The 1st Bus Limited Guangzhou

The 1st Bus Limited Guangzhou is a shell corporation comprising The YiQi Bus Guangzhou Limited, Guangzhou Trolley Bus Company, Guangzhou XinSui Bus Limited and Panyu ChuangDa Bus Limited.
On the 12th October 2007, Guangzhou Transport Committee required the YiQi Bus Guangzhou Limited, Guangzhou Trolley Bus Company, Guangzhou XinSui Bus Limited and Panyu ChuangDa Bus Limited to co-establish a shell corporation, named ‘The 1st Bus Limited Guangzhou' in order to ban privately owned bus operators from entering Guangzhou and suppress other operators that failed to comply with Committee’s LPG usage policy. These four bus operators were required to use a united livery of 'The 1st Bus Limited Guangzhou’,replace the logo on both the front and rear of the vehicles of the “YiQi Bus” to “The 1st Bus Limited Guangzhou” and remove the English caption 'Established in 1952'. However, original logos of the respective companies still remained on the left of the front door, the driver’s wind screen and every facilities inside the vehicles, causing confusion to passengers. Nowadays, these three bus companies still use their old liveries on their websites and avoided any pictures of the new logo and livery (except for Chuangda as it does not have a website).
The YiQi Bus Limited Guangzhou, Guangzhou XinSui Bus Limited and Guangzhou ChuangDa Automobile Transport Limited are subsidiaries of the Hong Jia Wei Ye Holdings.
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The YiQi Bus Limited Guangzhou
The YiQi Bus Limited Guangzhou is a state owned bus company in Guangzhou, China. Previous known as the 1st Omnibus Company (abbreviated as YiQi), it was established in September 1952. In November 2004 it became a state and civil joint funded company and changed to its current name. The 'YiQi Bus Guangzhou Limited' is a subsidiary of the Hong Jia Wei Ye Holdings.
On the 8th September 1952, The Guangzhou People’s Government led by the Major Mr. Ye Jian Ying officially approved the founding of the Guangzhou Omnibus Company. When the 2nd Omnibus Company Guangzhou was founded in 1982, the Guangzhou Omnibus Company was renamed as the 1st Omnibus Company Guangzhou.
In 1987, it was one of the first bus companies in Mainland China introduced the double decker buses into operation; in the same year, it was among the first in mmainland China equipped with the voice recorded automatic stop announcement system on its buses, in 1992 it introduced the ‘board at the front and alight at the rear door’ policy and in August 1993 it introduced the un-conductored service on the route 202, the first in mainland China. In 1994, the company introduced the initiative contact card payment method until the replacement by the contactless payment card YangCheng Tong (the Ramcity Pass) in 2001. Three years later, un-conductored service was applied in all bus services and in the same year, the first air conditioned bus service emerged.In November 1997, 12 of its routes began to use LPG fuel, symbolising the company’s first eco-friendly bus services in Guangzhou.
In 2002, under the requirement of the Guangzhou Transport Committee, air conditioned buses were again introduced. On 12 December 2004, its name was changed to ‘The 1st Bus Limited Guangzhou’ after the reform. The slogan of the company was changed from ‘Love in the coach, sincerity for the passengers’ to ‘Environment protection every day, healthy life every year.’ The logo on the front and rear of the bus changed from ‘YiQi’ to ‘YiQi Bus’.
Guangzhou Trolly Bus Company
Guangzhou XinSui Bus Limited
Guangzhou Xinsui Bus Limited was the first China-Foreign cooperated bus company registered in Guangzhou on the 13th September 1994. In June 2001 XinSui Bus merged with the fifth affiliate of the 3rd Bus Company Guangzhou, which mainly operated minibus services in town (destructed from the 1st Omnibus Company Guangzhou) and reconstructed into a sole operated and civil co-funded entreprise. Now, Xinsui Bus is a subsidiary of the Hong Jia Wei Ye Holdings.
In 2008, Xinsui Bus introduced 30 vehicles with the engines using a combination of electricity and fossil fuels.
On 23 November 2013, the No. 244 service introduced the double decker bus again after the suspension of all double bus services in Guangzhou in 2003. XinSui Bus briefly attempted the electric double bus service in 2009 but this was soon suspended.
Guangzhou ChuangDa Automobile Transport Limited
Guangzhou ChuangDa Automobile Transport Limited (abbreviated as ChuangDa Bus) is a bus operator in Guangzhou, China. Previous known as Guangzhou Panyu Automobile Transport Company, it was established in 1982. In December 2001, ChuangDa Bus was approved by the Guangzhou, Panyu District Government to be reformed with the Panyu Garage and converted its then operation to the lease hold operation. ChuangDa Bus is a subsidiary of the Hong Jia Wei Ye Holdings. From October 2007, in order to comply with its parent company's policy, the company adopted the same livery as the Guangzhou YiQi Bus Company.

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