On July 19th, the Economic Reference Daily published an article titled "The Infrastructure Layout for Accelerating Autonomous Driving on the Road is in Full swing". The article states that Beijing has released a draft of autonomous driving regulations for soliciting opinions, Shenzhen is about to open four autonomous bus routes, and Shanghai is issuing the first batch of fully unmanned manned vehicle licenses... Recently, many places have accelerated the commercialization of autonomous driving, and infrastructure such as vehicle road cloud integration is also being intensively laid out and constructed. Industry insiders point out that the improvement of infrastructure such as vehicle road cloud integration will help enhance the ability of autonomous driving information collection. With the support of relevant technologies and policies, autonomous driving is expected to further accelerate its commercialization and achieve industrial upgrading. In the Yizhuang area of Beijing, many unmanned vehicles with radar cameras on their heads come and go. Open the relevant app, select the starting and ending points, and soon an unmanned ride hailing car will smoothly arrive, carrying passengers to the destination. Such scenes have become a daily occurrence in Yizhuang and are increasingly being staged in more and more parts of the country. Shenzhen Bus Group has obtained the qualification for demonstration application of intelligent connected vehicles for manned transportation in Shenzhen, and has been approved to operate 4 autonomous bus routes. It plans to promote 20 autonomous buses in Qianhai by 2024. Shanghai has also recently issued the first batch of demonstration application licenses for driverless intelligent connected vehicles (commonly known as "fully unmanned manned vehicle licenses"), allowing certified enterprises to achieve fully unmanned manned vehicle applications on some roads in Pudong. Citizens can book rides through corresponding software and experience the convenience of future transportation. While continuously promoting the commercialization of autonomous driving, as an important infrastructure, the construction of vehicle road cloud integration in various regions is also accelerating. As one of the pilot cities for the integration of vehicle, road and cloud applications previously released, Chongqing is actively accelerating the promotion of vehicle, road and cloud integration. You Shaowen, General Manager of Western Car Network, the operating unit of Chongqing Car Road Cloud Integration Demonstration Zone, told reporters that the plan is to pilot the project in the central urban area of Chongqing, including Yongchuan District, covering an area of over 5000 square kilometers, with over 1.1 million service vehicles and a population of over 11 million. On the basis of continuously expanding the pilot scope, Chongqing hopes to achieve unified system architecture and standards, thereby forming a complete service capability and deeply exploring segmented business models. Deqing County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, as the first national level vehicle networking pilot zone created with the county as the main body, is also accelerating its pace in the construction of vehicle road cloud integration within the scope of application pilot. As of early July, Deqing has completed the construction of intelligent infrastructure, including 949.3 kilometers of open testing roads, 400 kilometers of two-way roadside infrastructure, 520 kilometers of high-precision map collection, and an intelligent networked cloud control platform. Zhao Jie, Deputy Director of the Land Information Development Center of Moganshan High tech Zone in Huzhou, stated that Deqing strives to explore and form a city level large-scale application practice of integrated development of vehicle, road and cloud with the same architecture, unified standards, business interoperability, and safety and reliability by 2026. At the 2024 China Automotive Forum held recently, Xin Guobin, Deputy Minister of Industry and Information Technology, listed data showing that currently 20 cities in China have launched pilot projects for vehicle road cloud integration, 9 enterprises have carried out pilot projects for autonomous driving production access and road traffic, and the sales proportion of cars with combined assisted driving functions exceeds 50%. In the eyes of industry insiders, the current construction of vehicle road cloud integration is mainly funded by the government, with high costs. It is necessary to explore more reasonable commercial models for application services during the pilot process, so that infrastructure construction can complete self circulation and achieve the "rolling snow ball" effect of large-scale construction. Next, as the industry regulatory authority, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will continue to optimize industry management, deepen pilot demonstrations, improve the standard system, and accelerate the commercial application of high-level autonomous driving intelligent connected vehicles Xin Guobin said. Under the promotion of policies, the large-scale construction of integrated vehicle road cloud infrastructure in China has established a business model for its application landing, and users are more actively participating. It is expected to break through the commercialization difficulties of infrastructure and application services, and further empower autonomous driving You Shaowen said. According to a research report by Ping An Securities, as the country and local governments gradually introduce relevant favorable policies, the commercial environment for autonomous driving in China will continue to optimize. With the gradual optimization and improvement of relevant industry management and standard systems in China, the era of advanced autonomous driving is expected to accelerate. According to a research report by Guosen Securities, the domestic autonomous driving market is expected to exceed 50 billion yuan by 2025 and may approach 300 billion yuan in the future. (New Society)