Guests attending a presentation of Xiali auto in Tianjin municipality on August 8. The same day sees the 1, 000,000th Xiali car off the production line in Tianjin, a milestone in output for a single Chinese brand. It took Xiali 12 years for Xiali, put into production in 1986, to make its first 500, 000 units of cars and 6 years to have another 500,000.