Yuejin NJ130

The Yuejin NJ130 was a 2.5 tonne light truck built by the Nanjing Auto Works from 1958, the factory that later became Nanjing Automobile and is now part of SAIC. It was the second truck made in China, after the Jiefang from Changchun, and it was based on the Soviet GAZ-51 and developed with help from Soviet engineers. The maker first branded it Guerin, meaning Great Leap Forward, and changed the name to Yuejin before production began; the Mandarin name stayed the same. Power came from a four cylinder engine of about 70 horsepower. The works built several versions, including a tanker and a long bed, and the NJ130 was eventually replaced by the NJ230, which was based on the GAZ-63. The sources disagree on how long it was built and in what numbers: one account says some ten years, while the company history dates its light truck output into the 1980s. A 2012 account knew of no surviving NJ130.