On the evening of January 14, Dongfeng Motor announced that Huawei executive director, chair of the Product Investment Review Committee, and chairman of the Terminal BG Yu Chengdong led a delegation to the company in recent days. Yu and his team held in-depth discussions with Dongfeng's chairman and party secretary Yang Qing, and Huang Yong, a standing member of the Party committee and deputy general manager, covering the HarmonyOS ecosystem, AI and other cutting-edge technologies, the auto industry's push toward intelligence, and corporate digital upgrades.
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In fact, the two sides have been laying the groundwork for a deeper tie-up. In May 2025, Dongfeng Motor and Huawei signed a comprehensive agreement to deepen their strategic cooperation, pledging broad, in-depth collaboration on vehicle intelligence, enterprise digitalization and upgrades, and ecosystem co-building. In September, they inaugurated a joint innovation lab, expanding the partnership from single products to full-stack technologies and steadily widening their co-innovation map. In October, a public call was launched for the DH project's Chinese name and logo. By December, the new auto brand “Yijing,” co-created by Dongfeng Motor and Huawei Qiankun, had reached a milestone as the first tooling prototype rolled off the line.
Unlike Huawei's earlier Harmony Intelligent Mobility cooperation model, the co-creation of the Yijing brand will see Huawei fully open its product development and operations system capabilities, working with Dongfeng across the full chain — from product definition and design through R&D, supply chain and manufacturing.
Huawei will also provide Yijing with a complete IPD/IPMS operating mechanism, end-to-end quality control standards and global supply chain management experience, and will equip it with the latest Qiankun driver-assistance system, a HarmonyOS cockpit, and a full stack of intelligent solutions spanning Qiankun vehicle control, in-vehicle optics and car‑cloud integration.
According to official information, Yijing’s first model is slated to make its official debut at the Beijing auto show in April 2026, with a market launch planned the same year. The brand then intends to roll out at least one all-new model annually, gradually building a lineup that spans multiple segments and vehicle types.
Looking ahead, Dongfeng Motor and Huawei said they will continue to leverage their respective strengths in intelligent manufacturing and connected technologies, explore co-building of technologies, ecosystem sharing and value co-creation, and jointly advance future-focused intelligent vehicle and smart mobility solutions. Through a high level of openness and collaboration, they aim to set a benchmark for intelligent transformation and drive the deep integration of intelligent technologies with the auto industry.
