Changan Automobile

Chongqing Changan Automobile Co., Ltd. presents itself as a global mobility-technology company with 45 years of vehicle-manufacturing experience. [1] Its business covers vehicle development, manufacturing, sales and service, and its current brand portfolio includes CHANGAN, CHANGAN NEVO, CHANGAN DEEPAL, AVATR and CHANGAN LCV. [1] The company also lists joint ventures with Changan Ford, Changan Mazda and JMC. [1]

Changan’s current global footprint includes products available in 129 countries and regions, 93 plants worldwide, more than 19,000 sales and service outlets, more than 14,000 dealers and over 1,100 global suppliers. [1] The company says its international R&D system includes more than 24,000 engineers and technical professionals, 44 technology centers, 20 technology companies and more than 200 laboratories, with more than 7% of annual revenue invested in research and development. [1]

The company organizes its transformation around a Green Plan, an Intelligent Plan and a Vast Ocean Plan. [1] Changan’s 2025 ESG report says that in 2025 it sold 2.913 million vehicles, including more than 1.1 million new-energy vehicles, and continued work on electrification, batteries, intelligent mobility, software, global expansion and full-value-chain decarbonization. [2]

Changan’s relevance to cross-company technology cooperation is especially visible in AVATR. [3] Changan’s current AVATR profile identifies Changan Automobile as the first-largest shareholder with a 40.99% stake and CATL as the second-largest with 14.1%; it describes Huawei as a strategic partner supplying intelligent components such as advanced-driver-assistance algorithms and intelligent-cockpit solutions. [3] The profile says AVATR combines Changan manufacturing, CATL battery technology and Huawei smart-mobility components in a premium intelligent-EV platform. [3]