According to professional data, accumulative sales volume of bus in 2013 is 477,100 units, increasing 12.1% year on year. This growth is faster than 6.4%, the growth of the whole commercial vehicle industry. In light bus market, sales of Jibei Automobile are over 100,000 units, increasing 11.9% to 103,800 units year on year. Jinbei’s advantage in the market is much higher than other light bus enterprises. Such excellent performance in the market makes 2013 much better for Jinbei.
Back to 1972, Jinbei manufactured the earliest minibus of ten seats in China, which was called Light Bus SY622. This minibus achieved its historic summit by annual output of 14,000 units till 1984. It got popular in the Northeast China but also the whole China.
Then, Jinbei made great achievements one by one through cooperation with Toyota, such as CKD vehicle mode, Hiace I, localized Hiace II and Hiace VI.
In 2013, Brilliance Jinbei embraced a new member—the launch of Jinbei New Hiace, which passes new appearance, new technology and new experience to customers. Jinbei New Hiace performed well in domestic business light bus market and would continue leading Jinbei to a better future.
By now, our domestic light bus market has already met with great changes and owned two major systems, which are Japanese and European systems. Brilliance Jinbei, the representative of Japanese system, has taken the lead in the industry by years of development and introducing international advance technologies. Since Hiace II took up over 70% market shares, Brilliance Jinbei has been ranked as the first in light bus sales for the consecutive 17 years winning lots of trust and support of millions of customers.