www.chinabuses.org: Beiqi has established long-term strategic partnerships with ZF since September, 2008. ZF won “The Best Supplier 2009” of Foton, the biggest Chinese commercial vehicle maker, for its reliable and high quality. 

 
"It proved that already have our own position in Chinese commercial vehicle markets,” said Rolf Lutz, chairman of ZF commercial vehicle and driving system, “Facing fierce competition of Asian rivals, we are still special in industry. The high-quality products keep us leading all over the world. And we also feel proud of customers’ recognition. ”

 
Foton stresses their fairly well relations in co-developing new trucks and deem that it is an important reason for ZF to chosen the best supplier in 2009. As standard spare part, ZF 5S400 transmission will be used on Foton light commercial vehicles. And the transmission will start to produce in ZF company in Suzhou from April 2010.

  
In China, ZF produces power transmission and chassis, axles system, steering system, as well as mechanism and railway vehicles. At the same time, ZF have 19 branch companies in China specializing in producing Ecosplit，Ecomid，Ecolite etc transmission products and axles for commercial vehicles.