Yesterday, Zhou Changhai, who had been running for more than half a month in Guangzhou, came to the news through long-distance calls: GAC Hino basically finalized the placement of the National Training Center in Wuhan. As head of Guangqi Hino’s headquarters in Hubei, Zhou Changhai initially estimates that thousands of people will be dispatched to Guangzhou headquarters and gathered in Jiangcheng each year.

"With the Wuhan-Guangzhou passenger line linking, Guangdong and China are more convenient, this project will accelerate the landing." Zhou Changhai said.

GAC Hino is the third major joint venture project of Guangzhou Automobile Group, which mainly produces commercial vehicles. By GAC Group and Hino Auto Co., Ltd. each contributed 50%, and it was formally established on November 28, 2007, with an investment of about 3.1 billion yuan and a registered capital of 1.5 billion yuan. GAC had previously cooperated with Toyota and Honda in the production of passenger cars.

Right now, Guangzhou Automobile Co., Ltd. and Hino's products will be on the market soon. According to the plan, in the next two years, 150 sales outlets for 4S stores will be built nationwide. With 100 stores per store, there will be an urgent need for 15,000 skilled employees in the short term. In addition to the daily training of other positions, it has settled in Wuhan's training center. The number of employees of GAC Hino received each year is considerable.

In addition to the training center, GAC Hino also plans to place the parts transit center in Jiangcheng. In the future, Guangzhou Automobile will send tens of thousands of components from Wuhan to the country. People, parts and components are all coming to Wuhan.

Why does GAC Hino regard Jiangcheng so much?

Zhou Changhai disclosed that Hubei has a base for the development of the automotive industry, and that Suizhou, Xiangfan, and Shiyan have all manufactured modified cars and are important users of commercial vehicles. As the headquarters of Dongfeng Motor Corporation, Wuhan is known as the “Capital of China’s Automobile Industry”. There are several OEMs and hundreds of parts and components companies. GAC is just looking at the concentration of industries here, getting together and operating more efficiently.

The Wuhan-Guangzhou Passenger Line opened to traffic, but it took only 3 or 4 hours to travel to and from the two places. Wuhan radiated to the surrounding areas. It also had a few hours of economic circumstance with Beijing and Shanghai, which contributed to Guangzhou Auto's determination to transit to Hubei Province, which cost much less than Guangzhou.

At present, in the 4S shop under construction in Guangzhou Automobile Co., Ltd., the Hubei headquarters has basically completed its progress. Zhou Changhai revealed that in the future, the new car release will be selected in Wuhan. Right now, Zhou Changhai has reached an agreement with the Wuhan Institute of Business Services, bulk enrollment of mechanical and electrical professional students come to the store after the first internship.