1. Guangdong: To expand and strengthen emerging industries such as new energy, intelligent connected vehicles, intelligent robots, and aerospace, forging more trillion-yuan and hundred-billion-yuan-level emerging industry clusters.
2. State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council: To continue focusing on key areas such as new energy vehicles and artificial intelligence, promoting the development of emerging industries to achieve greater momentum.
3. The international standard for the gas-electric connection position of commercial vehicles, revised under my country's leadership, has been officially released.
4. Ministry of Transport: To ensure charging services for new energy vehicles through a "one-region-one-policy" approach.
5. Five departments, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, jointly launched a special enforcement action to regulate the recycling and utilization of used power batteries.
6. China Passenger Car Association: Passenger car retail sales are expected to reach 1.42 million units in April 2026, with new energy vehicle penetration exceeding 60%.
7. Leapmotor plans to launch its second brand in 2027.
8. Automakers warn: If the USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement) is weakened, low-cost models may withdraw from the US market.
9. High oil prices fuel a surge in interest in electric vehicles in the UAE: interest jumped 24% in the first week of April, far exceeding the 5% increase in gasoline-powered vehicles.
10. FAW Hongqi is in talks with Stellantis to leverage its Spanish factory to accelerate its expansion into Europe.
