Fifteen million have navigation assist

The stamp at the top of this IT Home page is 2026/10/24 20:02:31. It says the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicle Conference was held in Beijing Yizhuang from October 21 to 23. Guo Shougang, director of the first equipment-industry department at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, introduced the national vehicle-network standards system and released a draft for comment of the 2026 construction guide. A draft for comment is not a standard already in force. This page does not give a comment deadline.

The two fleet counts use the page's word for "of which." As of August, about 61 million passenger cars in China carried combined driver assistance, labeled L2 on the page. About 15 million of them had navigation assist, labeled NOA. The 15 million are a slice of the 61 million, not a pile added on top. The two names are this page's function labels. An earlier speech about grades is not folded in, and this piece does not treat navigation assist as an approved higher grade.

Communication terminals are two further counts, also as of August. About 16 million passenger cars had 5G terminals. Two million had C-V2X terminals. Those counts are not part of the 15 million, and they are not part of the 61 million. The page also says China has already issued national standards for combined assistance, automated driving systems, automatic emergency braking, and whole-vehicle information security. Issued standards do not mean the fleet counts above have all been registered under the new guide. On the communications side, the page says China has also issued a series of standards for C-V2X direct links and 5G cellular links, and that those standards, together with application work the page calls "four-cross," are pushing connected-vehicle communication toward scale. The series is a set of documents. The 16 million and the 2 million are installation counts. Published documents do not mean those cars are already on a public compliance list.

The meeting also mentioned roadside equipment, tests of compliance with traffic rules, and technical and security standards for vehicle-network platforms, as support for pilots and local cloud-control platforms. That is a description of what the standards are for, not a new vehicle count. Guo also presided over a signing ceremony for a cross-committee cooperation agreement on vehicle-network standards. The page records the ceremony and does not quote the agreement. It calls the road system the setting in which connected vehicles run. Support standards in intelligent transport and vehicle management, it says, back roadside upgrades on highways and city roads, connected upgrades, and tests of compliance with traffic rules. It describes vehicle-network platforms as gathering companies from the vehicle, road, and cloud sides. Technical requirements and security standards for those platforms, it says, supply a technical basis for the vehicle-road-cloud pilots and for local cloud-control platforms. A basis is still not a new vehicle count. Evaluation items, a cross-border commerce figure, and a training-ground report at the bottom are not folded in. This piece keeps the draft guide, the August 61 million and the 15 million within it, and the 16 million and 2 million terminal counts.