As the biggest natural gas bus production base in the southwest, Chongqing Hengtong Bus has launched 5 new models and some improved models and obtained the order of more than 200 units in the same day with total value of about RMB 6000 Yuan. On 19 March, Deng Ping, the G.M. of Hengtong Bus showed that aside from the steady step in several countries in Southeast Asia, Hengtong Bus would make effort to open South American and Africa market in this year on the "2010 Hengtong Bus New Product Appraisal".
He expressed that Hengtong Bus released 19 new products including 5 new models as well as 14 improved models ranging over RMB 100 thousand Yuan to one million Yuan. It regarded the public transport companies as main target customers in over 60 domestic cities.
Jiang Gengxin, the G.M. of sales company of Hengtong Bus revealed that it has obtained the orders of over 200 units from Shandong, Henan and Zhejiang, in the meantime, there were many potential orders. It is known that the total sales volume of Hengtong Bus is over 4000 units in 2009 and it exports more than 100 units. Dengping showed that they would incline to new energy buses and the independent research & development of chassis as well as the opening of overseas market in this year. Li Hengcheng, the market principal of Africa market of Hengtong Bus said that, "The profit of exporting is 5-6 times more than that of domestic sales. The sales objective is more than 200 units and the growth target is 100%."