Sinotruk Exports Over 16,000 Heavy-Duty Trucks in January, Setting New Industry Record Again and Starting the Year with a Bang
Recently, Sinotruk announced another exciting news: the export volume of heavy-duty trucks exceeded 16,000 units in January. Following the first breakthrough of 15,000 units in September last year, it only took 4 months to break the industry record maintained by itself again, setting a new all-time high and starting 2026 with a strong "good start", laying a solid foundation for high-quality development throughout the year.
Solid Achievements for "Good Start", Leading Global Production and Sales
Looking back at 2025, Sinotruk delivered an inspiring performance that highlighted its strength: the annual total vehicle sales exceeded 440,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 22.5%; among them, heavy-duty truck sales reached 300,000 units, ranking first in China's heavy-duty truck industry for four consecutive years and successfully winning the global heavy-duty truck sales championship. This historic breakthrough is not only the global market's high recognition of Sinotruk's product quality and service level, but also the pride of China's automobile industry, fully demonstrating the strong strength of Chinese intelligent manufacturing and Chinese brands on the global stage.
In the export field, Sinotruk has continuously made breakthroughs and surpassed itself: the annual export of heavy-duty trucks exceeded 150,000 units in 2025, a year-on-year increase of over 14%, winning the title of China's heavy-duty truck export champion for 21 consecutive years; the monthly export volume of heavy-duty trucks has exceeded 15,000 units for three consecutive months, showing a strong momentum. Entering January 2026, this positive trend continued, with export volume hitting a new high of over 16,000 units, breaking the industry record again in only four months and demonstrating strong global market competitiveness.
The performance in the domestic market is also impressive. Sinotruk not only won the first place in ten major market segments, but also achieved a significant increase in the market share of new energy and high-level intelligent driving products, presenting a sound pattern of coordinated development in both domestic and overseas markets and booming production and sales. According to statistics, Jinan Truck Manufacturing Co., Ltd. alone received more than 28,600 orders in January. The excellent market performance has also won high favor from the capital market. In January this year, Sinotruk's Hong Kong stock price hit a record high, with its market value successfully exceeding 100 billion yuan. A series of outstanding achievements have jointly created Sinotruk's "good start" in the new year and injected a steady stream of strong momentum into the company's high-quality development throughout the year.
"Popular" and "Praiseworthy", Driven by Quality and Service
The ability to top the global production and sales volume is supported by Sinotruk's pursuit of and commitment to extreme product quality. Sinotruk has domestic leading and world-class production and manufacturing bases, and has built a large-scale and efficient production pattern. In 2025 alone, the production capacity of Sinotruk Laiwu Factory exceeded 110,000 units, providing solid support for product delivery and quality assurance.
To deeply integrate into the global market and accurately meet the differentiated needs of different regions, Sinotruk has actively promoted the localized strategic layout, built 37 KD assembly plants in 27 countries around the world, and created a localized solution integrating sales, after-sales service and financial support. Through resource pre-positioning and large-scale production, Sinotruk has significantly improved the global market penetration rate and service response efficiency, further narrowing the distance with global customers. At the end of 2025, the Algeria KD plant was officially put into production, quickly becoming an important fulcrum for exploring the African market, with exports in January 2026 increasing by 656% year-on-year; the Tanzania KD plant has achieved full-load and efficient operation, with exports in January increasing by 55% year-on-year, showing remarkable results of localized layout.
While adhering to the quality lifeline, Sinotruk has always put customer needs first and continuously deepened the construction of the service system. Only in overseas markets, it has laid out more than 700 service outlets and spare parts centers, building a comprehensive, powerful and efficient service matrix. With a sound service system and considerate customer service, Sinotruk has established significant competitive advantages in many regional markets around the world and accumulated a deep customer base. In the future, Sinotruk will continue to expand its distribution channels, regularly carry out standardized training on marketing, service, spare parts, etc., and make every effort to ensure that global customers enjoy high-quality experience with reliable products, superior cost performance and fast response.
New Journey, New Blueprint, New Start for Global Layout
At the 2025 Global Partners Conference, Sinotruk clearly proposed that it will continue to deepen the full-category overseas expansion and global layout strategy, promote the breakthrough and upgrading of the full-series products, the win-win upgrading of the whole life cycle, and the all-round upgrading of the marketing system, improve the global market competitiveness through all-round changes, and strive to achieve the 2030 strategic goal.
The export of over 16,000 heavy-duty trucks in January is not only a continuation of past brilliant achievements, but also a new starting point for a new journey. At present, the global commercial vehicle market is in a strategic window period of demand release. Sinotruk will firmly seize development opportunities, accelerate breakthroughs and innovations, continuously upgrade products, technologies, cost performance and service networks, and constantly create new strategic growth poles. With the wisdom of "recognizing changes" to insight into the global development trend and the courage of "seeking changes" to lead the forefront of the industry, driven by the dual-brand strategy of SITRAK and HOWO, the company will further expand into light-duty trucks, pickup trucks and other business areas, and build a product matrix covering the full series of commercial vehicles. At the same time, it will comprehensively promote the localized layout of the production system, management system and talent team, and pave a solid road for global development with a posture more in line with the needs of the global market.
Today, Sinotruk's products have spread to more than 150 countries and regions on six continents around the world, and more than one million Sinotruk heavy-duty trucks are operating on transportation routes around the world. As the "vanguard" of China's high-end equipment manufacturing, Sinotruk will firmly shoulder the mission of "empowering better equipment with technology", unswervingly promote the six strategic transformations of "greenization, digital intelligence, servitization, internationalization, diversification and high-endization", strive to become a global leader in the commercial vehicle industry, and write a new magnificent chapter of China's national automobile industry.
