Suzhou ＂City of Intelligent Driving＂ started the first run of the New Year, and hundreds of intelligent driving vehicles started simultaneously.

　　Today (January 1st), Xiangcheng, Suzhou held the first run of the smart driving city in the New Year. More than 100 smart driving vehicles took to the city roads to welcome the first light of the New Year.

　　On Tiancheng Road in the south of Suzhou High-speed Railway New City, 131 intelligent driving vehicles started in turn, driving on the 6.3-kilometer-long avenue, welcoming 2023 in the form of the first run in the New Year. Among them, including unmanned taxis, unmanned minibuses, unmanned heavy trucks and other models, covering dozens of smart driving enterprises in Suzhou High-speed Railway New Town.

　　Di Di, the representative of the participating car companies and general manager of the strategy department of Zhongzhixing, said that there are more than a dozen passenger cars in Zhongzhixing, including commercial vehicles and CMB. On the basis of bicycle intelligence, we have joined the intelligent network connection at the same time, so that it really has a high-level automatic driving of network connection. In the first half of this year, we will also launch the operation of autonomous driving based on passenger cars and commercial vehicles, so that people can call these cars with their mobile phones, which really makes our people feel a sense of gain and happiness.

　　The car networking industry is an important track for Suzhou Xiangcheng to develop digital economy, and it is also one of the three benchmark industrial innovation clusters that Xiangcheng is building. At present, Xiangcheng has gathered more than 200 related enterprises, including 50 high-tech enterprises, attracting and cultivating innovative enterprises such as Momenta, Zhijia Technology and Zhitu Technology. The industrial chain covers more than 30 sub-sectors. In 2022, the related sales scale was nearly 20 billion yuan, achieving a growth rate of more than 60%.

　　On November 3, 2022, at the Suzhou Intelligent Vehicle Networking Industry Innovation Cluster Promotion Conference and the 4th Global Intelligent Driving Conference, Xiangcheng opened the intelligent networked vehicle road test and demonstration application, and opened the whole area of Xiangcheng with 489 square kilometers and a road mileage of 1,906 kilometers as the intelligent networked vehicle road test, demonstration application and demonstration operation area. Suzhou High-speed Railway New Town will be opened with 28.9 square kilometers and a road mileage of 162 kilometers, which can be used as a conditional road test, demonstration application and demonstration operation of "driving unmanned".

　　Liang Zhizhen, member of the Standing Committee of Xiangcheng District Committee of Suzhou City and secretary of the Party Working Committee of Suzhou High-speed Railway New Town, said that the first run in the New Year further polished the brand of the city of smart driving, voiced to the whole industry, innovated roads, set benchmarks and climbed peaks to help enterprises meet the new year. Better development. Enhance the centripetal force and attraction of Suzhou High-speed Railway New Town in the national car networking industry, attract more investment and excellent projects, and create a model of high-speed railway new town in the wave of industrial innovation cluster construction in the digital economy era.

　(Source: Jiangsu Radio and Television Suzhou Central Station/Yan Yudong Guo Yu Editor/Yu Siqiong)