GAC plans Detroit R&D center

Guangzhou Automobile Group Co Ltd, known as GAC, said it expects to create 62 jobs at a $4.45 million research and development facility it is building in the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills in the United States.

GAC received a $500,000 grant from the Michigan Strategic Fund in June to help build the center.

Qiang Hong, researcher at market analysis firm the Center for Automotive Research, noted in an email that GAC's center comes after the company opened an R&D facility in California's Silicon Valley in 2017.