WUHU, Anhui – Chery’s independent sales and marketing network is falling apart, according to a report in Shanghai Securities News.

Despite the rising customer satisfaction index, the complain rate has raised two years in a row, according to a report in National Business Daily, citing Fan Tianshun, assistant secretary-general of China Association for Quality (CAQ).

CHONGQING – Chairman of Chang’an Automobile Group Xu Liuping and president of Suzuki Motor Osamu Suzuki met in Chongqing on September 24 to discuss the merger of Changhe-Suzuki Automobile and Chang’

TIANJIN – China Automotive Technology & Research Center (CATARC) launched in early September a newly-developed hybrid powertrain which can achieve a fuel-saving ratio of 40 percent at most, reported Auto Weekly.

China will strictly implement energy-saving and emission reduction measures in the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015), according to government officials and industry executives at an annual forum held in Tianjin on September 2-4.

TIANJIN – Great Wall Motor, one of China’s largest pickup and SUV makers, starts operation of the first phase of its Tianjin plant on August 25, with Haval H6 SUV, the plant’