The leading Chinese electric vehicle company, with origins as a battery maker, has posted two years of million-car growth in sales.
Hefei has led the country in making electric vehicles and other tech products, but it still has not escaped a nationwide housing crisis.
Gross domestic product expanded 5.2 percent, as China worked to export more to make up for weak demand, high debt and a steep property contraction at home.
Worries are growing in Washington that a flood of Chinese products could put new American investments in clean energy and high-tech factories at risk.
Attacks on two dozen ships since November are forcing shipping lines to figure out whether and when to skip the Suez Canal and send vessels on longer voyages around Africa.
The leading electric-vehicle maker also drew buyers eager to take advantage of government incentives that will be harder to get in 2024.
The country’s trade with Russia this year has exceeded $200 billion, and makers of cars and trucks are the big winners.
Volkswagen is shifting more operations to China, tapping the country’s electric vehicle capacity and building factories.
Two- and three-wheeled vehicles, used by billions of people, are moving away from fossil fuels to batteries faster than cars in countries that have made the energy transition a priority.
The British and European car industries had lobbied for a delay in a measure that would have added costly tariffs to many electric vehicles.