Multi-dimensional Breakthroughs: Chery Delivers High-Quality Growth Report in First Half of 2026

In the first half of 2026, competition in the automotive industry continued to intensify, and market structures accelerated iteration. Chery Group, relying on clear strategic layouts, deep independent technology accumulation, and a mature global operation system, achieved comprehensive breakthroughs in four dimensions: sales scale, quality reputation, globalization progress, and frontier technology layout. It continuously achieved landmark results such as record-breaking sales figures, industry-recognized quality certifications, global production and sales milestones, and a spot on the Fortune Global 500 list, delivering a highly valuable report on high-quality development for the first half of the year with stable growth resilience, leading business performance, and diversified technology layout.

From the perspective of market sales volume, in the first half of 2026, Chery Group's cumulative vehicle sales reached 1.3575 million units, a year-on-year increase of 7.7%, refreshing the highest sales record for the same period since the brand's establishment and solidifying its status as a top-tier independent brand. Behind the outstanding data, exports and new energy businesses form the core dual engines driving growth, becoming Chery's core advantage distinguishing it from most peers. In the first half, Chery's total overseas export volume reached 943,800 units, a significant year-on-year increase of 71.5%. On average, one Chery vehicle is shipped to various global destinations every 17 seconds. Relying on solid product strength, the brand continued to achieve breakthroughs in market share in global high-regulation standard markets such as Europe, the UK, and Australia. Currently, Chery's global overseas user scale is approaching 7 million, accounting for 35% of the brand's total user base. The overseas market has become the core foundation supporting the brand's long-term development.

At the level of going global model, Chery has long moved beyond the primary trade mode of simply exporting vehicles, building a unique 'Integrative Going Global' paradigm. Currently, Chery has laid out six core overseas manufacturing nodes in Spain, South Africa, Brazil, Russia, Thailand, and Iran, building a localized production network covering key global markets. Among them, the Spain EBRO plant deepens into the European local market, and the South Africa Roslyn plant takes over the capacity of a century-old automotive manufacturing base. All major overseas factories adhere to deep localization operations, hiring a large number of local employees, cultivating local upstream and downstream supply chains, complying with local regulations, and implementing various public welfare projects. They abandoned the simple replication of domestic factory expansion ideas, achieving a model upgrade from 'simply selling cars' to 'rooting locally and co-developing', providing replicable and referenceable industry samples for the globalization development of Chinese brands.

At the level of product and service quality, Chery achieved a landmark industry breakthrough in 2026, sweeping first place in four core research independent brand categories of J.D.Power New Car Quality IQS, Product Appeal APEAL, Purchase Experience PXI, and After-sales Service CSI. It became the first domestic automotive enterprise to achieve the 'Grand Slam' of this evaluation. The four authoritative evaluations cover vehicle factory quality, driving product experience, terminal purchase service, and after-sales maintenance full life cycle. Leading evaluation results in all dimensions fully verify Chery's long-term adherence to the quality manufacturing system implementation, achieving a benign development pattern of 'steady sales growth and simultaneous consolidation of reputation'. Meanwhile, Chery's frontier intelligent industry layout has yielded results. Its Moji Robotics business has completed global scaled implementation. Products have entered more than 60 countries globally, covering hundreds of commercial and industrial scenarios. Until the first half of the year, global cumulative sales exceeded 2,000 units. The humanoid robotics business has officially become Chery's new technology going global business card, marking Chery's transition from a traditional complete vehicle manufacturing enterprise to a multi-track technology group.

From the first half of 2026 to July, Chery continuously welcomed two key milestones worthy of being recorded in the brand's development history. The first milestone was reaching a global cumulative sales breakthrough of 20 million units on July 25. Looking back on the 29-year development process, Chery has always stuck to the independent R&D route, breaking industry inherent prejudices such as 'no joint venture, difficult to develop' and 'low volume cannot independently develop core technology', paving a completely independent and controllable Chinese automotive development path. 20 million units is not the end of development, but a brand new starting point. Currently, Chery has simultaneously laid out frontier tracks such as high-level intelligent driving, flying cars, embodied intelligence robots, '3G Strategy', and even controlled nuclear fusion. It continues to break the industry boundaries of traditional car companies, evolving steadily into a global high-tech group.

Another heavyweight milestone is Chery Automobile successfully listing on the 2026 Fortune Global 500 list as an independent listed company entity, ranking 383rd, and also being the only complete vehicle enterprise newly listed in mainland China this year. At the level of business performance, Chery's Return on Equity (ROE) exceeded 36%, ranking 30th globally among this year's Fortune 500 enterprises, and first among all listed Chinese enterprises. Different from many enterprises that rely on revenue volume to be listed, Chery listed this year as an independent listed entity, reflecting the comprehensive maturity of the enterprise's modern governance system and market-oriented operation mechanism. It further broke the single evaluation standard of the industry competing only on production and sales scale, proving that besides scale growth, Chery simultaneously possesses industry-leading profitability and efficient asset turnover capabilities, completing the key strategic turnaround from simple scale expansion to high-quality benefit growth.

The accumulation of multiple outstanding results fully demonstrates Chery's all-round, multi-level comprehensive competitiveness in the first half of 2026. Standing at the six-month development node, relying on a huge global user base, perfect overseas manufacturing network, industry-leading quality endorsement, and diversified frontier technology reserves, Chery's growth momentum continues to be sufficient. In the second half of the year, Chery will continue to amplify the dual growth curve advantages of exports and new energy, relying on 20 million global user accumulation and Fortune 500 platform momentum. It will continuously deepen independent core technology innovation, deepen global localization ecological layout, steadily promote the construction of a global high-tech group, continuously consolidate the foundation of high-quality development of independent brands, and convey the core force of Chinese automotive industry upward breakthrough to the global market.