Renault will rely heavily on its alliance partner Nissan for manufacturing staff in China, where it will start producing locally built crossovers with Dongfeng Motor Group in 2016, said Jacques Daniel, CEO of Dongfeng Renault Automobiles.

“We will use a lot of people from Nissan’s manufacturing staff in China,” he said at the auto show here. “We will get the design and r&d staff from Europe.”