BYD Company Limited was founded in 1995 and went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on July 31, 2002. The company is headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, and is a private enterprise with three major industrial groups: automotive, IT, and new energy. BYD has established nine major production bases in Guangdong, Beijing, Shaanxi, Shanghai, Tianjin, and has subsidiaries or offices in the United States, Europe, Japan, South Korea, India, as well as in Taiwan and Hong Kong.