CHINA’S leading vehicle exporter and a major global bus manufacturer, the Xiamen King Long United Automative Industry Co., Ltd, is working to become the provider of intelligent transportation system solution.
A company official underscored this goal during a visit to the company headquarters in Xiamen City, Fujian Province by six journalists from the Pacific, including myself, on Friday 30 May.
We flew from Beijing, where we are based for a media exchange and tour program for international journalists, to Xiamen on Tuesday 27 May to cover Third China-Pacific Island Countries’ Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and bilaterial meetings on Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 May.
During our Xiamen trip, we also visited a number of companies and institutions, including the headquarters of King Long United Automative Industry Co., Ltd or King Long for short.
During our visit to the King Long headquarters, we introduced to the company’s operation, including products, achievements and vision.
The company was established in 1988 and is a subsidiary of Xiamen King Long Motor Group Co., Ltd.
King Long promotes Chinese bus brands to the world, to tailor public transportation solutions for different regions and contribute Chinese power to global transportation.

It has major production bases. They are the Xiamen Large &Medium-Sized Bus Production Base, Xiamen minivan Production Base, Xiamen Special Vehicle Production Base and Shaoxing Special Vehicle Production Base, providing the most complete range of intelligent transportation products in the industry, including large and medium buses, minivans, autonomous buses and chassis, special vehicles, trucks, RVs, mobile hospitals, various travel products and solutions.
King Long serves as a national demonstration enterprise for technology innovation and a demonstration enterprise for informatization and industrialization integration, having a national testing center, an industrial design center and a postdoctoral workstation.
In 2000, King Long launched its strategy to go abroad and it became the first Chinese bus brand to participate in the Belgium auto show.
Over the past 20 years, King Long has successfully entered the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa, South America and Russia markets, and has exported over 120,000 vehicles in total.
For 13 consecutive years, the company ranked first in the industry in terms of overseas export volume, exporting nearly 140,000 buses to nearly 150 countries and regions around the world.
In 2024, the brand value of King Long reached 96.782 billion yuan, ranking among the top brands in China’s automobile industry.
The company also focuses on research and development in new energy, active and passive safety system, autonomous driving, and intelligent transportation.
It launched the world’s first mass-produced L4-class autonomous bus King Long Apolong, fuel system domain controller, MTV vehicle battery integration technology, Kunlun intelligent integrated commercial vehicle skateboard chassis and SmartGO intelligent transportation solution.
With its achievements over the years, including being a main bus manufacturer in the world, the King Long official highlighted the company’s commitment to its vision of “Becoming a provider of intelligent transportation system solution”.
This vision is about providing better products and services, achieving sustainable development with customers and partners, building a beautiful travel community, he underscored.
Meanwhile, what stood out during this visit to King Long, other companies and institutions in Xiamen and all companies and institutions we visited in Beijing City and in Hohhot and Ulanqab cities in Inner Mongolia was dedication to excellence.
This dedication to excellence drive is a fundamental factor for their companies’ and institutions’ success and China’s rise as a global economic power.
By DELI-SHARON OSO
In Beijing, China