China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Accelerate large-scale demonstrations of key autonomous driving scenarios

China News Service, Beijing, October 21 (Reporter Liu Liang) Xin Guobin, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, pointed out on the 21st that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will expand the application of intelligent connected vehicles in a steady and orderly manner, prudently promote the access and on-road trials of intelligent connected vehicles, and accelerate the large-scale demonstration of key autonomous driving scenarios.

The 2026 World Intelligent and Connected Vehicles Conference opened in Beijing on the same day. Xin Guobin introduced at the opening ceremony that the penetration rate of China's L2-level passenger vehicles with combined driving assistance functions exceeds 70%, and the first batch of L3-level conditional autonomous driving models have been put on the road for trial use in specific areas.

Xin Guobin said that currently, intelligent connected cars are accelerating towards real scenarios, which have put forward higher requirements for product intrinsic safety, system reliability, cross-domain collaborative governance and international rules integration.

He said that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will focus on key areas such as energy power, intelligent chassis, and intelligent network connectivity, support leading companies to take the lead in forming innovation consortiums, strengthen basic research and the construction of common platforms, and accelerate the construction of a new generation of intelligent network-connected new energy vehicle technology systems.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will also deepen cross-sector collaboration and integration and expand scenario applications in a steady and orderly manner. Coordinate and promote the transformation and upgrading of network infrastructure, deeply implement the "vehicle-road-cloud integration" pilot, promote the in-depth integration of automobiles and information communications, energy, transportation, and urban governance, and create a new ecosystem for the collaborative development of vehicles, energy, roads, and cloud. At the same time, we will promote the implementation of mandatory national standards for autonomous driving, accelerate the development of standards in key areas such as automatic parking, operation monitoring, and data security, and speed up the issuance of relevant regulations on strengthening the management of innovative design and R&D testing and verification of automotive products. We will deepen the implementation of special actions to improve automobile quality, further standardize the order of market competition, and effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.

He also pointed out that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will expand high-level open cooperation, make good use of high-level dialogue and multilateral and bilateral cooperation mechanisms, actively participate in the formulation of international economic and trade rules, and promote the effective connection between domestic standards and international rules.