Mr. Karl Deppen, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler Truck Holding AG, responsible for Asia business, also sent us his blessings from the banks of the Rhine.

Fu Bingfeng, Executive Vice President and Secretary-General of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, stated in his speech that commercial vehicles, as important equipment for transportation, are an important support for China's logistics transportation and a basic guarantee for economic construction. In particular, heavy-duty truck products are core equipment for the economic artery of road transportation, and their product quality and performance profoundly affect the efficiency of China's road transportation. As China's physical transportation industry gradually develops toward standardization, containerization, greening, and high efficiency, the market has put forward higher requirements for heavy-duty truck models in terms of reliability, efficiency, energy conservation, environmental protection, total cost of ownership, and after-sales service guarantees. Against this background, China's high-end heavy-duty truck market has maintained a relatively high compound growth rate, showing enormous development potential. For enterprises and the industry, this is both a challenge to respond to market demand and an opportunity to embrace high-quality development in the future. The official rollout of Mercedes-Benz localized heavy-duty truck products will inject new vitality and bring new momentum to China's high-end heavy-duty truck market. China has the world's largest commercial vehicle market and is fertile ground for the development of world-class commercial vehicle enterprises. The localized production of Mercedes-Benz heavy-duty trucks also heralds a new chapter in Sino-foreign joint venture commercial vehicle cooperation. As a leading enterprise in the commercial vehicle industry, Mercedes-Benz has many years of deep accumulation in production and manufacturing technology, manufacturing management systems, and quality control systems. By further deepening cooperation with Chinese partners, integrating excellent technology, reliability, efficiency, and safety performance with insights into the Chinese market, and fully leveraging the unique advantages of the localized industrial chain and service system, we believe Mercedes-Benz will bring high-quality products that meet the needs of the Chinese market and customers, promote the transformation and upgrading of China's heavy-duty truck industry. Currently, China's commercial vehicle industry is exploring multiple low-carbon development paths and, combined with actual operating scenarios, is attempting various technology routes such as battery-swap heavy-duty trucks, hydrogen fuel cells, and hydrogen internal combustion engines. Commercial applications of intelligent trucks are also developing in parallel. L3-level trucks have been successfully operated in some specific scenarios, accumulating valuable experience. In the future, China's automotive industry will lead the global automotive industry toward green, low-carbon, and intelligent development. World-class automotive enterprises will obtain development opportunities in China and enter a new era of development hand in hand with China's logistics and transportation industry. It is hoped that Mercedes-Benz will continue to deeply cultivate the domestic market in the future, explore international markets, and build Beijing Foton Daimler into a new benchmark for high-level cooperation in China's commercial vehicle industry.

Cui Zhongfu, Vice President and Secretary-General of the China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing, stated in his speech that China's commercial vehicle market ranks first globally and has formed a unique industrial system. Currently, the domestic commercial vehicle industry is at a critical period of transformation and upgrading. Logistics efficiency is continuously optimizing, and the total number of commercial vehicles is gradually shrinking. The industry faces an upgrade from quantity to quality. Intelligent logistics is developing rapidly, and the pace of green transformation is accelerating. Commercial vehicle enterprises are upgrading from product improvers to providers of overall logistics solutions. Along with consumption upgrading, the vehicle needs of the logistics industry are also changing. The market has increasingly high requirements for commercial vehicle driving experience. Commercial vehicle enterprises should seize this development opportunity and pay attention to the demand for mid-to-high-end commercial vehicles. This is not only the most fiercely contested market in the future but also an important track targeted by Mercedes-Benz heavy-duty truck localization. Faced with such enormous market demand and broad development prospects, we are pleased to see that Mercedes-Benz heavy-duty trucks have taken the lead in implementing localization. This will not only increase benefits for logistics and transportation enterprises but also provide drivers with safe and comfortable vehicle experiences, effectively promoting the upgrading and replacement of heavy-duty truck equipment in the transportation market. The commercial vehicle industry has many participants. During the current critical period of industry transformation, all parties should jointly create a favorable development environment. It is hoped that with the rollout of the first Mercedes-Benz localized heavy-duty truck, Mercedes-Benz trucks will continue to move forward without stopping, solidly advancing the development process of high-end heavy-duty truck localization on the competitive arena representing the industry's highest technological level, and helping China's logistics accelerate in speed and increase in efficiency.

Now let us jointly witness the launch ceremony for the first day of production

Let us listen to Li Shan from Mercedes-Benz Network Development Department share his feelings about the rollout of localized Mercedes-Benz heavy-duty trucks and the development layout

Zhang Ming from the Mercedes-Benz Business Division brought us the journey of Mercedes-Benz's development specifically for Chinese users and his own expectations.

Friends from the German Wörth plant were invited to China to contribute their strength to the localization process of Mercedes-Benz heavy-duty trucks. Let us hear his feelings and sharing.

Zhang Changshan, team leader of the welding workshop, shared with us his feelings of witnessing the rollout of this domestic Mercedes-Benz truck

Let us jointly witness the rollout of the first Mercedes-Benz domestically produced heavy-duty truck!