MIIT named operation monitoring and data security as its next AV standards work
Opening the World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference in Beijing, a vice-minister of China's industry ministry said the mandatory national standards on autonomous driving now have to be implemented and that work on key standards for operation monitoring and data security would be accelerated.
Xin Guobin, a vice-minister of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, set out four priorities for intelligent connected vehicles at the opening of the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference in Beijing on October 21.
The third of the four addressed standards directly. The ministry said it would work on publicizing and implementing the mandatory national standards related to autonomous driving, accelerate the drafting of key standards for operation monitoring and data security, and deepen a special action on improving vehicle quality. The other three covered applying artificial intelligence across vehicle research, production, supply and service; scaling up demonstrations of autonomous driving in key scenarios and deepening the vehicle-road-cloud integration pilot; and participating in the setting of international trade rules.
Beijing’s mayor, Yin Yong, named the technology gaps the city intends to close in cooperation with industry: vehicle large models, the vehicle operating system and by-wire chassis. Li Yang, a vice-minister of transport, described an artificial-intelligence-plus-transport action and the launch of an initiative on high-quality datasets.
The ministry is a co-host of the conference alongside the Ministry of Transport and the Beijing Municipal Government. It said the three-day event comprised three plenary sessions, three special activities and six thematic forums, with more than 3,000 delegates from government, industry and research institutions in more than ten countries and regions. The UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety, Jean Todt, and the deputy executive secretary of UNECE, Dmitry Mariyasin, both addressed it.
The record is of speeches rather than of a document. No standard number, comment period or timetable was given for either the operation-monitoring or the data-security work.