Company: CAAS
Filing Date: 2025-07-01
Form Type: F-4
Source: 0001104659-25-064447
Chunk: 1

Company: China Automotive Systems, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-01
Form: F-4
Chunk 1
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(i) (Cross-Border Issuer Tender Offer)¨

Exchange Act Rule 14d-1(d) (Cross-Border Third-Party Tender Offer)¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is
an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933.

Emerging growth company¨

If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards† provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.¨

† The term “new or revised financial
accounting standard” refers to any update issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to its Accounting Standards Codification
after April 5, 2012.

The registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

The information in this preliminary proxy statement/prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not issue these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This preliminary proxy statement/prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and it is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.

<div align='center'>PRELIMINARY—SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED July 1, 2025

PROXY STATEMENT FOR SPECIAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS OF

CHINA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, INC.</div>

Dear Stockholder:

You are cordially invited to the special meeting
of stockholders (the “Special Meeting”) of China Automotive Systems, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”),
to be held on _______, 2025, at _______a.m., (China Standard Time), at the Second Floor Meeting Room, D8 Henglong Building, Optics Valley
Software Park, No. 1 Guanshan First Avenue, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, the People’s Republic of China, and the Company will