Volkswagen and SAIC close their joint plant in Nanjing, China. Production has already come to a standstill. In Nanjing, the ...

VW and SAIC will sell their plant in Xinjiang to Shanghai Motor Vehicle Inspection Certification (SMVIC), a unit of state-owned Shanghai Lingang Development Group, which will take on all its ...

VW, one of the largest carmakers in mainland China for the past four decades, has been under pressure to dispose of the assets in Xinjiang amid controversies about China's "human rights violations ...

The decline of the gas-powered era made VW's factory useless. Volkswagen’s retreat from Xinjiang was not a solely political decision. The plant in Urumqi, designed to produce inexpensive ...

VW plans to further adapt its production network beyond Xinjiang, according to reports. The sites are to be converted to focus on electrification. According to VW, however, this is not possible ...

VW had to stop the delivery of 30,000 Audis and other premium cars to American customers last spring after it realized that a VW supplier had been buying an engine component from Xinjiang, in ...

About a year before he helped VW audit its Xinjiang plant, Greenwood published a post on LinkedIn that featured a picture of a pile of peanuts with the question: “What’s the value of a SA8000 ...

Volkswagen said on November 26 that it was selling its stake in manufacturing and testing facilities in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region. The New York Times says the sale brings to an end VW’s ...

Built a decade ago, VW’s factory in Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital, was meant to produce low-cost gasoline-powered cars for western China. However, production stopped in 2019 due to weak demand, ...

VW and SAIC will sell their plant in Xinjiang to Shanghai Motor Vehicle Inspection Certification (SMVIC), a unit of state-owned Shanghai Lingang Development Group, which will take on all its ...

The decline of the gas-powered era made VW’s factory useless. Volkswagen’s retreat from Xinjiang was not a solely political decision. The plant in Urumqi, designed to produce inexpensive ...