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Built on the shop floor since 2006, launched as GLOWSUN in 2022, and now in more than 2,000 stores.
GLOWSUN · 追光
Behind GLOWSUN
GLOWSUN (追光) is a benchmark automotive film brand from China, built by a team with more than seventeen years in the automotive aftermarket. We bring deep industry experience and a fresh view of how people discover and buy car care, so every driver gets dependable, honestly priced protection for their car.
GLOWSUN is more than a product name. It stands for a spirit that keeps people moving forward, and the culture of car films for the younger generation runs through everything we do: more personal products and services, better value, and a GLOWSUN experience no one else offers.
What we stand for
Serve people, and do good in the world
To become a leading brand in China’s automotive film industry
Making a quality product is itself a way of doing good
Integrity, a focus on users, learning, and success shared with others
Character first, attitude second, ability third
Our journey
2006 — 2026
2006–2012
Learning the trade
The founding team built their skills across the industry. Lan Zhiyu, Zhong Zixu and Xu Xuesheng worked in marketing at a leading automotive film company in Guangzhou; Chen Congjian ran stores at a benchmark aftermarket shop; Liang Shanhui led channel integration at Ping An Group.
2013
Guangzhou Kangzheng
Lan Zhiyu, Zhong Zixu and Xu Xuesheng started their own company, Guangzhou Kangzheng.
2014
Dongguan Xinyao
Chen Congjian founded Dongguan Xinyao, and Guangzhou Kangzheng became the Guangdong service provider for a leading Chinese film brand.
2015–2016
Across South China
Guangzhou Kangzheng extended its service network to Guangxi, then to Fujian and Hainan.
2017
A national benchmark
Service reached Jiangxi and the whole of South China, and the team was named a national benchmark service provider.
2022
GLOWSUN is born
On 1 December, Guangzhou Kangzheng, Dongguan Xinyao and a partner business in Zhuhai joined forces to found Huiyao New Materials Technology and launch the GLOWSUN brand nationwide.
2023
A hundred cities
With seventeen years of combined experience, the team held a hundred enablement events across China and strengthened four channels: online, insurance, auto repair and 4S dealerships.
2024
Turning a setback around
After a warehouse loss in Dongguan in January, the team merged warehouse and store into a new 5,000 m² Dongguan flagship. It ran 100+ training courses and partnered with China’s business-van customisation champion.
2025
More than 2,000 stores
GLOWSUN showed at two major industry exhibitions, launched the Spark training camp with 500+ one-to-one in-store sessions, introduced two new core products and passed 2,000 stores in China.
2026
Reaching new drivers
A central livestream studio at headquarters, a new home on Xiaohongshu, AI-assisted tools for stores and two more top industry exhibitions.
The Hangzhou base
From raw-material selection to precision manufacturing, from performance testing to the store, GLOWSUN works with its Hangzhou manufacturing partner on R&D, production, quality control and service. Four of every hundred PPF-wrapped cars use film from the GLOWSUN factory.
- National high-tech enterprise
- Specialised and innovative SME certification
40mu
Hangzhou manufacturing base
40M+m
Annual production capacity
9
Casting lines
7
High-adhesion substrate casting machines
4Mm
Base film per month (≈2.66M PPF rolls a year)
6
Quality gates before shipping
3×
Cost of a high-end line vs a standard line
200+
Countries and regions we export to
Honours
- 2026 China Automotive Aftermarket Gold Reputation Leading Enterprise
- 2026 “Recommended by Ten Million Car Owners” Brand
- 2025 Automotive Service Industry Pioneer Brand
- 2025 Dongchedi Breakthrough Award
- 2024 China Automotive Aftermarket Top 100
- 2024 AIT Innovation Leading Enterprise Award
- Trusted Consumer Brand in the Automotive Film Industry
- China Automotive Aftermarket Growth Brand
- Drafting unit, PPF Installation Technical Specification
- Drafting unit, Body Colour-Change Film Installation Technical Specification
- Drafting unit, Window Film Installation Technical Specification
- Jiuzhou Exhibition Strategic Partner
- “Most Popular Automotive Film Brand”, China Association of Automobile Manufacturers
Light is hope. Light is direction. GLOWSUN is more than car film: it is a culture, a spirit, a force that keeps people moving forward. Let’s chase the light together, and shine.
What comes next
GLOWSUN will keep building on four things: hard-working products, traffic that brings customers to stores, operations that work on the shop floor, and caring service. Together with more than 2,000 partner stores, we are working to build a new ecosystem for automotive film.
Chase the light with us
Bring car films for the younger generation to your market.