Jin Yuzhi: Autonomous Driving Will Reshape New Ways of Travel

On October 21, the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference was held in Beijing. Jin Yuzhi, Senior Vice President of Huawei and CEO of Yinwang, attended the summit dialogue session and shared his views on topics including the changes in the second half of the intelligentization era and Yinwang's role in the technology ecosystem.

Jin Yuzhi pointed out that three major changes are taking place in the "second half of intelligentization." First, the industry is accelerating its shift from assisted driving to autonomous driving. According to statistics from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as of September this year, the installation rate of L2 and above assisted driving has reached 70%. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is carrying out L3 autonomous driving access testing in an orderly manner, and the mandatory standard has also been officially released and will be formally implemented starting July 1, 2027. I believe this policy has laid a very good foundation for the development of the entire industry.

Second, autonomous driving places higher demands on safety. In the L2 assisted driving stage, the party responsible for accidents is the driver, but in the L3 and above autonomous driving stage, the safety responsibility is borne by the system. Based on this consideration, Yinwang publicly disclosed assisted driving mileage and safety data to the entire industry at the beginning of this year. At present, cumulative assisted driving mileage has reached nearly 17 billion kilometers, and the safety data of assisted driving compared with human driving is also published on the official website. This is to build better user trust.

Third, autonomous driving will reconstruct a completely new future mobility paradigm. Why do I say that? Because with the arrival of autonomous driving, travel will be safer and using a car will be more convenient. It is conceivable that once autonomous driving is popularized, vehicles will be able to achieve functions such as automatic parking, automatic charging, automatic car washing, automatic picking up and dropping off children, and automatic coffee purchasing, which will reconstruct the way people travel. This is what I think is the biggest difference for us in the second half.

Regarding the question of high industry concern, "How will Huawei's role in the technology ecosystem evolve? How will it collaborate with automakers?" Jin Yuzhi said: "Since its birth, Yinwang has insisted on being a supplier of incremental components for intelligent connected vehicles, positioning itself as an 'electronic screw,' helping automaker partners build good cars and sell good cars, and not competing with automakers. This positioning has never changed in any way."

He further explained that looking to the future, Yinwang's collaboration with the industry is mainly reflected in three aspects:

First, bring high-safety, high-quality smart vehicle solutions to more users. Although we are currently in the assisted driving stage, users are already able to obtain significant value. Taking the seven-day National Day holiday as an example, Huawei Qiankun Smart Driving averaged nearly 80 million kilometers of assisted driving per day, with cumulative mileage of nearly 560 million kilometers over the seven days. Based on strong user demand, Yinwang will provide a richer, more reliable, and more cost-competitive portfolio of smart vehicle solution products through continuous technological innovation and engineering optimization. This year our R&D investment is nearly 20 billion yuan, and we will continue to maintain such high-intensity investment in the future, so that more users can use our solutions and enjoy safer and better intelligent travel experiences.

Second, on the basis of deeply carrying out whole-vehicle intelligentization collaboration with automaker partners, further expand collaboration with industry ecosystem partners. Recently, Yinwang signed a strategic cooperation on battery swapping with CATL and Shidai Dianfu. Vehicles equipped with Qiankun Smart Driving can autonomously find (battery swapping) stations, enter (battery swapping) stations, and swap batteries, with the entire process completed within 99 seconds and fully automated. This is a further expansion of intelligent battery swapping services by Huawei Qiankun Smart Driving on the basis of having already connected to a million-level charging pile ecosystem. This ecosystem can bring users a better experience and make driving safer and car use more convenient.

Third, move from large-scale application in the Chinese market toward global value co-creation. The healthy and sustainable development of the autonomous driving industry cannot be separated from the deep collaborative construction of global industrial policies, standards and regulations, and application scenarios. Yinwang is willing to deeply collaborate and closely link with domestic and foreign automakers to jointly promote the mutual integration and interconnection of global autonomous driving standards and regulations and the co-construction of the industrial ecosystem. We hope that in this way we can jointly promote the better development of global autonomous driving.

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