Enhancing Quality Across the Supply Chain and Breaking Through Overseas: Chongqing Yongchuan’s Andes Motorcycle Polishes the "Made in Chongqing" Global Brand

Published: September 17, 2026, 13:40:31

In early autumn, the real economy is thriving at the Fenghuanghu Industrial Park in Yongchuan, Chongqing. Inside the production workshop of Chongqing Andes Motorcycle Manufacturing Co., Ltd., assembly lines are running at full speed. Employees are efficiently carrying out assembly, tuning, and testing tasks as batches of the "Asian Leopard V" (Yazhoubao V) step-through motorcycles roll off the line, destined for the market in Morocco, North Africa. The mass export of these customized models exemplifies how Yongchuan’s automotive and motorcycle manufacturers are seizing foreign trade opportunities, stabilizing production while improving quality, and expanding into global markets; it also serves as a vivid microcosm of Chongqing’s motorcycle industry leveraging cluster advantages to continuously open up to the world.

Since the beginning of the year, facing production pressures caused by periods of high temperatures, Andes Motorcycle has scientifically managed production capacity and dynamically optimized its schedules. Once temperatures dropped, the company rapidly ramped up operations, worked backward from deadlines to accelerate progress, and raced to fulfill orders, steadily advancing toward its annual production and sales targets. According to the company, the goal for 2026 is to produce and sell 250,000 units, with a current completion rate of 70%. With production capacity continuing to ramp up and the pace of manufacturing steadily recovering, the completion rate is expected to reach 75% by the end of September.

"The 'Asian Leopard V' step-through motorcycle currently in mass production is a flagship model that has stood the test of the market over the long term. It features a reliable structure, strong adaptability, and ease of maintenance, making it highly suitable for the road conditions and consumer needs of North Africa; it is the core product driving our deep engagement with the Moroccan market," said Zhao Junjie, Deputy General Manager of Chongqing Andes Motorcycle Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Beyond its hit step-through models, the company’s self-developed off-road motorcycles and large-displacement bikes—known for their superior quality and strong competitiveness—are exported to numerous countries and regions worldwide. These products form a multi-layered, differentiated export portfolio that serves as a key pillar of the company's foreign trade growth. Balancing immediate delivery commitments with long-term strategic breakthroughs, Andes Motorcycle upholds an innovation-driven and quality-first philosophy. Moving away from crude production models, the company pursues a path of precision manufacturing, differentiated competition, and global brand expansion. While ensuring the fulfillment of domestic and international orders, the company continues to ramp up R&D investment and accelerate the development and testing of new models, thereby laying a solid technical foundation to capture market growth and enhance product advantages in the coming year. Simultaneously, the company is upgrading its supplier ecosystem and standardizing supplier entry and assessment criteria; by ensuring supply chain stability and process consistency at the source, it drives the standardization of production workflows and the refinement of quality control.

Superior quality is the cornerstone of "Made in China's" global success. To comprehensively strengthen product competitiveness, Andes Motorcycle continuously upgrades its quality inspection infrastructure and end-to-end quality control systems. It optimizes inbound inspection standards and testing protocols while conducting rigorous, routine assessments such as salt spray tests and unannounced inspections. The company is also enhancing the dynamic monitoring capabilities of its production lines by implementing in-process monitoring and leveraging data analysis to refine manufacturing techniques, effectively boosting product stability, consistency, and reliability. Building on this, the company is strengthening its overseas after-sales service network to address service gaps, creating an integrated development model—"R&D for quality, production for quality assurance, and service for brand reinforcement"—that burnishes the reputation of "Chongqing-made" products in global markets.

Renowned nationwide as the "Capital of Chinese Motorcycles," Chongqing boasts the country's most complete and mature industrial chain for automobiles and motorcycles. Its deep industrial heritage and prominent cluster advantages provide a robust ecosystem for local motorcycle enterprises to undergo transformation, upgrade, and expand globally. Rooted in the Fenghuanghu Industrial Park in Yongchuan, Andes Motorcycle leverages the strengths of the city's automotive and motorcycle industrial clusters. Guided by a strategy of cost reduction, efficiency improvement, and quality enhancement, the company optimizes its supply chain layout to build a modern system characterized by localized sourcing, efficient collaboration, and stable, controllable operations, thereby continuously strengthening its production resilience and core market competitiveness. "We have defined a supply chain strategy focused on intensive, localized sourcing, concentrating core supporting resources within a 60-to-80-kilometer radius, while narrowing the sourcing of key components to a 30-kilometer 'core circle,'" explained Zhao Junjie. This proximity-based sourcing model optimizes production scheduling, shortens production cycles, and boosts delivery efficiency, while effectively reducing overall costs related to logistics, transportation, and protective packaging. The company has currently refined its supplier database and established deep partnerships with leading local industry players such as Zongshen Power, Loncin Motor, Chuannan Shock Absorber, and Yu'an Intelligent Suspension. The 60-to-80-kilometer sourcing radius meets 95% to 98% of the company's component needs; this mature, comprehensive local supply chain provides a solid foundation for stable production, capacity expansion, innovation, and deep engagement with overseas markets, while highlighting the cluster advantages of Chongqing’s automotive and motorcycle industry.

Leveraging strong local industrial support, Andes Motorcycle has formulated a clear medium-to-long-term development plan, setting phased capacity expansion targets for 2025–2035 to continuously scale up production, diversify its product portfolio, and optimize its product mix. Regarding market strategy, the company pursues a diversified global expansion approach; while consolidating its established strongholds in Africa and the Americas, it actively explores emerging markets in Europe and Southeast Asia, steadily broadening its international footprint and making the strategic transition from merely exporting products to establishing a global brand presence.

A thriving industry drives economic prosperity, and a robust real economy strengthens the city. Andes Motorcycle’s achievements—characterized by stable production, innovation, and market breakthroughs—reflect the powerful momentum behind the transformation, upgrading, and outward expansion of Chongqing’s motorcycle industry. By consistently focusing on technological innovation, supply chain optimization, and the refinement of overseas service networks, the company has carved out a development path for private manufacturing defined by specialization and open, breakthrough growth. Moving forward, the company will deepen collaboration with local strategic partners, focusing on three key areas: technological iteration, quality enhancement, and market expansion. It aims to solidify its industrial foundation, boost its foreign trade advantages, and optimize its industrial layout, thereby showcasing a new image for the Yongchuan motorcycle industry in the new era and contributing to the city-wide transformation of the automotive and motorcycle sector, high-quality manufacturing growth, and the qualitative improvement of the export-oriented economy. Source: Yongchuan Net

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