Shandong implements twelve measures to provide full-chain support for the automotive industry's overseas expansion

On April 2, the province-wide meeting to advance the high-quality development of Shandong’s automobile export (“Wan Enterprises Going Global, Lu Trade Going Global”) was held in Jinan. The meeting focused on enhancing the province’s automobile industry’s international competitiveness and on building a coordinated platform for automobile exports.

Industry data show that automobiles have become a core engine for sustaining Shandong’s foreign trade growth. In 2025, Shandong’s automobile production reached 2.6122 million units, ranking No. 4 nationwide; the province’s total import and export scale was RMB 3.53 trillion, ranking No. 5 nationwide; the growth rate of automobile exports was 18.4 percentage points higher than the provincial foreign trade average. The commercial vehicle export volume accounted for more than one-fifth of the country’s total, while the annual growth of automobile exports was 22.4%. The contribution rate of automobile exports to export growth reached 15.3%, and exports of electromechanical products first exceeded RMB 1 trillion. In the first two months of 2026, Shandong’s automobile export value reached RMB 14.4 billion, surging 98.8% year on year. Of this, passenger vehicles grew 122.2% and commercial vehicles grew 92.8%. The combined exports of automobiles and auto parts accounted for 11.1% of Shandong’s total foreign trade export value, directly boosting the province’s export growth by 2.5 percentage points. The industry’s export momentum has continued to be released.

At the meeting, Wang Lei, Director-General of the Department of Commerce of Shandong Province, announced on-site the 12 key measures for 2026 to help automotive companies expand into overseas markets, increase orders, and improve quality and efficiency. The measures cover the entire chain, including industrial scale, coordinated exports, platform building, market expansion, after-sales networks, used-vehicle exports, logistics support, export tax rebates, financial insurance, customs clearance facilitation, business-related services, and risk prevention.

Specifically, the 12 measures include: first, enlarging the scale of Shandong-made automobile exports, encouraging companies to develop and adapt models for overseas markets, and offering rewards for new-energy complete vehicles and new models; second, encouraging automobile trading companies to go global in a coordinated manner, supporting leading enterprises in driving clusters of small and medium-sized supporting suppliers to go global, and promoting an upgrade of the “complete vehicle + scattered parts assembly + localized operations” model; third, building an Automobile Export Development Alliance and creating an integrated service platform featuring government-enterprise coordination and integration of production, transportation, sales, and finance; fourth, carrying out overseas market development, supporting companies to participate in international exhibitions and providing cost subsidies; fifth, jointly building and sharing an international marketing and after-sales service network, integrating resources such as overseas warehouses and repair centers to address cross-border after-sales service challenges; sixth, improving the capability of used-vehicle exports, building one-stop service bases, and providing up to RMB 150 per vehicle as a testing fee subsidy; seventh, strengthening logistics support, implementing “factory-to-port direct routing,” and optimizing roll-on/roll-off shipping routes and multimodal transport; eighth, optimizing export tax rebates, compressing normal tax rebates for Category I and Category II enterprises to within 3 working days; ninth, increasing financial insurance support by providing supply-chain finance and coverage of credit insurance for inventory holding periods; tenth, improving customs clearance facilitation, supporting companies in obtaining AEO certification and optimizing the inspection model for power batteries; eleventh, establishing a “three-in-one” enterprise-related service system of “one platform, one mechanism, and one special task force”; and twelfth, enhancing risk prevention by studying overseas market-access policies to respond to technical trade barriers and trade investigations.

At the same time, the meeting also released the “Proposal of the Shandong Automobile Export Alliance.” It will drive Shandong’s automobile industry to move from “going it alone” to “sailing together in a group.” The public service platform of the automobile export alliance was officially launched, enabling one-stop matching of resources such as vehicle sources, cargo space, finance, and credit insurance. Jinan Customs and the Shandong Port Logistics Group also released supporting measures in parallel. Jinan Customs, together with Qingdao Customs, launched 10 customs clearance facilitation measures, implementing booking-based customs clearance 24/7 (7×24 hours). It will also promote “land-sea coordination and sea-to-rail direct transportation,” and pilot the power battery inspection model of “verification and qualification guarantee.” The Shandong Port will set up overseas shared after-sales service outlets. Relying on global port resources, it will build a service network covering major export markets and continuously optimize the port customs clearance environment.

In the precise matchmaking session, cities including Jinan, Qingdao, Zibo, and Weifang held one-on-one talks with leading vehicle companies such as BYD, FAW Jiefang, Chery, Geely, and BAIC Foton. Shandong-based supply-chain service enterprises set up matchmaking zones to provide targeted services around financing, logistics, customs clearance, exhibitions, and more, and multiple cooperation intentions were reached on-site.

The present advancement meeting and the 12 measures are a systematic deployment by Shandong to integrate resources across industry, logistics, finance, and customs clearance. Through alliance-based coordination, platform-based support, and full-chain services, it aims to solve companies’ overseas export challenges in channels, logistics, funding, after-sales, risk, and other areas, and to move automobile exports from scattered efforts to coordinated action and from scale to quality.

Next, Shandong will continue to promote the implementation and effectiveness of the 12 measures, strengthen policy transmission and closed-loop services, and ensure that companies can “understand them, use them, and benefit from them.” It will continue to amplify the advantages of the industry and ports, promote the coordinated overseas push of complete vehicles and auto parts, and drive simultaneous efforts from both new-energy and traditional vehicle models. It will help Shandong’s automobile industry move steadily and go further toward the global market, injecting stronger momentum into Shandong’s province-wide high-quality foreign trade development.