“We want to get out of there”

After BASF, Volkswagen is also considering withdrawing from the Chinese province of Xinjiang. “We want to get out of there,” she said Southgerman newspaper on Wednesday from corporate circles. Discussions with the Chinese partner company are already underway. However, withdrawing is not easy and there is no exact timetable. And yet there could be a new pace in the considerations. In the Uyghur region, Volkswagen operates both a factory in Ürümqi and a test track in Turpan in a joint venture with the state-owned Chinese car manufacturer SAIC. According to the Handelsblatt Most recently, there was evidence of forced labor during the construction phase.