The 2025 First Global Development Summit for Smart Connected Electric Vehicle Industry was held in Liangjiang New Area with the theme « Comprehensive Smart Connectivity for Global Development ». Industry experts and enterprise representatives from across the country gathered to discuss strategies for Chongqing’s smart connected electric vehicles to expand globally.
Electric vehicles (including electric motorcycles and electric bicycles) serve as important tools for convenient transportation and last-mile delivery. The electric vehicle industry has become a significant livelihood industry in China. In 2024, Chongqing’s electric vehicle production reached 3 million units, with local supporting rate exceeding 60%.
In July this year, the « Chongqing Smart Connected Electric Vehicle Industry Development Action Plan (2025-2027) » was released, proposing to achieve annual electric vehicle production exceeding 15 million units by 2027 and establish a global industrial base for smart connected electric vehicles. Against this background, what gives Chongqing’s smart connected electric vehicles the confidence to expand internationally?
Pursuing High-End Smart Connectivity
Participants unanimously agreed that smart connectivity represents the major direction for electric vehicle future development.
At the summit, the Global Development Alliance for Smart Electric Vehicle Industry proposed that smart connectivity means intelligence plus networking. Intelligence requires capabilities such as environmental perception and data analysis, while networking requires access to mobile communication networks, mobile internet, and location service networks. This means only through smart connectivity can « device-cloud collaboration » be achieved to enable data services.
Smart connectivity represents a significant transformation of electric vehicles from traditional transportation tools to intelligent mobile terminals. For the industry, comprehensive smart connectivity is the fundamental path to enhance product added value and brand premium while avoiding homogeneous price wars. For governments, comprehensive smart connectivity provides the ultimate solution to improve electric vehicle safety capabilities, governance capabilities, build orderly transportation environments, achieve « dual carbon » goals, and promote green circular economy. For users, comprehensive smart connectivity better meets consumer demands for improved product quality and functionality.
« To transform China’s electric vehicle industry from low-end internal competition to new quality development, we must follow the path of comprehensive smart connectivity. » Comprehensive smart connectivity is a systematic project that urgently requires industry-wide consensus building and collaborative efforts.
Smart connectivity will also unlock more application scenarios. Compared with electric bicycles, smart connected electric motorcycles feature higher design standards, more stable operation, and safer riding experience, with clear responsibility definitions and legal road rights, allowing complete integration into urban transportation management systems. Their zero emissions, low noise, and smart connectivity characteristics enable the creation of a green transportation ecosystem « based on public transportation and supplemented by smart connected electric motorcycles. »
China’s electric vehicle industry urgently needs to rely on comprehensive smart connectivity and utilize comprehensive data to accelerate green and low-carbon industry development.
Building Industrial Brain to Empower Electric Vehicle Industry
The « Chongqing Smart Connected Electric Vehicle Industry Development Action Plan (2025-2027) » identifies industrial brain as one of the key tasks, proposing to rely on « artificial intelligence + data elements » and focus on key industry chain links and high-frequency application scenarios to accelerate solutions for common industry problems.
As a participating unit in building the smart connected electric vehicle industrial brain, significant progress is being made in constructing the industrial brain, injecting new momentum into Chongqing’s goal of establishing a global industrial base for smart connected electric vehicles.
Currently, collaboration with alliance partners is underway to establish the « Smart Connectivity Technology Innovation Center, » with the industrial brain serving as the core hub to strengthen industry chain cooperation and fully promote deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation. Specifically, relying on extensive industrial practice, the industrial brain will be built with « AIoT (AI + Internet of Things) + ecosystem » as the dual foundation, creating a comprehensive smart connected electric vehicle industrial brain framework.
Additionally, the industrial brain will provide governments with functions such as industry dynamic monitoring, policy evaluation, and risk warning through data aggregation and analysis. Through data integration and AI empowerment, it will build integrated vehicle enterprise service systems covering intelligent management, automated production, and comprehensive international expansion. Through data sharing and intelligent analysis, it will protect social transportation safety and enhance public experience. By establishing comprehensive cooperation systems, it will provide partners with one-stop services from research and development to sales.
« We expect to collaborate with over 10 partners, expand more than 50 cooperation projects, develop over 10 high-tech products, and drive industry chain value addition. »
Collaborative International Expansion
« Facing the vast international market, going alone cannot achieve great success. Only through joint efforts can we progress steadily and sustainably. » It is essential to utilize the window of opportunity presented by the global electric vehicle market explosion, leverage industrial advantages, and rely on comprehensive smart connectivity to seize opportunities, expand internationally through collaboration, and achieve coordinated
