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China's state-owned automaker FAW Group has announced it will expand cooperation with Guangzhou Automobile Industry Group, the controlling shareholder of GAC Group. According to a FAW statement, the two companies will explore a new model of strategic collaboration between state-owned automakers under the central and local governments, based on a strategic cooperation framework agreement signed on the 29th. GAC announced on the 28th that FAW is expected to become its second-largest shareholder through GAC's acquisition of a 50 percent stake in FAW Toyota. The industry association CAAM noted on the 29th that FAW and Guangzhou Automobile Industry Group should advance joint technology development and share management resources to boost competitiveness and supply chain resilience. It called for policy support to promote industry restructuring, saying cross-regional integration still faces obstacles such as the transfer of production capacity quotas, tax revenue sharing arrangements, and lengthy approval procedures. China has published a roadmap through 2030 aimed at strengthening its smart electric vehicle industry, planning to curb excessive investment, promote industry restructuring, and phase out inefficient production capacity.

GAC Group announced on the evening of September 28 that it plans to acquire a 50% stake in FAW Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. through a share issuance, and also plans to issue shares to no more than 35 qualified specific investors to raise supporting funds. After trading resumed on September 29, GAC Group's share price hit the daily limit-up, closing at 5.60 yuan per share, with a market capitalization of 47.6 billion yuan. On the same day, major A-share indices opened lower, with sectors such as real estate, hotels and catering, tourism, and semiconductors leading gains, while sectors such as mineral products, communication equipment, electronic components, and agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery led declines. New stock N Anda, which listed the same day, saw its intraday gain expand to 345%, triggering a second temporary trading halt, with turnover exceeding 200 million yuan and a turnover rate exceeding 33%.

GAC Group has begun production at a knocked-down assembly facility in Cambodia's Kampong Chhnang province, moving the Chinese automaker from complete vehicle exports to local manufacturing. Under the arrangement, GAC's Cambodian partner TH Group is handling investment, construction and assembly of the plant, while GAC supplies complete knocked-down kits along with technical standards and support. The plant has a designed annual capacity of approximately 10,000 units, and the project, launched in 2024, has now finished construction and entered production. The formal opening ceremony was attended by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Wang Wenbin, with Hun Manet calling the launch a significant achievement for the government's industrial transformation. GAC said its Trumpchi brand has posted an average annual compound growth rate of over 300% in Cambodia over the past three years since 2024. Separately, GAC confirmed last week that it signed a letter of intent with FAW Group to acquire part of its stake in an as-yet-unnamed joint venture with a foreign automaker, understood to be Japan's Toyota Motor.

Chinese autonomous driving technology company Pony.ai unveiled a fully electric truck equipped with Level 4 autonomous driving capabilities, allowing driverless operation under specific conditions, on the 14th at the IAA Transportation commercial vehicle trade fair that opened in Hanover, Germany. The vehicle announced was developed jointly with Chinese state-owned automaker GAC Group, and mass production will begin in the second half of this year. The company also revealed that it is in discussions with European governments and potential customers regarding road testing in Europe. Vice President Hua Xin, who heads the robotruck business, said, "We have already approached multiple ports and several governments about this issue," noting that the company is focusing on markets with high labor costs or facing severe labor shortages, and added, "Europe is definitely an important market for robotrucks." Pony.ai currently operates about 200 Level 4 autonomous trucks in China, some of which run fully driverless, but few countries in Europe have established systems or regulations permitting test runs of autonomous vehicles. In a statement, the company said it plans to expand its robotruck business into European and Middle Eastern markets within the next two years, and it is also advancing its robotaxi business outside China, conducting test operations in multiple European cities including Zagreb, the capital of Croatia.

GAC Group issued a trading halt announcement on the evening of September 14, stating it is planning a major asset restructuring. The company intends to acquire part of a joint venture automaker stake held by FAW Group through a share issuance and raise supporting funds. The two parties have signed a letter of intent. Upon completion of the transaction, FAW Group will become GAC Group's second-largest shareholder with strategic influence. The deal is expected to constitute a major asset restructuring and a related-party transaction, but will not result in a change of actual controller or a backdoor listing. It is still in the planning stage. Following an application to the Shanghai Stock Exchange, GAC Group's A-shares were suspended from trading starting September 14, 2026, with the halt expected to last no more than 10 trading days. As of September 14, GAC Group's share price stood at 5.09 yuan per share, with a total market capitalization of 43.23 billion yuan. Earlier on September 11, nine government departments including the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for the intelligent connected new energy vehicle industry, proposing that by 2030 the advantages of the entire industry chain will be further consolidated and vehicles with autonomous driving functions will achieve large-scale application. On the same day, titanium dioxide leader Lomon Billions Group took the lead in issuing a price increase notice, raising domestic market prices by 700 yuan per tonne and international market prices by 100 US dollars per tonne. Subsequently, more than twenty companies including Anada, Titanium Energy Chemical, and Dawn Titanium Industry followed suit with increases consistent with Lomon Billions Group, officially kicking off the sixth round of collective price hikes for titanium dioxide this year.

Chippacking Technology disclosed its third-quarter earnings forecast, expecting operating revenue of about 330 million yuan in the third quarter of 2026, up about 61.26% year on year, and net profit attributable to owners of the parent of about 21.5 million yuan, turning from loss to profit year on year. The company said the gradual recovery of the semiconductor industry cycle is driving increased demand for packaging and testing. Range Technology plans to apply to relevant financial institutions for additional credit of no more than 50 billion yuan in total on top of its existing credit lines, in order to continue increasing investment in the AIDC sector. Gold Orange Technology decided to terminate the planned acquisition of a controlling stake in Shenzhen Zhibotaike Technology Co., Ltd. through the issuance of shares and cash payment, along with the related fundraising. Trading in the company's shares resumed from market open on September 15, 2026. GAC Group signed a letter of intent with China FAW Corporation Limited, planning to acquire part of the equity in a vehicle joint venture held by FAW Corporation through the issuance of shares, along with related fundraising. After the transaction is completed, FAW Corporation will become the company's second-largest shareholder. Trading in the company's A-shares was suspended from market open on September 14, 2026, and is expected to last no more than 10 trading days. Xiangshan Co., Ltd. plans to acquire 100% equity in Wuluo Smart for a tentative total consideration of 800 million yuan, along with related fundraising. After the transaction is completed, the company will form a dual-engine structure of auto parts and AI computing power. Trading in the company's shares resumed from market open on September 15, 2026.

GAC Group released its 2026 half-year report on the evening of August 28. Consolidated operating revenue for the first half was 46.5 billion yuan, up 9.13 percent year on year, of which overseas market revenue was 14.013 billion yuan, up 109.27 percent. Vehicle sales in the first half were 773,100 units, up 2.35 percent year on year, and new energy vehicle sales were 260,200 units, up 68.80 percent, accounting for 33.65 percent of total sales. Among its own brands, GAC Aion sales rose 67.08 percent year on year, and GAC Trumpchi rose 12.36 percent. The first model of Qijing Auto, jointly developed with Huawei Qiankun, began mass production and went on sale at the end of June, and completed a capital increase of about 1.1 billion yuan in May, bringing in strategic investors including CATL and Bosch. In overseas business, own-brand exports reached 121,500 units, up 132 percent year on year, with 32 new overseas markets added, covering 110 countries and regions worldwide. Two new KD plants were added in Cambodia and Kazakhstan, bringing the global total to seven, and Inpai Battery began construction of its first overseas battery pack plant in Thailand. R&D investment was 4.834 billion yuan, up 27.58 percent year on year, accounting for 10.4 percent. In addition, humanoid robot company Huilun Technology completed financing of 100 million yuan, the flying car GOVY AirCab received nearly 2,000 intended orders, and OnTime operated more than 550 robotaxis.

WeRide has begun on-road testing and localization validation of its one-stage end-to-end intelligent driving solution in Germany, France, Japan and other international markets. The solution, built on WeRide's proprietary end-to-end driving algorithm and co-developed with Bosch, is being validated across diverse traffic regulations, road environments, driving cultures and climate conditions. WeRide is building a global integrated engineering and validation framework spanning research and development, testing, and adaptation for international markets. The unified end-to-end AI architecture integrates perception, prediction, planning and control within a single model, enabling rapid adaptation and enhanced safety redundancy. The solution has already secured design wins across more than 30 production vehicle programs with automakers including Chery and GAC Group.

GAC International reported that its overseas wholesale and end-user retail volumes doubled year-on-year in the first half of 2026, with total exports reaching 121,483 units, nearly matching the full-year export volume of last year and marking a 132% year-on-year increase. The company achieved robust growth across all regions, with Mexico seeing the AION ES and AION UT secure spots in the top ten BEV sales rankings, Bolivia sustaining its leading position as the top-selling Chinese passenger brand, and Hong Kong SAR claiming the number one sales position for private EVs in April after subsidy phase-out, with cumulative market share from January to May exceeding 11%. In Europe, the AION UT started production in Austria and made its European debut in Milan, followed by official entries into the UK and Spain, establishing an initial full-chain operation system. GAC also earned global recognition for quality, earning two number one titles in Kuwait for best overall vehicle quality and highest residual value among Chinese automakers, and leading all Chinese brands in three-year residual value in Thailand.

The Smart Vehicle Chain section of the fourth China International Supply Chain Expo opened in Beijing, showcasing advances across the entire automotive value chain. CATL debuted multiple new battery products worldwide, while Gotion High-tech presented its latest solid-state battery breakthroughs. XPeng displayed its Turing AI chip alongside the IRON humanoid robot, and Momenta revealed a reinforcement learning-based autonomous driving algorithm. GAC's flying car, the GOVY AirCab, made its debut, and Bosch, Tesla, SERES, Geely, and Dongfeng also demonstrated key technologies and supply chain collaborations.

WeRide's proprietary world model, WeRide GENESIS, has been named “Overall Gen-AI Solution of the Year” at the 2026 AI Breakthrough Awards, just one day after receiving the Simulation Innovation Award at the 2026 Automotive Testing Technology International Awards. The back-to-back honors recognize the model's ability to accelerate autonomous driving development through large-scale simulation, training, and validation. WeRide GENESIS reduces data collection and annotation costs by more than 75% and powers the company's end-to-end ADAS solution, WRD 3.0, which has secured mass-production design wins across more than 30 vehicle models with OEMs including Chery and GAC Group. WeRide's autonomous driving products are now deployed in over 40 cities across 12 countries, with fully driverless commercial operations in Guangzhou, Beijing, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai.

Windsor House of Cars has executed an exclusive 25-year global distribution agreement with Guangzhou Automobile Group for the Hyper SSR, China's first mass-produced supercar. Under the deal, Windsor becomes the sole value-added reseller of the Hyper SSR in every international market except Thailand and the UAE, with production intentionally capped at 330 vehicles per year. The Hyper SSR delivers 1,225 horsepower, 12,000 N·m of peak wheel torque, and accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 1.9 seconds, with global pricing ranging from US$350,000 to US$510,000. Windsor also announced that GAC will manufacture a forthcoming proprietary vehicle line under the Windsor House of Cars brand, spanning pickup, sedan, SUV, eVTOL drone taxi, and supercar categories. The company is establishing a revolving credit facility exceeding US$1 billion to finance vehicle inventory and is actively seeking dealer partners worldwide.