Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization with the stated purpose of campaigning for internationally recognized human rights. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ...

Joint ventures

Dongfeng operates many joint venture manufacturing concerns in China.

• Dongfeng Peugeot-Citroën Automobile — With the PSA Group produces the Citroën ZX, Xsara, Picasso, and Elysée, and Peugeot 307
• Dongfeng Motor Company — With the Nissan Motor Company produces the Nissan Sunny, Bluebird, Teana, and Tiida
• Dongfeng Honda Automobile Company — With the Honda Motor Company produces the Honda CRV
• Dongfeng Nissan-Diesel Company — With Nissan Diesel produces heavy trucks
• Dongfeng Yueda Kia Automobile Company — Dongfeng has a 25% share with Kia and Yueda to produce the Hyundai Accent, Kia Optima, and Kia Carnival/Cerato
• Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor Company — Wholly-owned subsidiary which produces the Dongfeng Future minivan
• Honda Automobile (China) Company — Dongfeng owns 10% of Honda's importer in Guangdong Province
• Dongfeng Automobile Company Limited — A joint venture with Cummins to produce Diesel trucks and engines

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External links

• Dongfeng Motor Corporation - official company website
• Dongfeng Motor Forums
• - Manufacturing China

References

• Dongfeng comes to market, partly. Detroit News. Retrieved on November 3, 2005.