- The Volkswagen Group plans to open seven new plants in China in the years to come, one more than originally planned. In total, nineteen plants will therefore be available for the Volkswagen group production in 2018. In addition, the group plans to build three more plants in the world (India, Russia, Mexico), including two Audi ones. Currently, the Volkswagen Group benefits from 100 plants worldwide.

- The construction of seven new plants should allow the Volkswagen Group to achieve its goal to increase its production in China by half by 2018, to 4 million vehicles (against 2.63 million in 2012).

- The first three new plants in China - Urumqi, Foshan and Ningbo- should be operational by the end of 2013. The following three ones should open between late 2014 and late 2015. The seventh one should be operational by the end of 2016. The seven plants will each have a production capacity of 200,000 vehicles per year (1.4 million in total).

- Thanks to these new plants, Volkswagen will increase its  production capacity to more than 4 million vehicles a year in China in 2018. Such a capacity exceeds the sales planned in China in the same year.

- Volkswagen group Chinese production accounted for 28% of its global production last year.