Company: CAAS
Filing Date: 2025-09-19
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0001104659-25-091423
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Company: China Automotive Systems, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-09-19
Form: 6-K
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<div align='center'>UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 6-K

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER

PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16

UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the month of September, 2025

Commission File Number: 001-42851

China Automotive Systems, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as
Specified in its Charter)</div>

| No. 1 Henglong Road, Yu Qiao Development Zone   |
| Shashi District, Jing Zhou City, Hubei Province |
| The People’s Republic of China                  |

<div align='center'>(Address of principal executive offices)</div>

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual
reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F:

<div align='center'>Form 20-F x
Form 40-F ¨

Election to follow home country practices in lieu of certain Nasdaq corporate governance standards</div>

China Automotive Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CAAS) (the “Company”),
a Cayman Islands exempted company has informed The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) that it intends to follow certain Cayman
Islands corporate governance practices in lieu of certain requirements of the listing rules of Nasdaq (the “Rules”) below:

| 1. |     | Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 5605(b)(1), which requires that the majority of the board of directors must be comprised of independent directors.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| 2. |     | Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 5605(b)(2), which requires that independent directors must have regularly scheduled meetings at which only independent directors are present.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| 3. |     | Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 5620(a), which requires that each company listing common stock or voting preferred stock, and their equivalents, shall hold an annual meeting of shareholders within one year of the end of each of the company’s fiscal year.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| 4. |     | Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 5620(b), which requires that each company that is not a limited partnership shall solicit proxies and provide proxy statements for all meetings of shareholders