TREE NEWS update: Liu Zongcheng, president of Seres Group’s technology company, said at the 2026 China Automotive Industry Development (TEDA) International Forum that the biggest risk facing the auto industry is not moving slowly but ‘rushing to completion.’ He said China’s auto industry must move from scale leadership to quality leadership and cannot chase speed by compressing validation cycles or lowering safety standards.
Seres Executive Warns ‘Rushed’ Development Is Auto Industry’s Biggest Risk
The remark lands as a direct challenge to the speed-over-rigor instinct that has defined much of China's EV expansion, and it comes from an executive whose own company scaled fast. The framing of scale leadership versus quality leadership implies validation cycles and safety standards are already being traded away somewhere in the chain, which affects suppliers and platforms under delivery pressure, not just finished-vehicle brands. Whether peers echo the warning or quietly keep compressing timelines is the open question worth tracking.
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