Honda JV breaks ground on third automobile plant in China

Guangqi Honda Automobile Co Ltd (GHAC), an automobile production and sales joint venture of Honda in China, today held a ceremony to commemorate the opening of its third automobile production plant and an engine plant within the property of the existing Zeng Cheng Plant.

The ceremony was attended by dignitaries, guests and representatives from the local governments of Guangzhou as well as Honda executives including Takahiro Hachigo, president and CEO; and Seiji Kuraishi, chief operating officer for regional operations in China.

Built as an eco-plant that combines various smart features, the third plant adopts Honda's most advanced production technologies while minimising the footprint of the building. This plant achieves significant advances in areas of production efficiency, product quality, energy conservation and environmental responsibility. Moreover, the third plant is an environmentally-responsible and energy-saving plant equipped with a solar power generation system with a 17 mega kilowatt-capacity, the largest^* capacity solar power generation system installed by an automaker in China.

The third plant began automobile production in September of this year with initial annual production capacity of 120,000 units. Combining annual production capacity of all GHAC and Dongfeng Honda plants, Honda's overall annual automobile production capacity in China exceeds 1 million units.