The 6th i-VISTA Intelligent and Connected Vehicle International Symposium were held in Chongqing on February 25. It was an excellent gathering of hundreds of experts and scholars from governments, enterprises, universities, and research institutions who discussed and shared information and insights online around "a new ecosystem for the intelligent and connected vehicle industry in the digital integration era."

One of the recurrent keywords at the symposium is "Chinese solutions." Experts present shared a series of related achievements such as Chinese Solution and Practice around the Safety Evaluation of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles, and Next-Generation AI-driven Chinese Solution for Key Technologies of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles. Those are a vivid reflection of China's strength and vision as one of the first entrants of the intelligent and connected vehicle industry and prove that China's vehicle industry is poised and determined to accelerate the intelligent and connected transition.

Zhang Qiang, General Manager of Intelligent Connected Technology of CAERI Co., Ltd. (ICTC), gave a brilliant report, which brought the symposium to a climax for the first time. As he pointed out in the report entitled Chinese Solution and Practice around the Safety Evaluation of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles, fast-growing China's intelligent and connected vehicle industry has seen a marked rise in traffic accidents and car recalls amid the growing penetration coupled with the increasingly complicated transportation environment. This has posed a huge challenge to the industry's sustainable and sound development. CAERI i-VISTA has given full play to its role in enabling a third-party authority to address the challenge.

In terms of services and consumers, CAERI i-VISTA has been releasing and updating i-VISTA China Intelligent Vehicle Indexes Evaluation Procedures since 2018 to provide consumers with car buying and using, lead and promote services industrial-technological upgrading and contribute to the national strategy for developing intelligent and connected vehicles. In terms of procedure research, i-VISTA China Intelligent Vehicle Indexes has worked closely with the National Automobile Accident In-Depth Investigation System (NAIS) to set an example of authoritative data analysis and application and keep updating the Procedures based on the research and analysis of NAIS data and Chinese natural driving data. Last year, a series of achievements represented by i-VISTA China Intelligent Vehicle Indexes won the first prize for China's automobile industry's scientific and technological progress.

It is the first time that the field of intelligent and connected vehicle evaluation technologies has been awarded the prize, and it also speaks volumes about the whole industry's recognition of what i-VISTA has done and achieved in intelligent vehicle indexes.

Li Keqiang, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor at Tsinghua University's School of Vehicle and Mobility, also delivered a keynote speech and mentioned the keyword of "Chinese solutions." As he said in his speech entitled Next-Generation AI-driven Chinese Solution for Key Technologies of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles, intelligent connected vehicle is a new phase of automated automotive development. Next-generation AI-driven Chinese solution for intelligent and connected vehicles has reached a milestone in complex environment perception, brain-like intelligent decision-making, intelligent and connected car-brain and cloud-brain integration system, and other aspects.

By relying on multi-source and multi-modality sensors, interconnected controllers, cloud platform for big data, and other mechanisms, and integrating big-data-driven learning, enhanced intelligence for human-machine collaboration, self-organizing swarm intelligence, and other next-generation AI technologies, vehicles can realize depth perception of traffic environments, accurate cognition of traffic situations and human-vehicle-road integrated decision-making and control, thereby accelerating the iterative development of next-generation intelligent systems for partly or fully automated vehicles.

Other representatives present from governments, enterprises, universities, and research institutions gave an objective and authoritative account of the opportunities and challenges facing China's intelligent and connected vehicle industry from the perspectives of government guidance, market regulation, and corporate R&D.

Besides, the list of experts for the i-VISTA Committee of Experts was announced. In total, there are 64 top-notch experts on intelligent and connected vehicles, including Li Jun, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor of Tsinghua University, Li Keqiang, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor of Tsinghua University.

As Chen Tao said, the brilliant team of experts and scholars will maximize its role as a think tank in developing i-VISTA China Intelligent Vehicle Indexes System in an all-around way and will improve i-VISTA China Intelligent Vehicle Indexes in terms of management, scientificity, fairness, and public benefit.

Moreover, three parallel forums on the hot topics of "development and evaluation of intelligent and connected vehicles," "functional safety and safety of the intended functionality of intelligent and connected vehicles," and "pilot application of the Internet of Vehicles" was held.