Special Supplement: Xiali touches 1.5 million mark

Tianjin FAW Xiali Automobile Co Ltd has recently marked a milestone in both its own development and the history of Chinese independent auto brands by rolling out the 1.5 millionth Xiali sedan, a sea blue N3.

Xiali, China's first economy car brand, was launched in the 1980s. Its market possession has already broken the 1.2 million-unit mark. Calculations on the basis of China's private car possession indicate that one out of every 11 sedans bear the Xiali badge.

It took Tianjin FAW 18 years to produce the first 1 million units of Xiali cars, but only three years to get another increase of 500,000 units. Its extraordinary growth has set a benchmark for the development of the national sedan industry.