Reporter: Guo JichuanOn January 17, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the Ministry of Transport jointly issued a notice on the “Pilot Work for the Integrated Vehicle-Road-Cloud Application of Smart Connected Vehicles” (hereinafter referred to as the “Notice”), with the pilot period from 2024 to 2026.As China increases its support for autonomous driving, the commercialization of high-level autonomous driving is entering a rapid development phase. The launch of the “Integrated Vehicle-Road-Cloud” application pilot will accelerate the development of the smart connected vehicle industry from the urban end, pressing the “accelerator” for the large-scale and commercial application of high-level autonomous driving.Promoting Intelligent Roadside Infrastructureand Cloud Control Platform ConstructionThe “Notice” outlines general requirements, adhering to the principles of “government guidance, market-driven, overall planning, and gradual construction,” to establish a number of city-level application pilot projects with the same architecture, unified standards, interoperable services, and reliable safety. It aims to promote the construction of intelligent roadside infrastructure and cloud control platforms, enhance the installation rate of onboard terminals, carry out the system architecture design for the “Integrated Vehicle-Road-Cloud” of smart connected vehicles, and various scenario applications, forming unified technical standards and testing evaluation systems for vehicle-road collaboration, improving road traffic safety capabilities, promoting large-scale demonstration applications, and exploring new business models, thereby vigorously promoting the industrial development of smart connected vehicles.Zheng Lei, Chief Economist of Samoyed Cloud Technology Group, told the Securities Daily reporter that the “Integrated Vehicle-Road-Cloud” can achieve comprehensive improvements in vehicle operation, traffic safety, and efficiency, which is beneficial for the large-scale development of intelligent vehicles that apply autonomous driving functions, driving upgrades in automotive parts technology and strengthening existing supply chains or industrial clusters.To promote the development of the “Integrated Vehicle-Road-Cloud,” relevant industry research and policy documents continue to be issued. In July 2023, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Standardization Administration jointly issued the “Guidelines for the Construction of National Vehicle Networking Industry Standard System (Smart Connected Vehicles) (2023 Edition),” fully leveraging standards to support and lead key technologies, core products, and functional applications in the smart connected vehicle industry. In November 2023, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and four other departments released the “Notice on the Pilot Work for the Access and Road Use of Smart Connected Vehicles,” proposing that the local government departments where vehicles operate should provide support and guarantees from policy, planning, infrastructure, safety management, and operational qualifications, accelerate capacity enhancement, and encourage the integration and collaborative construction of urban smart connected vehicle safety monitoring platforms with other government information management systems.In terms of practical applications, taking Beijing as an example, in 2023, the high-level autonomous driving demonstration area in Beijing has jointly built a systematic “Integrated Vehicle-Road-Cloud” capability with the industry, collaborating with multiple testing units such as Baidu, Pony.ai, and WeRide to develop the “Integrated Vehicle-Road-Cloud” functionality, completing cloud-based global dynamic path optimization for scenarios such as passenger cars and unmanned delivery vehicles, continuously improving the performance indicators of infrastructure services, and supporting testing units in conducting innovative functional testing and validation.Enhancing Onboard Terminal Installation RateConducting Large-Scale Demonstration ApplicationsThis pilot for the “Integrated Vehicle-Road-Cloud” application focuses on nine aspects: building intelligent roadside infrastructure, enhancing onboard terminal installation rates, establishing city-level service management platforms, conducting large-scale demonstration applications, exploring high-precision map safety applications, improving standards and testing evaluation systems, building cross-domain identity recognition systems, enhancing road traffic safety capabilities, and exploring new models and new business formats, clearly defining key tasks and specific indicator requirements.For example, in terms of infrastructure construction, it is required to achieve full coverage of 5G communication networks in the pilot area, carry out networked renovations of traffic signal machines and traffic signs, achieving a networking rate of over 90%; in terms of large-scale demonstration applications, select certain bus routes (including rapid bus systems) to achieve full-line traffic facility networking recognition and autonomous driving mode operation, deploying no less than 200 smart passenger car pilots, etc.Zhu Lei, founder and CEO of Mushroom Vehicle Networking Information Technology Co., Ltd., told the Securities Daily reporter that the development of the smart connected vehicle industry is now a top priority concerning international industrial competition, with countries actively laying out and supporting the development of related enterprises. It is foreseeable that the “Integrated Vehicle-Road-Cloud” will also usher in large-scale commercialization in China and enter a period of rapid development.Image | Zhanku Hai LuoProduced by | Zhou Wenrui
