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Dallas is hub for Chinese-made bikes
09:16 AM CST on Sunday, February 18, 2007
By KATHERINE YUNG / The Dallas Morning News
kyung@
dallasnews.com
Chinese motorcycle, scooter and all-terrain-vehicle manufacturers looking to
break into the U.S. market have turned Dallas into their American hub.
A dozen distributors have opened sales offices and warehouses around the area
over the last few years. Most employ only a handful of workers, but they're
rapidly adding hundreds of dealers.
May Zhou, a Chinese immigrant who settled in the Dallas area, started one of the
biggest sellers, Sunl Group Inc. in Irving. But the majority are from mainland
China, with several from Taiwan.
ATVs and scooters account for the bulk of these companies' small but growing
revenues.
"My target is to expand sales and get more market share," said Peter Xie, the
executive manager of Dallas-based American Lifan Industry Inc., a subsidiary of
Chongqing Lifan Industry Group, one of China's biggest motorcycle exporters.
