China unveils results of "vehicle-road-cloud" integration for intelligent connected vehicle

China has announced the phase results of the application of "vehicle-road-cloud integration for intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs) in the country during the three-day 2025 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference, which was concluded in Beijing Saturday.

The new results provide crucial insights for the future large-scale application of the ICV industry, according to the announcement made public at the event held from Thursday to Saturday.

The "vehicle-road-cloud" integration represents a systematic technological framework for the ICV sector. By deeply integrating vehicles with roadside infrastructure and the cloud, this approach enables collaborative perception and intelligent decision-making in the transportation system, serving as a vital means to ensure the safe operation of autonomous driving systems.

As the first country globally to propose and implement this technical strategy, China has involved 20 cities (or consortiums) in related pilot projects. Currently, the country has successfully developed 10 key functional scenarios for "vehicle-road-cloud" integration, covering traffic signal information services, traffic event warning, collaborative collision avoidance for vulnerable road users, collaborative automatic emergency collision avoidance, and vehicle perception information sharing services.

Additionally, China has successfully implemented "vehicle-road-cloud integration" in various fields, including smart public transportation, unmanned delivery, intelligent passenger mobility, urban logistics, highway logistics, smart sanitation, intelligent charging and discharging, and data closed-loop and value-added services.

China unveils results of "vehicle-road-cloud" integration for intelligent connected vehicle

Research, development and preparations for the crewed lunar landing phase of China's lunar exploration program is advancing steadily, according to the seventh Manned Space Symposium held in Beijing on Saturday.

Uncrewed test flights of the Mengzhou crewed spacecraft and the Lanyue lunar lander are planned ahead of the crewed moon landing mission, the symposium said.

Under the previously announced plan, two Long March-10 carrier rockets will launch the Lanyue lunar lander and the Mengzhou spaceship in succession, then the two will conduct a rendezvous and docking in lunar orbit.

The Mengzhou can carry three astronauts between Earth and lunar orbit, with two of them riding the Lanyue lunar lander between lunar orbit and the lunar surface.

Aiming at the set goal of landing Chinese astronauts on the Moon, the program will subsequently carry out, as planned, the Long March-10 carrier rocket technology verification flight, the first flights of the Mengzhou spaceship and the Lanyue lunar lander, and important missions such as Chang'e-7.

"We will use the unmanned Lanyue lunar lander to verify all the key technologies throughout the entire crewed process as much as possible - including launch, entering the lunar orbit, rendezvous and docking with the Mengzhou spacecraft, landing and staying on the lunar surface, taking off again and re-docking with the crewed spaceship Mengzhou, so as to make sure the crewed flight will be safe and reliable," said Wang Xiang, deputy chief designer of China's Manned Space Program and chief designer of the lunar exploration project.

China steadily advances lunar exploration program