Amid a surging tide of car manufacturing across China’s internet technology industry, Tencent‘s layout in the field has always been regarded as light, far less than that of leading industry players such as Baidu, Huawei, and Xiaomi. However, at the beginning of September this year, Cham Zhong, the vice president of Tencent, said at a conference that “Tencent Intelligent Mobility has built a rich auto service ecology with more than 40 car companies such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi, with more than 150 models. The company helps more than 100 car companies and travel technology companies with cloud services.” According to Chinese media outlet Cyber Car, this shows that Tencent‘s auto business is actually progressing quite…