Huawei's Yinwang CEO Says Autonomous Driving Will Reshape Mobility as L3 Rules Approach

The first is an acceleration from assisted driving to autonomous driving. Jin cited Ministry of Industry and Information Technology data showing that by September this year, the installation rate of L2 and above assisted driving had reached 70%. The ministry is carrying out L3 autonomous driving access tests, and the mandatory standard has been officially released and will take effect on July 1, 2027, he said.

The second change is higher safety requirements. At L2 assisted driving, the driver is the responsible party in an accident, but at L3 and above, the system bears safety responsibility, Jin said. He added that Yinwang disclosed assisted driving mileage and safety data to the whole industry at the beginning of this year. Cumulative assisted driving mileage has reached nearly 17 billion kilometers, and safety data comparing assisted driving with human driving is published on its official website.

The third change is a new travel paradigm. Jin said autonomous driving will make travel safer and car use more convenient. Once autonomous driving is普及, vehicles could automatically park, charge, wash, pick up children and buy coffee, he said, adding that this will reconstruct mobility.

Asked about Huawei's role in the technology ecosystem and how it works with automakers, Jin said Yinwang has insisted since its founding on being an incremental component supplier for intelligent connected vehicles, positioning itself as an "electronic screw" to help automaker partners build and sell better cars without competing with them. The position has not changed, he said.

Jin outlined three areas of cooperation. First, Yinwang will bring high-safety, high-quality smart vehicle solutions to more users. During the seven-day National Day holiday, Huawei Qiankun ADS averaged nearly 80 million kilometers of assisted driving per day, totaling nearly 560 million kilometers over the seven days, he said. Yinwang will continue technological innovation and engineering optimization to offer richer, more reliable and more cost-competitive product portfolios. Research and development investment this year will be nearly 20 billion yuan, and the company will maintain such high-intensity investment, Jin said.

Second, Yinwang will expand cooperation with industry ecosystem partners beyond deep vehicle intelligence collaboration with automakers. It recently signed a strategic battery-swap cooperation with CATL and Shidai Dianfu. Vehicles equipped with Qiankun ADS can autonomously find and enter a swap station and complete the swap in under 99 seconds, fully automatically, according to Jin. This extends its smart battery-swap service on top of an existing charging-pile ecosystem that has reached the million-unit level.

Third, Yinwang aims to move from large-scale application in the Chinese market to global value co-creation. Jin said the healthy and sustainable development of the autonomous driving industry requires deep coordination on global industrial policies, standards, regulations and application scenarios. Yinwang is willing to work closely with domestic and foreign automakers to promote interoperability of global autonomous driving standards and regulations and to build the industrial ecosystem, he said.

Editor's Summary

Jin Yuzhi used the Beijing conference to position autonomous driving as the next phase of intelligent vehicles, citing 70% L2+ penetration and China's L3 rules due in 2027. He also reiterated Yinwang's role as a supplier rather than an automaker competitor and pointed to battery-swap cooperation and global standards as areas of expansion. The remarks show how Huawei-linked Yinwang is tying its component strategy to the rollout of higher-level autonomous driving.