Company: CAAS
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001104659-25-073486
Chunk: 163

Company: China Automotive Systems, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: 424B3
Chunk 163
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by the Parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts
shall together constitute one and the same instrument. Each counterpart may consist of a number of copies hereof, each signed by less
than all, but together signed by both of the Parties hereto.

Section 7.07.

If any provision of this
Agreement is determined by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such provision
will be enforced to the maximum extent possible given the intent of the Parties hereto. If such clause or provision cannot be so enforced,
such provision shall be stricken from this Agreement and the remainder of this Agreement shall be enforced as if such invalid, illegal
or unenforceable clause or provision had (to the extent not enforceable) never been contained in this Agreement.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, CAAS
and CAAS Cayman have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the date first written above by their respective directors or officers
thereunto duly authorized.

| China Automotive Systems, Inc. |                 |                       |
| By:                            | /s/ Hanlin Chen |                       |
|                                | Name:           | Hanlin Chen           |
|                                | Title:          | Chairman of the Board |

| CHINA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS HOLDINGS, INC. |                 |             |
| By:                                     | /s/ Hanlin Chen |             |
|                                         | Name:           | Hanlin Chen |
|                                         | Title:          | Director    |

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ANNEX A

FORM OF PLAN OF MERGER</div>

THIS PLAN OF MERGER is made on June 26, 2025

BETWEEN

(1)China
Automotive Systems, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Merging Company”); and

(2)China
Automotive Systems Holdings, Inc., an exempted company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands on 29 August 2024,
with its registered office at the offices of Maples Corporate Services Limited of PO Box 309, Ugland House, Grand Cayman, KY1-1104, Cayman
Islands (the “Company” or the “Surviving Company” and together with Merging Company,