- Arriving in China in 2016, well after its main competitors, Renault had negotiated an agreement with Dongfeng to manufacture in Wuhan and market SUVs in the country, namely the Captur, Kadjar and Koléos. The objectives were ambitious since the two partners were talking about a sales volume of 550,000 units in 2022, or one third of the volume of Nissan recorded at the same time. To achieve this objective, Dongfeng provided Renault with a JV factory capable of manufacturing 300,000 cars per year in Wuhan, a capacity which was expected to be doubled in 2020. Renault, for its part, planned to install 400 points of sale in the region. 'interval (only a hundred has emerged).

- Renault sales could never exceed 9,000 units per month (this level was reached at the end of 2017), or 74,730 units over the whole of 2017 (compared to 32,835 units in 2016). In 2018, sales fell to 47,769 units and in 2019 they collapsed to 16,603 units. In the first quarter of 2020, sales fell again by 55%. The logical decision to withdraw the Renault brand from the Chinese market was therefore taken in April 2020.

- However, Renault considers that it can still be present in the category of electric cars (under the Nissan brand) and utilities (under the Jinbei-Huasong brands) but there is very little chance that it will be able to prevail on this market, given the numerous and better armed competition. In 2019, Renault sold 157,625 commercial vehicles under the Jinbei-Huasong brands, and 3,207 K-ZE electric cars.