WeRide CEO Wins First Prize of China Society of Automotive Engineers Science and Technology Progress Award

[CNMO Tech News] November 5, WeRide Founder and CEO Dr. Han Xu received the "2026 China Society of Automotive Engineers Science and Technology Progress Award" First Prize. It is reported that Han Xu was the only representative from an L4 autonomous driving enterprise in this year's award list, this identity label made the significance of the award surpass the scope of personal honor, pointing to the industry-level recognition that L4 autonomous driving enterprises are gaining in safety governance and engineering implementation.

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The winning project this time is the "Key Technologies and Applications for Safety Governance of L2-L4 Driving Automation Systems". According to official disclosures, this project was led by the Vehicle Industry Development Center, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, with GAC Group, Xiaomi Auto, FAW Group, etc., as joint completion units winning together. The project covers a cross-level safety governance framework from L2 assisted driving to L4 highly autonomous driving, participants include research institutions under industry regulatory authorities, traditional large automobile groups and new force car companies. As the only L4 autonomous driving enterprise representative among them, WeRide undertook the key role of high-level autonomous driving safety verification and engineering practice.

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The award relies on the scaled operation fact WeRide has already formed in the L4 autonomous driving field. According to WeRide official and financial report information, its global L4 fleet scale is about 3,600 vehicles. Robotaxi services have entered more than 13 core cities globally, and achieved fully unmanned commercial operation in Guangzhou, Beijing, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai. In the Middle East region, the fully unmanned operations in Abu Dhabi and Dubai have covered more than 70% of the core urban area, with a local fleet scale of about 400 vehicles; in Europe, WeRide entered Madrid, Spain and Zurich, Switzerland through cooperation with Uber; in Asia, partnered with Grab to launch public operations in Singapore. The business as a whole has expanded to 13 countries, more than 60 cities, covering core regions such as Middle East, Europe, Asia, etc.