GAC Group Holds Gratitude Event, Reaches 30 Million Vehicle Production and Sales Milestone

On July 16, GAC Group's 30 Million User Gratitude Event was grandly held at GAC Trumpchi Factory. Leaders from Guangdong Province, Guangzhou City, and Panyu District, Fu Bingfeng Executive Vice President and Secretary-General of China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, GAC Group Chairman Feng Xingya, General Manager Ge Xianqing and the Group's leadership team, industry partners, upstream and downstream suppliers, dealer representatives, owners from home and abroad, enterprise employees, and media representatives gathered on site, jointly witnessing GAC's delivery of the 30 millionth vehicle and an important milestone of gaining the trust of 30 million users.

I. 29 Years of In-depth Cultivation Finally Welcome 30 Million Vehicle Production Line, New Energy Vehicle Matrix Confirms the Path of Electrification Transformation

From the first vehicle off the production line to the delivery of the 30 millionth vehicle, GAC has walked a 29-year development journey. The number 30 million carries the recognition and trust of hundreds of millions of users, demonstrating GAC's long-term determination to uphold quality and safety, clearly conveying the firm determination of the enterprise to fully transform towards electrification and intelligence, and is also a typical microcosm of the Chinese automobile industry moving from scale expansion to value upgrading and from becoming big to becoming strong.

The event site connected simultaneously with multiple GAC global production bases; GAC Honda P7, GAC Toyota BZ7, Qijing GT7, GAC AION N60, GAC Hyper S600 went off the line one by one as the 29,999,995th to 29,999,999th vehicles; on the stage, the right-hand drive GAC Trumpchi M8 PHEV officially debuted as the Group's 30 millionth vehicle. The entire line of new energy models appeared together, intuitively demonstrating GAC's implementation results in fully accelerating new energy transformation.

During the ceremony, GAC Group Chairman Feng Xingya handed the key of the 30 millionth vehicle to Thai owner Tony Jaa, becoming a warm witness to GAC's in-depth cultivation of the global market and a two-way rush with domestic and overseas users. An honor owner award ceremony was carried out simultaneously on site, where Group General Manager Ge Xianqing presented commemorative trophies to honor owners of all GAC brands from all over the world.

Market data confirms GAC's transformation results: In the first half of 2026, GAC Group's cumulative sales reached 773,100 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 2.35%; among them, new energy vehicle sales surged 68.8% year-on-year; overseas exports exceeded 120,000 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 132%, maintaining a steady growth trend during the industry's deep adjustment cycle.

II. Adhering to Quality Bottom Line, Building Full-Chain Strict Control and Full-Area Safety Technology System

Feng Xingya clarified in his speech: Quality is the core bottom line that GAC will never yield. For years, GAC has adhered to the core criterion of "Quality First", integrating Honda's TQM Total Quality Management, Toyota's TPS Lean Production Mode, and Lingnan local culture to create a "Integration and Innovation" characteristic quality management system, with all R&D and manufacturing work revolving around creating safe, worry-free, and comfortable travel products.

Full-Process Strict Manufacturing Verification Standards

GAC has built a quality control system covering the entire R&D and production chain:

1. Before new car launch, high cold, high heat, high altitude, high humidity, high corrosion, mountainous area, dust and sand "Five Highs One Mountain One Dust" extreme environment tests must be completed, and two rounds of winter, one round of summer actual vehicle road tests must be completed;

2. Enterprise test grounds and laboratories cover 12 major categories of vehicles and over 1,500 verification items, achieving full-dimensional standardized quality verification;

3. GAC AION Intelligent Eco-Factory, as the world's first new energy vehicle lighthouse factory, relies on a digital intelligent manufacturing system to stably control the quality of mass-produced vehicles.

On site, GAC frontline production craftsmen, National Excellent Engineers Powertrain R&D team, and Vehicle Styling Design Team took the stage one by one to share the enterprise's development journey of in-depth quality cultivation, independent innovation, and iterative design, conveying the brand core of "Craftsmanship in Heart, Quality in Action", and making a development commitment of continuous breakthroughs and never settling for users.

Star Spirit Security System Builds a Barrier for Travel Protection

GAC created the Star Spirit Security Guard System, covering four protection dimensions: intelligent driving assistance safety, intelligent chassis safety, active-passive fusion safety, and battery safety, with eight core systems adopting dual redundancy design. This system has guarded nearly 2 million users, cumulatively avoiding 6.28 million potential driving risks; self-developed magazine batteries have been installed in 1.5 million vehicles cumulatively, with total safe driving mileage exceeding 160 billion kilometers.

Supporting guarantee policies were synchronized on the service side, where GAC took the lead in launching the self-owned brand "Three Responsibilities" service policy, proactively covering the two key user concern areas of batteries and intelligent driving assistance, comprehensively eliminating user concerns about using the vehicle.

III. User-Centered, Building a Full-Cycle, Full-Scenario Warm Service Ecosystem

GAC has always practiced the corporate philosophy of "People as the Foundation, Trust as the Way, Innovation as the Priority", taking user-centricity as the core gene of development and perfecting the full-cycle service system from three dimensions: communication channels, offline services, and charging/refueling networks.

Regularly listen to user demands and hold offline communication meetings called "All Users Open Microphone", inviting users to visit the corporate headquarters for face-to-face communication, establishing a full-process closed-loop processing mechanism for user suggestions, and quickly optimizing all series of products for common problems; simultaneously established an independent user insight department, ensuring from the organizational structure that every user demand receives a response and every matter is settled.

Downward channels + ultra-fast response service channel level accelerated downward county market, planning to add 1,000 county-level authorized stores within the year; online launch of "Super Butler" exclusive service, achieving 5-second fast response, 2-hour completion of user requests, shortening service processing links.

Full-area charging network covering the country built a "9 Vertical 10 Horizontal" national charging network, as of June 2026, charging stations reached 2,099, total charging piles 27,107 (super charging piles 20,323), V2C piles 386, covering 31 provinces and 213 cities nationwide, domestic core urban areas achieve that there must be a charging station within a straight 1 kilometer, fully meeting the charging needs of new energy vehicle owners.

To thank the 30 million users for their long-term support, GAC officially launched the 30 Million Vehicles Off Line・Renewal Gratitude Season at the event site (event period from today to the end of August). GAC Honda, GAC Toyota, GAC Trumpchi, GAC AION, GAC Hyper, and Qijing Auto six passenger car brands will launch exclusive preferential policies for new car purchases, vehicle trade-ins, and additional purchase scenarios to fully return user trust.

Driven by Technology Forward, Consolidating Electrification and Intelligence Underlying Technology Strength, Planning Long-term Development

Taking 30 million users as a new starting point, GAC will continue to take technological innovation as the core grasp, accelerate the implementation of electrification and intelligence, and transform cutting-edge technology into peace of mind and convenient experiences perceptible by users.

1. Star Source Power Full Coverage of Diverse Travel Needs

Relying on the National Excellent Engineers team to create the Star Source Power technology platform, including Star Source Extended Range, Star Source Plug-in Hybrid, Star Source Super Dual Engine three major technology routes, which will be massively equipped on all series of models in the future. The entire power system has undergone 100,000 hours of bench testing, equivalent to over 10 million kilometers of whole vehicle verification mileage, guaranteeing stable output performance in all regions and scenarios.

2. Continued Breakthroughs in Three-Electric and Intelligent Connected Technology

Three-Electric Field: Tackling battery ultra-fast charging and low-temperature range industry pain points, building a full-solid-state battery pilot production line; mass production Quark electric drive motor highest efficiency breakthrough 99%, reaching industry top level;

Intelligent Architecture: Star Spirit Architecture continues to iterate and upgrade, connecting Intelligent Driving, Cockpit, Power, Chassis, Body, and Vehicle Networking six major systems, whole vehicle comprehensive performance increased by 40%; Galaxy Smart Cockpit achieves terminal-cloud integration, creating an intelligent mobile space with perception and thinking capabilities;

Ecological Co-construction: Jointly with Huawei, CATL, Didi, Tencent, Alibaba and other leading enterprises to co-build the automotive AI intelligent ecosystem.

3. Long-term R&D Investment Builds a Solid Foundation for Innovation

As of now, GAC Group's cumulative R&D investment has exceeded 62 billion yuan, with the global R&D team scale exceeding 6,800 people. Continuously increasing investment in technological innovation, promoting the products under its brand from basic commuting tools to intelligent travel partners, mobile smart spaces, and green energy ecological carriers for comprehensive evolution.

V. Future Development Direction

Facing the next stage of development, GAC will continue to anchor user real needs, take extreme quality as the foundation of development, take autonomous technological innovation as the core driving force, rely on global market layout to expand steadily, accelerate transformation into an eco-type technology enterprise, join hands with tens of millions of users worldwide, and rush to a new intelligent and green travel future.