A self-driving bus made by China's CRRC Electric Vehicle is seen during a trial run at the suburb of Paris, France, Dec. 7, 2022. The self-driving bus made by China's CRRC Electric Vehicle has completed its trial run on open road and been ready to start official operations with passengers. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)

China's Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) announced on Monday plans to phase in a standard map system serving the application of self-driving vehicles by 2025, a move to develop China's fast-developing smart vehicles and related industries in real scenarios. 

According to a guidance plan unveiled by MNR, more than 10 core standards will be made for the primal standards map system including basic application, data collection, update and distribution, among others, in order to address some urgent issues in the early stage of applying mapping as part of auto-pilot operation. 

In 2030, a sophisticated standard mapping system will be built, adding with over 20 standards including data output, application services and quality monitoring, providing comprehensive support for the deployment of smart driving and related supplies, the plan said.

The plan listed five categories and 31 standards for the use of smart vehicles in the system. In the security administration part, the system will commence data protection, monitoring and inspection to secure compliance across the system. 

China will also enhance international cooperation in intelligent vehicle standards formation, according to the plan.

China has been ramping up efforts to draft standards for the application of intelligent vehicle technologies and related data processing. 

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) in March 2022 released a guidance plan for the data security generated by car networking, which vowed to phase in more than 50 standards in the sector by the end of 2023, and enlarge the system to 100 standards by 2025 to provide sophisticated support for the auto networking and data processing.

Global Times