Une info. importante qui date d'une semaine :
Nanjing a signé définitivement un Bail d'une durée de 10 ans pour les 100 acres (environ 50 hectares) du site de Longbridge. Cette signature ne comporte aucune clause de retrait pendant dix ans. 
L'engagement de la NAC sur le sol anglais est donc d'au moins une décennie, c'est-à-dire jusqu'en 2016.
A part la production de la nouvelle MG TF, des incertitudes demeurent par rapport à l'utilisation de tous ces terrains. Vraisemblablement d'autres modèles par la suite.
[Source : the Birmingham Post :
"Nanjing sign 10-year Longbridge deal Aug 24 2006
By Jon Griffin, Birmingham Mail
THE Chinese revolution at Longbridge has been sealed for at least 10 years - with Nanjing now committed to at least
a decade of car making on the site.
The Chinese firm has entered into the next crucial phase of the project to bring Longbridge back from the dead after failing to invoke a six-month get-out clause which expired on August 22.
And site owners St Modwen today revealed that the agreement's next "break" clause would not expire for another 10 years, effectively tying Nanjing to Longbridge for a decade.
St Modwen chief executive Bill Oliver said today: "This was not a done deal and there has been a lot of uncertainty but Nanjing have committed to it and I take that very positively.
"They are there and are paying rent and we are very pleased. This commits them to at least 10 years.
"A lot of companies would not have shown that level of commitment - we sell a lot of land on 10-year leases with five-year breaks.
"We are pleased that we can put this part to bed - something which is medium to long term - and get on with the regeneration of the rest."
Nanjing is leasing a total of just over 100 acres at Longbridge after inheriting the terms of the original £42.5 million 35-year deal agreed between St Modwen and Phoenix Venture Holdings in January 2004.
"There are terms of the lease beyond the rent - there is flexibility if they want to lease part of it back to us, for example.
"This is a whole new dawn for Longbridge. We are trying to create a major regeneration project with the potential for 10,000 people there. If Nanjing employs 1,000 people, that's fine by us."
Nanjing has already launched discussions with Jobcentre Plus to recruit up to 250 specialist engineers and Chinese interpreters ahead of the planned relaunch of production of the two-seater MGTF early next year."]
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