Changchun invests big in traffic infra

Technicians carry out quality tests on vehicles at Hongqi's manufacturing base in Changchun, Northeast China's Jilin province. The city will ensure more than 1.5 million locally produced vehicles with L2-level or higher-level intelligent driving capability equipped with onboard terminals for vehicle-road-cloud integration application, he said. During the launch conference, the Changchun government signed a framework agreement with China FAW Group Corp, China Mobile and China Intelligent and Connected Vehicles Research Institute Co Ltd to cooperate in the application of intelligent connected vehicles and vehicle-road-cloud integration. "As emerging technologies such as big data, AI and new-generation information and communication rapidly converge with the automotive industry, intelligent connected vehicles have become an important direction for the global automobile industry, with vehicle-road-cloud integration playing a pivotal role," said Zhang Jinhua, president of the China Society of Automotive Engineers. Yan Gang, deputy director of the National Innovation Center of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles, said the implementation of vehicle-road-cloud integration will significantly improve transportation efficiency and safety, and boost the construction of smart cities.