National Intelligent Connected Vehicle (Wuhan) Demonstration Zone

Wuhan's Economic and Technological Development Zone unveiled the National Intelligent Connected Vehicle (Wuhan) Demonstration Zone on 22 September 2019 — China's sixth national-level zone of its kind and the first in central China — issuing what it says were the world's first commercial autonomous-vehicle permits that day, to Baidu, Hailiang Technology and Deepblue Technology. The zone has since grown from 191km of vehicle-road-cooperative roads and a 1,312-mu closed test track into 3,487km of open 'smart roads,' reaching close to a quarter of the city's area by April 2025. Roadside masts carry cameras, millimetre-wave radar and lidar feeding edge-computing units that the zone says detect obstacles within 200 metres at 98% accuracy; low-latency roadside networking is built out by Hualitech (华砺智行), with Wuhan University of Technology supplying traffic-simulation testbeds used to validate roadside algorithms. In 2025 the zone recruited 10,000 ordinary residents as 'chief experience officers' to ride in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) enabled traffic — what it calls China's first mass public rollout of V2X participation. This is the roadside sensing and permitting infrastructure underneath Wuhan's robotaxi services, distinct from any single operator's vehicle fleet.

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