Overview

• Dongfeng chairman Yang Qing met Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei and Xu Zhijun in Shenzhen on Sept. 22, with both sides pledging deeper cooperation across product definition, intelligent technologies and marketing.
• A Dongfeng–Huawei joint innovation laboratory was unveiled at HUAWEI CONNECT, focusing on car software development platforms, assisted driving, broad AI applications and embodied intelligence.
• GAC Toyota said its 2026 global models are deeply integrated with Huawei’s ecosystem, standardizing HiCar 5.0 and the T‑BOX telematics module across the lineup.
• AITO’s new M7 launched at 279,800 yuan and logged over 30,000 firm orders in the first hour, debuting Huawei’s in‑cabin laser‑vision setup and supporting urban NCA, as SERES reported more than 800,000 cumulative deliveries for the M5, M7, M8 and M9.
• Mercedes‑Benz China and ByteDance upgraded their partnership, with the pure‑electric CLA set to launch in China this fall carrying ByteDance’s Doubao model for a more capable AI cockpit.