Chongqing’s mountainous, cyberpunk panoramas and sticky summer season warmth appear worlds away from flat and dry Detroit. However carmakers within the Chinese language metropolis can’t cease drawing parallels with the American metropolis. Standing outdoors one in every of Chongqing’s sprawling car-assembly crops, a boss at Changan, a state-owned auto large, notes with pleasure that the sheer variety of vehicles being produced within the metropolis—some 2.5m final yr—has earned it the moniker “Motown of China”.
