Brilliance Auto Group

Huachen Automotive Group Holdings Co. Ltd.
Brilliance Auto Group
Company typeState-owned enterprise
IndustryAutomotive
Founded
  • 1992 (1992) (Brilliance Auto)
  • 2002 (current incorporation of Huachen Automotive Group)
Founder
Headquarters,
China
Area served
Exported worldwide
Key people
Yan Bingzhe(Chairman and Party Committee Secretary of the Group; CEO of Brilliance Auto)
Wu Xiao-an(Chairman of Brilliance Auto; director of the Group)
Products
Brands
  • Brilliance
  • Huasong
  • Jinbei
  • Zhonghua
Revenue CNY181130 million (2019)
CNY279 million (2019)
Total assets CNY195348 million (2019)
Total equity CNY4992 million (2019)
Owner
Liaoning Provincial Government(80%)
Liaoning Social Security Fund(20%)
Number of employees
5,610 (Brilliance Auto only) (2019)
ParentLiaoning Provincial Government's SASAC
SubsidiariesBrilliance Auto (SEHK: 1114; 42.32%)
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese华晨汽车集团控股有限公司
Traditional Chinese華晨汽車集團控股有限公司
Hanyu PinyinHuáchén qìchē jítuán kònggǔ yǒuxiàn gōngsī
Literal meaning"China morning" automotive group holdings limited company
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHuáchén qìchē jítuán kònggǔ yǒuxiàn gōngsī
Brilliance Auto Group
Simplified Chinese华晨汽车集团
Traditional Chinese華晨汽車集團
Hanyu PinyinHuáchén qìchē jítuán
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHuáchén qìchē jítuán
Brilliance Auto
Simplified Chinese华晨汽车
Traditional Chinese華晨汽車
Hanyu PinyinHuáchén qìchē
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHuáchén qìchē
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanizationwàh sàhn hei chē
Jyutpingwaa4 san4 hei3 ce1
Websitewww.brilliance-auto.com
Footnotes / references
financial figures are from consolidated financial statements; profit and equity have excluded minority interest. Source:

Huachen Automotive Group Holdings Co. Ltd., known by its brand name Brilliance Auto Group, is a Chinese multinational automobile manufacturer holding company headquartered in Shenyang. Its products include automobiles, microvans, and automotive components. Its principal activity is the design, development, manufacture, and sale of passenger cars sold under the Brilliance brand. It was established by founding chairman Yang Rong.

Brilliance Auto Group holds a 42.32% shareholding in the Bermuda-incorporated Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Limited (commonly known as Brilliance Auto or Brilliance China), which is listed on the Frankfurt and Hong Kong stock exchanges.

Brilliance China Automotive Holdings (Brilliance Auto) previously produced "Brilliance" branded cars under manufacturing unit Brilliance Motor, which has since been sold to BMW. Brilliance Auto also holds 25% of BMW Brilliance, a joint venture with BMW which produces, distributes, and sells BMW passenger cars in mainland China. It also holds a 51% stake of Renault Brilliance Jinbei, a joint venture with Renault which designs, develops, manufactures, and sells light commercial vehicles under the Jinbei, Huasong and Renault brands. As of 2022 (VW), BMW held 100% of the shares in Brilliance Motor, and 75% of BMW-Brilliance, controlling the majority of production capacity under Brilliance.

In 2010, Brilliance Auto Group and its subsidiaries had an annual production capacity of 800,000 vehicles although capacity has come online since. In 2012, the company manufactured almost 650,000 vehicles, the eighth-largest production of any Chinese vehicle maker that year. Roughly 70% of production was consumer sedans.