In 2026, China’s commercial vehicle industry enters a critical period of profound adjustment. New energy and intelligent technologies are accelerating penetration, stock competition intensifies, and industry “involution” has become a widespread challenge. Against this backdrop, on February 26, the CIMC‑SHACMAN “Three Excellences” Cooperation Organization Working Conference & the 40,000th Integrated Global Vehicle Delivery Ceremony was successfully held at SHACMAN, mapping out a new development direction and building new consensus.
Liu Yi, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of SHACMAN Holdings, and Li Guiping, Chairman and CEO of CIMC Vehicles, attended the event with their core management teams. Themed “Start a New Journey, Truck and Trailer Forge Ahead Together”, this grand ceremony marked the full deployment of 2026 cooperation, reviewed years of integrated development, and celebrated the milestone 40,000th delivery. It set an innovative integration paradigm for the commercial vehicle industry to break involution and pursue high-quality development, ushering in a new stage of strategic cooperation.
Breaking Industry Involution: Deepening Integration to Create 1+1>2 Synergy
In recent years, amid macro challenges and cyclical fluctuations, the commercial vehicle industry has fallen into an involution dilemma. CIMC Vehicles and SHACMAN stepped beyond single‑dimensional competition, adopting a philosophy of connectivity, complementarity, and open symbiosis to forge a distinctive path of coordinated development. This provided a practical model to respond to national policies against unfair price competition and upgrade industry value.
Their deep‑rooted cooperation is a natural choice guided by policies and targeted at industry pain points. In 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected SHACMAN and delivered important instructions on “new models, new business formats, new products, and new technologies”. The CIMC‑SHACMAN integrated model became a flagship practice of this vision. Even before 2022, the two sides had maintained close cooperation in the upper‑body assembly sector, with CIMC’s high‑quality products strongly supporting SHACMAN’s leading position in dump trucks.
In September 2022, CIMC and SHACMAN reached a strategic consensus on full‑range model cooperation, with the core vision of building “One Automaker” truck‑trailer brand. True to the original aspiration of
“Excellent Horse with Excellent Saddle, Excellent Tractor with Excellent Trailer, Excellent Truck with Excellent Tank”,
they set the strategic “1‑3‑5‑7” framework:
- 1 vision: “One Automaker” brand
- 3 wins: customers, CIMC, SHACMAN
- 5 excellences: easy to choose, easy to buy, easy to use, easy to sell, easy to service
- 7 integrations: organization, channels, branding, delivery, marketing policies, product development, and service collaboration
Highlights included cross‑appointment of marketing teams, full channel integration, unified brand promotion via “Three Excellences” centers, and aligned marketing policies. The tested integration model built a strong industrial moat against market volatility, demonstrating remarkable resilience and strategic resolve.
40,000th Delivery Sets New Industry Benchmark
From strategic partnership to deep integration, from product coordination to ecosystem construction, CIMC and SHACMAN achieved far more than resource stacking—it was strategic innovation breaking industry barriers.
At the conference, Li Guiping stated that the two sides would continue to focus on innovation and global expansion to drive high-quality development. Liu Yi emphasized that deep integration in marketing, products, and team management forged irreplicable core competitiveness. Guided by the “Four New” instructions, SHACMAN would seize new energy and intelligent opportunities to deepen cooperation and pursue triple wins.
From the first “Three Excellences” center in Xi’an in December 2022 to 14 centers by 2025, and a planned 19 in 2026, integration expanded across products, marketing, channels, and services. The integrated product evolved from Version 1.0 to 4.0, while the Hannover Plan and globalization accelerated. Against headwinds, the partnership achieved a strong breakthrough.
40,000 Milestone: Hardcore Integration Leading Industry Value
The 40,000th delivery was not merely a numerical breakthrough, but strong recognition from the market and customers, proof of years of deep synergy.
To date, total integrated vehicle sales exceeded 40,000 units:
- Excellent Tractor + Excellent Trailer: over 18,000 units
- Excellent Horse + Excellent Saddle: over 19,000 units
- Excellent Truck + Excellent Tank: over 3,000 units
The high penetration rate validated the appeal of the “One Automaker” brand and its ability to deliver superior full‑vehicle solutions.
During the ceremony, chairmen Liu Yi and Li Guiping dotted the eyes of the auspicious lion, symbolizing great fortune and momentum. Senior executives handed over the golden key and 40,000th honorary certificate to key strategic customers. With the launch order, the 40,000th integrated vehicle convoy departed, demonstrating confidence and strength to the entire industry.
Dual Drive of Technology & Value: Integrated 4.0 for Green Intelligent Logistics
Behind the 40,000 milestone lay persistent R&D, customer‑centric value, and full implementation of the “Seven Integrations”. Amid China’s “Dual Carbon” strategy, logistics shifted toward green, efficient, and intelligent operations, with competition evolving to full lifecycle value.
CIMC and SHACMAN’s integration went far beyond physical combination. Through coordinated R&D, integrated products advanced from 1.0 (matching) to 2.0 (control), 3.0 (information), and 4.0 (new energy). More than 54 integrated functions and technologies were developed, realizing “joint design, joint verification, joint breakthrough” across the industrial chain.
Service integration leveraged SHACMAN’s network for one‑stop maintenance and truck‑trailer 托管，enhancing TCO value and customer satisfaction.
As the flagship achievement, CIMC‑SHACMAN Integrated 4.0 featured truck‑trailer coordination and full‑domain intelligence. Designed for new energy logistics, it integrated resistance optimization, cooperative energy recovery, and combined braking, deeply merging energy efficiency, data, control, and safety. It eliminated matching losses and operational risks from traditional separate systems, cutting per‑kilometer costs and boosting efficiency.
New Journey: Integrated Upgrading to Foster New Quality Productive Forces
Exceeding 40,000 units is both a milestone and a new starting point.
As the industry upgrades in technology, business models, and ecosystems, CIMC and SHACMAN will take this milestone as an opportunity to deepen strategic cooperation, uphold the world’s original “One Automaker” concept, and focus on Integrated 4.0 products.
Amid industry imitation of truck‑trailer integration, the partners will accelerate joint R&D in new energy and intelligence, improve full lifecycle services, optimize product portfolios, and foster new quality productive forces. Through the “Starlink Plan”, they will build a healthy, win‑win industrial ecosystem.
Committed to “Better, Unique, Advanced”, they will jointly create “Five Excellence” truck‑trailer combinations and provide turnkey integrated solutions. Together, they will ride the wave of industrial transformation, driving the commercial vehicle sector toward high-end, intelligent, and green development.
From 0 to 40,000 units, CIMC and SHACMAN achieved quantitative leap and qualitative upgrading. Their integration model not only sustained market competitiveness but also injected new momentum into the industry to overcome involution. It accelerated SHACMAN’s product and technology upgrading, provided replicable experience for the whole industry, and is becoming a global benchmark for commercial vehicle integration.
In the future, CIMC and SHACMAN will continue to accompany logistics customers with strong products, quality services, and a complete ecosystem, jointly drawing a new blueprint for synergistic development. The powerful wheels of integrated truck‑trailer systems will march toward a broader future, helping China’s commercial vehicle industry reach new global heights of intelligence, greenness, efficiency, and sustainability.
