Overview
- Dongfeng and Huawei Qiankun’s new brand Yijing saw its first tooling prototype roll off the line on December 22, with the full‑size SUV headed to Mohe for −50°C validation before a planned Beijing Auto Show debut in April 2026.
- Huawei is delivering full‑stack enablement to Yijing—including Qiankun ADS, HarmonyOS cockpit, vehicle control, vehicle lighting, car‑cloud, and IPD/IPMS quality systems—and it has previewed ADS MAX 4.1 with improved performance in congested peri‑urban driving.
- GAC’s Qijing, co‑created with Huawei Qiankun, began nationwide road testing on December 22, with CEO Liu Jiaming and Huawei’s Jin Yuzhi test‑driving a shooting‑brake model that targets a June 2026 launch and is defined around Huawei’s ADS Highway L3 architecture pending regulatory clearance.
- Beijing Zhipu Huazhang and MiniMax received China CSRC overseas listing filings to list in Hong Kong, positioning both model developers to vie for China’s first publicly listed AI foundation‑model stock.
- The Financial Times reports ByteDance is planning 2026 capital expenditure of about 160 billion yuan, including roughly 85 billion yuan for AI processors subject to chip supply approvals, with initial test orders for Nvidia H200s under consideration.