Dongfeng is independent. It owns itself.
Dongfeng dates itself from the Second Automobile Works, whose construction began in 1969 in the mountains of Hubei.
Where it sits
Nowhere. There is no level above this one.
Dongfeng
57 years, one owner since 1980
The year is coloured by whoever held it at the time.
- 1969 Dongfeng dates itself from the Second Automobile Works, whose construction began in 1969 in the mountains of Hubei. Its own profile opens 「东风汽车集团有限公司是以汽车制造、销售、服务和技术研发为主业的商业一类央企，前身是始建于1969年的第二汽车制造厂」 — a commercial class-one central state-owned enterprise whose predecessor is the Second Automobile Works, begun in 1969 — and Wikidata gives the same inception. The badge is six years younger than the works: 「1975年首台军车产品下线，同年11月，经报国务院批准，二汽生产的汽车正式命名为“东风”」, the first military vehicle came off the line in 1975 and in November of that year, with the State Council's approval, the vehicles the works built were officially named Dongfeng. What followed was renaming rather than change of owner — 二汽 became 东风汽车公司 in 1992, the headquarters moved from Shiyan to Wuhan in 2003, and the company was reorganised as 东风汽车集团有限公司 in 2017 — and the Voyah listing document dates the present legal person from 25 June 1991. The business has been the central state's throughout.
Dongfeng
3 marques
A truck works built in the mountains in 1969, whose vehicles the State Council named six years later, and which now puts that name on the cars of several brand lines as well as on lorries. Its premium electric brand was floated in Hong Kong in 2026 and the group's own listed arm was taken private in the same week, which left the unlisted state-owned corporation as the company anyone outside China is pointing at. The joint ventures on its books build other groups' cars.