In accordance with Chinese business laws, future plant is part of a joint-venture with domestic automaker Dongfeng Motor Company.
Over the next few years, Nissan plans to invest $8 billion into the Chinese market as it guns to sell 2 million vehicles in China in 2015.
Separately, Dongfeng said today that its Venucia car brand will build 1,000 EVs to the Dalian government in 2014. It's expected that the new Venucia EV will be a version of the automaker's recently-launched D50, which is essentially Nissan's old Tiida/Versa sedan.