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Dmitra, this looks identical to the Dandong Shuguang Daichaishen pickup introduced years ago, with a different logo.

http://www.chinacarforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1402&highlight=Dachaishen&page=3

Although Ramaz's post above, hints that these are rebadged "Great Wall" pick ups, I think they may all get their pickup and SUV bodies from Foday down in Guangdong. Such bodies have long been rebadged with many independent company logos, including Great Wall.
There's a story waiting to be written about this, China's most widely used, pickup (and SUV) body.
 

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The story of, the source of body dies, for these common body types is indeed a curious one to ponder.
Foday seems to be the source of most Isuzu TF (or DMax)-derived bodies, while Kawei seems to be the supplier of many Kia Sorento-derived bodies.

Of course we know that Zotye started out with the old Daihatsu Terios dies, that they purchased from a Taiwan affiliate of Daihatsu. As for the Hilux body dies, it seems that it was largely Great Wall and Zhongxing that produced the bodies from them. FAW, Huachuan and Heibao were also outlets for these. In any case the East China Sea is not that wide and so old dies made it across from the Japanese originators, into the hands of those who continue to make good use of them.

Then of course we have the sources for passenger sedan bodies like Maestro/Montego, Seat Toledo, Daihatsu Move, and Citroen ZF. That's a complete story in itself.

Another story is the source of engines like the Toyota 8Y and 8A-FE, the Mitsubishi 4G engines etc..
But as you say Dmitra, when put in perspective, the vehicles that were made with these components were certainly not the high volume sellers, and also as you point out they are rapidly fading into the sunset, as individual automakers develop their own intellectual property with ever increasing velocity.
 
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