China releases group standards for intelligent connected vehicles

A total of 12 group standards for connected vehicles in two areas -- collaborative intelligent connected vehicles based on advanced mobile telecommunication" and "intelligent driving on complex roads" -- were officially released at an industry conference in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, on Saturday.

The standards were issued by the China Association of Automation in collaboration with Central South University and 10 other universities and research institutions. These standards convert achievements from national key research and development programs, including "vehicle-road-cloud integration," into a series of group standards. This initiative fills critical gaps in standards for cooperative driving testing and decision-making on complex roads.

"First, we standardize industry order and unify technology and testing standards to break the bottleneck of enterprises competing individually, promoting orderly development of the industry. Second, we accelerate technology transformation by creating bridges for innovation and implementation, which will lower R and D costs for enterprises and consolidate the foundation for industry growth. Third, we empower new quality productive forces, promote the integration of multiple industries, drive upgrades in the industrial chain, and support the construction of a modern industrial system. In the meantime, we also improve the standard collaboration framework to help the industry engage in international competition," said Hou Zengguang, vice president of the Chinese Association of Automation and professor at the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The two-day national conference on new quality productive forces and intelligent industry development concluded on Saturday.

China releases group standards for intelligent connected vehicles

China's civil aviation sector commenced its 2026 summer-autumn flight season on Sunday, with more routes featuring the domestically produced C919 large passenger aircraft in the new season.

The new flight season will run until November 24, lasting 210 days.

China Eastern Airlines began operating C919 on a new route on Sunday linking Xi'an, the provincial capital of Shaanxi in the northwest, with Xiamen, a coastal city in east China's Fujian Province. The airline also announced the resumption of a seasonal route linking Shanghai with Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning Province, also operating C919.

China Southern Airlines plans to deploy its C919 planes on major routes from Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong Province to Beijing, Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, and Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu Province.

Air China will add two more C919 destinations - Harbin in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province and Xiamen - during the new flight season to further expand the domestic aircraft's operation network.

"With the steady increase in the number of domestically produced civil aircraft, the C919 aircraft will appear at more domestic destinations in the new flight season," said Cui Hongqiang, deputy director of the Commercial Committee at Air China.

The C919 is a narrow-body passenger aircraft with a maximum capacity of 192 seats. It is China's first self-developed trunk jetliner, built in accordance with international airworthiness standards and featuring independently registered intellectual property rights.

C919 to operate more domestic routes in new flight season