Wang Hua, the general manager of Xiaomi Group's public relations department, has discredited the rumor that Xiaomi's YU7 vehicle garnered an astonishing 350,000 pre-orders within just five minutes, clarifying that the figures circulating online are incorrect. Nonetheless, he affirmed that the sales performance surpassed initial expectations. Prior to this, Xiaomi Automobile's official Weibo account had announced that the YU7 secured over 200,000 pre-orders within the first three minutes of its launch and surpassed 289,000 units within one hour.