Chery Automobile Co. Ltd was founded on 8th Jan 1997 and has product lines ranging from passenger and commercial vehicles to mini vans. Chery is the first Chinese enterprise with automobile export volume exceeding more than 700,000 units and was ranked no. 1 in output and sales volumes among Independent brands for 12 consecutive years. It has sold over 4 million vehicles worldwide in the past 10 years and at present possesses an annual production capacity of 900,000 cars, engines and 450,000 transmissions.