English: Place: Longsheng Various Nationalities Autonomous County, Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Chinese name: 宝骏630 (bǎojùn 630) Year of launch: 2011

The last ten years lots of joint venture companies between Chinese domestic and international carmakers have popped up in mainland China, as the Chinese government sort of requires foreign-invested joint ventures to develop in return for approvals to expand production capacity on the lucrative Chinese market. Usually foreign carmakers dump their oldest models in those car brands, because they don't want to share their latest platforms and technology with the Chinese companies. So far we've seen brands like Baojun (SAIC-GM-Wuling), Venucia (Dongfeng-Nissan), Ciimo (Dongfeng-Honda), Everus (Guangqi Honda), Horki (Dongfeng-Yueda-Kia), Denza (BYD Daimler), Zinoro (BMW Brilliance), Ranz (FAW-Toyota), Kaili (FAW-Volkswagen).

Some of these brands have already been discontinued and only two brands are successful: Baojun and to a lesser extent Venucia. Baojun. Baojun started in 2011 with a sedan based on the Buick Excelle (Daewoo Lacetti/Nubira) platform, the 630 and sales really took off when it launched the 730, an MPV slotting above the Wuling Hongguang-range.