The 2025 AI+ Auto Digital Intelligence Innovation & Sharing Annual Conference themed “Creating AI Momentum, Sharing Digital Intelligence Transformation” Held grandly in Wuhan

Abstract: Raising the Smart Flame for AI Empowerment!

AI and the automotive industry are integrating deeply at an unprecedented pace. How to derive value from scenarios through the full-value-chain digital intelligence upgrading of AI+ auto digital intelligence in “R&D, production, supply, sales, service and management”? During the 15th Five-year Plan period, how should automakers realize digitally intelligent, large-scale, low-carbon, synergetic and global development with high quality? On September 19, the 2025 AI+ Auto Digital Intelligence Innovation & Sharing Annual Conference and Automotive Industry "15th Five-Year Plan" Digital Intelligence Development Summit themed “Creating AI Momentum, Sharing Digital Intelligence Transformation” kicked off grandly in Wuhan.

The conference focused on applications of AI+ auto digital intelligence scenarios and hot topics of automakers during the 15th Five-year Plan period, and featured one summit forum, five themed sub-forums, and eight co-creation exhibitions of AI+ auto digital intelligence full-value-chain applications. Over 600 industry elites from over 300 enterprises nationwide gathered here. Leading figures in the industry analyzed industry trends, renowned experts explored frontier technologies, and elites from automakers shared innovation practices, exploring new opportunities of AI+ auto digital intelligence development through AI scenario innovation.

Discussing AI+ Auto Digital Intelligence Scenarios and the Development of Automakers During the 15th Five-Year Plan Period

- Brilliant Insights from Leading Figures

At the summit forum, discussions were conducted around hot topics such as AI innovation scenarios, innovative technologies, and innovation practices. Han Lijuan, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the China Association of Productivity Promotion Centers, and a leader of Wuhan Economic & Technological Development Zone, addressed the conference. Tan Jianrong, professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University; Xu Changming, former Deputy Director of the State Information Center; Li Hongwei, SVP of the Information System Division / Organization Process and Change Department, Corporate Management Division, Dongfeng Nissan Passenger Vehicle Company; Tao Xianfeng, Senior Director of Digitalization of Voyah Auto; Li Xin, Head of the Information Technology Department, Shaanxi Automobile Holding Group; Liu Xinlong, Senior Director of Automotive Solutions of Volc Engine; Hu Yongli, General Manager of Lan-You Technology, and other leading figures in the industry discussed frontier trends and AI+ auto digital intelligence transformation practices.

AI Reshapes the Industry Landscape Driven by New Quality Productive Forces

Han Lijuan, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the China Association of Productivity Promotion Centers, mentioned in her address that the close integration of AI and the automotive industry has become an important force in promoting industry transformation and upgrading. Developing new quality productive forces is an inherent requirement and an important pickup point for the high-quality development of the automotive industry in the new era. She summarized the directions for the high-quality development of the automotive industry in the new era: The first is driving revolutionary technological breakthroughs and fostering long-term leading advantages, the second is improving the resilience of industry and supply chains to ensure safe and stable development, and the third is accelerating interdisciplinary integration and development, and giving rise to new industries, new models and new driving forces.

Tan Jianrong delivered the keynote speech titled “Embracing AI for Innovative Product Designs”. He mentioned that new-generation information technologies such as the IoT, augmented reality, cloud computing, and deep learning are changing product design, manufacturing, use and maintenance in the automotive industry profoundly, and promoting the comprehensive digital intelligence transformation of the industry. He emphasized that the three disruptive technologies of big data, large models, and high computing power are converging, and knowledge mining by data, design empowerment by knowledge, and manufacturing led by design can be achieved by building industry big data and large model centers. Currently, the automotive industry is taking on important trends such as being electric, lightweight, intelligent, networked and green. Digital and intelligent technologies have been fully integrated into the full lifecycle of product design, process planning, manufacturing management, service operation and maintenance, and even recycling. Digital technology is a new quality productive force for Chinese manufacturing, design is the only way to build Chinese manufacturing brands, and innovative design is a core competency of Chinese manufacturers.

Xu Changming interpreted development trends of the automotive industry during the 15th Five-Year Plan period in depth. He pointed out that China’s automotive industry is undergoing three major structural changes: The ratio of ICE vehicles to EVs will reach 3:7, where the electrification trend is irreversible, and NEVs and ICE vehicles are coexistent and integrated; the ratio of joint venture brands to domestic brands is 3:7, where domestic brands are seizing new opportunities of electrification and intelligence to achieve rapid growth, while there are still opportunities for foreign brands in the future; Chinese brands are expanding constantly in overseas markets through persistent efforts, and emerging markets become an important growth pole. He stressed that rapid electrification will necessitate the rapid development of digital and intelligent capabilities of enterprises, and the development of domestic brands on a larger scale relies on the improvement of enterprise management level, and requires the whole industry chain to be digital and intelligent directly; during the globalization of Chinese automotive brands, especially intelligent EV brands, how to manage and compliantly use data is the key.

Enterprise Innovation Aachievements: Exploring New Models of AI+ Auto Digital Intelligence Transformation Together

Hu Yongli delivered the keynote speech titled “AI Application Innovation Model in the Automotive Industry—Lan-You AI Factory”. Currently, AI has become a highly popular field in technological development, and AI applications have become a focus of enterprise innovation. He analyzed AI application opportunities and challenges, and proposed Lan-You’s innovative model of AI Factory, which covers scenario-driven methods, an open and collaborative technology ecosystem, an organization that deeply integrates businesses and technologies, and massive AI application scenarios. This aims to help customers in the automotive industry break bottlenecks in AI application innovation, truly integrate business processes, and make a profound breakthrough in a specific field. 

Based on the innovative AI Factory model, Lan-You Technology plans to build an AI application scenario library for the automotive industry. Currently, 106 applications have been implemented, and 146 are being developed. In the future, it will build 1,000+AI application scenarios covering the full value chain of “R&D, production, supply, sales, service, and management” in hopes of entering a new era of automotive AI+ applications together with automakers and industry partners.

Li Hongwei delivered the keynote speech titled “Dongfeng Nissan: Going forward through Transformation in ‘Intelligence’ and ‘Competition’”. He pointed out that the Dongfeng Nissan N7 became the first joint venture battery EV model with over 10,000 vehicles delivered in a month through key breakthrough paths such as process, organization and IT. Dongfeng Nissan, with the GLOCAL strategy being its core, is promoting changes in the marketing IPMS, supply chain (vehicles and processes), manufacturing (IPD), and aftersales operations, and becoming a user-oriented and technology-based enterprise at a faster pace through system upgrading. At the “transformation path” level, Dongfeng Nissan focuses on product intelligence and business intelligence, from “pattern recognition” to “world understanding”, All in AI, Accelerate change.

Tao Xianfeng delivered the keynote speech titled “AI+ Auto Digital Intelligence Upgrading”, proposing that the industry is undergoing the evolutionary path from the explosion of general large models to the parallel development of multiple modes and small models, and then to the development of inference reinforcement, cost reduction and efficiency improvement. Based on the concept of “business pain points + technology development, data-driven + product definition, agile iteration + result orientation” and other large model building ideas, Voyah Auto relies on data and computing power to build a panoramic view of Voyah’s large model architecture covering multiple fields such as R&D, manufacturing, branding, marketing, cockpits, and office work.

Li Xin shared the practical experience of Shaanxi Automobile’s digital transformation. He introduced Shaanxi Automobile’s transformation path from informatization to intelligent ecosystem building systematically, where it promoted operational optimization and strategic innovation systematically through the organizational, cultural and control supporting systems with focus on the “two major digital intelligence directions of processes and products” based on the “cloud native digital base”. He proposed that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Shaanxi Automobile will set its strategic direction as “being data-driven, intelligent cloud integration, and independent controllability”, practice key measures such as business digitization, operational excellence, independent technological development, data governance value release, cloud and security dual drives, and resource and mechanism support, and become an industry-leading digital enterprise.

Liu Xinlong shared the keynote speech titled “Auto Digital Intelligence Restructuring by AI Cloud Native”. He mentioned that large models have brought important opportunities and new changes to enterprises in 2025, cloud native technology can support resilient resource scheduling, real-time data processing, and rapid AI iteration for automakers, and provide a sustainably evolving technological base for intelligent vehicles.

The Smart Flame Program Launched to Promote the Successful Application of AI+ Auto Full-Value-Chain Scenarios Together

The Smart Flame Program is a full-value-chain application scenario library for AI+ auto research, production, supply, marketing, service and management created by Lan-You Technology together with automaker customers, ecosystem partners, etc. 100+ scenarios were released at this event, with 1,000+ scenarios planned. In the future, it will invest 120 million yuan to promote the successful application of AI+ auto full-value-chain scenarios. At the conference, Lan-You Technology invited automaker customers, ecosystem partners, universities, etc. to witness the launch of the Smart Flame Program, and raised the smart flame for AI empowerment alongside AI scenario innovation!

Five Themed Sub-Forums:

In-Depth Discussions on Hot Trends in AI+ Industry

In the afternoon, heated discussions were conducted and real stuff shared at the five sub-forums on intelligent manufacturing, digital marketing, auto finance, automotive terminal-cloud integration, and smart purchasing! Industry experts including Lang Xuehong, Deputy Secretary-General of the China Automobile Dealers Association; Cui Dongshu, Secretary-General of the China Passenger Car Association, China Automobile Dealers Association; Zhou Wei, Deputy Secretary-General of the Auto Finance Association, China Automobile Dealers Association; Song Xiang, Deputy Secretary-General of the Public Procurement Association, China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing; and Zou Hengqi, Honorary Chairman of the Digitalization and Intelligent Manufacturing Working Committee, China Society of Automotive Engineers gave keynote speeches on frontier trends of the AI+ automotive industry.

The AI+ Intelligent Manufacturing Sub-forum themed “A Global AI Intelligent Chain for Digital Intelligence Upgrading of Production and Research” explored how AI large models would reshape intelligent automotive manufacturing, and how to mitigate the risk of global supply chain breakage, help enterprises drive optimal decisions accurately, assist automakers in building AI intelligent manufacturing chains, and promote international supply chain presence.

The AI+ Digital Marketing Sub-forum themed “AI Data Empowering the Value Era of Automotive Marketing” analyzed how AI empowered the comprehensive innovation of marketing systems, and invited industry experts, automotive elites, etc. to share full AI marketing scenarios and unlock practical strategies. At the conference, Lan-You Technology released its digital marketing AI scenario applications and global payment center solution, showcasing its superb expertise and forward-looking vision in scenario innovation and overseas marketing.

The AI+ Auto Finance Sub-forum themed “AI-driven Auto Finance: From Scenarios to Value” focused on hot topics such as applications of financial AI scenarios, hire purchase under financial leasing, channels and finance under the new energy model, and the building of high-quality AI datasets, and discussed the path to breakthroughs in the structural adjustment brought about by the decline of the high interest and high rebate model, and the tightening of bank credit.

The AI+ Auto Terminal-Cloud Integration Sub-forum conducted sharing in dimensions such as AI cockpit upgrading, user experience design, and the high-quality development of parts digital intelligence with focus on AI+ ICV and intelligent innovation around the three hot topics of “onboard AI agents, the parallel operation of three networks, and multi-domain integration”. The conference released the new technology of terminal-cloud integration officially, promoting the automotive industry to move towards the new stage of greater digital intelligence, higher efficiency and further integration.

The AI+ Enterprise Purchasing Sub-forum themed “A Future-oriented Win-win Smart Purchasing Chain” explored how enterprises could achieve goals such as transparent purchasing, cost reduction and efficiency improvement through digital intelligence upgrading to help enterprises build private domain digital intelligence supply chain ecosystems.

At the AI+ Auto Digital Intelligence Full-Value-Chain Application and Co-creation Exhibition, AI+ auto full-value-chain innovative application scenarios and practical achievements were displayed around hot topics such as approaches to data-driven AI scenario innovation (AI Factory), R&D IPD, the digital intelligence transformation of supply chains, the new marketing model IPMS, digitally intelligent finance, automotive terminal-cloud integration, and automakers going global, attracting numerous automaker guests, industry partners, etc. for exchanges and discussions.

The 2025 AI+ Auto Digital Intelligence Innovation & Sharing Annual Conference and Automotive Industry 15th Five-Year Plan Digital Intelligence Development Summit themed “Creating AI Momentum, Sharing Digital Intelligence Transformation” was closed successfully. The conference has gathered the wisdom and strength of numerous industry experts and elites, providing transformation momentum and a new path for the digital intelligence development of the AI+ automotive industry. Let’s raise the smart flame for AI empowerment alongside AI scenario innovation together!