Guangzhou Automobile Industry Group Co Ltd (GAIG, Chinese: 广州汽车工业集团)^[2] is a Chinese state-owned joint stock^{[citation needed]} holding company that owns several Chinese automakers.

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Guangzhou Automobile Industry Group Company Limited

Company type	State-owned enterprise
Industry	Automobile
Founded	2000
Headquarters	Guangzhou, Guangdong , China
Area served	China
Key people	Chairman: Zeng Qinghong[1]
Revenue	364,053,630,000 renminbi (2018)
Subsidiaries	GAC Group Denway Motors
Website	Guangzhou Automobile Group Company Limited

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A Chinese partner of Japanese companies Toyota and Honda,^[3] GAIG owns Chinese production bases that produce Chinese-market versions of the Japanese carmakers' models,^{[citation needed]} which sell well in Southern China as of 2010.^[3]

Born during a reconstruction of the Guangzhou automotive industry in 2000,^[4] GAIG receives considerable support from the governments of Guangdong province and Guangzhou city.^{[citation needed]}

Formerly the Guangzhou Automobile Industry Group Company, it was renamed in 2003.^[5]

In 2007, GAIG began putting in motion plans to sell automobiles under its own brand and to further this goal had acquired a controlling share in an R&D center at South China University of Technology.^[6]

By 2010, it was selling its own vehicles under the GAC Trumpchi brand.

The company has ownership in a number of Chinese automakers.