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Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

I'm Leanna Byrne. Good morning.

So let's talk about Nissan.

The Japanese carmaker has unveiled sweeping cost-cutting plans and now says it could share its UK factory with a Chinese state-owned company.

The BBC's Matt Lines joins us now. What's going on here?

Well, this is a big shift for Nissan. The company's new boss, Ivan Espinoza, says they're open to

letting Dong Feng, their Chinese partner, start producing vehicles at the Sunderland plant in the UK.

That's the same factory where Nissan

currently makes models like the Duke and the Leaf. But why would Nissan consider this? What's on it for

them? Well, mainly survival. Nissan's been under pressure in the US and in China. Sales are down.

Competition is fierce and it's just posted a $4.6 billion annual loss. Letting Dong Feng build cars in the UK could help cut costs and boost scale, especially as China dominates the EV market. Plus, the two companies already work together in China, so this is about expanding their partnership beyond Chinese borders. Yeah, but Matt, Don Fang is state-owned, so wouldn't that be controversial in the UK?

Indeed it is. It puts Prime Minister Kirstama in a tricky spot.

On the one hand, Sunderland's 6,000 Nissan workers have been relieved the plant isn't among

the seven Nissan shutting across the world.

But Nissan's boss, Espinoza, made it clear.

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