Dongfeng Motor Company (formerly the Second Automobile Manufacturing Plant) was founded in 1969. It is a super-large state-owned backbone enterprise in China. Its headquarters is located in Wuhan, the "border of nine provinces". Its main bases are located in Shiyan, Xiangyang, Wuhan, Guangzhou and other places. Its main business covers a full range of commercial vehicles, passenger cars, parts, automobile equipment and automobile-level businesses.

Dongfeng Motor Company shoulders the heavy trust of the Republic and is growing stronger and has gradually become a super-large state-owned backbone enterprise integrating scientific research, development, production and sales, and is an important pillar enterprise of the state-owned economy. In 2004, Dongfeng integrated its main businesses such as Dongfeng Automobile Co., Ltd., Shenlong Automobile Co., Ltd., Dongfeng Honda Automobile Co., Ltd., Dongfeng Electric Vehicle Co., Ltd., and Dongfeng Off-road Vehicle Co., Ltd. to establish Dongfeng Automobile Group Co., Ltd., which was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in December 2005. As of the end of 2011, Dongfeng Motor Company had a total assets of 232 billion yuan, with 160,000 employees. In 2012, it sold 3.0785 million cars and operating income of 390.4 billion yuan. Dongfeng Motor Company ranked 142nd in the Fortune World 500 in 2012, 16th in the Top 500 Chinese Enterprises in 2012, and 3rd in the Top 500 Manufacturing Enterprises in China.

On December 10, 2011, Dongfeng Motor Company officially released the Dongfeng independent brand "Qian" D300 plan. The overall goal of the plan is to achieve 3 million sales of Dongfeng's overall independent brand by 2016, of which 1 million Dongfeng brand commercial vehicles, 1 million Dongfeng brand passenger cars, and 1 million other independent brands. At the same time, we hope that Dongfeng’s independent brand commercial vehicles will be ranked first in China and the top three in the world; Dongfeng’s independent brand passenger cars will firmly rank in the first camp of domestic independent brand passenger cars. In 2012, Dongfeng's independent brand cars achieved sales of 1.121 million vehicles, ranking among the top three in the industry. Dongfeng's independent brand commercial vehicles achieved sales of 606,000 units, continuing to maintain the domestic leading level, with sales of medium and heavy trucks ranked first in the industry for nine consecutive years; Dongfeng's independent brand passenger vehicles achieved sales of 515,200 units, a year-on-year increase of 27.29%, 21.94 percentage points higher than the industry.

Over the years, Dongfeng Motor Company has adhered to the business philosophy of "caring for everyone and caring for every car", actively committed to the scientific development of independent, green and harmonious development of the enterprise, and strived to build a more responsible and trusted automobile company. Looking to the future, Dongfeng Motor Company takes "building Dongfeng into the strongest and world-class automobile manufacturer in China; creating a profit rate that is leading in the international industry among its peers and leading in China; achieving sustainable growth and creating long-term value for shareholders, employees and society", and taking "building a century-old east wind for sustainable development, an international east wind facing the world, and an independent development in openness" as its corporate vision, with "making stronger and better" as its center, and taking "innovation-driven, independent development" and "reform and opening up, and improving cooperation" as its main tasks, and is committed to pushing an autonomous, open, sustainable and internationally competitive east wind to the world.