BMW to build second China plant in Shenyang

If everything proceeds smoothly, Huachen BMW’s second plant will start operations in the Dadong District of Liaoning Province’s Shenyang City at the end of 2009, disclosed Qi Yumin, Huachen Automobile Group’s chairman and CEO. This means that the production scale of BMW in China will expand rapidly, while BMW will introduce more technology in the country. In the future, BMW will not only produce the BMW 3 and BMW 5 series in China, but might produce the BMW 1 series. The designed annual production capacity of the said plant will be 100,000 units and construction is scheduled to start in the second half of 2008. (May 15, 2008)