Visit CFMOTO HQ China

Recently, together with a select group of journalists and dealers, we visited CFMOTO headquarters in Hangzhou, China. The aim was to get an idea of how people work in China and who CFMOTO really is and what they stand for. Besides the visits to CFMOTO headquarters and factories, we were also allowed to experience CFMOTO Day, a day at the Zhejiang Circuit entirely dedicated to CFMOTO. More on that later but below is part of the report by Ed Smits of Motorfreaks. Ed takes you to Hangzhou and shares his experiences, findings and his shot images from this unique trip.

Chinese manufacturer with aspirations

Founded in 1989 by Lai Guoqiang, ZHEJIANG CFMOTO POWER CO. LTD. better known by its trade name CFMOTO, has grown in just 35 years into a huge motorbike manufacturer with a production facility of more than 600,000 units per year. Motorfreaks visited the new factory complex in Hangzhou and was quite impressed.

Text & photography: Ed Smits

When we are taken from the hotel via a sightseeing trip to the headquarters of CFMOTO, we do not know what we are more impressed with: the huge metropolis called Hangzhou (with 12 million inhabitants the 10^e city of China), the speed at which the metropolis was built out of the ground (in 1990, the city had a population of barely 2 million) or the huge spatial way everything was built and the oasis of calm in the traffic.

No constant cacophony of sirens, like in cities like New York or Berlin where it's an off and on of fire brigade, police or ambulance, and no horns from motorists not giving each other the light in the eyes. But also no hordes of scooter riders criss-crossing the traffic.

No, Hangzhou is not a city that is bursting at the seams from the effects of a massive growth spurt on all sides....

The entire report can be read at THIS link, have fun!

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