China's Beijing Automotive Industry Holding, or BAIC, mandated PricewaterhouseCoopers as adviser for its bid for Adam Opel GmbH, a person familiar with the situation told Dow Jones Newswires Thursday.

The person added BAIC might get access to the German automaker's financial data soon.

An economics ministry state secretary, Jochen Homann, confirmed earlier Thursday that BAIC has presented a plan for Opel. A delegation from the company has told the German government it is interested in a deal, should the planned deal with Magna International Inc. (MGA) and its Russian partners OAO Sberbank (SBER.RS) and OAO GAZ Group (GAZA.RS) fail.

Company Web site: www.opel.com

-By Christoph Rauwald, Dow Jones Newswires; +49 69 29 725 512; christoph.rauwald@dowjones.com