BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd. (BBA) officially opened its Plant Dadong Extension in Shenyang.The All New BMW X5, with China exclusive features, is the first model produced in the new extension.The upgraded Plant Dadong will continue to lead the industrial upgrading of the automotive industry.

The new extension to Plant Dadong has a footprint of 910,000 ㎡ – the equivalent of about 125 football pitches.It incorporates extensions of the press shop, body shop, paint shop and a single-roof logistics and assembly building with two independent production lines.The body shop is equipped with KUKA's largest Titan robot with a loading capacity of 1.3 tonnes for under body grabbing, which ensures the stability of the body with an action repeatability accuracy of 0.1mm.

Since 2010, the joint venture BBA has invested around 83 billion RMB in Shenyang and built up the production system integrating R&D, purchasing, powertrain and vehicle in one location, making Shenyang the world's largest production base in BMW Group production network.

In 2021, the BMW Shenyang Production Base achieved a record-high production volume of more than 700,000 vehicles making BMW the largest manufacturer of premium cars in China.

In the summer of 2022, the third vehicle plant will open in Shenyang, as the home of the All New BMW i3, a fully electric mid-size sporty sedan made exclusively for the Chinese market.

By then, Shenyang will soon become home to four production facilities: three vehicle plants and one powertrain plant which manufactures high-voltage batteries as well as combustion engines.