An Tiecheng, the head of China Automotive Technology and Research Center, said: During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the automobile industry needs to cultivate new quality productive forces and promote the transformation of old and new kinetic energy.

On September 13, An Tiecheng, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Automotive Technology Research Center Co., Ltd., stated at the 2025 China Automobile Industry Development International Forum that looking back at the "14th Five-Year Plan", China's automobile industry has to some extent achieved a transformation from "being big" to "being strong", but it also faces complex and ever-changing new situations. There are still many new challenges in the development of the industry, including bottlenecks in technology such as high-end chip standards for vehicles, and resistance to the internationalization of automotive layout. Looking ahead to the "15th Five-Year Plan", the automotive industry needs to forge new production quality productivity, enhance independent innovation capabilities, smoothly promote the transformation of old and new energy of automobiles, and gradually improve the popularization of new energy vehicles and the automobile tax policy system. Regarding automotive exports, it is necessary to deepen the level of international cooperation, strengthen research on the internationalization of the automotive industry, actively participate in global governance and international standard-setting, support leading enterprises in establishing R&D centers and manufacturing bases overseas, deeply integrate into local innovation ecosystems, achieve localized production, localized R&D, and localized services.