Founded in December 1988, Xiamen King Long United Automotive Industry Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as “King Long” in the industry) is specialized in the R & D, manufacture and sale of buses & coaches. Consisting of three manufacturing bases -- Bus & Coach Manufacturing Base in Xiamen, Van Manufacturing Base in Xiamen and City Bus Manufacturing Bases in Shaoxing as well as two holdings subsidiaries -- Higer Bus Co., Ltd. and Nanjing King Long Coach Manufacturing Co., Ltd. King Long is one of the world’s largest bus manufacturers.
The three manufacturing bases of the headquarter have a total annual production capacity of 50,000 buses, which range from 4.8m to 18m in length and cover fields such as passenger transport, travel, group transport, public transport and special transport. In 2009, the company sold 15,344 buses with total sales revenues of RMB5.02 billion.
Since founding, with market as the orientation, the company has constantly renovated products and stuck to independent design and manufacture to meet customers’ demands. With tremendous R & D strength and over 400 various technical talents, the corporate R & D center has been ranked among “National Accredited Enterprise Technical Centers” and approved to establish a postdoctoral research workstation.
Through 22 years’ efforts, “King Long” has been hailed as a “National Vehicle” at home and ranked among “China Top Brand” and “Famous Trademark of China”. King Long was not only the designated vehicle for the “National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference”, but also frequently served international conferences or events such as the Universiade, APEC Conference, World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention and China International Fair for Investment & Trade. In 2008, 2,000 King Long buses served the Beijing Olympics, achieving a brilliant result of “zero failure” in 60 days.
Since 2000, the company has embarked on the international strategy. In March 2005, the company took the lead to land the European market after having exclusively passed the British Commercial Vehicle Certification (VCA). Thanks to the outstanding performance in developing the overseas market, the company was the first to have acquired export qualifications and honors such as “Certificate for Import & Export Inspection Exemption” and “National Vehicle Export Base Enterprise”. In 2009, the company achieved exports of RMB 1.233 billion, had sold products to 59 countries and regions, and developed over 40 agents and service providers abroad.
Guided by the concept of walking from China to the world and from popularity to excellence, King Long is marching towards the goal of “ranking among the world top six”.
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Xiamen King Long United Automotive Industry Co., Ltd