China News Service, Nanning, September 24 (Yang Chen, Huang Quankun, Tan Xuefei) The 2026 AI Empowering Thousand Industries Super League (referred to as A Super) Transportation Innovation Competition and the National Comprehensive Transportation Large Model Intelligent Innovation Application Competition International Track Innovation Track Finals were held in Nanning on the 23rd. With the conclusion of the innovation track finals, the entire schedule of this competition has come to an end.
This competition is guided by the Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Transport and the Department of Digital Technology and Infrastructure Construction of the National Data Administration, and jointly sponsored by the Department of Transport of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the Vocational Qualification Center of the Ministry of Transport.
With the theme of "Digital Intelligent Transportation and Access to the Future", the competition has established an international innovation stage with the linkage and deep integration of the "A Super + Smart Body Competition" dual competitions, attracting more than 450 projects and nearly 2,700 participants (including about 110 overseas participants) from 24 countries including ASEAN, Europe, North America, Africa, and Oceania, as well as mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. Participants include academic elites from top universities, research institutes in the transportation industry and other scientific research institutions. The competition has two major tracks: a practical track and an innovation track, covering all aspects of technology implementation and innovative research and development in the transportation field.
Among them, the actual combat track has completed its entire schedule in Nanning on September 19. The track adheres to the core competition principles of "real scenes, real videos, and real indicators" and attracts more than 40 top teams from across the country to compete on the same stage. Each participating team focused on five types of traffic safety incidents: highway parking, reverse driving, thrown objects, pedestrian intrusions, and fireworks. They carried out actual algorithm combat based on real surveillance videos, focusing on the incident detection rate, accuracy rate and response speed. In view of the pain points of traditional supervision such as "many blind spots, slow response, and high labor costs", each participating team provided multiple solutions for highway safety operations through algorithm identification, automatic early warning and other full-process practices, and jointly promoted the application of AI technology in the transportation field.
The innovation track focuses on the innovative application of artificial intelligence and agent technology in the field of transportation. It brings together more than 160 high-quality participating teams from home and abroad to carry out innovative research in ten directions: digital intelligence upgrade of the entire life cycle of infrastructure, coordinated operation of comprehensive transportation hubs, new transportation equipment, smart travel, traffic operation scheduling, smart logistics, intelligent safety supervision, government services, embodied intelligence, and open characteristic scenarios. The participating projects cover a wide range of areas and are highly innovative. They include cutting-edge algorithm exploration and theoretical innovation by university scientific research teams, as well as mature product implementation plans from industry leading companies. There are also targeted innovative designs tailored by overseas participating teams based on the current status of transportation development and scene characteristics of their own country and region, which have both academic value, technological breakthroughs, and implementation feasibility.
Different from conventional technology competitions, the finals of this competition put capital docking first, and introduced 19 innovative funds for the first time, including CITIC Private Equity Management Co., Ltd., Guangxi Beibu Gulf Innovation Development Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd. and other institutions to provide special financial support and capital docking, policy consulting and industrial landing services, and China-ASEAN market resource channels for outstanding projects, opening up the "last mile" of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, so that good technology does not just stay on the competition field.
From "registration and audition" to "real scene acceptance" at the competition site, a batch of smart transportation solutions with industrialization potential are expected to enter Guangxi's infrastructure pilot, and with the help of China-ASEAN National Artificial Intelligence Application Cooperation Center and other platforms, they can accelerate the construction of a strong transportation area in Guangxi, promote the digital and intelligent transformation of the transportation field, promote artificial intelligence in deepening and solid cooperation with ASEAN, and provide continuous and specific "digital intelligence" support.
