Shanghai Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission sits at the top of the recorded chain. The ownership page sets out every step with its stake and date.

名爵MG

Is MG Chinese? Yes

Facts checked 4 September 2026Ownership as of 4 September 2026

Yes

MG is Chinese-owned. The Birmingham marque's assets were bought out of MG Rover's 2005 collapse by Nanjing Automobile, which SAIC Motor absorbed in 2007; SAIC is the Shanghai municipal state-owned carmaker and has run MG ever since. Design work continues at Marylebone in London, but every MG sold today is engineered and, apart from locally assembled cars in Thailand, India and a few other markets, built by SAIC.

Chinese holding: 100% as of 4 September 2026.

The chain

The ownership chain behind this answer, owner first.
Step	Entity	Kind	Origin
1	Shanghai Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission	government	CN
2	SAIC Motor	group	CN
3	MG	brand	GB

Holding by holding

Shanghai Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission controls SAIC Motor since 1995.
The Shanghai municipal state-assets commission is SAIC Motor's ultimate controller, holding its shares through the wholly state-owned parent Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (Group). Published figures for the parent's holding in the listed company cluster between about 63% and 68%; no figure carrying its own date could be confirmed from an SAIC filing, so the stake is left null.
SAIC Motor owns MG at 100% since 26 December 2007.
SAIC has owned MG since it merged with Nanjing Automobile on 26 December 2007. It did not buy the brand directly: Nanjing had bought MG Rover's assets in 2005, while SAIC had separately bought the Rover 75 and 25 designs and the K-series engine in 2004.

Former owners

Holdings that have ended. They are here because the story needs them and are never part of the current tree.

Nanjing Automobile (Group) Corporation formerly held MG at 100% from July 2005 until 26 December 2007.
Nanjing Automobile bought the MG marque and MG Rover's plant assets from the administrators in July 2005 for about £53 million, outbidding SAIC. It held the brand for two and a half years until SAIC absorbed the company.
MG Rover Group Limited formerly held MG at 100% from 2000 until July 2005.
MG Rover Group at Longbridge was the last British owner of the marque, created when BMW broke up Rover Group in 2000. It went into administration in April 2005 and its assets were sold that July.

Is MG Chinese: the short answers

Is MG Chinese?: Yes. MG is Chinese-owned. The Birmingham marque's assets were bought out of MG Rover's 2005 collapse by Nanjing Automobile, which SAIC Motor absorbed in 2007; SAIC is the Shanghai municipal state-owned carmaker and has run MG ever since. Design work continues at Marylebone in London, but every MG sold today is engineered and, apart from locally assembled cars in Thailand, India and a few other markets, built by SAIC.
How much of MG is Chinese-owned?: 100%, as of 4 September 2026.
Who owns MG?: Shanghai Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission sits at the top of the recorded chain. The ownership page sets out every step with its stake and date.

Sources for this answer

Wikipedia, List of automobile manufacturers of China. Read 4 September 2026. SAIC Motor listed under local-government state ownership with MG Motor, Roewe, IM Motors, Maxus, Wuling and Baojun.
Wikipedia, MG ZS (crossover). Read 4 September 2026. SAIC plants at Zhengzhou and Lingang; assembly in Thailand, India and Indonesia.