Founded in December 1988, Xiamen King Long United Automotive Industry Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as ��ing Long��in the industry) is specialized in the R & D, manufacture and sale of buses & coaches. Consisting of three manufacturing bases -- Bus & Coach Manufacturing Base in Xiamen, Van Manufacturing Base in Xiamen and City Bus Manufacturing Bases in Shaoxing as well as two holdings subsidiaries -- Higer Bus Co., Ltd. and Nanjing King Long Coach Manufacturing Co., Ltd. King Long is one of the world�� largest bus manufacturers.The three manufacturing bases of the headquarter have a total annual production capacity of 50,000 buses, which range from 4.8m to 18m in length and cover fields such as passenger transport, travel, group transport, public transport and special transport. In 2010, the company sold 23,561 buses with total sales revenues of RMB 6.5 billion.Since 2000, the company has embarked on the international strategy. In March 2005, the company took the lead to land the European market after having exclusively passed the British Commercial Vehicle Certification (VCA). Thanks to the outstanding performance in developing the overseas market, the company was the first to have acquired export qualifications and honors such as ��ertificate for Import & Export Inspection Exemption��and ��ational Vehicle Export Base Enterprise�� In 2010, the company achieved exports of RMB 1.2 billion, had sold products to over 80 countries and regions, and developed over 70 agents and service providers abroad.