Coach of the Year in China is an independent award given annually by the China Buses & Coaches Yearbook

China Buses & Coaches Yearbook

China Buses & Coaches Yearbook is an annual book for road transport and public transit with buses & coaches manufacture industry in China, and it is the official media of the China Urban Transit Society & China Road Transport Society....

. The editors focus on the drivability of the bus

Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...

, and on the style and the overall character of the vehicle. Innovations, design and atmosphere or ambiance are the main points. The comfort of the passengers inside the coach

Coach (vehicle)

A coach is a large motor vehicle, a type of bus, used for conveying passengers on excursions and on longer distance express coach scheduled transport between cities - or even between countries...

 are proofed. Every year, there are more than ten thousand buses and coaches made in China, and it has become the bus and coach manufacturing centre of the world.

2009 award

BONLUCK JXK6137 won 2009 Coach of the Year in China. The vehicle is made in China for the American market, and is a top model for Las Vegas charter buses.

2008 award

King Long

King Long

King Long United Automotive Industry Co., Ltd or commonly known as King Long is a bus manufacturing company in Xiamen, Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It was founded in December 1988. Mainly focused on developing, manufacturing and selling large-and-medium-sized luxury buses and...

 XMQ6129Y won 2008 Coach of the Year in China. It is a Chinese style coach.

2007 award

Higer

Higer Bus Company Limited

HIGER BUS Company Limited is a Chinese bus manufacturer, subsidary of the King Long Group. The company was founded in 1998 and now supplies buses to 65 countries and territories in South Asia, Middle East, Africa, Russia, East Europe and the Americas....

 KLQ6109 won 2007 Coach of the Year in China> This was the first Chinese coach model to serve at international games, seeing service at the 15th Asian Games

Asian Games

The Asian Games, officially known as Asiad, is a multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. The Games were regulated by the Asian Games Federation from the first Games in New Delhi, India, until the 1978 Games. Since the 1982 Games they have been organised by the...

 in Qatar

Qatar

Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...

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2006 award

Yutong

Zhengzhou Yutong Bus

Zhengzhou Yutong Group Co., Ltd. or commonly known as the , is a conglomerate based in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China focused on bus manufacturing as the core business, engineering machinery and real estate as the strategic business and at the same time giving attention to other investment...

ZK 6800 series won the 2006 Coach of the Year in China. The bus is an excellent midi-coach model, selling more 2,300 vehicles in its first year.

External links

• China Buses & Coaches Yearbook