Which Chinese farm machinery brands does ChatGPT recommend? November 2026

When an overseas buyer asks ChatGPT in English which Chinese farm machinery maker to use, 72% of the answers name LOVOL. YTO appears in 67%, Zoomlion Agriculture in 63% and Changzhou Dongfeng in 52%. Across two rounds, 39 Chinese brands were named; 20 of them only once or twice.

Disclosure: none of the brands in this study is a Moments client. No Chinese brand is named in the question set, and the same scoring rules apply to every brand.

Method

• Dates: round one on 6 November 2026, round two on 7 November 2026, with the same 40 questions.
• Collection time: 6 Nov 2026 15:00–15:40, 7 Nov 2026 13:01–17:53 (UTC+8). AI answers change over time; this ranking reflects these two windows only.
• Platform: ChatGPT on the web, with search on, in temporary chat (no account memory or history).
• Questions: 40 buyer-style English questions: 12 on tractors, 11 general supplier searches, 5 harvesters, 4 implements, 3 post-harvest equipment such as dryers and rice mills, 2 sprayers, 2 transplanters and 1 irrigation. Phrasings include “best manufacturer”, “who to choose for a given region”, “reliability” and “overseas dealer networks”.
• Answers: one question in round one did not return a complete answer, so the total is 39 + 40 = 79.
• Metrics:
  • Mention rate = answers naming the brand ÷ 79
  • First mention = the brand is the first Chinese brand named in the answer
  • Own-site citation = the answer links to the brand’s own website (including subdomains and Made-in-China storefronts)
• Chinese brands only: Kubota, John Deere, Yanmar and other foreign brands are not counted.
• Gemini and Claude: two rounds each with the same questions on 12 and 13 November 2026 (web, Gemini in temporary chat, Claude in incognito). Gemini returned 73 answers (6 missed in round one, 1 in round two), Claude 80. Collection (UTC+8): Gemini 12 Nov 22:00–22:45, 13 Nov 22:11–22:55; Claude 12 Nov 23:11–13 Nov 00:00, 13 Nov 22:56–23:32. See “On Gemini and Claude” below.
• Not tested: Perplexity, Copilot, Doubao.

Top 10

Rank	Brand	Mention rate (79)	Round 1	Round 2	First mentions	Own-site citations
1	LOVOL	72%	72%	72%	12	41
2	YTO (First Tractor / Dongfanghong)	67%	69%	65%	34	31
3	Zoomlion Agriculture	63%	64%	62%	4	30
4	Changzhou Dongfeng	52%	56%	48%	3	13
5	Changfa	48%	51%	45%	0	16
6	World (Jiangsu World)	30%	36%	25%	6	5
7	Shifeng	13%	15%	10%	0	0
8	Wuzheng	11%	8%	15%	0	2
9	Yucheng Hengshing	10%	10%	10%	3	7
10	Shandong Tiansheng	8%	8%	8%	2	5

All 39 brands that were mentioned are listed below.

Show all 39 brands

Rank	Brand	Mention rate	Mentions	First mentions	Own-site citations
1	LOVOL	72%	57	12	41
2	YTO	67%	53	34	31
3	Zoomlion	63%	50	4	30
4	Dongfeng	52%	41	3	13
5	Changfa	48%	38	0	16
6	World	30%	24	6	5
7	Shifeng	13%	10	0	0
8	Wuzheng	11%	9	0	2
9	Hengshing	10%	8	3	7
10	Tiansheng	8%	6	2	5
11	Qianli	6%	5	0	4
12	Weima	5%	4	0	2
13	FOTMA	4%	3	2	1
13	Leyuan	4%	3	2	1
13	Yuntai	4%	3	2	2
13	Hebei Nonghaha	4%	3	1	1
13	Shandong Juming	4%	3	0	1
13	Yucheng Yili	4%	3	0	2
13	Henan Haofeng	4%	3	0	0
20	Anhui Zhengyang	3%	2	2	2
20	Shandong Dahua	3%	2	1	1
20	DAYU Irrigation	3%	2	1	2
20	Chinadrip	3%	2	1	2
20	Foton	3%	2	0	0
20	Jinma	3%	2	0	0
20	Xingguang	3%	2	0	0
20	Zhejiang Xinglaihe	3%	2	0	0
20	Nantong FLW	3%	2	0	0
20	Hunan Sunfield	3%	2	0	0
20	SANGAO	3%	2	0	2
20	Zhengzhou Masely	3%	2	0	2
20	Jiangsu SUNYA	3%	2	0	2
33	DJI Agriculture	1%	1	1	0
33	Linyi Wali	1%	1	1	1
33	Yongmeng	1%	1	0	1
33	Yucheng Zeyi	1%	1	0	1
33	Xuzhou Zhongyang	1%	1	0	1
33	Linhai	1%	1	0	1
33	XAG	1%	1	0	0

Four findings

1. YTO is named first most often, and the leader changes by product

LOVOL is mentioned most, but YTO is put first most: of the 53 answers that name YTO, 34 name it first. Zoomlion is mentioned 50 times and named first only 4 times; Changfa is mentioned 38 times and never named first.

Split by question type, the differences are sharper:

• Tractors: Dongfeng appears in 23 of 24 answers (96%), YTO and LOVOL in 92% each.
• Harvesters: all 10 answers name LOVOL and Zoomlion; World appears in 90%.
• Implements (ploughs, harrows, rotary tillers): the two brands named most in 8 answers are Yucheng Hengshing (75%) and Shandong Tiansheng (62%), only 9th and 10th overall.

Ask about a specific implement and ChatGPT recommends specialist mid-sized makers, not the big names at the top of the overall ranking.

2. A smaller share of citations go to makers’ own sites

The answers cite 344 links; 194, about 56%, point to listed makers’ own websites or storefronts, lower than mining machinery (79%) and tricycles (67%). The most-cited sites are YTO’s (ytocorp.com, 31 links) and LOVOL’s (lovolglobal.com, 21, plus en.lovol.com and others). The rest include the China Chamber of Commerce for Machinery and Electronic Products (cccme.cn), Made-in-China directory pages and sites about farm mechanisation in Africa.

Shifeng is mentioned 10 times, but no link in the answers points to its own website.

3. Re-tested a day later: the top three hold; below that, rates move

LOVOL is at 72% in both rounds, and YTO and Zoomlion move by 4 points or less. Dongfeng falls from 56% to 48%, Changfa from 51% to 45% and World from 36% to 25%; Wuzheng rises from 8% to 15%. LOVOL is named for the same question in both rounds 28 times, YTO 25 times and Zoomlion 21 times.

4. Recommendations are concentrated

The top four brands have 201 mentions between them, more than three times the 63 mentions of the 29 brands ranked 11th to 39th.

On Gemini and Claude: the same top three, then big differences

• The top three are the same on every platform: LOVOL (ChatGPT 72%, Gemini 79%, Claude 82%), YTO and Zoomlion. Changzhou Dongfeng is fourth on all three.
• Jinma and Foton barely appear on ChatGPT: 3% each, against 27%–34% on Gemini and Claude.
• Changfa is the reverse: 48% on ChatGPT, 25% on Gemini.
• Sources differ most. 57% of ChatGPT’s cited links point to listed brands’ own sites (194 of 343). Gemini gave only 115 links, 8 of them (7%) to brand sites. Claude: 3% (15 of 501); it cites Made-in-China, Alibaba and the TractorByNet forum. Platform pages are excluded throughout.

What this means for exporters

1. Specialists should check their position by product. Hengshing and Tiansheng rank only 9th and 10th overall, but lead YTO and LOVOL on implement questions.
2. Write your website so it can be cited. YTO’s and LOVOL’s sites are cited heavily, and the answers repeat the horsepower ranges, export markets and contact details published there.
3. Test at least twice, days apart, before drawing conclusions. World moved 11 points in a day; a single screenshot cannot show a change in ranking.

Limitations

• ChatGPT was tested on 6–7 November and Gemini and Claude on 12–13 November, so the results describe those days only. Gemini missed 7 answers across its two rounds.
• Brands are matched by aliases (English names, pinyin, common abbreviations), so unusual spellings may be missed. Own sites are taken from the links in the answers; brands whose sites we did not identify will show fewer citations.
• This study does not rate equipment quality. It measures how often AI answers recommend each brand.

Data download

• Images to share: Top 10 card · full ranking
• Full results, both rounds combined (39 brands)
• Results by round: 6 Nov · 7 Nov
• Three platforms: summary · Gemini 12 Nov · 13 Nov · Claude 12 Nov · 13 Nov · raw answers: Gemini 12 Nov · 13 Nov · Claude 12 Nov · 13 Nov
• The 40 questions
• Raw answers with cited links (JSON Lines): 6 Nov · 7 Nov
• Scoring script

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Where does your brand stand?

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