Conference opens in Beijing Yizhuang
The 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference opened on October 21 in Beijing Yizhuang under the theme "Gathering Wisdom and Energy, Boundless Connectivity — Steadily Advancing into a New Era of Autonomous Driving." The conference runs for three days and is co-hosted by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Transport and the Beijing Municipal Government.
Beijing Mayor Yin Yong, Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology Xin Guobin and Vice Minister of Transport Li Yang attended and addressed the opening. Wan Gang, honorary chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology, delivered the keynote report. Jean Todt, UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Road Safety, and Dmitry Mariyasin, Deputy Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Europe, also addressed the conference. Wang Weiming, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, chaired the opening ceremony.
Program and participants
The conference features three plenary meetings — the opening ceremony, a plenary session and the closing ceremony — along with three special events and six thematic forums. The special events include a roundtable on international cooperation in the automotive industry, a China-Germany intelligent connected vehicle cooperation forum and a Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei industrial coordination development forum. The thematic forums cover policy and regulation, standards, key technologies, application ecosystems, connected coordination and digital-intelligent transformation.