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

The Caixin Robotics Industry Index (RII) was released at the Inaugural AI High-Quality Development Conference held in Hangzhou City, east China's Zhejiang Province, on Saturday.

The index, a comprehensive benchmark dedicated to the robotics sector, reached 125.1 last month, up nearly 25 percent from two years ago.

According to Caixin, Beijing topped the city robotics industry index, which measures the share of robotics-related industrial inputs in a city's overall economic inputs.

Nanjing, Xi'an, Hangzhou, and Suzhou also ranked among the top five.

In 2025, China produced more than 770,000 industrial robots and over 18 million service robots, with output expected to continue rising in the years ahead.

The climb of the index comes as robotics has been elevated in China's national planning, underscoring the sector's growing role in industrial transformation and future economic strategy, according to Wang Zhe, senior economist with the Caixin Insight, the compiler of the index.

"The robotics industry was mentioned in both the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), and the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) . Over the past five years, this industry has fully developed. From these two plans, we can see that the position of this sector has been upgraded. Five years ago, robots were just part of manufacturing upgrades, but now and looking ahead to the next five years, robotics, alongside many other emerging industries, is poised to grow into a pillar industry for China," said Wang.

Climb of robot industry index point to industrial growth