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title: "Mercedes-Benz's Duan Jianjun: Opposes disorderly \"price wars\" and \"involution-style\" competition; the automotive industry needs a hundred flowers to bloom"
description: "At the 2025 China Automotive Chongqing Forum, Mercedes-Benz CEO Duan Jianjun opposed the disorderly \"price war\" and \"involution-style\" competition, emphasizing that companies should enhance value, ser"
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# Mercedes-Benz's Duan Jianjun: Opposes disorderly "price wars" and "involution-style" competition; the automotive industry needs a hundred flowers to bloom

> At the 2025 China Automotive Chongqing Forum, Mercedes-Benz CEO Duan Jianjun opposed the disorderly "price war" and "involution-style" competition, emphasizing that companies should enhance value, service, and systems. He pointed out that the automotive industry has a vast market and requires a hundred flowers to bloom in order to promote the industry's advancement. Duan Jianjun looks forward to embracing diversified competition together with all practitioners

At the 2025 China Automotive Chongqing Forum, Duan Jianjun, President and CEO of Beijing Mercedes-Benz Sales Service Co., Ltd., stated that companies should enhance value, service, and systems, opposing the chaotic "price war" and "involution-style" competition. The automotive industry has developed for 100 years, and the market is large enough and the track long enough, requiring a hundred flowers to bloom; only in this way can the entire automotive industry continue to move upward and forward. "We look forward to embracing a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred boats competing together with all practitioners," Duan Jianjun said

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