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Dongfeng Motor, COSCO SHIPPING deepen strategic partnership
On May 12, Dongfeng Motor and COSCO SHIPPING signed a new round of strategic cooperation agreements in Wuhan, marking an upgraded phase in their long-term partnership.
Under the agreement, the two sides will deepen collaboration in key areas including overseas logistics and autonomous container trucks for smart ports. The latest deal represents a major upgrade to their original cooperation established in 2017, aligning more closely with Dongfeng’s accelerating global expansion strategy.
To ensure efficient execution, both companies plan to establish a multi-level, cross-functional coordination mechanism covering vehicle procurement, autonomous port logistics, shipping capacity, and overseas business development. Through integrated strategic planning, resource sharing, and project coordination, the partnership aims to strengthen global supply chain resilience and accelerate the intelligent transformation of China’s automotive export ecosystem.
Qijing completes strategic capital increase exceeding RMB 1 billion
Qijing Auto, a new energy vehicle brand jointly developed by GAC Group and Huawei, has completed a strategic capital increase of more than RMB 1 billion, bringing in major investors including CATL, Bosch-affiliated Boyuan Capital, CITIC Securities-backed funds, and several state-owned investment institutions from the Greater Bay Area. The company has also established an employee stock ownership platform as part of its mixed-ownership reform initiative.
The latest financing round places a strong emphasis on industrial capital. CATL, the world’s leading EV battery manufacturer, is expected to provide stable battery supply and technological support, while Boyuan Capital brings extensive expertise in the new energy vehicle sector to facilitate deeper industrial and technological synergies. The participation of diversified investors not only broadens the company’s shareholder base, but also reflects strong market confidence in its long-term growth potential.
Prior to the capital increase, Qijing was wholly owned by GAC Group and GAC Aion, with shareholding ratios of approximately 71.43% and 28.57%, respectively. Following the transaction, the two shareholders’ combined stake has been diluted to around 70%, while they retain controlling interest. The company will adopt a more market-oriented operating mechanism, enabling greater flexibility in decision-making and independent commercial operations.
Xiaomi unveils VLA autonomous driving framework Xiaomi OneVL
On May 13, Xiaomi officially introduced Xiaomi OneVL, a one-step latent space vision-language reasoning framework designed for autonomous driving applications. The framework is the first to integrate Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, world models, and latent space reasoning into a unified architecture, significantly improving both inference speed and accuracy while maintaining strong reasoning capabilities.
According to Xiaomi, OneVL adopts a dual-supervision mechanism that combines language reasoning with future visual prediction. This approach embeds both interpretability and the predictive capabilities of world models directly into the latent reasoning process.
At the core of the framework is the idea that autonomous driving requires more than compressed language-based reasoning. Instead, it depends on a comprehensive understanding of how the visual world evolves over time. Driving decisions are shaped by spatiotemporal causal relationships involving vehicle motion, road geometry, and obstacle evolution. Xiaomi argues that compressing language information alone risks losing critical structural cues, whereas compressing predictions of future visual scenes can preserve the key elements that ultimately determine driving outcomes more effectively.
