The Rao Bin Award of China's Automotive Industry is a highly anticipated award for
entrepreneurs in China's automotive industry. It aims to reward outstanding talents who have
made outstanding contributions to the development of China's automotive industry since its
establishment.
The "Rao Bin Award" is sponsored by the China Society of Automotive Engineers and specially
supported by the Beijing Huaqi Automobile Culture Foundation. In 2015, the "Rao Bin Award"
was born and received support and attention from all parties.
The winners of the "Rao Bin Award" were selected after careful consideration after extensive
consultation with senior leaders of China Mechanical Engineering, China Society of
Automotive Engineers, China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, China Automotive
Technology Research Center, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade
Automotive Industry Committee, China Auto News, China Automotive Talent Research
Association, industry experts, scholars and other parties.
The establishment of the "Rao Bin Award" sets a benchmark for the automotive industry,
encourages Chinese automakers to work hard, care about China's independent development, and
hold the national spirit of "common development", thereby driving the development and
improvement of China's automotive strategy, technology, management and cultural
undertakings, and building monuments in the development of China's automotive industry to
realize China's "automotive power dream"!
Previous Rao Bin Award winners:
2015 Award-winner Li Gang (a typical representative of the first generation of automobile
people in New China, former director of the First Automobile Works, and chairman of China
National Automotive Industry Corporation); Chen Zutao (a typical representative of the first
generation of automobile people in New China, the first chief engineer of the Second
Automobile Works, and general manager of China National Automotive Industry Corporation)
2016 Award-winner Geng Zhaojie (former chairman and general manager of First Automobile Group
Corporation)
2017 Award-winner Zuo Yan'an (deputy to the 10th and 11th National People's Congress,
national model worker, and former chairman of Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Co., Ltd.)
2018 Award-winner Ma Chunji (deputy to the 10th and 11th National People's Congress, national
model worker, and former chairman of the United Nations World Lifetime Academician of the
World Academy of Productivity Sciences (WAPS), former Chairman and Party Secretary of China
National Heavy Duty Truck Group Co., Ltd., former Chairman of the Board of Directors of
China National Heavy Duty Truck (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.)
2019 Award-winning Guest-Tang Yuxiang (Deputy to the 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th National
People's Congress, National Model Worker, Chairman and Party Secretary of Zhengzhou Yutong
Bus Co., Ltd.)
2021 Award-winning Representative-Li Shufu (Chairman of Geely Holding Group)
2022 Award-winning Representative-Wei Jianjun (Chairman of Great Wall Motor Co., Ltd.)