Powering Global Leadership! BYD Ensures Successful Conclusion of Silk Road 10,000-Li Journey with Full Escort

On August 25, the highly anticipated "2026 Silk Road 10,000-Li Journey · Enlightenment Path" event concluded successfully in beautiful Singapore, putting a wonderful finale to this transnational journey spanning mountains and seas. BYD served as the exclusive travel partner for the entire event, escorting the entire Silk Road journey with its hardcore green energy strength. Green energy accompanied the Silk Road long journey. At the closing ceremony site, Li Yunfei, General Manager of the Brand and Public Relations Department of BYD Group, and Zhang Lianye, Party Committee Secretary, Chairman, and Station Director of Shaanxi Broadcasting Media Group (TV), jointly announced that this transnational Silk Road trip had concluded successfully and ended with honors.

This was a romantic expedition to mountains and seas, and an era-forward march dedicated to the Silk Road! A 33-day journey of galloping, the Silk Road车队 traveled over 10,000 kilometers. Setting off proudly from the start of the Silk Road, it spanned across six major provinces domestically, passed through Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand and Malaysia, and finally landed smoothly in Singapore, a key maritime Silk Road hub city. It witnessed the blending beauty of the Land and Maritime Silk Roads along the way, writing new stories of green travel for the Silk Road in the new era.

2026 is a year of extraordinary significance, coinciding with the fifth anniversary of the establishment of the China-ASEAN Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Based on this important era node, this event, with the vivid theme of "Technology Innovating Towards New · Civilization Converging Towards Heart", cleverly connected two key coordinates: the ancient land Silk Road starting point in Xi'an and the core maritime Silk Road hub in Singapore. It deeply integrated three core kernels: cultural exchange, technological dialogue, and trade interconnection, vividly interpreting the new development pattern of land-sea linkage and mutual empowerment in the Belt and Road Initiative. The scene was star-studded, with elites from all sectors at home and abroad, representatives of overseas Chinese, and peers from mainstream media gathering in the Lion City, jointly witnessing the new vitality of the land-sea Silk Road in the new era, and listening to the new echoes of mutual learning between civilizations.

The closing ceremony gala was full of wonderful activities. Cai Shandi, Cultural Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Singapore, and Wang Gang, Chairman of Singapore Shaanxi Association, took the stage successively to speak, endorsing this Silk Road event and sending best wishes for China-Singapore cultural and trade exchanges and green industry cooperation.

The long Silk Road journey was a comprehensive and rigorous test of vehicle performance, range capability, and intelligent driving. BYD presented a perfect score with its full matrix of new energy products! The exclusive fleet for this event gathered the five product matrices of BYD Dynasty, Ocean, Denza, Fang Cheng Bao, and Yangwang, and four high-end brands, fully covering various travel scenarios. From smooth highway sections, winding mountain roads to congested urban blocks, the complex and changeable road conditions increased layer by layer, fully testing the comprehensive hard strength of the vehicles.

After tempering in a 10,000-kilometer real-world journey, BYD's two core black technologies emerged from the crowd, firmly standing out! The self-developed Flash Charge Technology achieved super-strong performance of "5 minutes efficient energy replenishment, 9 minutes full power range", matching with a perfect energy replenishment network built by nearly 10,000 Flash Charge stations across the country, completely solving the anxiety of energy replenishment for long-distance travel, making cross-city and cross-country long-distance travel easy and worry-free. At the same time, the "Heavenly Eye" high-level assisted driving system continuously iterated and optimized with huge real driving data of over 220 million kilometers per day, smartly escorting every journey, greatly relieving the fatigue of long-distance driving, ensuring the fleet galloped smoothly and arrived at the Nanyang shore safely throughout the journey. From the ancient scene of camel team rest stations replenishing supplies on the ancient Silk Road, to the modern transnational expedition empowered by new energy technology, the upgrade of Silk Road travel fully displays the hard strength and era responsibility of Chinese technology.

Deeply cultivating the Singapore market, BYD, relying on outstanding product power and high quality reputation, continues to lead the local new energy market! Data witnesses strength. As of July 2026, BYD has achieved the excellent result of 19 consecutive months ranking first in sales across all passenger car brands in Singapore. From January to July 2026, BYD's passenger car market share in the local area broke through 24.7% strongly, where the pure electric vehicle market share reached as high as 40.3%, stably occupying the head position of the industry. Nowadays, walking on the streets of Singapore, whether on main urban roads, core business districts, or popular shopping centers, BYD new energy vehicles are everywhere, brand awareness and national recognition are rising continuously, and deeply rooted in the local market.

As is well known, Singapore is one of the markets with extremely high car purchase costs globally. Strict purchase thresholds make local consumers especially cautious and quality-focused when choosing a car. Even in such a high-standard, high-demand market environment, BYD models still continue to sell well and stay at the forefront despite a not-low sales price, relying on high-end quality, intelligent experience, and hard strength, fully verifying strong product competitiveness, and giving local dealers full confidence to deeply cultivate the Singapore market in the long term. Currently, BYD has laid out 16 high-quality retail touchpoints in Singapore, with multiple stores forcefully entering core urban shopping centers. With the continuous climb of brand influence and market recognition, local dealers continue to add resources to terminal construction, comprehensively upgrading store site selection, space specifications, brand display, service systems, etc., to create a high-standard brand service experience.

Not only deeply cultivating the Southeast Asian market, in 2026 BYD's overseas business accelerated comprehensively, unstoppable, opening a new journey of global high-speed growth! Latest data shows that from January to July this year, BYD's overseas cumulative sales exceeded 970,000 units, surging 76% year-on-year; only the single month of July overseas sales reached 179,800 units, a year-on-year increase of up to 124.3%, with a very rapid growth momentum. So far, BYD's new energy vehicle footprint has covered more than 120 countries and regions globally, letting Chinese Smart Manufacturing and Chinese Green Energy go to the world.

Good news arrives frequently in markets around the world, highlighting BYD's globalization hard strength! In the first half of 2026, BYD took the championship throne of new energy vehicle sales in Thailand and Singapore at once; it successfully topped the new energy vehicle sales list in two European markets, Italy and Spain; UK market sales exceeded 38,000 units; Brazil market sales approached 100,000 units, continuing to stably rank first in local new energy vehicle sales. In addition, in multiple countries such as Saudi Arabia, UAE, and South Africa, BYD also stays at the first place of local new energy vehicle sales, and the global market map continues to expand.

A Silk Road 10,000-Li journey, a technology dream-chasing road! This "Silk Road 10,000-Li Journey" event innovatively deeply integrated the exploration of millennia-old Silk Road culture with new energy transnational travel, intuitively displaying the latest achievements of Chinese brands assisting green traffic upgrades and low-carbon industry development in countries along the Belt and Road Initiative. In the future, BYD will continue to use new energy vehicles as the core carrier, continuously output high-quality products, intelligent manufacturing technology, and perfect service systems, deeply participate in the collaborative development of the global automotive industry, help the global traffic green and low-carbon transformation, and continue to bloom the brilliance of Chinese brands on the world stage!