Company: CAAS
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001104659-25-073486
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Company: China Automotive Systems, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: 424B3
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Filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3)

Registration No. 333-288447

<div align='center'>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 September 10, 2025, at 9:00 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 set up a conference room on September 9, 2025, at 9:00 p.m. (EST) at Henglong USA Corporation, 2546 Elliott Drive, Troy, Michigan,
U.S. for the Company’s US shareholders to participate via TEAMS connection as more fully described in the accompanying proxy statement/prospectus.
Only stockholders of record at the close of business on July 30, 2025 are entitled to notice of and to vote at the Special Meeting.

At the Special Meeting, you will be asked to vote
on the important matters described in the notice of Special Meeting and proxy statement/prospectus accompanying this letter. You will
also have an opportunity to ask questions and receive information about the Company’s business.

The proxy statement/prospectus incorporates by
reference the Company’s 2024 Annual Report and the Company’s Quarterly Report for three months ended March 31, 2025.
We encourage you to read such Annual Report and Quarterly Report. They include information on the Company’s operations as well
as the Company’s financial statements.

One of the matters you will be asked to vote on
at the Special Meeting is the adoption of an agreement and plan of merger, dated as of June 26, 2025 (the “Merger Agreement”),
which included a plan of merger required to be filed with the Registrar of Companies of the Cayman Islands, substantially in the form
as attached as Annex A to the Merger Agreement (the “Plan of Merger”). The Merger Agreement provides for a redomicile of
the Company to the Cayman Islands by way of a merger of the Company into China Automotive Systems Holdings, Inc.,