On the morning of December 4, an opening ceremony for the Operation Demonstration and Testing Service Platform of Fangshan 5G Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone (“Platform”) and a signing ceremony for important projects were successfully held at the International Conference Center of ZGC Frontier Technology Research Institute of Emerging Industries. 

ZGC Frontier Technology Company is a regional platform for sci-tech innovation co-founded by ZGC Development Group and Fangshan District. It is designed to tap into the Group’s superior resources and provide integrated services for regional development. Recent years, it has introduced a number of premium autonomous-driving enterprises, such as Uisee and Auto Brain, laying a solid foundation for Fangshan District to develop the intelligently connected vehicle industry.

In September 2018, Fangshan District and CMCC jointly built China’s first road fully covered by 5G network for testing autonomous-driving technology. 

In the past two years, the testing road has provided more than 200 test services for a group of self-driving enterprises, like Uisee, Auto Brain, JD Digital Techlogy, JD Logistics, Ali Cainiao and Didi Chuxing, with a total test range of more than 1 million kilometers.

In 2020, a lot of projects, including Xiangyang Da’an, CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicle Co. Ltd., BuilderX, Ibeo and Tsing Vast, have settled in Beijing High-end Manufacturing Base and ZGC Frontier Technology Research Institute. That is a product of joint efforts of the Management Committee of Beijing High-end Manufacturing Base and ZGC Frontier Technology Company. 

Additionally, ZGC Frontier Technology Company has invested in many self-driving enterprises like Auto Brain, and promoted the healthy development of upstream and downstream firms in the industrial chain, by systematically introducing the Group’s resources of industrial investment and Techfin service, and actively coordinating social investment institutions, state-owned banks and other financial institutions.

In 2020, ZGC Development Group, Fangshan District, CMCC and Xiangyang Da’an jointly built an open 5G self-driving service platform, in response to intelligently connected firms’ higher requirements on the facilities of the self-driving test site and big data on vehicle-to-road communication.

Relying on their own resources and technological advantages, they will build a comprehensive test area that integrates innovation, R&D, industrial transformation, smart traffic management, display and cultural experience, vehicle-to-road communication and big data exchange service, creating a demonstration area of smart city management.

It provides a variety of services including test and certification, big data service, field-side solution and so on, to better serve the R&D and testing needs of enterprises focusing on intelligently connected technology and further promote industrial agglomeration and development. 

As the core part of this activity, the Operation Demonstration and Test Service Platform of Fangshan 5G Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone officially opens to firms related to autonomous driving. 

5G self-driving testing platform, intelligently connected vehicle application demonstration platform, operation and management service platform and joint innovation lab for 5G Internet of Vehicles in Fangshan Demonstration Zone will start operation successively in future. 

ZGC Development Group will continue to help Beijing High-end Manufacturing Base improve the demonstration area’s integrated infrastructure of vehicle, road, cloud and network required by intelligently connected automobile industry as well as a test environment of multi-scene application. 

The Group will also establish a test and verification service system for intelligently connected vehicles, cluster and support the development of market players in terms of R&D, production and application throughout the industry chain.

Eventually, Fangshan District will be built into a comprehensive test demonstration area for intelligently connected vehicles, with advanced technology and rich scenes, and a smart transportation sci-tech innovation highland with national influence.