As a tech reporter at China Daily, I always have a front-row seat while witnessing the breathtaking pace of technological change. Recently, I put a domestic auto model’s intelligent driving assistance system to the test. The location: a notoriously chaotic intersection near Beijing’s Chaoyang Joy City, a bustling hub where cars, pedestrians and a relentless…
Visitors inspect the Shangjie H5 SUV codeveloped by SAIC and Huawei at the Auto Guangzhou 2025 on Friday. CAO YINGYING/CHINA DAILY Smart driving capabilities are emerging as the next major differentiator for carmakers now that electrification has become the industry norm in China, a shift on clear display at the ongoing Auto Guangzhou. The auto…
China is speeding up development of the transportation system to support the growth and global leadership of its power battery industry. The Ministry of Transport and nine other departments have issued a set of measures aimed at addressing the key industry challenges. These measures aim to clear bottlenecks in the logistics of lithium batteries for…
Visitors learn about the Meta Mine System from autonomous driving technology and products provider CiDi during the second China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on Nov 27, 2024. ZHANG HAOFU/XINHUA In a vast open-pit mine somewhere in northwestern China, a quiet revolution is underway. Fifty-six self-driving mining trucks navigate the terrain, working alongside more…
Lei Jun, founder, chairman, and CEO of Xiaomi. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Xiaomi Corp’s electric vehicle unit celebrated a significant milestone on Thursday, as its 500,000th car rolled off the production line at its super factory in Beijing. This achievement comes just 602 days, or under 20 months, after the official launch of its first…
A robotic arm charges a self-driving bus at a charging station in Jinan, East China’s Shandong province, on Nov 4, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING – The number of charging piles for electric vehicles (EVs) in China reached over 18.64 million as of the end of October this year, marking an increase of 54 percent from a…
Crash test dummies are installed at a testing ground in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, in February. ZHOU XUHUI/FOR CHINA DAILY China is advancing key technologies and upgrading standards for automotive crash test dummies, a move that experts say will not only raise the overall safety level of the nation’s rapidly growing auto industry, but also help…
An aerial drone photo taken on Oct 4, 2025 shows cars ready for shipment and export at a port area in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu province. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING — China’s automobile exports rose 15.7 percent year on year in the first 10 months of 2025, according to data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.…
Engineers from BMW and Momenta pose with the iX3, which is scheduled to hit the market in early 2026. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] BMW’s China-made Neue Klasse iX3, slated for launch in early 2026, will be the first model to carry the intelligent driver-assistance system the carmaker is co-developing with Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta. The…
Anthony Zhao, regional director of Greater China at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, visits a paper workshop on Nov 7 in Jingxian county, Anhui province. CHINA DAILY The air is filled with the earthy scent of wet fibers as strips of tree bark and rice straw are soaked, beaten, and transformed into delicate sheets of handmade paper…