On September 16, a BYD employee had their corporate WeChat account banned after sending an open letter to their department opposing the company's policy of deducting performance pay based on rankings. The employee had previously organized colleagues to sign a petition against the pay cuts, but after being warned by department heads, only six people participated.
On September 17, Bloomberg reported that when screening the list of business delegates accompanying Xi Jinping on his visit to the US, the Chinese side not only considered potential commercial deals, but also focused on evaluating the entrepreneurs' political loyalty and demanded that they avoid overshadowing the leader. Currently, senior officials such as Cai Qi are reviewing the list, with BYD founder Wang Chuanfu under consideration.
On September 16, multiple BYD Changfeng-affiliated 4S dealerships in Guiyang, Guizhou (including Changfeng Wangchao, Qianxindi Haiyang, etc.) were exposed as having closed overnight. Employees were owed months of back pay, and suppliers and staff staged rights defense actions on-site; numerous car owners are facing dilemmas such as being unable to register their vehicles, hindered delivery, and unfulfilled after-sales service packages.
On September 14, a BYD employee posted on Maimai questioning the company's excessive cost reduction, revealing that body parts were switched from stainless steel to carbon steel, the material inspection department was dissolved and all materials exempted from inspection, and the review process was artificially rushed. Several self‑identified internal employees echoed in the comments and disclosed more quality control loopholes.
On September 10, news spread on social media platforms that BYD had suspended profit-sharing bonuses for the 2025 fiscal year. After an internal employee posted to confirm this, they were called in for a talk and forced to delete the post. Meanwhile, multiple employees leaked that they had not received pay raises for a long time, housing subsidies had decreased, and performance bonuses had dropped, leaving concentrated satirical satirical own comments under the company's official account.