INTERNATIONAL TRUCK STOP
Chinese trucks have come a long way...
CHINESE TRUCK
PRODUCTION
ON THE UP DESPITE GLOBAL PANDEMIC In the past year, China’s truck-makers managed to sell more than 1.6 million heavy vehicles. Compared with 2019, this represented a growth of more than 38%.
The Hanyan P9 was presented in February 2021 and is XCMG’s new flagship.
T
he results are quite an achievement as 2020 will be remembered as a period of great hardship due to the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting economic downturn. So what made the Chinese heavytruck market so attractive? There were two main factors
Story by Niels Jansen
JAC sold 53,000 units in 2020.
– an influx of new models matching European standards in design and operation, and the government came up with new measures to reduce the environmental footstep of heavy vehicles. Furthermore, the monthby month-increase in
Photos by Vladimir Chekhuta
The top-of-the-range CAMC Valin H9 has the Euro-look.
