Powerful Partnership Empowers Lightweight Innovation: Kaiyi Automobile and Hefei Changqing Sign a Technical Cooperation Memorandum


Release Date:

2025/12/12

On the afternoon of November 11, 2025, the signing ceremony for the Memorandum of Understanding on Joint Technical Research into Vehicle Body Lightweighting between Yibin Kaiyi Automobile Co., Ltd. and Hefei Changqing Machinery Co., Ltd. was successfully held in Conference Room 309 of Kaiyi’s R&D Center. Zhu Zhijun, Chief Engineer of Kaiyi Research Institute, and Wu Yingju, President of Operations at Changqing Shares, signed the agreement on behalf of their respective companies.

  On the afternoon of November 11, 2025, the signing ceremony for the Memorandum of Understanding on Joint Technical Research into Vehicle Body Lightweighting between Yibin Kaiyi Automobile Co., Ltd. and Hefei Changqing Machinery Co., Ltd. was successfully held in Meeting Room 309 of Kaiyi’s R&D Center. Zhu Zhijun, Chief Engineer of Kaiyi Research Institute, and Wu Yingju, President of Operations at Changqing Shares, signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organizations.

  

 

  This collaboration represents a strategic complementarity of the two parties’ core strengths. As the leading full-vehicle manufacturer in Sichuan Province, Kaiyi Automobile boasts comprehensive vehicle-model R&D capabilities and a mature manufacturing system, providing robust support for technological innovation.

  Changqing Shares is a high-tech enterprise in the automotive components sector, mastering core development technologies such as stamping and welding, with capabilities in concurrent engineering and large-scale production, and enjoying an excellent industry reputation.

  Automotive lightweighting is a critical pathway for the industry to achieve energy conservation, emission reduction, and performance enhancement. The two parties will focus on core areas such as the application of new materials and structural optimization, leveraging their respective strengths to conduct collaborative research and development.

  

 

  Both parties stated that the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding marks the starting point for technological collaboration. Moving forward, they will establish a regular communication mechanism to accelerate the commercialization of technological achievements, promote the practical application of lightweight technologies in complete vehicle products, enhance core competitiveness, and contribute to the green transformation of the automotive industry.