On December 6, Zhongtong Bus held its 2026 Supply Chain Strategic Partner Conference in Jinan, Shandong Province. At the conference, Zhongtong reviewed its 2025 achievements and experiences across four key areas—market performance, R&D, quality, and procurement—and outlined its plans, goals, and pathways for 2026. Company leadership emphasized that as China enters the new development phase of the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Zhongtong will leverage enhanced supply chain capabilities to drive the high-quality growth of the road transportation industry.

Advancing Across the Value Chain for Sustained Growth

The commercial vehicle sector is navigating a new landscape defined by accelerated technological iteration, intensified competition, and expanding global presence. Green and low-carbon transformation, coupled with intelligent upgrading, have become central to the industry's high-quality development. In 2025, with strong support from its industry chain partners, Zhongtong focused on building a new industrial ecosystem and strengthening the core competitiveness of its entire value chain.

Guided by the strategies of "new energy, internationalization, and premium positioning," Zhongtong centered its efforts on user needs and market trends, comprehensively enhancing product competitiveness. It achieved a full-range layout and comprehensive upgrade across platforms—from public transit to tour and group coaches—making its products better aligned with users' actual operational requirements.

In the domestic public bus market, Zhongtong secured multiple major orders and maintained its second-place ranking in the tour and group segment. Overseas, the company increased resource investment and strengthened its market competitiveness. Throughout 2025, driven by both domestic and international markets, Zhongtong achieved high-quality growth in products, technology, sales, revenue, and profit, with steady increases in market share and brand recognition.

In today’s mature market stage, competition in the automotive industry ultimately comes down to supply chain competition. In 2025, as a "chain leader," Zhongtong took a proactive role by closely monitoring market changes and gaining deep insight into user needs. While continuously improving its own operational quality, the company also facilitated the steady upgrading of its overall supply chain operations.

Zhongtong further promoted supplier optimization and integration by building a strategic cooperation community. Over the past year, it introduced more than 60 high-quality suppliers and phased out over 200 underperforming ones, enhancing the resilience and responsiveness of its supply chain and achieving deeper collaboration and value co-creation across the industrial chain.

Simultaneously, driven by digital transformation, Zhongtong comprehensively reconstructed its Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) system. By establishing standardized processes, it laid a solid foundation for compliance management and improved the quality and efficiency of supply chain operations. The company also innovatively implemented a "direct-line" collaboration mechanism between supply and demand sides, deepening strategic partnerships through joint technological breakthroughs and optimized resource allocation, thereby creating win-win outcomes across the value chain.

2026: A Pivotal Year for Intelligent and Green Transformation in the Bus Industry

2026 marks the beginning of the 15th Five-Year Plan period and represents a critical year for the bus industry to advance intelligent and green transformation while achieving high-quality growth. Wang Xingfu, Chairman of Zhongtong Bus, stated in his address that facing new developmental stages and opportunities, Zhongtong will—with quality as the core, innovation as the engine, and efficiency as the support—deepen collaboration with outstanding supply chain partners and jointly expand globally to create a new future of win-win industrial cooperation.

Confronted with evolving competitive dynamics in both domestic and international markets, Zhongtong will anchor its efforts on core products and collaborate with supply chain partners to continuously achieve technological breakthroughs in key performance areas such as safety, economy, reliability, comfort, and intelligence, ensuring that critical performance indicators remain industry-leading. At the same time, Zhongtong will continue to fulfill its role as a "chain leader," actively guiding the transformation from a "supply chain" to a "value-sharing chain" through dynamic optimization and adjustment. The company aims to build a new global supply chain ecosystem characterized by "efficiency, intelligence, and symbiosis," forming a tripartite alliance that serves as an "innovation community," a "responsibility community," and a "digitalization community."

In 2026, against the backdrop of deepening implementation of dual-carbon goals and the continued advancement of the Belt and Road Initiative, the bus industry faces both opportunities and challenges. Zhongtong Bus will join hands with its supply chain partners to invest in R&D, improve quality, strengthen brands, and deliver excellent services, providing superior full-value-chain solutions to customers worldwide and contributing Zhongtong's strength to the green and intelligent upgrading of global transportation.

Source : www.chinabuses.org

Editor : Sissi

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