Three companies have been granted licences to test self-driving delivery vehicles at an economic and technological development zone. China is under pressure to develop autonomous technology as its population ages and labour pool shrinks. SCMP
China’s capital city is paving the way for more robots on the road as the country’s pool of cheap labour shrinks and working conditions in delivery companies come under scrutiny.
E-commerce platform JD.com, on-demand service platform Meituan, and Li Auto-backed autonomous driving startup Neolix received licences on Tuesday to test their autonomous delivery vehicles in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, a government-developed zone in the southern part of the city known as E-Town.
China science, technology news summary May 26
Xinhua
26 May 2021, 14:05 GMT+10
BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhua) The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China. HARMONYOS SYSTEM Chinese telecom giant Huawei will officially launch its new operating system HarmonyOS for smartphones on June 2, the company said Tuesday. HarmonyOS, or Hongmeng in Chinese, is an open-source operating system designed for various devices and scenarios. It was first launched on Internet-of-Things devices including wearables and tablets in August 2019. Huawei expects the number of devices equipped with HarmonyOS to reach 300 million by the end of 2021, including more than 200 million for Huawei devices.
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2021-05-25 14:50:48 GMT2021-05-25 22:50:48(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, May 25 (Xinhua) Three companies on Tuesday were given permits to run their unmanned delivery vehicles on designated open roads in Beijing, the first time the Chinese capital will allow such vehicles.
The e-commerce giant JD.com, the online service company Meituan, and the autonomous driving vehicle producer Neolix received ID numbers for these vehicles at the eighth international congress of intelligent connected vehicles technology in Beijing.
The vehicles will drive at the Beijing high-level autonomous driving demonstration area, which covers 60 square km at the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, also known as E-Town, in Daxing District.