Workers assemble Audi A6 L cars at a workshop of FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Co., Ltd. in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, Feb. 17, 2020. A batch of black-colored Audi A6 L cars rolled off the production line on Monday. As the first batch of new cars produced at the FAW-Volkswagen Changchun base after the outbreak of novel coronavirus, it marked that the FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Co., Ltd., a passenger car joint venture between FAW and Volkswagen AG, officially resumed production. With thorough epidemic prevention and control measures, the joint venture's four major manufacturing bases in Changchun, Chengdu, Qingdao and Tianjin resumed production on Monday. (Xinhua/Zhang Nan)
CHANGCHUN, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Co., Ltd. resumed production at its four production bases across China as of Monday amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
The four bases of the passenger car joint venture between China FAW Group Co., Ltd. and Volkswagen AG are in Changchun, Chengdu, Qingdao and Tianjin.
Wang Kaiyu, deputy Party secretary of the Changchun production base, said four out of five production lines at the Changchun base resumed production on Monday, and a total of 3,825 workers have returned to work.
Production in the second phase of its production base in the southern city of Foshan resumed on Friday.
Affected by the epidemic, the resumption of production in the wake of the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday was delayed by about two weeks.
The carmaker said it will increase production efficiency to make up for the affected output.
FAW-Volkswagen, China's largest automotive joint venture in terms of vehicle sales, delivered around 2.13 million vehicles in 2019.
