BAIC SA Plant Key Milestone
BAIC South Africa was launched in 2016 with the IDC Joint Venture company and is the single largest investment in SA in 40 years. Fast forward four years and they boast a local manufacturing and assembly plant in Port Elizabeth and a network of fourteen dealerships nationwide. Two of their key models, the D20 Hatchback and Sedan, and the X25 SUV have directly created 1000 jobs and indirectly created 5000 jobs in South Africa. BAIC SA was set to dramatically advance the economy of Nelson Mandela Bay through investment, as well as offering the BAIC Group a strategic geographic manufacturing and export base in SA to realise its global strategy. The BAIC South Africa plant project was officially launched in December 2015. The factory construction kicked off in August 2016. The first production units of SKD vehicles came off the assembly plant floor in July 2018. In 2020, BAIC proudly announced the first shipment of proudly South African assembled units to their dealerships, with the first...