Quanzhou Port a thousand years ago, masts were like forests as the tides rose and fell.

A thousand years later, Shenzhen Port is filled with quay cranes, and modern Ro-Ro vessels sound their horns to set sail. With the 2026 "Silk Road 10,000 Miles Journey · Enlightenment Road" BYD fleet departing from the starting point of the ancient Silk Road, Xi'an Tang Dynasty West Market, heading south along four intangible cultural heritage nodes, and finally arriving at Shenzhen Port to complete the departure ceremony, an iteration of going global spanning a thousand years is clearly before our eyes — the cargo holds no longer contain porcelain and silk, but the full matrix of BYD new energy vehicles, along with the complete set of Blade Battery technology, Flash Charging Energy System, and green energy solutions behind them.

Ancient Port Sails: Using Goods as a Medium to Build a Maritime Pathway for Civilizational Integration

The Maritime Silk Road was once the core channel for ancient China's interaction with the world. Starting from Quanzhou, countless merchant ships carrying the scenery of China sailed globally: warm and exquisite porcelain became the collection of European aristocrats, soft and gorgeous silk rewrote overseas fashion trends, fragrant medicines and mellow tea even integrated into the daily lives of countries along the route.

This BYD Silk Road 10,000 Miles Journey fleet specifically entered Quanzhou, looking back on the thousand-year trade route in the collections of the Maritime History Museum, touching the warmth of ocean commerce in the lines of the Qiaopi Archives, feeling the former prosperity of the ancient port in the daily life of Kaiyuan West Street. Starting from the departure ceremony at Xi'an Tang Dynasty West Market, the fleet moved forward along the threads of the ancient Silk Road: visiting the thousand-year fragrant medicine intangible heritage in Bozhou, witnessing the craftsmanship of porcelain firing in Jingdezhen, touching the silk weaving skills in Hangzhou, and picking spring tea leaves in Wuyi Mountain. These four Silk Road items that once crossed the ocean on merchant ships are now reconnected under the wheels of the BYD fleet, becoming a vivid bond for the dialogue between ancient and modern Silk Roads.

This route connected by merchant ships was never just a trade route, but also a path for mutual learning of civilizations. China's products and culture spread to the world with the ocean currents, and foreign goods and thoughts also flowed eastward. In two-way exchanges, they wrote the historical footnote of ancient China's openness and inclusiveness. And the journey of BYD retracing the Silk Road is exactly the contemporary inheritance of this open cultural thread — protecting traditional Chinese culture with the power of the brand, letting Eastern cultural threads go global with Chinese intelligence.

Giant Ship Voyage: Using Technology as Core, Building a New Pattern for Systematic Global Expansion

After a thousand years of rotation, ships going out became thousand-ton Ro-Ro giants from wooden merchant ships, the "Chinese Business Card" in the cargo hold upgraded from traditional products to China's complete new energy solutions. BYD is a typical representative of this going global upgrade, redefining the paradigm of Chinese cars going global with the hardcore strength of the full industry chain.

As of now, BYD's overseas sales have exceeded one million units, with a year-on-year growth of over 140%, and products cover over 120 countries and regions worldwide; it has its own 8 Ro-Ro ships shuttling regularly on global routes, delivering complete vehicles directly to major ports in Europe, America, and Southeast Asia, building an efficient and stable global sea freight capacity network. What carries more weight than sales growth is the qualitative change in the going global model: BYD has long jumped out of the traditional path of "single product export" and walked out a systemic path of "Technology + Infrastructure + Industry".

In Rayong, Thailand, BYD built the first overseas passenger vehicle base, achieving localization of parts and employees, and locally produced vehicles can also be exported to Europe in reverse; bases in Brazil, Uzbekistan, and Hungary are laid out synchronously, forming a complete going global closed loop of "Domestic R&D + Overseas Localization + Global Sea Freight". Of greater long-term value is the synchronous output of technology and ecology: Accompanying vehicles going global, the 2nd Generation Blade Battery, Flash Charging Energy System complete new energy solutions also go global — Europe lands the first flash charging station, Uzbekistan builds an exclusive charging network, Central Asia introduces "PV Storage Charging" integrated power station solutions. BYD no longer just sells cars overseas, but helps countries along the route build a green transportation ecosystem and promote energy structure transformation in the way of "teaching to fish".

This confidence for going global comes from the actual trial of the 10,000-mile Silk Road. From Lintong, Xi'an to Yingquan, Bozhou, from Hefei business district to Wuyi Mountain mountainous areas, to the coastal Longkangwei Service Area, the entire journey of 7 major flash charging stations strings together the 10,000-mile journey. Flash charging technology supported by 2nd Generation Blade Battery achieves hardcore performance of charging to 70% in 5 minutes, 97% in 9 minutes, even in -30℃ low temperature environment only adds 3 minutes charging time, stable output in highway, city, mountainous, coastal all scenarios. This charging strength repeatedly verified domestically is landing overseas along with complete vehicles, making China's flash charging standard a new ruler for global green transportation.

On the complex road conditions throughout the journey including inter-city highways, urban streets, mountain winding roads, and coastal wind areas, BYD's God's Eye Advanced Driving Assist provides full escort. Full-scenario NOA covers highways and urban roads, accurately identifying mountain winding roads, coastal strong winds, and heavy highway traffic flows, completing technical iteration using 10,000 miles of real road data. This smart driving system verified by all terrains of the Silk Road is also becoming the core competitiveness of BYD's overseas products.

Dynasty Series home comfort, Ocean Series young sports, DENZA luxury technology, Fangchengbao hardcore off-road, Yangwang top performance, BYD's five major product matrices complete all-terrain trials on the 10,000-mile journey; the extreme performance exhibition at two racing circuits in Zhengzhou and Shengzhou further verifies the full-dimension product strength from home commuting to million-dollar flagships. When the fleet finally arrives in Shenzhen, completes the departure ceremony in front of BYD History Museum, ships sail from Shenzhen Port, transporting whole vehicles and technology verified over 10,000 miles to over 120 countries and regions worldwide.

Eternal Core: Open Background Unchanged, Original Intention of Win-Win Unchanged

From porcelain merchant ships to Ro-Ro giants, from product output to technology going global, what changes is the carrier, the product, the depth and breadth of China's going global; what remains unchanged is the core of openness, inclusiveness, and mutual benefit.

Ancient Maritime Silk Road, China used scenery as a bond to exchange goods with the world and merge civilizations; On the new Silk Road today, BYD uses green technology as a bridge to build ecology with countries worldwide and share development dividends. The merchant ships a thousand years ago took exquisite products, and also took Eastern culture and kindness; Today's Ro-Ro giants send new energy products and technology, and also send sustainable development Chinese solutions.

BYD's systemic going global is exactly the contemporary continuation of this open win-win core. Not doing single product dumping, but taking complete industry and energy solutions to land overseas, building factories, cultivating talent, and building ecosystems locally, growing together with the local in the way of "co-building and sharing". This is consistent with the core of exchanging goods and mutual benefit symbiosis of the Maritime Silk Road a thousand years ago.

Millennium Silk Road, camel caravans carry goods connecting the world; Today's journey, BYD uses flash charging and smart driving hardcore technology, carrying all series models along the same ancient path to奔赴 sea silk ports to go global. From Xi'an to Shenzhen to South Asia, the actual trial spanning ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers is both a civilizational backtrack and a strength declaration of China's new energy industry going global. When ancient Silk Road fragrant medicines, porcelain, silk, tea and BYD represented by the "New Three Items" for going global (Batteries, New Energy Vehicles, PV Storage) meet, what we witness is not only the era leap of China from product output to technology, vehicle, charging system integrated going global, but also the new Chinese business card that Chinese intelligence reshapes the global sustainable development new order with green technology as the bond.