Major Reflection by Chinese Automakers: "100 Million Units" Is Not a Solo Act

May 28, 2026, the World Living Room of the North Bund in Shanghai. In the live broadcast lens of Dragon TV, there were no lengthy speeches by leaders, but rather a "Global Relay Delivery" spanning across Asia and Europe, connecting multiple cities globally.

SAIC Group welcomed its first 100 millionth global user, officially becoming the first automotive group in the history of China's automotive industry to accumulate production and sales exceeding 100 million vehicles.

15 brands, counting down from the 99,999,996th vehicle to the 100,000,012th vehicle, 18 models were delivered synchronously in Shanghai, Liuzhou, Anting, London, Jakarta, and Singapore.

This is not only a milestone for an enterprise, but also a vivid footnote to China's automotive industry developing from scratch and from weak to strong.

In May 2014, SAIC actively implemented the instruction that "developing new energy vehicles is the only path for China to move from a large automotive country to a strong automotive country" and fully transitioned to new energy.

Twelve years later, SAIC completed the transition from "leading the way" with early transformation to "thousands of horses galloping" with brands, technology, ecosystem, and global reach blossoming, all through this 100 million delivery.

If you tear off all those hollow PR words and focus on the diverse owner profiles at the car delivery ceremony, some even spanning extreme geographical regions, you will find that the true smart-electric mass production capability and systemic power of a big factory lie precisely in these votes by different circles using their feet.

True International Natives

True internationalization has never been about holding a temporary press conference overseas or inviting a few Chinese media outlets, but about your product truly integrating into the lives of ordinary overseas people. Among the military merit medals of SAIC's 100 million deliveries, cumulative overseas deliveries have exceeded 7 million units.

At the delivery site in London, intern doctor Natalia picked up an MG4 EV. For her, this is not just an urban commuter pure electric small car. Her growth path has always had MG company, and her grandfather drove a classic British convertible MGB back then.

MG represents a new chapter in the global expansion of Chinese automakers. This brand, once born in the UK and possessing a century of history, after being wholly owned by SAIC Group, has multiple years consecutively topped European sales among Chinese brands.

At the same time, in Jakarta, the core winger of the Indonesian National Men's Football Team, the "genius boy" Eg who studied in Europe for five years, chose Wuling's 7-seater SUV Eksion produced locally in Indonesia, perfectly adapting to Indonesian local spatial and comfort needs, as the travel partner for himself and his family.

Behind this global multi-time-zone, multi-city relay delivery is SAIC's deployment of over 100 parts bases, 3 R&D centers, and 4 overseas manufacturing centers overseas. Even to avoid being strangled by international logistics capacity, SAIC also formed a self-operated RoRo fleet with a scale of 41 ships covering routes globally.

This "Age of Discovery" throughput of "Glocal" local globalization allows overseas car buyers, when purchasing, not to buy a distant imported symbol, but a reliable product supported by a local R&D layout and a local systemic ecosystem.

Efficiency Tool for Wealth Creators.

Those focusing on new forces of car making in middle-class private cars will find it hard to understand why SAIC's delivery list would simultaneously include a large number of commercial light trucks, logistics vehicles, and buses.

In Singapore, DHL (Dunhuang) Senior Vice President Herbert picked up a batch of MAXUS eDeliver 5 pure electric light trucks to cope with high-density, high-frequency urban last-mile delivery and cross-border parcel transfer;

In Taiyuan, Shanxi, Henglongsheng Industrial and Trade General Manager Zhang Yanbin purchased 56 Hongyan new energy heavy trucks again, working frequently in the most severe and labor-demanding mixing stations and urban infrastructure projects;

In Yangzhou, Jiangsu, Top Land Senior Vice President Yuan Guo batch-delivered nearly 10,000 Feifeng Dana T1 pure electric light trucks;

In Henan, Zhonglian Tourist Automobile General Manager Wang Xiaobing purchased Iveco Joy Star EV in one breath, used to run the high-density mountain road custom shuttle route from Luoyang to Laojun Mountain.

When the car circle is flocking to compete in TVs, refrigerators, and big sofas, these strivers walking on the front lines of infrastructure, culture, tourism, and logistics care most about availability rate, quality bottom line, and energy consumption cost. MAXUS light trucks can reduce cost per kilometer to as low as 5 cents under the city distribution model; Hongyan new energy can withstand extreme working conditions in mountainous slope operation environments.

This is the counter-cyclical structural advantage possessed only by big factories with "Full Scenario, Full Category Coverage". The essence of systemic power is that it can not only build the IM LS9 Hyper to fly close to the ground for the elite class at the 300,000 yuan level luxury electric car, but also build the smart electric tool car running in the urban logistics backbone network to help ordinary people efficiently create wealth.

Without a doubt, such a three-dimensional product matrix cannot be bought for even a lot of money by single-track lane players.

Reject High-Price Monopoly

Frontier smart-electric technology should not just be exclusive high-price toys for the rich.

In this delivery, the most touching story comes from Pang Fuqiang, a post-80s village party secretary in Lantian, Shaanxi. He personally pays every day to provide door-to-door meal delivery service costing 2 yuan per meal for 74 left-behind elderly people in the mountains. Because the delivery routes are scattered and road conditions are dispersed, the tricycle he drove before had small loading capacity and no safety guarantee.

In this activity, he was gifted a Wuling Rongguang Pure Electric Version. The 4.3 cubic meter large space, Shenyan Battery Commercial Version, and collision zero spontaneous combustion safety record became his helper to protect mountain elderly more quickly and safely.

And in Dahua Yao Autonomous County, Hechi, Guangxi, charity blogger Liu Jia drove back and forth through towering mountains for five consecutive years rain or shine to give haircuts and companionship to left-behind children. The Buick ZhiJing E7 he picked up, equipped with eye-protection ceiling lights and zero formaldehyde cabins, became the "full score cabin" for the children in the mountains.

Why can ordinary people and grassroots strivers enjoy the most cutting-edge and reliable technology?

The answer is still the scale effect and technology mass production brought by the system.

Because SAIC owns a full technology route, full price range product layout, it can use the integration capability of the supply chain to smash the Qualcomm 8155 chip and Doubao Deep Thinking Large Model into the 60,000 yuan national family sedan Roewe i6;

Turn Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving Pro and HarmonyOS Cockpit into standard configuration across the line for the 150,000 yuan Wuling Huajing S, directly breaking the strong binding between high-level intelligence and high price.

Quickly realize mass production of top technology in the laboratory, downgrade, turn into a delivery car in the mountains, turn into a smart vehicle not lagging in a tens-of-thousands yuan fuel car, let technology empowerment, this is the unique, cutting-edge underlying hard power of car company big factories.

99,999,999th Car Owner

The 99,999,999th vehicle delivered by SAIC Group globally is the SAIC Volkswagen ID. ERA 9X.

This delivery also welcomed the 6,999th car owner of ID. ERA 9X. As the World Cup is about to start, the first Chinese player to fight in the Bundesliga, Yang Chen, became the 6,999th owner of ID. ERA 9X, jointly witnessing SAIC Group's cumulative production and sales entering the "100 Million Level Era".

Deeply integrating "German heritage + Chinese wisdom", ID. ERA 9X broke 10,000 locked orders within 1 hour of launch, and retail delivery reached 2,326 units just 5 days after launch, and in April it forcefully ranked in the top 3 of extended-range large high-end SUVs.

Now, just one month after launch, cumulative delivery exceeded 7,000 vehicles, further confirming its user recognition and product competitiveness in the high-end extended-range market. This achievement stems from SAIC Volkswagen's 42 years of deep cultivation in the Chinese market, and is more the fusion empowerment of the "In China, For China" strategy and "Global Wisdom + Chinese Speed".

This milestone delivery is both an important node for SAIC Group to move towards 100 million global cumulative production and sales, and a solid mark of SAIC Volkswagen's deep cultivation in the new energy track.

"100 Million Units" Is Not a Solo Act

"100 Million Units" has never been a solo act for SAIC alone, but the result of these 100 million car owners with vastly different identities, located in different time zones, voting with their feet on their respective life tracks.

Cao Xudong, CEO of a top intelligent driving enterprise, picking up the IM LS9 Hyper in Shanghai, stepping on the gas pedal in London streets by British intern doctor Natalia, the passenger car driver picking up waves of tourists at Luoyang scenic spots, and village party secretary Pang Fuqiang driving an electric car in the mountains of Lantian, Shaanxi to deliver meals for left-behind elderly...

They have different professions, skin colors, and budgets, but what they experience in intelligence, quality, and peace of mind at the moment they buy the car keys, shares at the bottom level, is the same huge, cutting-edge, and omnipresent smart electric big factory mass production system.

100 million vehicles is not the end point, but the starting line for this big factory smart electric mass production beast to accelerate transformation into a user-centric high-tech company. The system story of Chinese intelligence, in this global relay delivery season, has just turned a new chapter.