- This month the Volkswagen Group opened its new plant in Ningbo, located south of Shanghai. This is the  manufacturer's twelfth plant in China (and the carmaker's one hundred and fifth plant in the world).

- The site (created with its partner SAIC) will have a production capacity of 300 000 units per year. The first model to be manufactured in Ningbo will be the Skoda Superb. The current European version of this model has not yet been made in China .

- The Volkswagen Group has recently opened factories in Foshan (with its partner FAW) and Urumqi (with its partner SAIC), and plans to open another in Changsha in 2015 (with its partner SAIC). Two other sites are planned for 2016 and 2017 (with FAW).

- The German group's goal is to reach a production capacity of about 4 million vehicles per year in China by 2018. The Volkswagen Group will sell this year 3 million vehicles in China against 2.6 million in 2012, representing an increase of 15%.

- This increase is comparable to the rise of the Chinese market as a whole. Thus, the Volkswagen Group maintains its market share of around 17-18% in 2012 and 2013, and hopes to maintain this rate of penetration until 2018.