Originally founded in 1958 as Liaocheng Vehicle Manufacturing and Repair Factory, the company began building buses in 1971 and after a series of name changes adopted its current name of Zhongtong Bus in 1998.
The company states the combined floor-space of its facilities total around 300,000 square meters.[4] A subsidiary, Xinjiang Zhongtong Bus Co Ltd, is responsible for a production line that became operational in 2007.
Zhongtong Bus' major customers include the city of Jinan, Shandong Province.[6] It is also custom made for TransJakarta, a Bus Rapid Transit system in Jakarta, capital city of Indonesia.