The 2020 global automobile production according to the Chinese point of view
- In China, the production volume of "non-Chinese" carmakers traditionally includes the volumes assembled for them by local Chinese carmakers in "Joint-Venture" plants. This is a "western" point of view. Totally, Chinese carmakers assembled 52 percent of cars for non-Chinese carmakers in 2020, or just over 13.1 million units out of 25.2 million.
- According to this point of view in the world, the results are the following for 2020: the Toyota, Volkswagen, Renault-Nissan, GM and Hyundai-Kia groups are the top five carmakers. And Chinese carmakers are far behind, because the vehicles they assemble are not counted for them but for "non-Chinese" carmakers. Consequently, the most important of the Chinese carmakers is Geely which is only in thirteenth place, as they don’t produce cars for any “non-Chinese” carmaker (Volvo being part of the Geely group).
- However, if we entirely count the vehicles assembled in the “joint-ventures” plants for the benefit of local Chinese carmakers, therefore from a "Chinese" point of view, we obtain a completely different classification. Thus, SAIC becomes the fifth world carmaker (and not 18th in the “Western” classification), FAW the seventh and Dongfeng the tenth. Conversely, the Volkswagen group moved down from second to fourth place and the GM group from fourth to sixth place. These two carmakers have a strong presence in China and are largely dependent on local assemblers.
- It is to remind that SAIC mainly assembles cars for the Volkswagen group and for the GM group, and that FAW mainly assembles cars for the Volkswagen group and for the Toyota group. Dongfeng mainly assembles cars for Renault-Nissan, Honda and Kia.
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