Li Jiaying
Li Jiaying covers the transformation of China’s automobile industry for China Daily, concentrating on new energy vehicles, export momentum and the policy frameworks that shape the sector’s global standing.
New energy vehicles and market milestones
Her core line of coverage follows the rise of new energy vehicles from a fast-growing segment to a majority share of domestic auto sales. She reports on monthly surges in NEV sales, including pieces on record-setting volumes and the impact of July’s jump in new energy vehicle sales on broader market performance.
She tracks structural milestones such as NEVs exceeding 50 percent of October auto sales and the way that threshold changes the dynamics of China’s auto market. Her work also looks at how a shift toward intelligent electric vehicles is reshaping consumer expectations and enthusiasm, linking product features to demand rather than treating NEV growth as a purely numerical story.
Global expansion of Chinese automakers
Another defining strand of her reporting examines how Chinese automakers move from domestic strength to global reach. She writes on exporters benefiting from strong overseas demand, detailing how manufacturers leverage competitive products and pricing to build markets abroad. Her coverage of EV producers finding a foothold in the United States focuses on the early stages of that entry, including sales growth and the strategic positioning needed to establish a sustainable presence.
She follows individual companies, such as BYD, as they report robust overseas growth against a more complex domestic backdrop, showing how different markets offset one another.
Her pieces often use comparative data to show where Chinese brands sit in the global hierarchy, including articles on more Chinese automakers entering the top global sales ranks and overtaking long-established Japanese rivals in Europe. She reports specific rankings and year-on-year sales growth to illustrate how brands like BYD, Geely, Chery, Changan, SAIC Motor and Great Wall Motor move into the world’s top tier of automakers. The emphasis on market share, volume and relative performance makes her international coverage more analytical than descriptive, giving a clear sense of how China’s automakers change the balance of the global industry.
Industry data, rules and pricing
Li Jiaying’s work is grounded in industry statistics and regulatory detail, which she uses to frame both domestic and global developments.
She reports on assessments from industry bodies that show China’s auto sector exceeding expectations, highlighting how production and sales figures outpace forecasts. Her coverage of China’s auto production and sales ranking first globally for the 17th consecutive year uses detailed output and sales numbers to underline the scale and consistency of that lead.
These data-driven articles place individual company results in the context of national trends, clarifying the size of the domestic market and its importance to global supply.
She also follows rule-making that affects the industry’s future trajectory, from pricing regulations designed to support healthier growth in the auto sector to automated driving system rules that incorporate Chinese technical input. Her article on new pricing rules explains how regulatory changes aim to curb harmful practices and stabilize competition, linking policy decisions to expected market behavior. In coverage of ADS rules, she shows how standards for advanced driving systems are shaped and how Chinese stakeholders contribute to those frameworks, connecting regulatory architecture to innovation and international coordination.
A piece outlining a road map for smarter, greener vehicles ties these elements together, showing how planning for intelligent, low-emission transport aligns industrial policy with environmental and technology goals.
Technology and the mobility ecosystem
Beyond pure sales and policy, her beat extends into the technology that underpins modern mobility. She reports on Geely’s partnership with NVIDIA to build an AI-driven mobility ecosystem, describing how collaboration on computing platforms and software supports connected and intelligent vehicles. That coverage treats automaking as part of a broader ecosystem that includes cloud services, AI chips and data infrastructure, rather than as an isolated manufacturing activity. In a separate piece on a Chinese memory chipmaker narrowing the gap with the global top three, she shows how progress in semiconductor performance and scale supports the country’s ambitions in advanced industries, including automotive electronics. Together, these articles position her not just as an auto reporter but as a journalist tracking the intersection of vehicles, digital technology and industrial competitiveness.
Her bylines on these subjects span at least late 2025 through 2026, reflecting sustained attention to new energy vehicles, global expansion, regulatory change and the technology stack behind future mobility. Across these strands, she distinguishes herself by using firm data points, rankings and specific policy moves to anchor narratives about China’s evolving role in the global auto and mobility landscape.
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