Second Automobile Works / 二汽

Second Automobile Works / 二汽 is the state auto project that 城市就是这样21 | 十堰：一座因汽车而起、又不甘被汽车“抛下”的城市 uses to explain why Shiyan / 十堰 exists as an industrial city. The source places 二汽 inside [[ThirdFrontConstruction|三线建设]], where inland mountainous locations were chosen for strategic concealment and resilience.

The episode says 二汽 construction began in 1969 and drew workers and technical knowledge from earlier auto centers, including First Automobile Works. That made Shiyan a migrant industrial city whose accents, institutions, housing, leisure facilities, and local memory were shaped by [[EnterpriseRunSociety|enterprise-run society]].

The source traces 二汽 through a difficult early 1980s phase, later recovery, and the 1992 renaming into [[DongfengMotor|Dongfeng Motor]]. Its wiki role is therefore not only company history; it is the institutional seed for Automobile City Path Dependence and the later split between Shiyan’s old base and Dongfeng’s Wuhan / 武汉 headquarters.

Connections

• Third Front Construction / 三线建设 - strategic industrial-policy context.
• Shiyan / 十堰 - city formed around the project.
• Dongfeng Motor / 东风汽车 - successor company identity.
• Enterprise-Run Society / 企业办社会 - worker-community and social-infrastructure pattern.
• Commercial Vehicle Industrial Base - Shiyan capability that remained after headquarters relocation.