Giti Tire and JD Auto form a strategic partnership to drive the leap in the industry value chain.

On November 18, 2025, Giti Tire and JD Auto officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement. This cooperation represents a comprehensive upgrade based on long-term mutual trust and collaboration between the two parties, marking a deeper level of strategic co-construction between a global manufacturing enterprise and a leading domestic digital platform in the context of industrial transformation in the new era. Giti’s passenger car tires and commercial vehicle tires business segments signed agreements with JD Auto respectively. Senior executives from both sides conducted in-depth exchanges on market trends, business synergy, and future plans, jointly envisioning a new landscape for the industry. As a core business segment under the Giti Group, Giti Tire has been deeply involved in the global market for over seventy years. On the R&D front, Giti Tire has established a global R&D network covering Asia, Europe, and the Americas, enabling cross-regional technological collaboration. On the manufacturing front, relying on five major production bases and an annual production capacity of over 70 million tires, Giti Tire has created a smart factory cluster with leading automation and outstanding green manufacturing capabilities in the industry, becoming a leading force in the digital transformation and intelligent manufacturing of the global tire industry. The new Hefei plant is Giti’s latest practice of Industry 4.0 and green intelligent manufacturing, based on automation, digitalization, and greening, raising production efficiency, intelligence, and carbon reduction capabilities to new heights. On the market front, Giti continues to deepen strategic cooperation with major global automakers, forming full market coverage from original equipment to replacement, and from high-end to mainstream, jointly building a win-win ecosystem with faster response and stronger resilience. At the same time, Giti’s globally accessible, efficient, and agile retail service network continuously improves and optimizes terminal response and user experience. With leading technology and stable quality, Giti Tire’s market position in brand power, original equipment manufacturing capabilities, and channel strength continues to improve. The automotive industry is rapidly entering a new phase of electrification, intelligentization, and greening, placing higher demands on tire technology, service efficiency, and supply chain collaboration. Around this strategic cooperation, Giti Tire and JD Auto will focus on user value and leverage systemic collaboration to comprehensively enhance the level of collaboration across the industry chain. In terms of C-end services, both parties will rely on JD’s powerful e-commerce platform and instant retail system, combined with Giti’s deep accumulation in product development, intelligent manufacturing, and professional services, to jointly build an efficient online and offline service network, achieving a faster and more accurate tire selection and installation experience. Regarding deepening the cooperation, both parties will promote the integrated upgrading of the supply chain, product chain, and service chain, improve channel flow efficiency, and solidify the collaborative capabilities from the production end to the consumer end. Leveraging JD Auto’s offline system, the two companies will jointly explore an instant retail and delivery service model for tires, continuously optimizing service scenarios such as “city express delivery” and “hourly delivery” to ensure high-quality tires reach users more promptly and conveniently. Simultaneously, they will leverage their respective resource advantages in the automotive aftermarket to promote the systematic integration of online sales, offline services, technological empowerment, and brand building, reshaping the consumer experience with innovative models and accelerating the digitalization, standardization, and transparency of tire services. The two companies will also collaborate on more efficient and reliable product and service solutions for commercial vehicle tires and logistics transportation scenarios, providing higher value support for trunk logistics, urban distribution transportation, and other industry scenarios, helping the transportation industry reduce costs and improve efficiency. In the future, Giti Tire and JD Auto will work together to create an industrial ecosystem characterized by “leading products, high-quality services, smooth collaboration, and green low-carbon development,” driving the overall leap in the industry value chain and bringing consumers a better travel experience. Giti Tire, founded in Singapore, is one of the world’s leading tire manufacturers. Relying on its excellent products and services, it sells in more than 130 countries worldwide and has won the trust of many well-known domestic and international automakers, becoming their long-term original equipment tire supplier. Giti Tire operates five tire manufacturing plants in China, the United States, and Indonesia, all of which are certified to ISO/TS16949 quality management system and ISO14001 environmental management system. Simultaneously, its five R&D and technology centers in the United States, Germany, China, and Indonesia collaborate closely, forging its global R&D capabilities. Furthermore, Giti Tire actively participates in motorsports, continuously refining its R&D technology through extreme tire performance challenges, and feeding back into the civilian tire market. Currently, it has over 90,000 professional retail service outlets across five continents, providing comprehensive tire solutions to car owners and racing teams, making products and services readily available.