On January 31, 2005, 12 environmental friendly and low-floor public transit city buses drived to South China from Jianghuai Auto Company(JAC). Those products will service to Yangjiang public communication, Guangdong province.

This is the first time of JAC's city bus marched into South China market in batch since its establishment. More 20 sets will hand over to Yangjiang Transportation after chinese Spring Festival.

It is reported that 12 HFC6830G public transit city buses are the new type developed by JAC independently. Matching JAC advanced bus chassis, introducing Europe 2 engine, and also can compatible Europe 3 engine.

According to the introduction, after Chinese government issued"Construction Department Suggestion on Develop City Public Transport Priority" and "the Technology claim of low-floor, low entrance and no-obstacle city bus" etc. JAC catched this great opportunity, they believed the time of increasing and updating of national city public bus is coming.

In 2004, JAC marched into city public bus market by the great support of Korean Hyundai and the technology advantage of itself. The company developed a series of high technology with reasonable price (RMB 150,000--300,000 yuan) low-floor city public city bus in succession. The low-floor city bus is the development trend of Chinese city bus, is also the government encouraged and recommended city bus type.

Those JAC products won the favorable reputation after puted on the market. JAC got an order of 132 low-floor public city buses from "a Century Celebration of Tianjin Public Transportation", making a great positive impact on the Chinese public transit market.04 about 3.47 million units of passenger buses were produced and 3.46 million units were sold by domestic auto makers. That contrasted sharply with the boom in 2003. Things went better in the 4th quarter of last year but it still takes time before a turning point is there.