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Earnings Call: Q4 2025

Mar 18, 2026

Gui Shengyue
CEO and Executive Director, Geely Automobile

The Zeekr brand continued its upward trajectory with a new cycle of brand ascent with annual sales of 224,000 units. It achieved a positive sales growth for many consecutive months, with monthly deliveries exceeding 30,000 units in December record high. Zeekr products cover mainstream luxury segments, top Chinese NEVs and luxury brands. Zeekr 9X sales exceeds 22,000 units within three months of launch, firmly ranking first in sales in China's CNY 500,000 level large SUV segment in November and December. Zeekr 009 remained the sales champion in China's MPV segment priced over CNY 400,000 for two years in a row.

Gan Jia Yue
CEO, Geely Automobile Group

Fine.

Gui Shengyue
CEO and Executive Director, Geely Automobile

When we move on to Lynk & Co, we could see that sales volume reached 350,000 units, of which new energy vehicles reached 228 units. The new energy mix rising to 65%. We can see the high value of the Lynk & Co could be reflected in the market, that Lynk & Co 09 accumulated over 50,000 units in the six months since it's launched, are ranking among China's top three full-size hybrid SUV. Lynk & Co's EM-P also exceeded 20,000 units. Then move on to Galaxy. The Galaxy sales reached 1.236 million units, up by 150%.

We can see Geely has covered the multiple segments from A-class to C-class. Geely, especially its Galaxy E5, has made it top two in China's BEV A-class SUV segment. Galaxy N9 also ranked top three in China's PHEV C-class SUV segment. When we look at Geely China Star ICE reached the sales of 1.214 million units in 2025, and also witnessed the market growth even against the industrial drop of those fuel vehicles. Here we can see Xingyue L ranked number one in China's ICE SUV segment across all brands. Boyue ranked number two in China's ICE SUV segment. Xingyue ranked number three among Chinese independent brands in China's ICE A-class segment. Geely Auto not only focus on the high-quality business growth but also sustainable development.

We have made the five-year carbon reduction target by the end of 2025 in reducing vehicle lifecycle carbon emission by 25.5%. We pioneering that. We built out the full scenario safety system, which is a human vehicle road cloud satellite. This has already winning five Guinness World Records. We not only maintained a leading market player in the industry, we also have been selected as one of the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook and received award of the best progressing company in the industry. In 2026, we will further focus on the value of the driven by value, that technology and globalization. We have a sales volume target, which is 3.45 million. By now, Geely Auto has ranked number one in China's passenger vehicle sales for two consecutive years in 2026. We believe we are able to make more achievements than in segments.

Gan Jia Yue
CEO, Geely Automobile Group

Zeekr brand sales target for 2026 is 300,000 units, a yearly increase of 34%. The Zeekr 8X and Zeekr 9X Glory Edition will be launched within the year, expanding the luxury product metrics. Leading brand value enhancement within the luxury experience and the new super electric hybrid high performance luxury SUV. Zeekr 8X is the world's first full stack 900 V hybrid high voltage architecture equipped with the tri-motor hybrid megawatt electric drive and the industry's first full-class Haohan AI Digital Chassis hailed as the new king of the road. On March 16th, our Zeekr 8X was officially launched. The pre-sales started at the same time with orders over 10,000 units within 30 minutes.

The Lynk & Co brand sales target for this year is 400,000 units with a yearly increase of 14%. This year, the Lynk & Co 07 wagon version and also the mid to large SUV will also be launched. Geely Galaxy sales target for this year is 1.55 million units, a yearly increase of 25%. Through creating hit models seeking growth, we will improve the product metrics and also cover the full category in the mainstream new energy market. Geely China Star sales target for this year is 1.2 million units based on the number one sales position. Among China's own brand fuel vehicles, it will strive to become number one among all brands in China's fuel vehicle market.

The new generation IHEV technology will also be released soon, with fuel consumption per 100 kilometers entering the 3-liter era. As for the export, the sales targets for this year is 640,000 units, with a yearly increase of over 50%. The export will accelerate in this year. Since the beginning of this year, the monthly export sales has exceeded 60,000 units for the two consecutive months. We focus on overseas markets, building 350,000-unit market in Europe, Eastern Europe and ASEAN, as well as two 100,000 units market in LatAm, as well as Middle East and Asia-Pacific. We will continue to diversify our global footprint. In terms of technology, we will accelerate AI adoption, empowering product intelligent experience as well as the breakthrough improvement.

The G-ASD, empowered by the WAM, WaM Action Model, will achieve multiple breakthroughs. G-ASD H9 will achieve L3 mass production. Robotaxi will also achieve large-scale pilot operation. G-Pilot intelligent driving has also become the first Chinese auto company's intelligent driving solution to pass EU regulatory framework, and will also go global within the year. Super Eva intelligent life form will continue to upgrade, bringing leading experiences. Dear friends, we deliver high-quality development with one Geely as the core, characterized by synergy, efficiency, and a healthy sustainability last year. In 2026, we'll continue to commit to our brief, deepen the one Geely strategy for the goal of becoming the global leader in smart vehicles. That concludes my presentation. Thank you. Now, I would like to invite Mr. Hui to give us a speech.

Li Dong Hui
CEO, Geely Holding

Thank you very much. Thanks all of our investors attending the annual result announcement on site and online. Thank you very much for your support for Geely Automobile all the years. I still remember 2.5 years ago that I, on this result announcement meeting, I've already reported to you that the Geely Automobile have already deployed its framework to made it to fully intelligent and to set on the new race track of new energy. I am so proud here today. I've already lived up my promise that I made 2.5 years ago. When we look at the results of 2025, that our new energy vehicles already made it the top two across China. Being top two in China, that means they're being top two in the global market.

When we look at about the new energy vehicles markets, I think there are two distinctive features. The first one, that is the growth is fast. When you read some data from the financial reports, you could see just with one year, we are able to made it to 1.2 million units. The growth rate is very fast, and that's one of the feature of Geely. Another feature that is for those luxury and high-end, and also the mass market, we have different products. We are able to have MPV, SUV, and also the Lynk & Co, and also Polestar. We believe this wide range of the product niches could make Geely very special in the new energy vehicle market in China. Why Geely is capable of making such a result?

I think there are two reasons behind that. The first reason, along with the development of the new energy vehicles, we could see there would be actually some similarities of those three electrical systems, which are the motor and also the electronic actuators, and also the batteries. It's very important. For Geely, we have already accumulated years of making cars, especially making fuel cars. We have already made a very solid foundation. Because in the fuel car era, Geely actually was one of the biggest market players of Chinese brands. We are able to put all of those accumulated experience to become a competitive edge nowadays. Another reason for the rapid growth of Geely, I think that's because we have a mature group of consumers.

When consumers' fascination or their interest in new energy vehicles fades away, they really think about the KPIs and also the features of the automobile. They favor the products of Geely Automobile. Especially in the luxury end, that Geely's brands and Geely's capabilities really outperformed other players. I think that's the two major reasons why Geely is capable of making such a result in 2025. Apart from the sales volume and sales revenue and financial data, I also would like to summarize what we have done in 2025, especially some of the milestones. From my perspective, there would be five perspectives of works that have been done, which will benefit the future development. The first one is the safety.

Safety is undoubtedly to be the most important part for automobile, especially in the era of intelligence and new energy. As we all know that China's, the new energy vehicles that develop super fast, and sometimes some of the vehicle brands will have a very eager pursuit of a faster development. The different brands just would like to sell the vehicles out, and so they focus on about marketing of the new energy vehicles. Those kind of the marketing sometimes could be misleading. Sometimes people were so surprised that why Chinese market is so competitive, and because some of the brands or some of the market players just would like to lower the cost. Which means they actually reduce some of the investments on the safety. Even under such a competitive and complicated environment, Geely Automobile, we have made.

We still maintained a clear mind. We truly believe safety is the most important part for automobile. Safety is the non-negotiable bottom line. In 2025, we established the largest global automotive safety center, and such a safety center is capable of satisfying the testing demands for global markets. Such a testing criteria could be satisfied to all different markets' rules. In such a safety center in Geely, no matter what is the price tag of a vehicle, maybe tens, thousands or millions of luxury brands, or be it a few vehicles or new energy vehicles, that every single car that made by Geely must be tested under very harsh standards. The reason why we established such a safety center, I think this is one of the reflections of our long-term spirit.

We also believe that safety is one of the rights should be enjoyed by every consumers. We should take on the responsibilities to protect our user and our consumers life. That's the first big thing that we found in 2025. We also prepare some of the manual for you to have more information about our safety center. I also would like to invite you, at any time you are welcome to visit the safety center of Geely Automobile. This is the first thing I would like to mention to you. The second thing, that is the intelligence development. When we talk about intelligent technologies, we could just review the history. In the year of 2021, we made resolute decision that we're going to transfer to new energy vehicles.

At that time, we were so clear that intelligence is the future of automobile. Therefore, in 2021, we've already established New Frontier Intelligence Computing Center. From 2021 to 2025, over the past five years, that we have already make improvement in terms of intelligence, starting from the strategic deployed phase to the phase of a value harvest. We focus on the big data and also foundation model and large scale of computing power. Based on that, we did another big thing that is under the strategy of intelligence. We have completed our collaboration with Qianli Technology. With such a integration, we are able to apply AI for our entire domain. That means-

AI is now applied and also powers our whole system application, starting from the product development and to the framework adjustment and vehicle's operation and copilots. For Geely Automobile, AI is not only a smart or intelligent cockpit, it's actually one of the physical application of AI on vehicles. That means starting from the design stage, we make full use of AI. During the process of driving such a vehicle that with this AI cloud power, we are able to ensure the Geely vehicles is always driving with the strongest momentum and also the lowest fuel consumption or the safest way of driving. I think in terms of intelligence perspective, I actually emphasize the concept of AI many, many times. I think you could compare Geely's AI concept and application with other brands.

I think the intelligence of AI should not be limited in a smart cockpit or the copilot. We could actually what we are doing in Geely, that is we already applied AI into the full life cycle of the whole vehicles. In the recent financial report, we also mentioned that Qianli and also the Qianli system and also just mentioned the G-ASD system has been already recognized by the EU. That means that product will be exported for overseas markets. There was also news that at the NVIDIA conference the founder, Jensen Huang, he made a 2.5-hour speech. He also showed the AI physical application, and he used the Geely Automobile to show the presentation.

Gan Jia Yue
CEO, Geely Automobile Group

We can see that there is the partnership between the NVIDIA as well as Geely. We also believe that the partnership between the two parties will also contribute to the intelligence development of Geely. As for intelligence, years ago, we have a lot of discussion centering on it. Some argue that the smart cockpit of Geely has a lot of disadvantages. In the past two years, with the application of Flyme Auto and also other application, we can see that a lot of the disadvantages have been removed because of this application. Also the intelligent driving, maybe we still have a gap with our competitors. I should say that last year, we have already make the huge progress in terms of the intelligent driving, which can be showed in the Zeekr X and 001. It is also costly, and so far, the sales volume is quite limited.

As for the Geely Automobile, its intelligent driving, maybe you are not having a full picture. I believe that with different solutions for the intelligent driving covering full category of our automobile, I believe that you will have a better understanding about intelligent driving. Just now, I have shared a lot of information about intelligence, about the safety, et cetera. I would like to highlight that the progress made by Geely in terms of the intelligence, we can see that the strategy unfolded by Geely has been very important. For example, the Xingrui computing power has been a big contributor. Also, we have had a partnership with Qianli Technology. This is also one of the contributors. We believe that the partnership contributes to the progress that we have made in terms of intelligence.

Today, I'm also happy to share with you the prospects, that is with the assets with Qianli Technology. So far, the autonomous driving of Geely Automobile may also be on par with that of Tesla's FSD. If we can reach that level, we believe that the intelligent driving of Geely Automobile will also have a lot of cutting edge in this field. On that basis, in the coming two years, we are also going to build the L4-based autonomous driving system as well as the interactive cockpit system. In the coming five years, as shown on our slides, we would like to be the global leader for the smart vehicles.

This is what we have done in the past 1 year. Just now I have shared some highlights of our progress with you. Next, I would like to cover Geely Automobile's development in the luxury segment in the era of ICE vehicles. Geely has also make the breakthrough with Lynk & Co brands, and also enter the mid and high-end markets. The breakthrough of the Lynk & Co has already embodied the capabilities of making luxury vehicles of Geely. Since 2021, with the leadership of Mr. An, we have also entered the luxury segment with the brand of Zeekr. As shown on our slide, Zeekr 009 has also been tested by the market in the past few years, and so far it has also become the flagship product of the luxury MPV.

Now we gathered here in Hong Kong. We can see Hong Kong is home to a lot of the luxury vehicles, and Zeekr 009 has made a lot of presence in the Hong Kong market. The success of the MPV Zeekr 009 has also showcased our capabilities and progress. Also last year, on the basis of the successful launch of Zeekr 009, and in the last quarter of last year, we also roll out Zeekr 9X. So far in the China SUV market, we can see that the sensation has been aroused. As for the success of Zeekr 9X, undoubtedly, we can see that it is attributable to the comprehensive capabilities of making vehicles of Geely Automobile. As for the Zeekr 9X, it has been equipped with the unparalleled driving system. That is the EM-i Super Hybrid System. That is the highlight.

I can also say that it just redefined the hybrid system for the NEV. If you would like to reach that level, you cannot just make the improvement at the motor system. Rather, you must also be supported with other system. The motor system, the driving system, they need to have very good integration. As for the Super Hybrid System, on what kind of features does it have? We have already shared information in our brochure. You can just read the brochure for more details. Of course, you can also give us the feedback after you reading the materials. As for this new technology, we can see that Geely has made a lot of progress in terms of intelligence and also in NEV segment. We have already built our moat in our technology field.

We also believe that we can just adopt more technologies to consolidate our strength in the NEV in order to enhance our competitiveness. Of course, Geely, in terms of the success in luxury segment, we are also going to have other snowball effects. The first one is the product matrix will also be improved further. On the other hand, with the launch of more luxury models, we also believe that the profitability will also be driven up of Geely. This is the third aspect related to the luxury segment. Next aspect that I would like to share with you is that last year we also had the synergy. Last year, we just had the privatization of Zeekr. On May 7, we published the recommendation for the privatization. Until December 22, we completed the deal.

We just combine the Hong Kong-listed company as well as the US market-listed company to have the equities swap. Previously, this hasn't happened yet, so it's first of its kind. We just spend over 200 days to have the equity swap. It is fast, and we also did it perfectly. All the shareholders show their satisfaction for this deal. I will also believe that in the future, we can also deliver more. Hereby, I would also like to stress that. Even though this integration, this synergy is nothing new. I should say we can also consider Geely's development from a different angle.

From the release of the Taizhou Declaration in such a short span of time, from the integration of, Lynk & Co and, also Zeekr, we can see that amid the fierce competition in the industry, Geely Automobile can just adapt to the evolving situation rapidly and swiftly. Geely also show its, courage, determination, as well as efficiency. From this event, we can see we have fully showcased the areas that I've already mentioned, the efficiency, the determination, and also courage. I also believe that with this, you should, also boost your confidence in Geely Corporation. For this event, I just suggest you to think from this different angle. You should have confidence for the Geely's future development. Why do we have the integration and synergy? What kind of benefits can be generated?

Last year, we have three press conferences, and I also give a lot of details. Today, I will not elaborate anymore. I will not delve into it. I believe that the future financial announcement will prove that the benefits that we generate. As for the five aspects I would like to share with you, is that we will just want to diversify the energy input. Geely Automobile has stayed committed to the strategy of diversifying the energy. Previously, we focused on ICE. Then we also have the hybrid, the PHEV, BEV, et cetera. Now we just cover the full-stack technology system. I believe that the full-stack technology system will have a lot of cutting edge in Chinese market or even at the world at large. We have been a benchmark in this field.

As for the ICE, we also have our own features, that is the ICE vehicles have been the smartest in the market. The financial announcement also mentioned that in 9 years in a row, we have maintained the number one position in the market among the homegrown brands. Our growth has also maintained number one. I also like to stress that the fifth generation methanol technology has also witnessed a huge progress. Per kilometer, the cost is CNY 0.2. It can also be applied at a temperature of -40 degrees Celsius. In Northern China, it can also be well applied. Methanol can be used for the passenger vehicles or commercial vehicles.

This is the unique technology adopted by Geely, and I believe that methanol will also become a very important growth point for Geely. Just Mr. Dai also shared with us in the financial announcement, in 2026 for the ICE vehicles, IHEV technology will also be unfolded for the ICE vehicles. With the adoption of this technology, we will just save the energy and make our vehicle smarter, deliver better performances to the vehicles. For the ICE vehicles, we can also further enhance our competitiveness and also elevate the position of the ICE vehicles in the market, which will also contribute to the development of a Geely company with the stable guarantee.

Two years ago, I also once mentioned that in quite a long time in the future, the diversification of energy will also be the cutting-edge strength of, the companies. Even though it hasn't been fully proved, but still, I believe that time will prove my point of view. This is the fifth area that I would like to mention with you. That is the diversification of energy. In the interest of time, that's all I would like to summarize for what we've done in 2025, the five big things that we've done last year. I believed you may have many questions in terms of our batteries and going global business. I think the floor is open, and I will have Mr. An and Mr. Gan to answer your questions. When we review 2025, Geely Automobile make progress.

Still, there are something we still need to do, such as the brand development, global market scale.

Gui Shengyue
CEO and Executive Director, Geely Automobile

These are the aspects we have to improved. I had a lunch with Mr. Zheng. Mr. Zheng told me that Hong Kong is a very important marketplace. However, currently the pre-sales and also after-sales service that in Hong Kong is not doing very good. These are the things that need to be improved in the near future. More work need to be done in the future. From the globalization perspective, although the Geely Automobile already made our steps to going forward, but I still believed we are not exactly leading the global markets. We have to continues our efforts. I hereby, I also would like to share with you my mindset.

I think along with what we've achieved in 2025, I could see that really put Geely Automobile's team in a very competitive, self-reliant position. We become more confident, more independent, and more mature. Why is that? Because now, at current stage, we have a clear development direction of what is the future we're going forward. Based on that direction that we've already built a sound scientific ecosystem. We have the intelligent cockpit and also the copilot, chips, batteries, and also the future mobility. You see that I think there is no other automobile companies like Geely, that we have a comprehensive layout. People are talking about that maybe in the future that the vehicles develop so fast.

That means that for those vehicles, the under CNY 100,000 vehicles, there will be no markets, there will be no consumers. I don't think so. People may say that in the future, everybody will use robotaxi. I think these are the opinions or the arguments that in market. I think for a vehicle company, in the future, we first need to have a wide range of the product mixes that to satisfy the needs in the mass market and also luxury market. For between the budget of the CNY 100,000-CNY 200,000, that we also should have some products could be competitive with robotaxi. In terms of the production capability and operation ability, I believe Geely is capable to make those products to be competitive.

In terms of a robotaxi, I think that's the future direction. What I would like to emphasize that we should not only be capable of making robotaxi products. We should also have the capability to operate robotaxi. Over the years, you could see that in Geely Automobile, that we have already built up our own system, our ecosystem. We also have our Cao Cao Mobility, which is also making improvements over the years. All of these efforts already made a very sound foundation for us to have a good future. That future is also based on what we have accomplished our foundation and based on the ecosystem we have built years and years ago.

Two years ago, in one of the annual results announcement, I also mentioned that we have already had our sales volume reach the historic record high. I also hope that we are able to make a new record in terms of the core profit attributable to the shareholders. In 2025, I am so happy that we've already done that. We not only improve the sales volume, we also improve the net profit attributable to shareholders. In the era of the new energy and intelligence, Geely Automobile has made a very good performance in 2025. I'm very confident to let you know that apart from the sales volume record high, in the next annual announcement meeting, our core net profit attributable to the shareholders and also the profit will be making record high as well. Thank you.

The floor is open for Q&A. We also are taking questions from online. Could you please give the mic to them? Hong Kong media. Any friends from the Hong Kong media? Because we had an announcement that in Hong Kong.

Speaker 9

Yeah. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Gui. I'm the journalist from the South China Morning Post. It's very impressive to look at about the numbers, and you also mentioned ambitious targets. My question is about going global. Could you help us to evaluate the overseas markets? We see that many vehicle companies also seeing a very good growth in overseas markets. Some people believe that overseas market will become a red sea. How do you see? And how will Geely cooperate with that? Which region has the highest growth point? What is the competitive edge of Geely in facing the geopolitical risks?

Gui Shengyue
CEO and Executive Director, Geely Automobile

Thank you for asking the questions. Actually, you've mentioned two questions. The first question. The two questions you asked are of our concerns in the industry. The first one is about overseas business. Over years, Geely has deployed our overseas market, that in 2025, that the export of Geely Automobile actually made it to 420,000 units. For the new energy vehicles, that we have already reached a sales volume of 124,000 units. We could see that the growth point already made at 240%. For us, we believe that 2025 is the year we just laid a solid foundation for overseas markets.

In 2026, we will put our energy and also our resources on overseas markets to deepen our capability of production in the local markets. That means we need to export our products. We also need to build out the supply chain in a local market. That means we also need to focus on the branding and also technology export. We also will like to develop the country-specific approach and to satisfy the market demands. We can see that in 2026, our overseas market goal, which is 640,000 units, which is 50% higher than what we have sold in 2025 in overseas markets.

When we look at the first two months of 2026, Geely already sold 121,000 units. We could see the momentum. I think we've already deployed a very good strategy in overseas markets. In the near future, the production capabilities of Geely will be further released to empower the overseas markets. Another one that is in the overseas KD. We will introduce more products into the overseas markets, including Boyue, Xingyue L, Dihao. These are the very popular products and very popular vehicles that in Chinese market. We will further expand those products and those vehicles to the overseas markets. Just like Mr. Hui mentioned, next month we will have new series of all the Chinese vehicles.

Especially for the few vehicles for ICE that we have, our advantage. We will focus on the ICE overseas business as well. Another thing is about Galaxy. The Galaxy, because our rapid vehicles development of the new energy vehicles, and so we could achieve the very rapid growth in overseas markets in the new energy segment. Last year, that we've sold out 124,000 units of the new energy vehicles with a growth of 240%. This year, that we will continue to focus on the new energy vehicles overseas market. We will have work with some of the local productions. We believe that unlike other brands, like Xingyue will be very popular as well.

Our internal target that is around like 640,000 units. But actually internally, we believe that probably we are going to make it 750,000 units. That means the growth rate for 2026, the new energy vehicles in overseas market will have a growth that nearly 80%. How about Lynk & Co? I think for Lynk & Co, we will have some synergies with the Volvo in the European market. In European market, that we also have some marketing resources. At the very same time, we hope that we are able to expand and also export Lynk & Co ZA, Z1, and also Z2 to the European markets.

Gan Jia Yue
CEO, Geely Automobile Group

Zeekr 7X and Zeekr GT, and those are also already started sales in Europe. We believe that our Zeekr will be launched in South Korea as well. We believe that for Zeekr's MPV, that is also very popular in Malaysia and Singapore, and also in Hong Kong. We could see that Zeekr 009 will become one of the potential sales champions. I think when we look at the global market, Geely will put more resources and efforts into the global and overseas markets. We already established our subsidiaries and companies in Mexico and Chile. In the future, we will make full use of those sub-companies to focus on the product planning and also the branding and channel promotion, et cetera.

For the channel, we believe that in next year we will have more than 1,300 Geely brand stores. When we have more brand stores, and especially for Zeekr, there will be 500 Zeekr brand stores. On top of that, for the 26 overseas markets, another key reason that is the raw materials increasing cost. As we all know, along with the AI development in the recent two years and the memory chip will be more expensive. But for Geely, we are very proactive. So we are working with Samsung and also working with ChangXin and also some of the chip companies in the US as well.

With the strategic partnership, we can just build our strength, first of all, on the new and also fresh technologies. We can also promote it. Moreover, we can also have more competitive prices. This is our advantages. Regarding the rising cost of materials, and for the rising cost of copper as well as the lithium carbonate, we also have our countermeasures. For example, we just work together with our suppliers to lock our prices, so we can also enhance the competitiveness of the products. From the cost of the products, we can also see that the economies of scale can also be a very good hedging or of that. From Geely, you can see that we have a volume of over 4 million, so this can help us to generate the economies of scale.

This is also one of our advantages. As for the Middle East, with the current landscape, it also impacts the development. As for our sales, the share is quite big in Saudi Arabia. We can see that because of the stability of Saudi Arabia, so the impact may be relatively small compared to with other region, because so far we don't have any business in Iran. Then more questions will come. We also have a journalist from the foreign media.

Speaker 9

On the cost side, where can we see evidence of the Taizhou Declaration efforts to improve synergies and integration?

Gan Jia Yue
CEO, Geely Automobile Group

Also two years ago, we just published the Taizhou Declaration. We just proposed a synergy in our five highlights, including the strategy, integration, and also the strategy for the stable development and also the talent. I believe that the five strategies are very important. Since last year. With the guidance of the Taizhou Declaration, as well as the reform guided by the leadership, I should say that we have made a very good achievement. Now, I would like to elaborate from the following areas. First of all, for the Geely Automobile. Last year, we successfully completed the integration of Lynk & Co and Zeekr. This has also been very important efforts to the Taizhou Declaration. In a very short span of time, we made a very good progress as introduced by Mr. Gui and Mr Jia.

As for the integration of the two brands, we can see that we can just orchestrate the resources under one umbrella, and also the interaction of the brands can also be enhanced. The middle and the back office can also be orchestrated. We can just pool the resources and also well allocate the resources under one umbrella. Moreover, as for the supply chain or to be specific, the procurement system and also the manufacturing, the sales channels have also been integrated. In a sense, this has helped the enterprise to reduce the cost and also the administrative expense and improve the efficiency. From today's financial announcement, I should say that the effects of the integration hasn't been fully illustrated because the integration just happened not long ago.

I believe that in 2076 or beyond 2076, we may see better effects of the integration. In 2025, Geely has delivered a high-quality development. This high-quality development has not been supported by the sales growth only. Rather, we can see that the value of the brand has also been elevated. This is the very important segment I would like to mention. For this development orientation, I should say that it just paved way for the further development for the year 2026 and also 2027. The progress in 2025 will just consolidate the foundation for further development and progress. The Geely Holding Company has highly recognized the performance delivered by Geely Automobile in last year. Just now, Mr. Gui and also Mr. Dai give us a lot of the details supported by the figures.

With this strength, I should also like to mention the importance of Taizhou Declaration. Moreover, from our company perspective, we'd also like to introduce the landscape about the passenger vehicles before the conference. I also heard some ideas from the investors. Some say that the Geely Holding Group have a lot of branches. Whether it will just have the impact on the Geely, I should say that there's no impact. Rather, with the interaction and the linkage, we can see that the brands of the passenger vehicles can be better integrated, which will support each other. Apart from Geely, some may also ask about Zeekr, Lotus, Smart as well as others. We can see that they are developing separately in the past.

After the release of the Taizhou Declaration, we continue to have the reflection about our development experiences and also the holding company established the strategic committee. That is, we need to just have the clear positioning of the different brands under the Geely holding company. We must also have the evidence-based design of the brands and the products. The procurement system must also be shared, and the manufacturing resources must also be shared. This is the strategy highlighted in the Taizhou Declaration. Moreover, the sales channels can also have the synergy. More importantly, you just also mentioned the question related to Geely's going global. As a matter of fact, the brands controlled by the Geely holding company, they have their own advantages, but they can also have the cooperation interaction. This also contributed to the success of going global trajectory.

I would also like to give you the concrete examples. For example, for the brands, they also share the architecture, and as for the core part, core modules, different brands can also share. As for the manufacturing resources, different brands can also share. For example, as for Geely 0175, we can see that the brand continued to develop and the safety has also been its benchmark and also highlight, as highlighted by Mr. Gui. With the support of Volvo, the safety of Geely may not be elevated so fast. Last year, Volvo and Geely have the synergy or integration or partnership for the procurement with a scale of a benefit of CNY 5 billion. You may also mention the Zeekr 9X. I should say that the performance is very good.

It also got the support from Lotus in terms of the collaboration in other area. Multiple brand controlled by the Geely Holding Company, they can just form synergies. This will be the benefits for different brands. The Geely Holding Company can also generate more strength and advantages. This cannot be compared by other competitors. I should say that as a matter of fact, we have already witnessed the effect of the synergy of different brands under the Geely Holding Company. With the guidance of the Taizhou Declaration, multiple brands can have collaboration to generate more values under one umbrella. Recently, I also read some news coverage. Before this announcement, some media also asked me some questions regarding the overseas picture. As a matter of fact, I can also share my view with you about the going global strategy in the overseas market.

First of all, you can see, you have a lot of attention about the going global footprint of Geely, just like some of you have already raised the questions. As for the Geely Holding Company, they also partner with other outstanding automakers. With the partnership with them, we can just rapidly expand our global footprint. We must be swift, we must build up the scale, and we must also ensure the cost effectiveness and also lower the investment risks. Maybe you just center on all these areas. We are also deeply aware that for an automobile company, it can never fight in silo. The risks and also pressure will be heightened by solo efforts. We just need a partnership to have a better effect. How can we just leverage respective strength to offset our shortcomings?

How we can just partner with other outstanding automakers to enhance our respective strengths and also ensure the adequate capacity, as well as the mature supply chain, as well as the talent system, as well as the quality assurance system. All these are very important, and we must also not miss the sales channels. We can just partner with other leading automakers. As for Geely, we have our own advantages in the technology, the product, either in the field of intelligence or electrification or the auto architecture. We have our technology advantages. We believe that with the synergy and partnership with other automakers, we can achieve win-win. Just now, I just share my perspective with you from the partnership with other automakers. With our collaboration, we can also expedite the going global footprint of Geely company. We also partner with Renault.

For example, we have a joint venture in South Korea, which is developing rapidly. Last year, we also have a joint venture with Renault in Brazil. You can also see that the development trend is very good. It just follow the development plan of the company, and also work together with Volvo and Renault to build the power train company entitled HORSE Powertrain. Annually, we produce 70-80 thousand units of the powertrain. You can imagine that this is the result that showcase the benefit generated from the economies of scale, because we can just lower the cost and also have the rapid response to the global market demands. This is successful examples.

Geely company has also adopted the global strategy, like we acquire Volvo and also the Proton in Malaysia, and also buy the equity from banks, et cetera. All these plan, all these deals have contributed to the Geely's development. On the other hand, we can also enter the international market with this approach. Let me just stop here. Thank you. Okay, the floor is open to investors. Can we give the mic to the one in the middle?

Chen Weitong
Analyst, Guangfa Securities

Dear executives. I'm from Guangfa Securities. My name is Chen Weitong. I have two questions in terms of the financial KPIs. The first one, we could see in the gross margin that we increased to 0.3% in the fourth quarter. Mr. Dai, could you help me to elaborate what is the driving reasons for the gross margin improvement. For example, that the raw materials also increased, and how does it contribute to the gross margin? The second thing is we could see that in terms of the expense, the R&D expense actually grew by CNY 1.5 billion quarter-on-quarter.

Gui Shengyue
CEO and Executive Director, Geely Automobile

Could you let us know what about in 2026 in terms of the expense of the R&D and also the capital utilization? Thank you. Thank you very much. Actually, when we look at the fourth quarter, the gross margin, we are able to make it 16.9%, actually higher than the full year average of 16.6%. We can see in the fourth quarter that Zeekr's sales volume reached 80,000 units. Accounting for nearly 9.5% of our total sales volume. There were two points improvement of the Zeekr's sales volume in the fourth quarter. Along with the Zeekr 9X launched, we could see there were 22,000 units of these in high-end products.

Those are high-end product sales will have reflection on our gross margin improvement. You also mentioned about the second question that is about the bulk commodities. I think for the fourth quarter in 2025, I think there was not such a big impact. We can see for the complete vehicles manufacturer or supply chain manufacturer that we will have some common experience in terms of the fluctuations of the commodities because it's the new normal. Therefore, for the supply chain business, there would be hedging and hedge solution. There would be a hedge measures that are being taken. I think that it's controllable. That's my response to you about the gross margin. You also asked a question about the.

I think I still need to look at about the first quarter's performance, that now is still in the mid of March. I think we really need to look at about the sales volume of the Zeekr 9X. Our production capability already improved. The first quarters of the Zeekr 9X deliverables, that would be around 20,000 units. Therefore, I think I'm not very sure the gross margin in the first quarter will be lower than the last than the fourth quarter in 2025. You have very detailed numbers. In terms of the R&D, I think you could see, for the fourth quarter, every quarter's R&D expense was around CNY 400 million.

When it comes to the fourth quarter, we could see the R&D expense already reached CNY 590 million. You can see that some investors also mentioned that the R&D expense ratio is too low. In 2024, that number was around 31%. In 2025 already made it to 36%. In the fourth quarter of 2025, we already improved the utilization rate of the R&D expense. I think this is our response to the investors. We hope that our profit is of high quality. In this year, we hope that R&D expense will maintain around 40%. Okay. The floor is open for some journalists in the back rows.

Speaker 8

Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm from China Fund. My question is for Mr. Gan. Mr. Gan, Geely has mentioned its scientific attributes and just like Geely has already concluded its 2025 strategy. My question is, are you going to release the next five-year strategy? What would be the key focus?

Gan Jia Yue
CEO, Geely Automobile Group

Okay, thank you for your question. Because in 2021 Geely launched the smart Geely 2025 strategy. In that strategy, we mentioned about one network, three systems. Three systems, including the smart ecosystem, smart scientific ecosystem, and smart energy. Basically that would be the smart energy, smart manufacturing, and smart service. Basically focus on the chips, operating systems and big data technologies. In essence, when we talk about chips, operating system, big data, which is the computing power and also the foundation model.

Yeah, that is the foundation of Geely AI. That means currently that Geely's AI strategy is based on what we've deployed since 2021. Because of such a correct strategy that we have huge investment in terms of the three key components, which is the factories, electric motors, and electric control. We also invested in intelligence. Like Mr. Gui mentioned, we established the new manufacturing center in 2022, and it was put into use right away, and which accelerated our R&D input and R&D output, and improved the efficiency. It was also open to our clients. In recent years, we also promoted AI. We focus on the full-domain AI strategy. Full-domain AI, that is the combination of the foundation model and the vertical module.

With such a integration, that AI, the full-domain AI will be applied in every part of our work. We are able to improve our R&D efficiency and also have a better control in the vehicles. In 2021, the sales volume of Geely was 1.32 million. In 2022, it was 1.37 million. In 2023, that was 1.64 million. In 2024, that was 2.17 million. In 2025, we can see we've already made it to 3 million. The ratio of the new energy vehicles already reached 55.8%. I think those past five years performance have already reflect and proven our strategy that developed in 2021 was correct, and that strategy was fully implemented.

How about the next five years? It's decisive for 2030 strategy. We will focus on the foundations, but the good thing is we've already built a very solid foundation. For 2030 strategy, I think the first important focus, that would be intelligence. We have to emphasize the intelligence development, and we do believe that, the automation intelligence is very important. However, we also need to make intelligence empowered by AI to become a very important technical attributes. And also made such a AI intelligence to be one of our competitive edge. In terms of our intelligence, we did, and we do, and we will have more deployment in AI, and be it to build a system or build it a talent pool.

For example, in the beginning of this year, we also announced some of the foundation model, and for example, G-ASD. G-ASD is one of the foundation model that empowered by AI. Just like Mr. Gui mentioned, the Zeekr 9X is also use the foundation model that to empower the system, that to make the intelligent vehicles that more like human. Secondly, we also will use AI to build the Super Eva AI agent. That the Super Eva intelligent life form is important, so that would be one plus two plus N. The full domain, that means the AI agent will be, will function as a brand and is able to call across different domain, including the driving domain, the co-pilot domain, and also the powering domain, et cetera. Those domains could be fully integrated.

In this way, we are able to improve the synergy of the vehicle. That would be the AI-powered capabilities. In this way, we are able to make a vehicle of the future. Another focus, that would be the high-end Geely vehicles. After 2024 announcement of the Taizhou Declaration that we've already merged Zeekr brand, Lynk & Co brand and Galaxy brand and also China Star. These are the four brands, and those four brands are

They are falling into the different segments of the market, so it's enriching the product portfolio. We believe that such a vehicle portfolio is reasonable and comprehensive, and is capable satisfying different consumer needs. In the next five years, we will focus on the high-end development, so we will make Zeekr vehicles to be the luxury technology vehicles. On the 16, March, we officially launched Zeekr X, and actually already received the wide recognition from our consumers. Many of our consumers really actually went to the shop, and also to have a try. They surely felt great about the stability of the vehicles and also the smart cockpit. I think those technologies really satisfying our consumers. They've got very good experience. Therefore, we have already decided our delivery cycles will be around 20 weeks. It will be 11 or 14 weeks, maybe in the future.

Now, this cycle has been shortened to 11 weeks, so you can see that this also raise high requirements to our suppliers in terms of the auto parts. In the future, we also plan to shorten the cycle of the delivery from 11 weeks to 8 weeks in order to have a very good response to the needs of our consumers. Also, for the X8 on March 16, with the pre-sales, we can see that the market feedback is very good. Within just 38 minutes, the orders has surpassed 10,000 units. In less than 48 hours, the orders surpassed 30,000 units.

You can see that it has been first of its kind within these market, because this figures have also been notified by the notary officers, so it is authoritative. For the 2030 strategy, we will also strengthen the globalization. Just now, I have also shared this strategy with you. Geely will also focus on the Galaxy, Lynk & Co, as well as Zeekr for the global footprint. For the upcoming five years, we will just accelerate our global footprint, shift from only the export of the products for trading to cover the design, the sales, and also the localization. We would like to have the partnership with the local partners. For example, we partner with Renault as well as Proton, et cetera, in the Southeast Asia, and their cooperation has been very good.

For example, we partner with Proton to introduce the NEV. The sales of NEV has also been at the top list in the Southeast market. The market share has also increased from around 10% to over 25% currently. Overall, we can see that in the future, the partnership with Proton will also help us to elevate the position in the Malaysia as number one, and also top three in ASEAN markets. Also for the 2030 agenda, we will also build a ecosystem. We believe that the importance of the software will be heightened. As for the Geely ecosystem, we have also made a lot of deployment, in particular for the Lynk & Co. We have the Lynk & Co support mall. We have a lot of the boutique products on the mall.

With one ID, we will just connect different brands and models. The consumers will just access to diversify the services with just one single ID. The vehicle will be an integral part of our life. As for the ecosystem, we will also strengthen the sharing in the future with the intelligent technologies or even the L4 robot taxis, like the Cao Cao Mobility. We will also have a very good integration with it so that all the customers will also have better experiences in terms of mobility as well as the space. Last question. The lady in the second row.

Lou Jia
Senior Analyst, Bank of China International

Thank you. I'm the analyst, Lou Jia. I have three questions. I'm not sure whether time will allow. As for the questions, I have also been frequently asked by other investors.

Actually, sometimes it's difficult for me to convince them. Just now, Mr. Gui mentioned that for the ecosystem deployment over Geely, it has been most complete compared with other competitors. For example, with the intelligence adoption like AI, we can see you have a lot of application. But as for the Cao Cao, like a robotaxi, in terms of the operation, Cao Cao Mobility has also been listed in the Hong Kong stock market. As for the intelligent driving, we can see the core software is Qianli Technology, who plans to be listed in the Hong Kong stock market. For the big duty or the 2030 strategy, as for the 0175. We would like to understand its unique position because the people just pay attention to the closed loop. Would you elaborate a little bit?

Gan Jia Yue
CEO, Geely Automobile Group

Thank you for your question. In the past few years, we can see investors also focus on this question. I would like to respond from the two perspectives. The first one is for the ecosystem building, the purpose is to deliver the best performance of the products from Geely. Best performance is the core of the products. Just now, at the opening remarks, I mentioned that with the partnership with Qianli Technology, we can enable the intelligent driving, or in the future, we may also reach at the DS level paralleled with Tesla. Without a partnership with Qianli Technology, we may not ensure that. You can see that in the era of AI, we believe that we just need to professional, we just need to have a cooperation. We can never develop in silo.

In particular, in the development area of AI, we can never just fight in silo. Rather, we just need to pool the resources with other parties. We just need to use the strength of other parties, but we must also ensure our autonomy. First of all, we can see that in this whole process, we need to have the holistic planning. As an automaker, we need to have the strategic plan. For example, we work together with G-Pilot company. We have our unique strength. The partnership with the Qianli Technology is to ensure that we can deliver the very good performance of the product to ensure our competitiveness. This is the purpose of the current stage. As for the current stage, maybe later on, other speakers will also supplement.

At the very beginning, the chairman mentioned that we just need to commit to the One Geely strategy or the focus. You should not doubt that. He also mentioned that maybe in the future, at some specific stage, we may also have different pivots. Now, we just focus on the quality improvement and also make full use of the resources from the parent company without compromise the interest of the shareholders. We would like to have a partnership to enhance our competitiveness in this way. Moreover, as for the strength of technology, well, we should just come back to 0175. I believe that still we need to have integration. We just need to believe in the potential of the partnership. I wonder whether I just well responded to your question.

You can see that Geely, just like what you did in the other stage when it made vehicles, first, to partner with others, and then if it is profitable, you may have a different approach. I should say that as long as we understand the requirement of the shareholders, we just follow the requirements. First of all, we need to have the condition, we need to have the strength and the foundation. First of all, Geely just need to sell the vehicles well and be the leader. The second question is related to the vehicle making. For example, to be specific in 2026, first of all, Geely Company focus on overseas market, and also the export of the vehicles is very good. Geely has also been most outstanding among the peers. The monthly export has surpassed 60,000 units monthly.

For the Galaxy, it successfully surpassed the Geely brand. For the performance in the past two months, regardless of the geopolitical risks, do you think that the goal for the 60,000 units is quite conservative? Would you also elaborate on the export target? This year, we also witnessed the cutthroat competition within this industry. Last year, you also grabbed the market share from some leaders. As for the competitors, they also facelift their products. They update their product. What is your countermeasures? If you will not compete at the prices, how can we also ensure that we can increase the market share? Our competitors also mention their product features like intelligent driving, et cetera. It seems that we are doing similar things. How can your company stand out from the fierce competition?

How can we just enhance our competitiveness in 2026 and also gain more market share? You have a lot of questions. For the answer part, just now, Mr. Gan has already mentioned that our target is 640,000 units, and our internal target is 750,000. I just say that this can just help us to boost the confidence. If we can sell more, of course, we will just try our best. You can also see that every year, the target we set is quite conservative. Usually, we may just adjust the targets in the midterm. Maybe for other quite complex question, I would just leave them to other speakers. You raised quite a few questions. I would just respond as follows. As for the intelligent driving, I may just ask something.

As for the intelligent driving, I have to say that input will be high in the future. It is the similar case for all companies. If we just want to pursue the perfect of intelligent driving, the input must be high. For example, the identification or the rules or other capabilities must also be enhanced. We believe that for the autonomous driving, it must be supported or enhanced by the foundation model, the computing power, et cetera. We just need to have a huge input to improve the algorithm to ensure better performance of the intelligent driving. As for input, we can never just be completed by just one single company. Therefore, first of all, for a company, it must have a leading position in the technology in order to stand out. Input is inevitable.

Second, the company must also have the initiative and also have the autonomy. It can just continue to be the leader in the future if it can just stay competitive. That's why we just have the partnership with Qianli Technology and Qianli Haohan. We have a stock share of 62%. What we are trying to do is to ensure the quality and also better performance of the product. We also focus on cost-effectiveness. How can we ensure that? The economies of scale can be one solution, therefore, we need to build up the scale. We can just dilute the total cost. We can just accelerate the development of the autonomous driving. The second question I ask about overseas market. Just like Mr.

Gui mentioned that actually in January and also the February, that we already made overseas a very good rapid development. We could see the very good rapid development. We think that actually, that's because we've already had a very good new energy vehicles to market strategy deployed in 2024. We believe that in 2026, that the export of the EV, its ratio will continues to increase. For Geely, that we have already developed our products for previous years, and we've already fully implemented our strategy. Therefore, we can see that we are able to have a very good product export, and we will see the rapid growth that in 2026. We focus on the ASEAN country and also Eastern Europe and also Latin America, Africa and also the Middle East.

Those are the very big market segments that we are targeting at. We've already exported our products in recent months, especially our cooperation with Renault in Brazil, and we are able to expand the dealers channel very quickly. We are able to sell very quickly.

Gui Shengyue
CEO and Executive Director, Geely Automobile

We also have the Emgrand 45 and Emgrand 47. That one single vehicles that could be sold out very well, outperforming several other products of other brands. Here for example, the Xingyuan Star Wish was the champion among all of those branded vehicles. I think we have competitiveness in our product. The future of overseas markets is also in our product. Another one you ask about overseas market, that would be the three key components, motor, battery, and powertrains. Many investors ask us, what is our competitive edge in the motor, battery, powertrains, and what is the strategy of charging? I have to say that actually, Geely have invested heavily in motor, battery, powertrains. As early as in 2014 or in 2013, Geely has already started its investment in LFP batteries. That's quite early.

They actually have come up with our Short Blade Battery. The Short Blade Battery has very good performance in terms of the battery energy consumption. We also have the Shendun, which is the sealed battery. The charging will be 12C, and that's leading the market. From 10% to the 10% of the charging to 80% of the charging only takes 7 minutes. It only takes 7 minutes to charge a vehicle from 10% of the power to 80%. Calculated by the full charging, it only takes 9 minutes. Another very important KPI, that is safety. We developed standards to ensure the safety. The battery energy density is the best. That is 179 kWh/kg.

When we look at about the charging rate, when the charging rate is high, then the energy density should be lower. However, in Geely's battery, you could look at those specific measures that our energy density is very good. We could look at about the weight of the vehicles, and because we all know that the weight of the vehicle itself, that will have its impact on the inertia. In terms of charging, as early as in 2021, we focused on about the megawatt fast charging. The first charging pile using the high voltage megawatt charging pile was done by Geely. Now we also have the Haohan, which is a GST system, and we will focus on the megawatt-hour charging. Also, Zeekr 001 is the new battery.

In the future, it will be able to reach 1,500 kWh. Technically, Geely has invested heavily in those technology developments. For the 3C and 6C products will be applied in the travel of fifteen and automobile vehicles. We also have the charging piles. We have nearly 10,000 charging piles. We will have more than 50,000 charging piles. Those new charging piles will be installed to satisfy the demands of our drivers' need to charge the vehicles. Okay, we move on to the next question. I'm from First Finance. We can see the financial KPIs announced by the 0175 is very good, including the revenue and profit.

I just checked the price of the 0175, that the pricing is around HKD11. I wonder, what is your perspective on the market value of Geely, and is it underestimated? Let me take this question. It's a sensitive question. In terms of compliance, executives cannot make comments on the share price. Okay, let me take this perspective. 0175 used to be on a high P/E. We used to have glorious pricing. As I remember that in 2015, I was with Mr. An, that Mr. An focused on the new product R&D. After the Boyue vehicle was launched, I remember the share price increased from HKD2 to HKD30 just in 18 months. That's the fastest rise that we've experienced. Since then, we've laid the foundation, so the development is there.

I think the capital market is fair and is. I don't see there would be huge deviations, especially for Hong Kong, is the one of the world's largest financial center. Hong Kong market is a mature capital market. The thing is, I think people will have different views on the company that in different stages. Just like I said, that in 0175, that used to stood on the peak, and also we had our glory. At the beginning of 2016, the people hold the expectation on 0175. However, I think the market has expectation on 0175, but people are not very sure how fast will it go in terms of profit. Nowadays, it's a different era. It's rather different from the times of the few vehicles. It's the time for the new energy and intelligent vehicles.

In Geely Automobile, people said that actually it tends to be rather conservative, just like Mr. Gan mentioned, that we actually had done a lot of things, but we just don't do the marketing better than other competitors. I think people need to have a better understanding about the technology attributes of Geely Automobile. I believe the wise investors that come to know that we have invest so heavily on the scientific part and on those the high-tech components, that people will truly understand Geely's essence. At that time, I believed the market value will be changed. I think today the result announcement, we see the historic record high in terms of the scale and the profit, and there will be new records in the coming years.

I think for the company, the core is, could you make a profitability? I think we don't have concerns that much. Any other questions? Hands up in the middle. Ladies first.

Yuqian Ding
Head of China Auto, HSBC

Thank you. My name is Yuq ian. I'm from the HSBC. I have two questions. Just like Mr. Gui mentioned that in your speech that you've made a new record high in terms of the attributable profit. I wonder what is the profit for a single vehicles? What is the profit percentage? Second, that is our executive also mentioned about the product structure, and also we see the economies of scale. When we look at those internal targets, because it's ambitious. We also have corporations with suppliers, and we also have technical development and which could absorb the increasing raw material costs. How do you see about the profit room?

Gui Shengyue
CEO and Executive Director, Geely Automobile

I think I could take this question from a few perspectives, from the operations perspective. The first one, that Geely has already formed a strategy. With the strategy of synergy and integration that we see that drives the declines of the expenses. For example, when we see that in the first half year of 2025, that the administration expense was around 70% and the R&D, that would be 13.5%. In the future, because of the synergy strategy, that we believe that costs will be lower because we will have a higher efficiency.

The second, I think we need to look at about our BOM material. With our BOM, cost. The BOM cost is relying on the supply chain and including the, design cost for technical. The first of all, we should have leading technologies. The second, we should have the scale up, which is the scale of, economy. In terms of the scale, because in 2025, we already witness the, increase in terms of volume, so we are able to have a better scale. In 2024, our sales volume, that's around, 2.1 million, and in 2025, that would be 3 million. That's a sales volume that increased by 39%. That means for supply chain, they also increased by 39%. Those are fixed costs will be allocated to different parts. That means the average cost will be lower. We could share the benefit, share the profit, but also lower the cost. All of those elements will be reflected in the vehicle's competitiveness.

Gan Jia Yue
CEO, Geely Automobile Group

It's difficult for me to give you any specific figure. I should say that we just make our product mix towards the premium segment, for example, the Zeekr 9X and also Zeekr 8X. You can see that we just see the benefits of the economies of scale. We talk about Zeekr 9X, we talk about the margin, like around 40%. In the future, from the product development, I believe that the economies of scale and also the technologies are the most important elements. The second question, I would like to talk about the intelligent driving.

You talk a lot, and we can also see that the company has already just worked on that. Now the efficiency has been enhanced because with the partnership of the Qianli Technology. In the era of AI, we can see a lot of the competitors, they just focus on the GPU and also the cloud. They also step up the efforts for the R&D. How can you just further enhance your moat? In terms of the intelligent driving, from 2026, what will be the output? Thank you for your question. This is a very good question. Just now, Madam Lou also asked a question. For the intelligent driving, the input has also been channeled a lot to the computing power.

For example, the input for over 10,000 GPU, the input will be CNY 4 billion-CNY 5 billion. Now we also have the computing power alliance. Now we have already hit the 23.5 EFLOPS, number one in the market. In the future, with the enhancements of the AI, we'll also expand the computing power continuously. First of all, for the whole vehicle development, for the vertical models, Geely Automobile will also add on that. As for the intelligent driving, as well as the computing power for the foundation model, will be supported by Qianli Technology. In this way, we can just foster the synergy and also enhance the capacity in this way. The input for the computing power, we believe that we also need to calculate the input-output ratio.

Because we understand in this field, we have a very long industrial chain. We can also see if we can just have the synergy within the industry chain, then we can save a lot of cost. With the synergy, we can just improve efficiency by 35%. Like we just input CNY 10-20 billion. Every year, we may just save dozens of billions every year because of the synergy, because it can just help us to lower the cost and also improve the efficiency. Moreover, we can just attract more talents. We just need to pool the top-notch talents who are savvy at AI. That they should be attracted to the automobile industry to give full play to their strength. In the future, we'll also have such measures.

With the maturity of the large models, we believe that the application will also be widespread in the application of automobile industries. If we can just do well in the general purpose model as well as the vertical models, we'll also have a lot of benefits, and we can also lower the cost, improve efficiency. Thank you. Given time limits, we just allow the last question.

Speaker 7

I'm from Black Wall News. For the NAV, what is the target? And Mr. Gui also mentioned that we are number two globally. Whether you also set the goal for number one globally. We also read the news that is Dong Mingzhu bought Zeekr 009. This also caught our attention. Whether Madam Dong also enjoy some discount. Can you also share some details with us about this anecdote?

Gan Jia Yue
CEO, Geely Automobile Group

The column from CCTV just talks about this anecdote that Madam Dong bought Zeekr 009. She said that this is very good. It just admires the effort made by Li Shufu. The column just contacted me in the new year. They said that Madam Dong would like to buy three vehicles. I just contacted the colleague at Zeekr. After the two sessions just concluded. Chairman Li Shufu just held a vehicle delivery ceremony in Beijing, and then the videos have been shared on the platform. Other deputies also bought Zeekr 009. All together in total, nine 009 vehicles have been sold. Some discount has been offered to her because nine vehicles have been bought. Madam Dong really admired the efforts made by Mr. Li, and the efforts made to build the premium vehicles.

Commit to the mission of building the high quality and the best performance vehicles. Work together for the globalization. Madam Dong just focus on the Geely air conditioners. Geely just also build the best performance vehicles and also try to go global. Madam Dong also emphasize the quality. That's why she chose the Geely vehicles. That's why we can see that they echo each other's idea. We can see that 009 or 9X. Who bought this type of models, we can see that the drivers are savvy and also have a lot of experiences. They understand vehicles. I would also like to thank Madam Dong. You also talk about the targets.

I would like to share my view with you. First of all, last year, China's passenger vehicles was an increase of 2.9%. As for NEV, the penetration rate is 54% with a volume of over 60 million. This is a rapid growth, a high quality development year for China and for the whole year. We can see that the sales volume was quite high in the previous quarters. In the Q4, the growth rate was minus 7.3%. We can also come to the conclusion that the competition is still fierce. This is the market landscape. The second, last year, in terms of the export, we can also see the highlight hitting 6 million and also a record high with a growth rate of 22%.

In the future, the export of Chinese vehicles will also become the highlight. For Geely, last year's target, it is 3.45 million units. As for ICE China sedans. I should say that the target is quite flat, about 1.2 million. As for Galaxy, 1.55 million units. As for Lynk & Co and Zeekr, 400,000 and also Lynk & Co, 300,000. You can see that our target is about 3.45 million units for 2026 in terms of exports. As for the sales volume of Geely in 2025, we were number 2 in the domestic market. In 2026, domestically, we set the sales target to be number 1 in China. As for overseas sales, we will also step up input.

Also benchmark against our Chinese automakers, and also narrow down the gap. I should say that the competition is a marathon for the automakers. The figures are just a kind of a reference. Rather, we should just commit to the values generated to our customers, and also enable that our customers can have better experiences driven by the advancement of technologies. Therefore, we need to highlight the safety, quality, as well as new technologies to our customers. We need to make the vehicles safer. The new technologies can also deliver better experiences to our customers. Thank you.

Gui Shengyue
CEO and Executive Director, Geely Automobile

Our time is limited. We may just conclude here, but before that, we can see that we have already extended our time. If you have any more questions, you are welcome to contact us. Just like Mr. Gan mentioned that we just focus on the long-termism. Time will test our products, and I believe that you can have full confidence in the Geely's development. Thank you. Now I would like to conclude today's conference. Still, we can see maybe some questions haven't been responded, including the questions posted online. We will also join the roadshow conferences by the investors, so you can also make the registration. If you have any more questions, we are ready to respond then. Thank you.

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