{"id":15695,"date":"2015-04-24T16:49:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T08:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?p=15695"},"modified":"2015-12-08T16:03:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T08:03:27","slug":"proton-aims-to-expand-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/proton-aims-to-expand-in-china","title":{"rendered":"Proton Aims To Expand In China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15699\" alt=\"proton(1)\" src=\"https:\/\/static.imoney.my\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/proton1.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/proton1.png 600w, \/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/proton1-300x145.png 300w, \/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/proton1-103x50.png 103w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Proton Holdings Bhd&#8217;s sports car subsidiary Lotus Group International Ltd aims to begin production of 30,000 Lotus cars in China this year, said Proton chairman Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the signing of a joint venture (JV) agreement among Proton, Lotus Group and China\u2019s Goldstar Heavy Industrial Co Ltd to further expand the presence of the Lotus brand in China.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mahathir said Proton is hoping to tap into the world&#8217;s largest car market, where 22 million cars are sold annually.<\/p>\n<p>The group aims to build Lotus-branded cars in China for the China market, as well as for export to other countries.<\/p>\n<p><i>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theedgemarkets.com\/en\/article\/proton-aims-start-producing-30000-lotus-cars-china-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/i><i>]<\/i><b><i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proton aims to start producing 30,000 Lotus cars in China this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":16835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,256,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autos","category-lifestyle","category-news-updates"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - 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