(Yicai Global) May 7 -- BMW Group plans to invest CNY4.4 billion yuan (USD620 million) this year in the construction of its new factory in Shenyang, capital city of northeast China's Liaoning province, local government said today.

The investment will be used to complete the main building of the new factory of BMW Brilliance Automotive (BBA), a joint venture between BMW Group and Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Ltd., according to the provincial development and reform commission.

With a total investment of CNY28.3 billion yuan, the new factory is expected to be completed in 2022, making Shenyang BMW's global manufacturing center.

BBA rolled its 3 millionth car, a plug-in hybrid, off the production line in Shenyang on Feb. 27, after it resumed production in the city's Tiexi and Dadong plants on Feb. 17.

China has become the world's largest sales market for BMW, which sold more than 720,000 cars in 2019.

Editor: Xia Ruirui