Fierce Competition among Light School Bus Makers
2013-03-28 Source：www.chinabuses.org
Summarize：The city's education commission has required all school bus operating permits to be renewed every three years. The requirement aims to ensure that all of the 1,954 school buses in the city are fit to transport students, as it specifies how long a school bus can operate before undergoing the inspection required to renew the permit.
www.chinabuses.org: The city's education commission has required all school bus operating permits to be renewed every three years. The requirement aims to ensure that all of the 1,954 school buses in the city are fit to transport students, as it specifies how long a school bus can operate before undergoing the inspection required to renew the permit.
All of the 1,954 school buses in the city have since acquired the operating permit, accounting for 67 percent of the total number of permits issued nationally, the report said.
Tang Yuxiang, President of Yutong Bus, referred to school bus market when attending the NPC&CPPCC. Yutong Bus will focus in 5.5-meter above school bus segment market, which is to expect over 40 percent year-on-year growth in 2013.
For bus builders or some commercial vehicle manufacturers, some of them regard the light school bus segment as important and potential market. So they are now busy in developing, testing, launching and promoting its self-developed professional school bus products in China.
According to the statistic collected by www.chinabuses.com, in 2012, there were 31 bus builders joining selling school buses among the 50 bus builders. The sales of 5-meter above school buses were 25,695 units. Among all lengths of school buses, the best seller is the 5-meter ~ 8-meter school buses.
Li Dusheng, Minister of Brand & Culture Department of Zhongtong Bus said it sold over 2,000 school buses in 2012. The sales volumes of 5-meter and 6-meter school buses were over 1,000 units, which are belonging to light school buses.
Zhongtong 5.5 meters long School Bus
Recently, NVECO held a public benefit activity in Qingdao City, Shandong Province, where we could see its light school buses below 7 meters long. NVECO is one of the earliest vehicle manufacturers who joined making the draft of the school bus standard.
Changan Bus launched its “Wonder Children School Bus” series products at the early of this year, which belong to one of the light school bus products. Its target sales volumes are over 2,000 units in 2013, which are almost the same amount as the total school bus sales volume of Changan Bus in 2012.
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