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China's Foton to form 930-mln-dlr truck partnership with Daimler

by Staff Writers
Beijing (AFP) Jan 7, 2009
Chinese auto maker Beiqi Foton said Wednesday it will set up a truck-manufacturing joint venture with German auto giant Daimler AG with a total investment of 6.35 billion yuan (930 million dollars).

Each of the companies will inject 2.8 billion yuan into the 50-50 Beijing-based joint venture, with the remainder to be financed by bank loans, the Chinese firm said in a statement.

Beiqi Foton's contribution will be in the form of an existing plant in the Chinese capital, it added.

The 30-year partnership, named Beijing Foton Daimler Automotive Company Ltd., aims to start producing diesel engines from the end of 2011 and trucks from mid-2012, said the statement filed with the Shanghai stock exchange.

Sales of trucks are expected to reach 100,000 units in 2012 while diesel engine sales are targeted at 45,000 in 2015, it said.

Foton said it plans to cooperate with Daimler to set up further operations in Russia, south Asia and Latin America, it added.

It projected that sales of heavy-duty trucks in China would increase by 18 percent annually in the next couple of years thanks to a 586-billion-dollar economic stimulus package made public late last year by China.

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Traffic fatalities in China fall to 73,500 in 2008: report
Beijing (AFP) Jan 4, 2009
Nearly 73,500 people were killed in over 265,000 road accidents in China last year, a 10 percent reduction in traffic fatalities over 2007, state press said Sunday.







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