{"id":351053,"date":"2026-04-01T16:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/xiaomi-hires-teslas-former-head-of-sales-in-china-to-lead-its-auto-retail-push\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:03:24","slug":"xiaomi-hires-teslas-former-head-of-sales-in-china-to-lead-its-auto-retail-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/xiaomi-hires-teslas-former-head-of-sales-in-china-to-lead-its-auto-retail-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Xiaomi hires Tesla\u2019s former head of sales in China to lead its auto retail push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/04\/xiaomi-hires-teslas-former-head-of-sales-in-china-to-lead-its-auto-retail-push.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>Xiaomi has recruited Kong Yanshuang, formerly Tesla\u2019s General Manager for the China region, to take charge of its growing automotive sales operations. The hire signals a significant professionalization of Xiaomi\u2019s EV retail strategy as the company targets 550,000 deliveries in 2026. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/04\/01\/xiaomi-hires-tesla-former-head-of-sales-china-kong-yanshuang\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/xiaomi-hires-teslas-former-head-of-sales-in-china-to-lead-its-auto-retail-push\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":351054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}