The zone is home to the headquarters of the Dongfeng Motor Corp, which ranks 68th on the Fortune 500 Companies list, Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen, Dongfeng Honda and Dongfeng Renault, and also has attracted world-renowned automotive parts manufacturers, such as Valeo, Getrag and SDS. There are eight companies with annual output in excess of five billion yuan and two companies with annual output in excess of 50 billion yuan, accounting for 27 and 40 percent of the city’s total numbers, respectively.
Auto manufacturer Dongfeng Motor Co, based in Wuhan Economic & Technological Development Zone in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, saw its sales grow throughout 2020 despite the impact of COVID-19, with a total of 322,200 vehicles sold in January 2021, according to local media reports.
Dongfeng Motor Co has been making breakthroughs in the research, development and production of automotive chip modules, and will put a new production line - with an annual output of 300,000 sets of insulated-gate bipolar transistor modules (IGBT modules) - into mass production in April.
Four companies based in Wuhan Economic & Technological Development Zone (WHDZ) in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, have been selected as special new provincial-level "little giant" enterprises, according to local media reports.
Dongfeng Motor Co saw its sales grow in 2020, despite the impact of COVID-19, with a total of 3.46 million vehicles sold.
