IBI’s CNAUTO Joins the “Xianfeng Qihang” Mission to the Middle East, Deepens Cross-border Industrial Layout
A delegation from the “Xianfeng Qihang” Middle East Business Mission visited the United Arab Emirates for a series of trade and investment exchanges. The team was led by Cui Xianghua, Vice Mayor of Fengtai District, and accompanied throughout by Lu Jun, Deputy Director of the Administrative Committee of the Zhongguancun Fengtai Park, and Huang Lei, Director of its Industry Promotion Division. Corporate delegates included Huang Qing, Executive VP of China Railway Signal & Communication Corp. (CRSC), Fan Ming, Chairman of China Railway Central Asia (Beijing) Oil & Gas Co., Zou Xiaoxue, Co-founder of Toodudu and Vice Chair of the CNAUTO platform, Zhang Wei, General Manager of Silk Road FinChain CNHUB and CEO of CNAUTO, and Ban Jun, CNAUTO’s Business Director. The group combined on-site visits with focused roundtables to advance cooperation between regional industries and Middle Eastern markets.
At the mission’s first stop, the delegation visited the IFZA Free Zone in Dubai. As one of the region’s most competitive zones, IFZA’s efficient public services, flexible business policies, and gateway location spanning Europe, Asia, and Africa make it a prime choice for international expansion. During the exchange, Zou Xiaoxue noted that IBI has already laid out its Middle East presence—CNAUTO GENERAL TRADING FZCO has been registered in the Jebel Ali Free Zone, and, together with Shandong Port Overseas Development Group, an overseas warehouse for automotive and construction equipment has been launched to form a core hub for fulfillment and supply-chain services.
The delegation then visited Bank of China (Dubai Branch), where President Pan Xinyuan received the group for a dedicated discussion. Zhang Wei gave a progress update on IBI’s cross-border platforms, explaining that CNHUB and CNAUTO, as IBI’s pathfinders for going global, are building a digitized, end-to-end, “full-visibility” supply-chain trading and delivery system. By technically connecting orders, logistics, and capital flows, the platforms are improving both efficiency and security, with several capabilities already live in pilot scenarios.
In a joint roundtable with Bank of China, Standard Chartered, and Deloitte, Vice Mayor Cui Xianghua emphasized that, under the Belt and Road Initiative, “going global” has become an essential path for enterprises to expand growth space. Fengtai District will continue to build government–enterprise bridges, offering policy support and resource coordination to better match local industrial strengths with international demand. At the session, Zhang Wei delivered a roadshow titled “IBI’s Practice of Industrial Digitalization for Cross-border”, spotlighting how IBI’s PTD strategy (Platform, Technology, Data) aligns with its cross-border EHS framework (Engine, Hub, Solution). He noted that the two systems will jointly provide customized digital infrastructure services for Fengtai’s pillar clusters—rail transit, biopharma, and pre-owned vehicles—and previewed plans to upgrade a Dubai industrial service base and overseas-warehouse center to further perfect the cross-border service network and cultivate new, productivity-driven capabilities for going global.
This Middle East leg of “Xianfeng Qihang” not only advanced resource matching between CNAUTO and regional markets, but also marked a substantive step forward in IBI’s international layout. Looking ahead, IBI will continue to build out its overseas service network with digital capabilities at the core, delivering efficient cross-border solutions for more industrial clusters.
About CNAUTO
CNAUTO, under IBI, is a vertical cross-border digital service platform for the automotive equipment and construction-machinery belts. Driven by “New Cross-border Corridors + AI Digital Infrastructure,” the platform offers one-stop cross-border solutions. Focusing on clusters such as rubber, tires, complete vehicles, and construction machinery, CNAUTO leverages IBI’s Platform–Technology–Data (PTD) strategy, linking domestic free-trade zones (Qingdao, Urumqi, Chongqing) with hubs across the Middle East & Africa and Southeast Asia to build a “domestic base + overseas center + digital services” ecosystem. Online, it provides AI big-data models (for tax rebates, marketing, compliance), new-corridor and trade-fintech platforms; offline, it deploys overseas warehouses and trading centers in MEA to enable distributed global collaboration—helping China’s industrial belts go global together and accelerating the worldwide footprint of Made-in-China.
