On November 27, 2024, Chengdu hosted the “Vehicle-Road-Cloud Integration” Industry Development Conference and New Policy and Product Launch. The event unveiled the 2024 “Chengdu-made” smart connected vehicles. These include innovations in smart hardware, connected ecosystems, roadside facilities, comprehensive services, and vehicle manufacturing. Currently, Chengdu has over 110 smart connected vehicle ecosystem companies. It has built a large, diverse, and well-rounded industrial system.
The smart connected vehicle industry integrates transformative technologies like the internet, big data, and artificial intelligence. It has become a major strategic direction for global automotive development. A representative from the Sichuan Provincial Economic and Information Technology Department stated that Sichuan prioritizes the development of the smart connected vehicle industry. The province promotes it as a key area in its six major advantageous industries initiative. Sichuan has opened nearly 700 kilometers of testing roads in Chengdu, Yibin, and Ziyang. It conducts extensive road tests and demonstration applications for unmanned taxis, buses, delivery services, and smart parking. A representative from Chengdu’s Economic and Information Bureau reported that Chengdu hosts over 1,000 automotive manufacturing companies. Among them, 249 are large-scale enterprises, and more than 110 are smart connected vehicle ecosystem companies. This creates a large-scale, diverse, and complete industrial system. Additionally, Chengdu has 5,000 locally manufactured smart connected vehicles. The city has accumulated nearly 1 million kilometers of autonomous driving test mileage. Chengdu’s smart cockpits and pure electric unmanned heavy trucks are sold in Europe and the Middle East. Chengdu has a solid foundation with two trillion-level industrial clusters in electronic information and equipment manufacturing. At the event, the 2024 “Chengdu-made” smart connected vehicles were officially launched. The showcase included smart hardware products like the “Vehicle Networking Smart Terminal” from Chengdu Yikong Zhilian Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd. It featured connected ecosystem products such as the “Cabin-Driving Integrated HPC Platform” from Chengdu Zhongke Chuangda Software Co., Ltd. Roadside facility products included the “C-V2X Roadside Unit RSU” from Zhongxinke Zhilian Technology Co., Ltd. Comprehensive service products featured the “C-V2X Direct Communication Service Network in Chengdu Economic and Technological Development Zone” from Chengdu Smart Connected Vehicle Technology Development Co., Ltd. Vehicle manufacturing products included the “V7-X Heavy-duty Tractor” from China National Heavy Duty Truck Group Chengdu Wangpai Commercial Vehicle Co., Ltd. The event showcased the vigorous development of smart connected vehicles in Chengdu. The city also introduced the pilot framework for the “Vehicle-Road-Cloud Integration” application. Chengdu will focus on collaboration among vehicles, roads, and cloud systems. It aims to create a city-level application scenario with a commercial closed loop. The city will accelerate the development of a new productive industry cluster for intelligent connected networks. It will build a complete foundational system for intelligent networking. This effort will promote an efficient, collaborative, and intelligent urban traffic ecosystem.
Red Star News reporter Wang Junfeng. Images from Chengdu Economic and Information Bureau, New Economy Committee. Edited by Yu Mange.