In 2024, the Chinese economy has demonstrated strong resilience and vitality. The production and sales of new energy vehicles are nearly 13 million units, accounting for over 60% of global production and sales. This year's government work report proposes to vigorously develop new generation intelligent terminals such as intelligent connected new energy vehicles, intelligent robots, artificial intelligence smartphones and computers, as well as intelligent manufacturing equipment, once again clarifying the development direction of the automotive industry.

The China Electric Vehicle Hundred People's Congress Forum (2025) with the theme of "Strengthening Electrification, Promoting Intelligence, and Achieving High Quality Development" will be held in Beijing from March 28th to 30th, 2025. This forum will hold high-level forums, international forums, council seminars, global policy roundtables, 12 themed forums, as well as a variety of exhibition activities and research results releases.
Dual core driver:

High level forum+international forum, forward-looking industry trends

The high-level forum and the international forum are the two major "soul" forums of previous Hundred People's Congress forums, attracting widespread attention from the industry. In 2025, these two forums will continue to inject forward-looking perspectives and international wisdom into the industry.

The high-level forum will be held on March 29th, and for the first time, it will be extended from half a day to a full day, divided into two sessions in the morning and afternoon, to focus more on discussing cutting-edge industry issues.

The high-level forum, with the theme of "Strengthening Electrification, Promoting Intelligence, and Achieving High Quality Development of the Automotive Industry," focused on new directions, models, and driving forces for the development of automotive electrification and intelligence, as well as the direction and competitive focus of technological innovation in automotive electrification and intelligence. It also discussed how to achieve synergy between technological innovation and industrial innovation, the transformation practices and future directions of automotive enterprises, and how to promote collaborative innovation in the upstream and downstream of the automotive industry chain.

Afternoon discussion on macro judgments and reflections on the automotive industry during the 15th Five Year Plan period; The future oriented competitive strategy and development model of enterprises; Building an innovative and industrial system for the new generation of automobiles; Improve the institutional mechanisms that adapt to the development of new quality forces and cross-border integration in the automotive industry; Improve the environment for the market-oriented development of new energy intelligent vehicles; Discuss topics such as building a governance system to ensure high-quality development of the automotive industry.

The international forum held on March 28th, with the theme of "Joining Hands to Promote Global Automotive Electrification Transformation and Cooperation", focuses on exploring the goals and development strategies of global automotive electrification transformation under the new situation; Objectively analyze the current situation and challenges faced by the global electrification transformation; How to overcome the phased slowdown and imbalance in the global electrification transformation through global cooperation; How to leverage the development and green promotion role of electric vehicles in various fields such as global automotive, transportation, and energy; How to build a globally interconnected supply chain system and a value system for benefit sharing; The direction and path to promote the win-win development of the global new energy vehicle industry.

Deep Focus:

Council Seminar, Global Policy Roundtable, Discuss Industry Hotspots and Difficulties Together

In 2025, the Hundred People Forum will hold two high-level seminars, inviting government departments, business decision-makers, and experts and scholars to deeply explore the hot and difficult issues of industrial development.

Among them, the Council of the Hundred People's Congress and the Seminar on the Development Situation and Policies of the Automotive Industry held on March 28th, with the theme of "Development Situation and High quality Development Suggestions for the New Energy Vehicle Industry", reviewed the development of the new energy and intelligent vehicle industry in 2024; Assessing the new trends and directions in the development of the automotive industry; Discuss the new situation and obstacles faced by the high-quality development of the automotive industry; Policy directions and recommendations for promoting high-quality development of the automotive industry.

The Global Electric Vehicle Development and Policy Roundtable held on March 30th will explore the following issues: the latest policy planning and industry trends of new energy and intelligent connected vehicles in various countries around the world; How to cope with the impact of new changes in the international political environment on the coordinated development of new energy vehicles globally; How to strengthen technological innovation and collaborative research in the global new energy vehicle industry; How to improve the ecological construction of the global new energy vehicle industry development, promote cross regional demonstration and cross field application and cooperation; How to improve the unity of international standards and regulations, especially in the areas of mutual recognition of autonomous driving, cloud services, connected data, and carbon footprint accounting; How to further deepen international exchanges and cooperation, and adhere to the goal and direction of global coordinated development.

Through these two conferences, the Hundred People Forum will provide an efficient and practical communication platform for policy makers and industry decision-makers, helping the global new energy vehicle industry achieve higher levels of collaborative innovation and sustainable development.

Multidimensional issues:

12 themed forums to delve into industry hot topics

From March 28th to 30th, the forum will hold 12 themed forums covering multiple cutting-edge industries. Each forum will delve into topics of high attention and foresight, such as the integrated development of vehicle, road, and cloud, AI vehicles, innovative technologies and industries for intelligent vehicles, aggregated intelligent industries, market and consumption, sustainable development of commercial vehicles, power batteries, new automotive ecology, integrated development of green energy and new energy vehicles, automotive design, the "three new" transformation of automobiles, and the development of extended range electric vehicles. The aim is to provide multi-dimensional ideological collisions and trend insights for the industry.

In addition to the rich conference content, this forum will also hold a series of exhibition activities, including the exhibition of new intelligent achievements in the new energy vehicle industry and the display of core components. This year, there will also be new events such as a micro exhibition of Chinese new energy vehicle Volkswagen seal carving works, aimed at providing participants with comprehensive industry insights and immersive experiences.

From a global perspective to local practices, from technological innovation to business model exploration, the Hundred People Forum (2025) will set higher standards and deeper topics to help the industry seize development opportunities!