![]() ![]() He himself claims to be born in Huizhou, Anhui province in 1957, graduated from Southwestern University with a PhD in economics and then pursued a career in the Chinese army. There a two distinctively different stories about the life of Yang Rong. Jinbei is caught between a rock and a hard place.Īnd then Yang Rong appears on the scene. While Jinbei Auto sells half its shares on the Shanghai stock exchange, it suffers exchange rate losses due to the rising value of the Japanese yen, in which it has to pay its part supplies. Chairman Zhao Xiyou raises the novel idea of an IPO. The new Jinbei faces problems with outdated equipment and lack of personnel and desperately needs an injection of cash. The parent company renames itself Shenyang Jinbei Automotive Industry (Jinbei Auto) and the bus factory will be called Shenyang Jinbei Passenger Vehicle Manufacturing (Jinbei PV). The new brand name is used for both trucks and buses starting in 1982. These developments also lead to a restructuring of Shenyang Automotive and the introduction of the Jinbei brand name. They make a deal in 1985 for the assembly of Hiace vans from knockdown kits, which is expanded in 1988 into a more comprehensive technical collaboration. Shenyang Auto signs an agreement with Mitsubishi in 1986 to renew their line of light trucks, and Shenyang Auto Repair turns to Toyota. The new business structure opens the opportunity to look across the border. In Shenyang this leads to the establishment of Shenyang Automotive Industry in 1978, under which the above-mentioned automakers are united along with a few dozen other small enterprises, like parts manufacturers and agricultural machinery plants. Instead companies should have a board of directors, with competent managers running the operations. One of the policies is to operate large state-owned companies more like normal commercial businesses and reduce the direct influence of Party members. At the end of the 1970s they create room for more modern ideas about the economy and start to experiment with elements of capitalism. Emergence of a vehicle industryĪfter a long period of domestic unrest, a more moderate leaderships takes control of the Communist party. Or actually a bus manufacturer, because they’re starting to put together the SY622, a 10-seat bus that looks suspiciously like a Toyota Coaster of the time. For years Shenyang Auto Repair limits itself to this line of work, but in 1972 it becomes a car manufacturer. It is a workshop where local notables have their Cadillac, Lincoln or Mercedes serviced, but the garage also assemble trolley buses for public transport. It is not the only manufacturer in Shenyang, because in 1949 the Shenyang Municipality already established a garage, the Shenyang Auto Repair & Assembly Factory. In the early 1970s Shenyang Automobile starts making trucks based on the BJ130 from Beijing Automobile Works. Later, modern variants will follow that are given the production code SY. This car shares its technique with the much more famous Yuejin NJ130 from Nanjing Auto. From 1959, a truck branded Julong (based on the Russian GAZ 51) rolls off the production line at this Shenyang Automobile Manufacturing Plant. During ‘the Great Leap Forward’ in 1958, the provincial government of Liaoning establishes a truck manufacturer. After the conquest of China by the communists, the first beginnings of the company that we now know as Brilliance Auto originate in the same city. ![]() The Minsheng truck was built in the former Arsenal of Shenyang, capital of the province. However, not all is doom and gloom, because they also make cars in Liaoning. The pioneering role in Chinese progress is being taken over by rapid developments in the long eastern coastal strip, which runs from Beijing via Shanghai to Shenzhen. Just like in the US, a “rust belt” is slowly emerging, a steel industry that is slowly languishing. Even the very first car designed and built in China came from it, a truck named Minsheng.įrom the late 1970s onwards, the prosperity starts to decline. Rich in fossil fuel resources, mainly coal, and a large steel industry drove early industrialization. Liaoning was one of the engines of the Chinese economy in the 1930s. Over the centuries, the region was ruled by the Chinese, Mongolians, Koreans, Russians and Japanese, but since the end of the Second World War it has been an undisputed part of China. Liaoning is a province in northwestern China, part of the area we used to call Manchuria. ![]()
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