Company: CAAS
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001104659-25-073486
Chunk: 153

Company: China Automotive Systems, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: 424B3
Chunk 153
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 information set forth in this proxy statement/prospectus. This proxy statement/prospectus
incorporates by reference the documents set forth below that the Company previously filed with the SEC. These documents contain important
information about the Company.

We are also incorporating by reference all additional
documents that we file with the SEC under Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act between the date of this proxy
statement/prospectus and the date of the Special Meeting.

You should rely only on the information contained
in this proxy statement/prospectus for your consent of the shareholders of the Company. Neither the Company nor CAAS Cayman has authorized
anyone to provide you with information that differs from that contained in this proxy statement/prospectus. This proxy statement/prospectus
is dated , 2025. You should not assume that the information contained in this proxy statement/prospectus is accurate as of any date other
than that date, and neither the mailing of this proxy statement/prospectus to shareholders nor the issuance of shares of CAAS Cayman
ordinary shares in the Redomicile Merger shall create any implication to the contrary.

The Company’s website is located at http://www.caasauto.com/#/ir.
The Company’s filings with the SEC are available, free of charge, through its web site, as soon as reasonably practicable after
those reports or filings are electronically filed with or furnished to the SEC. Information on the Company’s website is not part
of this proxy statement/prospectus and you should not rely on that information in deciding whether to approve of the proposal described
in this proxy statement/prospectus unless that information is also in this proxy statement/prospectus.

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Annex A

102

AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER

between

China Automotive Systems, Inc.

and

CHINA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS HOLDINGS, INC.

Dated as of June 26, 2025

AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER</div>

This AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER (this“”), dated as of June 26, 2025, is entered into by and between
China Automotive Systems, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“”), and China Automotive Systems Holdings, Inc.,
an exempted company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands and a wholly-owned subsidiary of CAAS (“”
and together with CAAS, each a “Party” and collectively the “”