On May 14, 2025, the "2025 Used Car Export Development Forum," hosted by the China Automobile Dealers Association, was grandly held in Yili, Xinjiang. The forum focused on the current development trends, challenges, and upgrade paths of used car exports, attracting participation from government agencies, industry experts, and used car export and related enterprises.

 

At this forum, Zhang Changshuai, Assistant General Manager of Weipu Auto, delivered a keynote speech titled   "Under the Digital Wave: Ecosystem Reconstruction and Platform Empowerment for China's Used Car Exports"  , systematically explaining how digital technology can solve persistent industry problems and reshape export competitiveness.

 

Amid increasingly fierce competition in the global automotive market, China's used car export business is flourishing at an astonishing pace. Since the launch of used car export efforts in the second half of 2019, after more than five years of hard work, export scale has grown year by year, covering regions and countries such as Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and Africa, forming a robust market network. Following the release of the "Announcement by the Ministry of Commerce and Four Other Departments on Matters Related to Used Car Exports" in early February 2024, over 2,000 enterprises nationwide that have passed the export filing application have joined the used car export business. Used car exports have become a new driving force in the development of the used car industry. The total used car export volume for 2023 and 2024 was approximately 270,000 and 400,000 units respectively, achieving a leap in export volume. Today, more and more Chinese used cars are heading to all corners of the world, opening up new sales markets.

 

To further promote this development trend, the China Automobile Dealers Association specially convened this Used Car Development Forum. This forum was not only a grand gathering within the industry but also provided a platform for in-depth exchange among participating enterprises, helping to clarify issues in the used car export process, assisting companies in better exploring international markets, and enabling China's used car exports to shine on the global stage. At this forum, major used car export and related enterprises shared many difficulties and challenges encountered in daily operations and proposed coping strategies based on practical experience.

 

 In his speech, Zhang Changshuai pointed out that China's used car exports currently face multiple challenges including fragmented vehicle sources, information asymmetry, and a crisis of trust: The dispersion of small and medium-sized car dealers leads to high costs for vehicle source integration; cross-regional cooperation is hindered by a lack of trust, resulting in excessively long average vehicle sourcing cycles; differences in domestic and international vehicle condition standards, delays in information transmission, and risks of fraud further exacerbate overseas buyers' doubts, driving up return rates and transaction costs, and constraining the industry's large-scale development. To break this impasse, Zhang Changshuai emphasized that digital technology has become the core engine for reconstructing the industry ecosystem.

 

 Weipu Auto, through its self-developed "Vehicle Condition Inspection System," integrates hardware devices such as OBD diagnostic tools and paint thickness gauges with maintenance data and inspection systems to generate standardized multilingual reports covering 560 indicators; relying on the "Intelligent Pricing Model" built with big data and artificial intelligence, it deeply integrates vehicle condition data, market trends, and expert experience to achieve precise pricing and a leap in transaction efficiency.

Furthermore, the platform innovatively launched a "One-Click Lock Inventory" function, aggregating fragmented vehicle sources nationwide and intelligently matching overseas demand, helping exporters shorten procurement cycles while providing overseas buyers with one-stop services ranging from online vehicle inspection and customs clearance procedures to cross-border logistics.

 Zhang Changshuai further emphasized that the value of digital platforms lies not only in solving isolated problems but also in promoting collaborative upgrades across the entire industry chain. He expressed the hope that every enterprise present would promptly embrace the digital trend, seize the opportunities brought by the digital wave, actively participate in platform construction, and jointly create a bright future for the used car export industry.

Currently, digitalization is an inevitable trend in industry development. Weipu Auto will continue to innovate, embrace digital transformation, and create more professional, efficient, and secure one-stop automotive export services for customers, exporting high-quality Chinese used cars to the world.