The first Chinese production vehicles were made by the First Automobile Works in 1956, a truck called the Jiefang CA-30.[18] This was followed on March 10, 1958 by the 2½ ton light duty truck (NJ130), which was based on the Russian GAZ-51, was produced in Nanjing. The truck was named Yuejin (meaning "leap forward") by China's First Ministry of Industrial Machinery.