(Yicai Global) Feb. 20 -- A Chinese construction company that recently submitted the winning bid for a new energy vehicle industrial park has inadvertently revealed that telecoms giant Huawei Technologies is linking arms with Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group, better known as JAC Motors, to manufacture smart electric vehicles.

China State Construction Engineering Corp., whose unit was part of a consortium that just won a CNY1.5 billion (USD218.8 million) engineering, procurement and construction contract for a NEV industrial park in Feixi county, eastern Anhui province, announced the tie-up on its website on Feb. 16, but quickly deleted it.

Neither State Construction Engineering nor Hefei, Anhui province-based JAC Motors have made any comment.

Feixi county officials said last month that they had a meeting with Richard Yu, chief executive of Huawei’s Intelligent Automotive Solution Business Unit, and that Huawei might be hooking up with JAC Motors to develop a new generation of high-end smart electric car platform technologies based on Huawei’s intelligent auto parts in the county. But there was no mention that the pair would start making vehicles.

However, State Construction Engineering’s short-lived announcement said that Huawei and JAC Motors’ project includes stamping, welding, painting and the final assembly of automotives.

There were reports back in June last year that Shenzhen-based Huawei planned to work with several Chinese automakers to develop vehicles using its Zhixuan model and that JAC Motors was one of them.

Up until now, Chongqing-based Seres has been the carmaker most deeply involved with Huawei. The pair developed the successful AITO Wenjie brand using the Zhixuan model.

The tech giant is involved in product definition and vehicle design, manufacturing, sales and marketing as well as providing automakers with independently developed automobile software and hardware.

Editor: Kim Taylor