A testing car drives on a road of the Lingang intelligent connected vehicle integrative testing demonstration zone in east China's Shanghai, July 3, 2020. (Xinhua/Fang Zhe)
BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Lingang Area, a newly launched section of the Shanghai free trade zone (FTZ), has recently unveiled a plan for development of the intelligent connected vehicle (ICV) industry from 2020 to 2025.
According to the plan, Lingang Area will establish a basically complete ICV industrial chain and strives to build itself into a national vehicle networking pilot area, smart transportation demonstration area and domestic leading modern industrial cluster by 2025, with the ICV industrial scale targeting more than 100 billion yuan (about 15.28 billion U.S. dollars).
Lingang will promote the integration and development of smart vehicles and the digital economy, improve policies, regulations and technical standards on the ICV industry, and take the lead in the development of "smart transportation and autonomous driving".
It is learned that Lingang Area rolled out the second batch of open roads for driverless vehicle test last Friday, bringing the total roads for such test to 118.2 kilometers in the area. (Edited by Hu Pingchao with Xinhua Silk Road, hupingchao@xinhua.org)
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