1Feb. 958, Mao Zedong personally visited FAW and said to Rao Bin, the first director of FAW who accompanied the inspection, "When can we get on the car produced by ourselves?" . In order to realize the ardent expectations of the leaders, FAW workers put forward the slogan of "Raise the red flag with the' East Wind' and build a luxury car to welcome Chairman Mao".

When developing domestic cars, the conditions at that time were "four noes", that is, no information, no experience, no tooling and no equipment. At that time, FAW was basically a whole set of truck production system, and everything had to start from scratch. FAW workers squeezed out a piece of factory land in the tool workshop and began to make domestic cars in full swing. According to some foreign sample cars, designers have made bold ideas and ideas on the body of domestic cars. The front of the car is marked with a golden dragon, because the dragon is the symbol of China. The surface of the dragon body should be plated with 24K pure gold; The words "China No.1 Automobile Factory" written by Mao Zedong should be embedded in the side of the car body.

In April of the same year, FAW set up a commando team to make cars and started the final sprint of vehicle assembly. People went all out day and night, and soon the first domestic car marked by the golden dragon took off was born! Mao Zedong once made a famous judgment on the international situation: "The east wind overwhelms the west wind". Smart FAW people gave their cars a resounding name-"Dongfeng" according to the judgment of the leaders!

1958 On the afternoon of May 2 1, I came to the back garden of Huairentang with Lin, then the president of the Supreme People's Court, and took a Dongfeng sedan. Mao Zedong said happily, "Good! Take our own car! " The birth of Dongfeng Motor made our Chinese nation end a period of history and create a period of history.