Beijing / Shanghai, March 07, 2025 – The Catena-X Automotive Association, together with BMWK, Manufacturing-X, and IDSA, recently concluded its 7th high-level delegation visit to China within 24 months. This visit underscores the association’s ongoing efforts to expand international cooperation, align data space initiatives, and strengthen collaboration between key industry, policy, and research stakeholders.
During the delegation’s stops in Beijing and Shanghai, discussions focused on building digital trust, promoting interoperable data spaces, and identifying concrete pilot applications. Catena-X representatives met with government and industry organizations, including the National Data Bureau (NDA), CAICT, MIIT, Tongji University, and CAAM, as well as key European industry associations such as VDMA, ZVEI, VDA, AHK, Fraunhofer, the German Embassy, and the EU Commission.
Expanding Global Data Space Collaboration
The delegation's visit also provided an opportunity to align with local representations of Catena-X member companies, including ABAT, Mercedes-Benz and SAP, strengthening collaboration efforts in the region.
"Our 7th China delegation visit underscored it once again: A scalable and trusted data ecosystem can only succeed when government, industry and academic institutions work together. Our Catena-X strategy fully aligns with Chinas 100 Data Spaces strategy and lays the foundation for deeper collaboration. We are making significant progress and I'm excited about our next visit in April this year – Stay tuned!” - Oliver Ganser, Chairman of the Board, Catena-X Association
Next Steps: Continued Expansion and Engagement
The Catena-X Association remains committed to further scale its international data ecosystem, ensuring secure and efficient collaboration across international markets. This visit represents a significant milestone, and further engagement with stakeholders in China and other key regions is planned throughout 2025.
About Catena-X:
Catena-X is the first end-to-end, collaborative and open data ecosystem for the automotive industry, connecting all players along the value chain. The Catena-X association acts as a neutral governance to enable standardized, interoperable and data-sovereign collaboration and drive innovation, increase efficiency and compliance across the entire data ecosystem. Catena-X is Gaia-X compliant and also serves as a model for all Manufacturing-X initiatives and is shaping the development of standardized data ecosystems in other industries. Founded in 2021, the association has hubs in the USA, China, Spain, Sweden and France and more than 300 individuals from various players in the automotive industry working in more than 40 expert groups to develop future standards.