On April 21, at the global strategy conference of China Changan Automobile Group, China Changan Automobile officially released the "1445" global strategy, once again demonstrating its ambition of global layout: strive to rank among the top 10 in the global automobile industry by 2030. The implementation of this strategy will further enhance the international influence of "Made in Chongqing" and also provide guidance for the global layout of western automobile companies.

Changan Automobile Factory, China. Map provided by interviewed units

The strategic plan of China Changan Automobile is a microcosm of the vigorous development of Chongqing's automobile industry. Since the beginning of this year, good news has been heard frequently in Chongqing's automobile industry: Celis has won orders for 200 units from the United Arab Emirates, achieving overseas breakthroughs in high-end intelligent new energy vehicles; Chongqing Logistics Group has signed strategic cooperation with Ningde Times, and the country's first normalized lithium battery water transportation special line "Thousands of Miles Light Boat" has been fully opened...

The latest data released by the Chongqing City Bureau of Statistics on April 20 confirms this popularity: in the first quarter of 2026, the intelligent networked new energy vehicle cluster grew steadily, with the added value increasing by 6.8%. The city's new energy vehicle output reached 205,200 units, a year-on-year increase of 9.7%. Export growth continues to improve. In the first quarter, Chongqing's automobile exports were 13.23 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 70.5%. At the same time, exports of electric vehicles and lithium-ion batteries increased by 45% and 468.7% respectively year-on-year, highlighting the strong competitiveness of "Chongqing Made" cars.

Behind each key breakthrough and group of eye-catching data are Chongqing's solid steps in accelerating the construction of an intelligent connected new energy vehicle capital. Guided by the automobile industry, Chongqing has promoted the overall "33618" modern manufacturing cluster system to climb new and forge ahead higher, striving to create an important strategic fulcrum for the development of the western region in the new era, and adding luster to the overall situation with the light of one region.

Changan Automobile Global R & D Center. Map provided by interviewed units

1. With the hard core support behind the fulcrum, Chongqing returns to China's "No. 1 Automobile City"

As an important automobile production base in the country, in the hot land of Chongqing, new energy vehicles drive off the production line. They not only sail to the country and the world, but also become a powerful engine for Chongqing to play its strategic fulcrum role, setting a benchmark for industrial upgrading in the western region. Provide momentum.

Walking into the welding workshop of the Celis Super Factory, hundreds of robotic arms dance accurately to efficiently complete complex processes such as welding. Various logistics robots shuttle flexibly between production lines. The entire workshop is highly automated and there is almost no manual operation. The figure shows the hard-core strength of the "Factory of the Future".

At the same time, the "strongest brain" is also operating efficiently in the Avita Digital Intelligence Factory of Changan Automobile in China. In the digital operation center, thousands of data collection points report back the dynamics of the production line in real time, and the coordination guarantee center coordinates and dispatches resources. The robots in the intelligent manufacturing center operate efficiently at the optimal rhythm, and the entire supply chain links synchronously to ensure that materials are accurately delivered to each production station.

Behind the efficient operation of factories is the leap in the energy level of industrial clusters. Over the years, Chongqing has laid out and built the industrial brain of the automobile industry, forming the capabilities of regular iteration of the industrial chain map and dynamic monitoring of "strong chains, complementary chains and extended chains". At the same time, it has supported leading companies such as Chang 'an and Celis to build subdivided brains and transform vehicle companies. The list of needs is transformed into a task list for supply chain companies.

Changan Automobile Factory, China. Map provided by interviewed units

This innovative model not only improves the synergy efficiency of Chongqing's automobile industry, but also exports industrial synergy experience to the western region, promotes the coordinated development of upstream and downstream of the western automobile industry chain, and strengthens the radiating and driving capabilities of strategic fulcrums.

For example, Celis Industrial Brain connects more than 300 partners to achieve dynamic supervision of the 60-day billing period and an increase in order delivery punctuality by 13%; Avita Digital Intelligence Factory achieves an equipment automation rate of 100%, and an average of one new car is rolled off the line every 60 seconds., demonstrating the efficiency and precision of intelligent manufacturing.

Data witnesses the development results. In 2025, Chongqing will return to China's "No. 1 Automobile City" with an output of 2.788 million units. The scale of the automobile industry cluster will exceed 800 billion yuan, and the local matching rate of parts and components will stabilize at more than 45%, covering chips, power batteries, digital cockpit and other core chains; A complete industrial system of 18 complete vehicles and more than 1200 parts and components companies has been built, and the intelligent network has achieved full coverage of the three major systems, 12 major assemblies, and 56 types of components of new energy vehicles.

The skeleton of a trillion-level industrial cluster is clearly visible.

This complete industrial system not only supports the high-quality development of Chongqing's automobile industry, but also radiates and drives the coordinated development of the automobile parts industry in the western region, providing solid support for the western automobile industry to break through.

Not only that, Chongqing is led by the automobile industry, driving leading industries such as electronics and materials, and pillar industries such as equipment and soft telecommunications to integrate across borders and work in the same direction. The city's power semiconductor production capacity is among the top 3 in the country, and notebook and electronics production has ranked first in the world for 12 consecutive years. 1, glass fiber output is among the top 3 in the country.

The accelerated rise of "Made in Chongqing" has laid a solid foundation for the strategic fulcrum with strong industrial support, and has also continued to inject core momentum into the high-quality development of the western region.

2. The linkage of the "Twin Cities Economic Circle" has led to the rise of cross-provincial automobile industry clusters

The strategic fulcrum is not a "individual advance", but also requires radiation, driving and coordinated progress.

In the Lianglu Guoyuan Port Comprehensive Bonded Zone in Liangjiang New Area, motor controller systems equipped with Sichuan technology "genes" are being rolled off the production line in batches and will become the core component of "Chongqing Made" new energy vehicles and enter the global market.

In Gaozhu New District of Sichuan and Chongqing, the Times Chang 'an Power Battery Base project jointly invested and constructed by Ningde Times and Chang' an Automobile has been implemented, with an annual production capacity of 25GWh, providing strong support for the development of Sichuan and Chongqing automobile industry.

In recent years, Sichuan and Chongqing have also joined hands to create typical application scenarios such as Chengdu-Chongqing "Hydrogen Corridor","Electric Corridor" and "Intelligent Corridor". A total of more than 2000 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles have been promoted, 41 hydrogen refueling stations have been built, and major highways The service area achieves full coverage of ultra-fast charging stations.

Chongqing and Chengdu have also been selected as one of the first batch of pilot cities for the application of "vehicle-road-cloud integration" of intelligent connected vehicles in the country, building a solid carrier for coordinated industrial development.

This kind of collaboration across the industry chain that breaks down regional barriers has allowed the Sichuan-Chongqing regional matching rate of "Chongqing-made" cars to exceed 80%. Chengdu and Chongqing are forming a development pattern of "you and me".

At present, the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle has built the country's third largest automobile industry cluster, with an annual output of nearly 4 million vehicles. In 2025, Chongqing will rank first among cities in the country with an output of 2.788 million vehicles. There will be 1 "Sichuan-Chongqing Made" for every 9 vehicles in the country.

A broader development vision is gradually being implemented. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Chongqing will anchor the construction goal of "an intelligent connected new energy vehicle capital with global influence", adhere to the direction of intelligence, green, and integration, and strengthen leading leadership, digital intelligence drive, and brand building. Soul and ecological energy will promote the "trinity" development of complete vehicles, parts and aftermarkets, and promote the all-round upgrading of the Chengdu-Chongqing automobile industry from a "chain-type" linear development to an "ecological" system development. Join hands with Sichuan to build a world-class intelligent networked new energy vehicle industry cluster.

For example, in terms of technological innovation, we aim at cutting-edge areas such as end-to-end large-scale models of smart driving, vehicle-scale solid-state batteries, and hydrogen fuel cell systems, promote Sichuan and Chongqing to carry out joint research and continuously improve collaborative innovation capabilities.

In terms of scenario applications, we will improve service systems such as commerce, logistics, finance, inspection and testing, continue to improve quality and create application scenarios such as Chengdu-Chongqing "Hydrogen Corridor","Electric Corridor" and "Intelligent Corridor", and further promote "vehicle-road-cloud integration" Applications, pilot projects such as intelligent networked vehicle access and on-road access, and jointly create the country's leading pilot ground for intelligent networked new energy vehicles.

In terms of global layout, we will strengthen all-round coordinated support in logistics, finance, talents, standards, etc., promote comprehensive exports and overseas layout in the upstream and downstream industrial chains of the two places, and enhance the international competitiveness, radiation and influence of the industry.

From the breakthrough of industry in one city to the rise of cross-provincial automobile industry clusters, Chongqing has used automobiles as a link to amplify the leading and leveraging effect of the western region, achieving radiation-driven and win-win results across the region, and drawing a new pattern of multi-point coordination and multi-flower development.

Gaozhu New District, Sichuan and Chongqing. Map provided by interviewed units

3. Diversified connections to the world will drive western automobile companies to "extend outward"

The strategic fulcrum lies not only in "taking root inward", but also in "extending outward".

As an inland open comprehensive hub, Chongqing is transforming its geographical location's "not relying on the sea" disadvantage into a unique advantage of connecting to the world.

A few days ago, a China-Laos cross-border train loaded with "Chongqing-made" new energy vehicles set off from Chongqing Tuanjie Village Station, exited through Mohan Port, and went directly to Vientiane, Laos in five days.

"In the past, it took 20 to 30 days to transport river-sea transportation to Southeast Asia. Now it takes 5 days to go directly to Vientiane via the China-Laos Railway, and then it is distributed to neighboring countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia by road, effectively reducing corporate logistics costs." The relevant person in charge of Chongqing Railway Logistics Center introduced.

This is just a microcosm of the acceleration of "Chongqing-made" cars to the world. Data shows that in the first quarter of this year, Chongqing's automobile exports were 13.23 billion yuan, an increase of 70.5%. At the same time, exports of electric vehicles and lithium-ion batteries increased by 45% and 468.7% respectively, and the export momentum continued to improve.

Not only that, today's "Chongqing Vehicles Going to Sea" is no longer a simple product output, but a "value output" covering brands, technologies and services.

Changan Automobile's first overseas new energy vehicle factory has been put into operation at its Rayong plant in Thailand. As an important bridgehead in Changan Automobile's global production system, Rayong factory products will be exported to many markets such as ASEAN, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and South Africa.

Cyrus 'globalization is also accelerating. In February this year, after Celis reached a strategic cooperation with United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Automobile Company, it quickly obtained the first batch of orders for 200 units, taking a key step in global layout.

Ask about the M7 production base. Map provided by interviewed units

In order to better meet the needs of users in the Middle East, we have carried out in-depth localized adaptation to the United Arab Emirates market and completed comprehensive optimization of software and hardware for multi-language systems, high temperature environments, and vehicle scenarios. The United Arab Emirates market will become the core hub for Wenjie brands to radiate to the Middle East, promoting "Chongqing-made" high-end new energy vehicles to a broader global market.

From "going global" to "tying down", Chongqing automobile companies are leaving a deeper and deeper "Chongqing mark" on the global automobile industry map. Wherever the wheel reaches, it is not only a product, but also a city's determination and strategic responsibility to open up.

Since Chongqing first proposed "building a world-class intelligent networked new energy vehicle industry cluster" in 2022, proposed to build a "intelligent networked new energy vehicle capital" in 2024, and then returned to the country's "number one automobile city" in 2025, Chongqing's intelligent networked new energy vehicle industry is writing a vivid footnote for the important strategic fulcrum of the development of the western region in the new era.

Facing the future, Chongqing will continue to be guided by the new productivity of the automobile industry, enhance its fulcrum display in the superposition of multiple national strategies, and sail towards a broader world of high-quality development.

Source: First Eye TV-Hualong website reporter Liang Haonan/Wen chief reporter Chen Yu/Review

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