GENERAL MOTORS Opening up a new era of China’s family car

GM produces and sells passenger and commercial vehicle products of Buick, Chevrolet, Cadillac, SGMW and Baojun brands in China. The range of products offered by GM ranks first among all multinational automobile companies in China. In 2017, GM sold more than 4 million vehiclesin China.

During the past 40 years of China’s reform and opening-up, the company has devoted itself to the localized production and R&D of automobiles in China. The total number of employees in China has exceeded 58,000. It has created several important moments and key words in the field of automobile manufacturing in China.

In 1997, GM established a joint venture with SAIC Group in Pudong New Area called SAIC General Motors (SAIC-GM) and Pan-Asia TechnicalAutomotive Center (PATAC). A year later, in December, the first car produced in Shanghai, Buick New Century rolled off the line. In December 12, 2000, the first Buick Sail was rolledoff. China entered the new era for family cars.

Since 2016, the localized production of GM in China has reached a new level. Shanghai has becomethe host toits first Cadillac factory outside the United States, which means that the city has been capable of world-class intelligent manufacturing.

In 2018, GM officially launched the ShanghaiBattery Assembly Plant, the second of its kind set up by GM in the worldto meet the growing demand for new energy vehicles. The factory uses the world’s leading manufacturing processes to achieve high automation.

In the midst of today’s transformationoftransportation, GM’s vision of a future with zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion is addressing the challenges associated with mobility. To get to that future, GM is at the forefront of developing and deploying leading-edge technologies in the areas of alternative propulsion, autonomous driving, connectivity and sharing.