At the 2025 Unicorn Enterprise Innovation & Development Conference, held June 18–19 and organized by the Zhengzhou Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology together with Great Wall Strategy Consultants, CiDi was honored as a "GEI Global Unicorn" in recognition of its outstanding technical leadership and commercial impact in autonomous driving for commercial vehicles.

On June 9, 2025, the People’s Daily (page 11) reported on a major fact-finding mission led by Zuojun Jiang, Chairman of the Central Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party, and Executive Vice Chairman Endi Zhang. As part of the research, the delegation visited CiDi.