The Chinese automaker plans to conduct advance research and engineering on fuel cell vehicles and related key components, new mobility solutions and autonomous driving. 

Volume increased 1.3 percent to 313,400 as gains at the Audi and VW brands more than offset weak results at Skoda.

The move by the electric-vehicle startup will enable it to obtain a license to produce electric vehicles from China regulators and to use Jiangling’s plant to quickly ramp up output as it readies an SUV for Europe.

UK automaker's only China dealer has stopped marketing, importing and taking orders for the hand-built sports cars, citing quality concerns and a lack of support from the factory.

Volkswagen, China's largest car brand, bucked the market downturn with July sales rising 2 percent mainly as a result of an SUV offensive. 

Mercedes-Benz increased sales in China by 13 percent sales in July, enabling it to outsell BMW and Audi during the month and also in the first seven months. 

Domestic automakers are reeling from a combination of bad luck and factors partly of their own making.

Nissan's China deliveries, helped by higher car volume, rose 1.4 percent to 108,343 in July after a flat first-half performance.

Sales at BYD, China’s largest electrified vehicle manufacturer, fell 17 percent to 30,985 in July after Beijing finished reducing subsidies for EVs and plug-in hybrids.

The center in Shanghai will undertake advance research and innovation for the global auto market, Bosch said.

Volvo’s China sales accelerated in July after adding more locally produced models. The growth reflected strong demand for the XC60 midsize crossover and the S90 large sedan, both of which are built in the country.

Ding Lei and Phil Murtaugh, who led General Motors’ JV with SAIC, formally launched a premium EV brand with the introduction of a production-ready SUV prototype. Human Horizon’s HiPhi brand unveiled the HiPhi 1 in Shanghai.

Electric vehicle startup Nio ranks highest in J.D. Power’s inaugural China New Energy Vehicle Experience Index Study, which measures new-vehicle quality by monitoring problems reported by EV owners in the first two to six months of ownership.  

Faurecia's China sales continued to grow in the first six months, rising 3.3 percent to exceed 1.2 billion euros, on contributions from newly established joint ventures with BYD and Liuzhou Wuling Automobile.

The joint venture, known as T3 Chuxing (Chuxing means mobility in Chinese), will start operation in Nanjing and expand into five other major domestic cities -- Chongqing, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Tianjin -- before year-end.