Chinese Automated Driving Standards
Chinese Automated Driving Standards as of 2026 July 27
Notes
Scope. This list covers standards that contemplate Level 3-5 automated driving as defined in GB/T 40429-2021 (broadly paralleling the SAE J3016 levels). It excludes standards addressing only Level 2 combined driver assistance (e.g., GB 47955-2026).
Full-text access. Official texts of many standards are available at openstd.samr.gov.cn or through dbba.sacinfo.org.cn. Where an official text is not available, a link to an unofficial (and unverified!) text is provided instead.
Translation. The bracketed English labels in the headings are unofficial shorthand descriptors. The English titles are unofficial translations unless printed in the standard itself.
Disclaimer. This list is not authoritative. Rely at your own risk.
Types of Standards
The Standardization Law (标准化法; revised 2017; SAMR) defines the categories of Chinese standards and their legal effect. The prefix of each standard's number identifies its tier and issuer, and a /T suffix (from 推荐, "recommended") marks a standard as voluntary rather than mandatory.
National standards (国家标准, GB). Issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) and the Standardization Administration of China (SAC) and applicable nationwide. Plain GB standards are mandatory: Nonconforming products may not be produced, sold, or imported. GB/T standards are recommended, and the rarer GB/Z designates guiding technical documents.
Sectoral standards (行业标准). Issued by individual ministries for nationally uniform industry requirements where no recommended national standard exists; like all nonmandatory standards, they must comply with applicable mandatory national standards. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) uses the YD prefix for telecommunications and QC for automotive. The Ministry of Transport (MOT) uses JT for general transport and JTG for highway engineering. The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) uses GA.
Local standards (地方标准, DB). Issued by provincial or municipal market regulators, with the region's administrative code appended (DB11 Beijing, DB31 Shanghai, DB4201 Wuhan, DB4403 Shenzhen). They apply only locally as recommended standards.
Group standards (团体标准, T/). Voluntary standards issued by professional societies and industry alliances (T/CSAE for China SAE, T/CMAX for the Zhongguancun alliance). A voluntary group standard can become a requirement within the scope of a permit, contract, or administrative instrument that incorporates it, as with T/CMAX for Beijing road-test permits.
Enterprise standards (企业标准, Q/). Internal company standards. None appear in this list.
National Mandatory Standards (GB)
Three mandatory standards issued in August 2024 and effective 1 January 2026 form the compulsory baseline for intelligent and connected vehicle (智能网联汽车, ICV) type approval, including automated driving. An earlier mandatory standard on event data recorders (GB 39732-2020) also applies.
GB 44497-2024 [AD data recording]
Intelligent and connected vehicle—Data storage system for automated driving (DSSAD)
《智能网联汽车 自动驾驶数据记录系统》
Issuing authority. Issued by SAMR and SAC; proposed and administered by MIIT; drafted by the National Technical Committee of Auto Standardization (TC114).
Summary. Specifies technical requirements, test methods, and type-determination rules for on-board data storage systems for automated driving on M- and N-category vehicles; issued 23 Aug 2024, effective 1 Jan 2026. Supports crash reconstruction and responsibility investigations.
Official link. Openstd (full text available)
GB 44495-2024 [vehicle cybersecurity]
Technical requirements for vehicle cybersecurity
《汽车整车信息安全技术要求》
Issuing authority. SAMR and SAC; administered by MIIT.
Summary. Specifies cybersecurity management system requirements and technical requirements/test methods covering external connections, communications, software updates, and data; issued Aug 2024, effective 1 Jan 2026. Provides the cybersecurity baseline on which higher-level automation depends.
Official link. Openstd (full text available)
GB 44496-2024 [software updates]
General technical requirements for vehicle software update
《汽车软件升级通用技术要求》
Issuing authority. SAMR and SAC; administered by MIIT.
Summary. Specifies software-update management system and vehicle-level technical requirements and test methods, including over-the-air (OTA) updates; issued Aug 2024, effective 1 Jan 2026. Governs online iteration of automated driving functions.
Official link. Openstd (full text available)
GB 39732-2020 [event data recorder]
Automotive event data recorder (EDR) systems
《汽车事件数据记录系统》
Issuing authority. SAMR and SAC.
Summary. Mandatory EDR standard, complementary to GB 44497 (DSSAD): the EDR captures crash-event data while the DSSAD captures automated-driving operational data; issued 24 Dec 2020, effective 1 Jan 2022.
Official link. Openstd (full text available)
National Mandatory Standards (GB) Under Development
GB 44721 (final draft; plan no. 20256778-Q-339) [L3/L4 ADS safety]
Intelligent and connected vehicle—Safety requirements for automated driving system (final-draft mandatory standard)
《智能网联汽车 自动驾驶系统安全要求》
Issuing authority. Developed under MIIT, drafted by the National Technical Committee of Auto Standardization (TC114); to be issued by SAMR and SAC.
Summary. China's first mandatory national standard for L3/L4 automated driving systems, to be issued as GB 44721, replacing recommended GB/T 44721-2024. Applies to M- and N-category vehicles with Level 3 and/or 4 driving automation (automated parking systems excluded). Key content: safety performance no lower than a competent and careful human driver across nominal, risk, failure, and beyond-ODC scenarios; quantified L3 motorway/expressway requirements (e.g., at least 10 s takeover lead time, at least 130 m forward detection at 120 km/h, minimal risk maneuver within 15 s of user incapacity); L4 requirements (remote assistance permitted but must not perform the dynamic driving task); human-machine interface red lines (no auto-activation on power-up; dual confirmation for handover); a mandatory safety management system and a claim-argument-evidence safety case (安全档案) as a normative annex, with graduated residual-risk benchmarks culminating in a fatality rate below 10⁻⁷ per hour (the draft allows manufacturers to justify alternative indicators); simulation-track-road three-pillar validation; and same-type determination rules. Transition: immediate for new type approvals, from the 13th month for already-approved models. Public comment draft 12 Feb 2026 (comments closed 16 Apr 2026); final draft publicized 17-24 June 2026; now in approval (正在批准); proposed effective 1 July 2027.
Official link. MIIT (consultation notice); MIIT (consultation draft PDF); MOFCOM (drafting explanation); Plan record
Unofficial link. WeChat (final-draft summary)
Plan no. 20262948-Q-339 [automated parking safety]
Intelligent and connected vehicle—Safety requirements for automated parking system (planned mandatory standard)
《智能网联汽车 自动泊车系统安全要求》
Issuing authority. Administered by MIIT through TC114; to be issued by SAMR and SAC.
Summary. Planned mandatory standard on automated-parking-system safety, complementing the exclusion of automated parking from GB 44721; plan approved 25 May 2026, currently being drafted.
Official link. Plan record
Unofficial link. None (no text published)
National Recommended Standards (GB/T)
Unless otherwise noted, issued by SAMR and SAC and administered by MIIT.
GB/T 40429-2021 [automation levels]
Taxonomy of driving automation for vehicles
《汽车驾驶自动化分级》
Summary. Establishes the Level 0-5 driving-automation taxonomy (broadly parallel to SAE J3016); at Levels 3-5 the automated driving system (自动驾驶系统, ADS) performs the entire dynamic driving task. Issued 20 Aug 2021, effective 1 Mar 2022. The foundational classification for Chinese automated driving law and standards.
Official link. Openstd (full text viewable online)
GB/T 44373-2024 [terms and definitions]
Intelligent and connected vehicle—Terms and definitions
《智能网联汽车 术语和定义》
Summary. Unifies terminology and definitions for the ICV domain, including automated driving system, operational design domain, and related concepts; issued 2024.
Official link. Openstd (full text viewable online)
GB/T 44721-2024 [ADS general requirements]
Intelligent and connected vehicle—General technical requirements for automated driving system
《智能网联汽车 自动驾驶系统通用技术要求》
Summary. Specifies overall requirements, dynamic-driving-task execution requirements, fallback requirements, and human-machine interaction requirements for automated driving systems; issued and effective 29 Sept 2024. Will be replaced by mandatory standard GB 44721 (final draft publicized; see above).
Official link. Openstd (full text viewable online)
Unofficial link. Guifanku (PDF)
GB/T 45312-2025 [design operating conditions]
Intelligent and connected vehicle—Design operating condition for automated driving system
《智能网联汽车 自动驾驶系统设计运行条件》
Summary. Specifies the elements and description method for the design operating condition (设计运行条件, ODC) of an automated driving system—road, traffic, environmental, and vehicle-state conditions; issued and effective 28 Feb 2025.
Official link. Openstd (full text viewable online)
GB/T 41798-2022 [proving-ground testing]
Intelligent and connected vehicles—Track testing methods and requirements for automated driving functions
《智能网联汽车 自动驾驶功能场地试验方法及要求》
Summary. Specifies test conditions, scenarios, methods, and requirements for closed proving-ground testing of automated driving functions (traffic-sign recognition, obstacle response, car following, lane change, etc.); issued 2022.
Official link. Openstd (full text viewable online)
GB/T 44719-2024 [road testing]
Intelligent and connected vehicle—Test methods and requirements for automated driving functions—Road testing
《智能网联汽车 自动驾驶功能道路试验方法及要求》
Summary. Specifies methods and requirements for on-road testing of automated driving functions; together with proving-ground (GB/T 41798) and simulation (GB/T 47025) testing it forms the multi-pillar assessment approach; issued 2024.
Official link. Openstd (full text viewable online)
GB/T 47025-2026 [simulation testing]
Intelligent and connected vehicle—Test methods and requirements for automated driving functions—Simulation testing
《智能网联汽车 自动驾驶功能仿真试验方法及要求》
Summary. China's first national standard for simulation-based testing of automated driving: specifies simulation procedures, toolchain credibility, and technical requirements to cover risk space that road testing cannot exhaust; issued and effective 28 Jan 2026.
Official link. Openstd (full text viewable online)
GB/T 43766-2024 [operational safety testing]
Technical requirements for driving safety test for intelligent and connected vehicles
《智能网联汽车运行安全测试技术要求》
Summary. Specifies general technical requirements for operational-safety testing of ICVs and the roles and responsibilities of testing parties; defines 16 key terms including automated driving system and automated driving mode; issued 15 Mar 2024, effective 1 Oct 2024. Administered by the road traffic management standardization committee (TC576) under MPS.
Official link. Record; Openstd (full text viewable online)
GB/T 44850-2024 [operational safety test items]
Intelligent and connected vehicle—Operational safety test items and methods
《智能网联汽车运行安全测试项目和方法》
Summary. Specifies the concrete operational-safety test items and methods, complementing GB/T 43766; issued 26 Oct 2024, effective 1 May 2025. Administered by TC576 under MPS.
Official link. Openstd (full text viewable online)
GB/T 43758.1-2024 and GB/T 43758.2-2024 [operational safety test environments]
Technical specifications for driving safety test environment for intelligent and connected vehicles—Part 1: Public road; Part 2: Semi-open roads
《智能网联汽车运行安全测试环境技术条件 第1部分：公共道路》《第2部分：半开放道路》
Summary. Specify technical conditions for public-road (Part 1: issued 15 Mar 2024, effective 1 Oct 2024) and semi-open-road (Part 2: issued 31 Dec 2024, effective 1 July 2025) test environments. Unlike most entries in this section, administered by the road traffic management standardization committee (TC576) under MPS.
Official link. Record (Part 1); Record (Part 2)
GB/T 46896-2025 and GB/T 46958-2025 [test scenarios]
Road vehicles—Test scenarios for automated driving systems—Vocabulary; —Scenario based safety evaluation framework
《道路车辆 自动驾驶系统测试场景 术语》《道路车辆 自动驾驶系统测试场景 基于场景的安全评估框架》
Summary. National adoptions of the ISO 34501/34502 test-scenario standards, which China led at ISO (ISO 34501, the vocabulary standard, was the first ISO standard in this field): the vocabulary standard defines terms for automated-driving test scenarios (issued 31 Dec 2025), and the framework standard establishes scenario-based safety evaluation for Level 3-5 systems on M- and N-category vehicles (issued 31 Dec 2025, effective 1 Apr 2026). Further parts (e.g., natural-language scenario description) remain in pre-research.
Official link. Record (46896); Record (46958)
Unofficial link. Chinaautoregs (English translation, paid)
GB/T 43119-2023 [closed test facilities]
Technical requirements for construction of closed test site for automatic driving
《自动驾驶封闭测试场地建设技术要求》
Summary. Specifies technical requirements for planning, design, and construction of closed test facilities for automated driving of passenger and goods vehicles; issued 7 Sept 2023, effective 1 Jan 2024. Administered directly by SAC.
Official link. Openstd (full text viewable online); Jtst
GB/T 47031-2026 [automated parking]
Intelligent and connected vehicle—Performance requirements and test methods for automated parking systems
《智能网联汽车 自动泊车系统性能要求与试验方法》
Summary. Specifies performance requirements and test methods for automated parking systems; issued and effective 28 Jan 2026. Relevant to low-speed automation applications such as automated valet parking (自主代客泊车, AVP).
Official link. Openstd (full text viewable online)
GB/T 44298-2024 [controls and tell-tales]
Intelligent and connected vehicle—Symbols for controls, indicators and tell-tales
《智能网联汽车 操纵件、指示器及信号装置的标志》
Summary. Specifies symbols for controls, indicators, and tell-tales on ICVs, including automated driving functions; issued 2024. A corresponding mandatory standard was circulated for comment in February 2026.
Official link. Openstd (full text viewable online)
GB/T 34590.1-2022 through 34590.12-2022 [functional safety]
Road vehicles—Functional safety, Parts 1-12 (modified adoption of ISO 26262)
《道路车辆 功能安全》（第1-12部分）
Summary. Full-lifecycle functional-safety requirements for automotive electrical/electronic systems (management, concept, system/hardware/software development, production and operation, supporting processes, ASIL analysis); revised 2022.
Official link. Openstd (adopted standard; text not publicly viewable)
Unofficial link. SPC (purchase); NDLS (Part 10 record)
GB/T 43267-2023 [SOTIF]
Road vehicles—Safety of the intended functionality (SOTIF; adoption of ISO 21448)
《道路车辆 预期功能安全》
Summary. Requirements for safety-of-the-intended-functionality (预期功能安全, SOTIF) activities addressing hazards from functional insufficiencies or foreseeable misuse absent a fault; issued 2023. Central to safety argumentation for automated driving perception and scenario coverage.
Official link. Openstd (adopted standard; text not publicly viewable)
Unofficial link. SPC (purchase)
GB/T 40861-2021 [cybersecurity]
General technical requirements for vehicle cybersecurity
《汽车信息安全通用技术要求》
Summary. General (recommended) vehicle- and system-level cybersecurity requirements, predecessor to mandatory GB 44495; issued 2021.
Official link. Openstd (full text viewable online)
GB/T 44464-2024 [vehicle data]
General requirements for vehicle data
《汽车数据通用要求》
Summary. General requirements for processing vehicle data (including personal information and important data), implementing the 2021 automotive data security regulations; issued 2024.
Official link. Openstd (full text viewable online)
GB/T 45086.1-2024 [satellite positioning]
On-board positioning systems—Technical requirements and test methods—Part 1: Satellite positioning
《车载定位系统技术要求及试验方法 第1部分：卫星定位》
Summary. Technical requirements and test methods for on-board GNSS positioning supporting high-accuracy localization for automated driving; issued 2024. (Companion inertial-navigation and fused-positioning standards are under development; see below.)
Official link. Openstd (full text viewable online)
GB/T 47001-2025 [digital identity]
General specifications for digital identity and authentication of intelligent and connected vehicle
《智能网联汽车数字身份及认证通用规范》
Summary. General specification for ICV digital identity and authentication; issued 31 Dec 2025, effective 1 July 2026. Administered by TC576 under MPS.
Official link. Record; Openstd (full text viewable online)
GB/T 47341-2026 and GB/T 47351-2026 [vehicle operating systems]
Intelligent and connected vehicle—Technical requirements and test methods for in-vehicle operating systems / for vehicle-control operating systems
《智能网联汽车 车载操作系统技术要求及试验方法》《智能网联汽车 车控操作系统技术要求及试验方法》
Summary. Specify technical requirements and test methods for in-vehicle (infotainment-class) and vehicle-control (real-time-class) operating systems respectively; issued 31 Mar 2026, effective 1 July 2026. The vehicle-control operating system may host or support time-critical control functions.
Official link. Openstd (47341); Openstd (47351)
GB/T 44417-2024 [roadside V2X equipment]
Technical requirements and test method for roadside intelligent cooperative control device in cooperative vehicle-infrastructure system
《车路协同系统智能路侧协同控制设备技术要求和测试方法》
Summary. Specifies technical requirements and test methods for intelligent roadside cooperative-control equipment; industry commentary describes it as bringing LTE-V2X into the national-standard system; issued 23 Aug 2024, effective 1 Mar 2025. Supports higher-level automation under the vehicle-road-cloud integration (车路云一体化) architecture. Administered by the intelligent transport systems standardization committee (TC268) under SAC.
Official link. Record; Openstd (full text viewable online)
Unofficial link. C114 (explainer)
GB/T 47126-2026 [sensor-fusion interface]
Road vehicles—Data communication between sensors and data fusion unit for automated driving functions—Logical interface
《道路车辆 自动驾驶传感器与数据融合单元间数据通信 逻辑接口》
Summary. Specifies the logical interface for data communication between environmental-perception sensors and the data-fusion unit of automated driving systems; modified adoption of ISO 23150:2023; issued 27 Feb 2026, effective 1 June 2026.
Official link. Record (adopted standard; text not publicly viewable)
Unofficial link. Purchase via SPC
National Sectoral Recommended Standards
JTG/T 2430-2023 [highway infrastructure]
Technical guidelines for highway engineering facilities supporting automated driving
《公路工程设施支持自动驾驶技术指南》
Issuing authority. MOT—recommended highway-engineering sector standard; day-to-day administration by the MOT Research Institute of Highway.
Summary. Sets the overall architecture and key technical indicators for highway facilities supporting automated driving: cloud-control platform, traffic sensing, control and guidance, communications, positioning, roadside computing, power, and network security; announced 8 Oct 2023 (MOT Announcement No. 44 of 2023), effective 1 Dec 2023, applicable to current automated driving test roads.
Official link. MOT (issuing announcement); MOT (full-text PDF); MOT (interpretation)
GA/T 2388-2026 [road-test traffic rules]
Specifications of road traffic safety for intelligent and connected vehicle road test and demonstration application
《智能网联汽车道路测试与示范应用安全通行规范》
Issuing authority. MPS—recommended public-security sector standard.
Summary. Specifies road-traffic-safety conduct requirements for ICV road testing and demonstration: general rules, speed and following-distance control, use of lamps and signals, lane use, compliance with traffic signals, basic driving requirements, and handling of special situations. Applies to vehicles with Level 3-5 automated driving functions (per GB/T 40429) in testing, pilot, and trial operations on motorways, urban roads, and designated areas; issued 28 Feb 2026, effective 1 July 2026.
Official link. MPS (standard record)
Unofficial link. QQ News (full text)
YD/T 3340-2018 [V2X air interface]
LTE-based vehicular communication (LTE-V2X)—Air interface technical requirements
《基于LTE的车联网无线通信技术 空中接口技术要求》
Issuing authority. MIIT—recommended telecommunications sector standard.
Summary. Establishes the access-layer (air interface) requirements for C-V2X (LTE-V2X) direct communications—the communications substrate for cooperative and vehicle-road-cloud automated driving. Companion YD/T standards cover the overall system (YD/T 3400), network layer (YD/T 3707), and message layer (YD/T 3709), among others; all are searchable at hbba.sacinfo.org.cn. 5G NR-V2X standards are in development.
Official link. Hbba
Unofficial link. None verified for this standard; a draft of the companion network-layer standard is mirrored at Qixin
Key Group Standards
The China Society of Automotive Engineers (中国汽车工程学会, China SAE) has issued 100+ ICV group standards (T/CSAE), searchable at csae.sae-china.org. Below are representative standards directly relevant to Level 3-5 automation. The China Industry Innovation Alliance for the Intelligent and Connected Vehicles (中国智能网联汽车产业创新联盟, CAICV) published a recommended-standards list for vehicle-road-cloud integration in Oct 2024.
T/CSAE 53-2020 [V2X application layer] (Phase 2: T/CSAE 157-2020)
Cooperative ITS—Vehicular communication application layer specification and data exchange standard (Phases 1 and 2)
《合作式智能运输系统 车用通信系统应用层及应用数据交互标准》
Issuing authority. China SAE.
Summary. Defines the C-V2X application-layer message sets and data exchange (Phase 1, first issued 2017, revised 31 Dec 2020: 17 basic scenarios; Phase 2: enhanced scenarios for higher-level automation)—the de facto foundation for V2X applications in China.
Official link. China SAE (standard record; text via platform registration)
T/CSAE 156-2020 [automated valet parking]
Automated valet parking (AVP) system—General technical requirements
《自主代客泊车系统总体技术要求》
Issuing authority. China SAE.
Summary. Specifies system architecture and general technical requirements for automated valet parking (a typical low-speed L4 application); issued 2020.
Official link. China SAE (text via platform registration)
T/CSAE 309-2023 [driverless urban testing]
Intelligent and connected vehicle—Track test methods and requirements for driverless testing in urban road scenarios
《智能网联汽车 城市道路场景无人化测试 场地试验方法及要求》
Issuing authority. China SAE.
Summary. Track-test methods and requirements for driverless (no in-vehicle safety operator) testing in urban road scenarios; issued 20 Nov 2023; selected by MIIT in 2024 as a model case for group-standard application. A companion special-environment field-test standard (ice/snow, mountains, tropics, unusual lighting) circulated for comment in Nov 2022 under China SAE task no. 2022-09, its draft cover bearing the placeholder designation T/CSAE 091-2022; no issued standard number or final publication has been confirmed.
Official link. China SAE
Unofficial link. Gkzhan (issuance announcement); China SAE (special-environment consultation draft PDF)
T/CSAE 185-2021 [AD map format]
Intelligent and connected vehicle—Collection element model and exchange format for automated driving maps
《智能网联汽车自动驾驶地图采集要素模型与交换格式》
Issuing authority. China SAE.
Summary. Specifies the element model and data-exchange format for high-definition map collection for automated driving; issued 2021.
Official link. China SAE
Unofficial link. Antpedia (full-text PDF)
T/CSAE 284.3-2022 [chassis-by-wire]
Automated-driving passenger cars—Chassis-by-wire performance requirements and test methods—Part 3: Steering system
《自动驾驶乘用车 线控底盘性能要求及试验方法 第3部分：转向系统》
Issuing authority. China SAE.
Summary. Performance requirements and test methods for the steer-by-wire (principally front-wheel steering) part of the chassis-by-wire series for automated-driving passenger cars; issued 2022.
Official link. China SAE
Unofficial link. Qixin (full-text PDF)
T/CSAE 286.2-2022 [low-speed unmanned vehicles]
Functional unmanned (low-speed driverless) vehicles—Part 2: General technical requirements
《功能型无人车 第2部分：总体技术要求》
Issuing authority. China SAE.
Summary. General technical requirements for functional unmanned vehicles (low-speed driverless delivery, retail, and sweeping vehicles); issued 2022.
Official link. China SAE
Unofficial link. Qixin (full-text PDF)
T/CSAE 316.2-2023 [perception SOTIF]
Intelligent and connected vehicle—SOTIF of environmental perception systems—Part 2: Test and evaluation methods for passenger cars
《智能网联汽车 环境感知系统预期功能安全 第2部分：乘用车测试与评价方法》
Issuing authority. China SAE.
Summary. Test and evaluation methods for the safety of the intended functionality of passenger-car environmental perception systems; issued 2023.
Official link. China SAE
Unofficial link. NDLS (record)
T/CMAX 116-01-2020 [road-test capability assessment]
Contents and methods of field test capability assessment for automated vehicle
《自动驾驶车辆道路测试能力评估内容与方法》
Issuing authority. Zhongguancun Intelligent Transportation Industry Alliance (CMAX).
Summary. The companion technical document for Beijing's automated vehicle road-test regime: prescribes pre-permit closed-course capability assessment (levels T1-T5; general, specialized, and conformity testing, including night, rain/fog, high-speed, and driverless modules), with results serving as the basis for road-test authorization; issued and effective 2 Nov 2020. Companion T/CMAX 116-02-2018 sets closed-facility requirements; the alliance also publishes vehicle-road-cloud standards (e.g., T/CMAX 43006-2024 on city-vehicle cooperative sensing platforms).
Official link. CMAX (full-text PDF); TTBZ (group-standard platform)
Related instrument. Beijing.gov.cn (companion Beijing road-test rules PDF, since succeeded)
Key Local Standards
Local standards (地方标准, DB) are issued by municipal or provincial market regulators and are indexed at dbba.sacinfo.org.cn. Each city subsection lists the city's legal instruments (laws and rules rather than standards) followed by its local standards. Hunan (DB43/T 2292.1-2022, automated driving field tests for transit buses) and Chongqing (DB50/T 1780-2025, software-update safety) have further local standards not detailed here.
Shenzhen
深圳经济特区智能网联汽车管理条例 [ICV regulations]
Regulations of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone on the Administration of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles
《深圳经济特区智能网联汽车管理条例》
Issuing authority. Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal People's Congress.
Summary. China's first local law on intelligent and connected vehicles: full-chain rules on road testing, demonstration application, market access and registration, use and operation, network and data security, and liability; adopted 23 June 2022, effective 1 Aug 2022; amended 25 May 2026, with the consolidated text effective 1 July 2026.
Official link. Sz.gov.cn (2026 consolidated text); Szrd (original 2022 text)
Unofficial link. MOFCOM-hosted database (2026 amended text)
深圳市智能网联汽车道路测试与示范应用管理实施细则 [road-test rules]
Shenzhen Implementation Rules for ICV Road Testing and Demonstration Application Administration
《深圳市智能网联汽车道路测试与示范应用管理实施细则》
Issuing authority. Shenzhen transport, development-and-reform, industry-and-IT, and traffic-police authorities (jointly).
Summary. Administrative rules implementing the SEZ regulations: application procedures, tiered opening of roads (including expressways), fully driverless (no in-vehicle safety officer) testing, cross-jurisdiction mutual recognition of test results, and incident and violation handling; first issued 20 Oct 2022; revised version effective 1 June 2026 lowering application costs and thresholds and expanding driverless scenarios.
Official link. Sz.gov.cn (2026 consolidated rules); Sz.gov.cn (revision announcement); Sz.gov.cn (interpretation)
DB4403/T 357-2023 [AD data recording]
Technical requirements for ICV automated driving data recording systems
《智能网联汽车自动驾驶数据记录系统技术要求》
Issuing authority. Shenzhen Administration for Market Regulation; drafted under the Shenzhen Bureau of Industry and Information Technology.
Summary. Specifies data-recording requirements for M/N-category vehicles within Shenzhen, supporting the city's ICV market-access regime; issued 22 Aug 2023, effective 1 Sept 2023.
Official link. Shenzhen AMR (full-text PDF)
DB4403/T 358-2023 [design operating conditions]
Design operating conditions for ICV automated driving systems
《智能网联汽车自动驾驶系统设计运行条件》
Issuing authority. Shenzhen Administration for Market Regulation.
Summary. Specifies the composition and description of the design operating condition for Level 3-5 automated driving systems on M/N-category vehicles; issued 22 Aug 2023, effective 1 Sept 2023.
Official link. Shenzhen AMR (full-text PDF)
DB4403/T 359.1-2023 [motorway ADS requirements]
Technical requirements for ICV automated driving systems—Part 1: Motorway and expressway automated driving
《智能网联汽车自动驾驶系统技术要求 第1部分：高速公路及快速路自动驾驶》
Issuing authority. Shenzhen Administration for Market Regulation.
Summary. Technical requirements for motorway/expressway automated driving systems on M/N-category vehicles; issued 22 Aug 2023, effective 1 Sept 2023.
Official link. Shenzhen AMR (full-text PDF)
Beijing
北京市自动驾驶汽车条例 [AV regulations]
Beijing Autonomous Vehicles Regulations
《北京市自动驾驶汽车条例》
Issuing authority. Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress.
Summary. Local law rather than a standard: seven chapters and 48 articles covering technology innovation, infrastructure planning and construction, on-road operation, safety assurance, and legal liability for automated vehicles (conditionally, highly, and fully automated per the national taxonomy); adopted 31 Dec 2024, effective 1 Apr 2025.
Official link. Beijing.gov.cn (full text); Bjrd (municipal congress)
北京市自动驾驶汽车道路测试与示范应用办法（试行）[road-test rules]
Beijing Measures for Automated Vehicle Road Testing and Demonstration Application (Trial)
《北京市自动驾驶汽车道路测试与示范应用办法（试行）》
Issuing authority. Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, jointly with the Beijing Municipal Commission of Transport, the municipal traffic police, and the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area Administrative Committee (京经信发〔2025〕43号).
Summary. Administrative rules rather than a standard: implement the Beijing AV Regulations (above) for road testing and demonstration application, succeeding the earlier implementation-rules lineage (2017, revised 2018 and 2019, last published Feb 2021; the new measures contain no express repeal clause), under which the pre-permit closed-course capability assessment was conducted per T/CMAX 116-01 (see Key Group Standards above); adopted 24 Oct 2025, effective on issuance, published in the municipal gazette Jan 2026; covers Level 3-5 testing and demonstration, sequencing with-safety-officer before driverless activities, and cross-jurisdiction recognition. Companion measures on safety assessment (京经信发〔2025〕44号) and road-application pilot vehicle safety inspection (京经信发〔2025〕45号) appear in Beijing's January 2026 filing catalogue.
Official link. Beijing.gov.cn (full text); Beijing.gov.cn (interpretation); Beijing.gov.cn (superseded 2021 rules, PDF)
DB11/T 2041-2022 [AD map data]
Specification for automated driving map data
《自动驾驶地图数据规范》
Issuing authority. Beijing Administration for Market Regulation.
Summary. Specifies content and format requirements for automated-driving (high-definition) map data; issued 2022.
Official link. Dbba
Unofficial link. NDLS (record)
DB11/T 2050-2022 [closed test facilities]
Technical requirements for closed test facilities for automated vehicles
《自动驾驶车辆封闭试验场地技术要求》
Issuing authority. Beijing Administration for Market Regulation.
Summary. Technical requirements for closed automated-vehicle test facilities; issued 2022. Beijing issued further local standards in 2025 on closed-site testing and vehicle-road-cloud roadside facilities (e.g., DB11/T 2471.2-2025 for driverless delivery vehicles).
Official link. Dbba
DB11/T 2166-2023 and DB11/T 2416-2025 [AD map quality and exchange]
Quality specification for automated driving maps; Specification for automated driving map data exchange and service interfaces
《自动驾驶地图质量规范》《自动驾驶地图数据交换及服务接口规范》
Issuing authority. Beijing Administration for Market Regulation; drafted under the Beijing Municipal Commission of Planning and Natural Resources.
Summary. Together with DB11/T 2041-2022, these form Beijing's local standards system for automated-driving (high-definition) maps: the quality specification (issued 25 Dec 2023, effective 1 July 2024) defines quality elements and inspection methods; the data-exchange and service-interface specification (issued 2025) governs map data exchange and online service interfaces between map providers and automakers.
Official link. DB11/T 2166 PDF; DB11/T 2416 PDF (official training/explanatory slides, not the standard texts); standard records via Dbba
Shanghai
上海市智能网联汽车测试与应用管理办法 [testing and application measures]
Shanghai Measures for the Administration of ICV Testing and Application
《上海市智能网联汽车测试与应用管理办法》
Issuing authority. Shanghai Municipal People's Government (municipal government rule).
Summary. Government rules rather than a standard (Municipal Government Decree No. 60): govern ICV road testing, demonstration application, demonstration operation, and commercial pilots citywide, and authorize Pudong New Area to adopt measures for fully driverless vehicles (see next entry); promulgated 29 Dec 2021, effective 15 Feb 2022; implemented through the 2023 municipal testing-and-demonstration implementation rules.
Official link. Shanghai.gov.cn (full text)
上海市浦东新区促进无驾驶人智能网联汽车创新应用规定 [driverless regulations]
Provisions of Pudong New Area on Promoting Innovative Application of Driverless Intelligent and Connected Vehicles
《上海市浦东新区促进无驾驶人智能网联汽车创新应用规定》
Issuing authority. Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, exercising Pudong New Area special legislative authority.
Summary. China's first local legislation dedicated to driverless (no-driver) ICVs: establishes safety self-declaration confirmation for driverless road testing, demonstration application, and demonstration operation in designated Pudong areas; adopted 23 Nov 2022, effective 1 Feb 2023, with implementation rules issued by the Pudong government (2023). Parallel trial rules for the Lin-gang special area (effective 28 Feb 2023) expired 31 Dec 2025, with no replacement located as of 27 July 2026.
Official link. Shanghai.gov.cn (full text); Pudong.gov.cn (implementation rules); Lingang (expired Lin-gang trial rules)
DB31/T 1264-2020 [test-road grading]
Environmental grading of open test roads for automated driving
《自动驾驶开放测试道路环境分级规范》
Issuing authority. Shanghai Administration for Market Regulation.
Summary. Grades the environmental complexity of open test roads to support tiered opening of roads for automated vehicle testing; issued 2020.
Official link. Record
DB31/T 1566-2025 and DB31/T 1567-2025 [motorway and driverless testing]
Technical specifications for ICV testing on motorways/expressways and for driverless (no-safety-driver) testing
《智能网联汽车高快速路测试技术规范》《智能网联汽车无驾驶人测试技术规范》
Issuing authority. Shanghai Administration for Market Regulation.
Summary. Specify conditions, procedures, and safety requirements for motorway/expressway testing and for driverless (no in-vehicle safety operator) testing respectively; issued 2025.
Official link. Dbba
Wuhan
武汉市智能网联汽车发展促进条例 [ICV regulations]
Wuhan Regulations on Promoting the Development of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles
《武汉市智能网联汽车发展促进条例》
Issuing authority. Standing Committee of the Wuhan Municipal People's Congress; approved by the Standing Committee of the Hubei Provincial People's Congress.
Summary. Characterized by the city as the first ICV industry-promotion local regulation among China's sub-provincial cities, with express provisions on vehicle-road-cloud integrated infrastructure: chapters on industry development and technology innovation, infrastructure, application promotion, safety assurance, and services; adopted 28 Aug 2024, approved 29 Nov 2024, effective 1 Mar 2025. Wuhan's 2022 trial road-test rules were reported as undergoing revision, but no replacement version was located as of 27 July 2026; the Wuhan Economic Development Zone separately issued commercialization-pilot measures for automated driving equipment (2024).
Official link. WICVC (full text); Whkfq (development-zone pilot measures)
DB4201/T 654-2022 [intelligent road construction]
Specification for construction of intelligent and connected roads (General principles)
《智能网联道路建设规范（总则）》
Issuing authority. Wuhan Administration for Market Regulation.
Summary. Specifies construction objectives, principles, procedures, road safety-risk grading methodology, and road-access requirements for roads to be opened for ICV testing and demonstration; the technical basis for Wuhan's tiered opening of test roads (3,378.73 km at end-2023 per city figures, reported at more than 3,800 km by January 2026), among the most of any Chinese city; issued 13 Apr 2022, effective 13 May 2022.
Official link. Wuhan AMR (full-text PDF)
Ministerial Normative Documents and Guidelines
The following are not standards in the formal sense but are the core normative instruments governing automated vehicle testing, market access, and operations in China.
工信部联通装〔2021〕97号 [road testing and demonstration]
Administrative Rules for Road Testing and Demonstration Application of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles (Trial)
《智能网联汽车道路测试与示范应用管理规范（试行）》
Issuing authority. MIIT, MPS, and MOT.
Summary. Unifies nationwide requirements and procedures for ICV road testing and demonstration applications (carrying passengers/goods), replacing the 2018 rules; issued 27 July 2021, effective 1 Sept 2021.
Official link. Gov.cn (full text)
工信部联通装〔2023〕217号 [L3/L4 access pilot]
Notice on Launching the Pilot Program for Access (Type Approval) and On-Road Operation of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles
《关于开展智能网联汽车准入和上路通行试点工作的通知》
Issuing authority. MIIT, MPS, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD), and MOT.
Summary. Launches pilot type-approval for production-ready L3/L4 vehicles and on-road operation pilots in designated areas; issued 17 Nov 2023; the first nine pilot consortia were announced in June 2024. On 15 Dec 2025 MIIT announced the first L3 pilot approvals—Changan's Deepal SL03 (designated Chongqing segments, up to 50 km/h) and the Arcfox Alpha S (L3 version), model BJ7001A61NBEV (designated segments of Beijing's Jingtai Expressway, Airport North Line Expressway, and Daxing Airport Expressway, up to 80 km/h)—with the first dedicated L3 plates issued to Changan on 20 Dec and Arcfox on 23 Dec 2025; the Beijing/Arcfox pilot began as a business-facing road-operation pilot, with individual-user access to follow. See the Beijing announcement, Xinhua (plates and routes), and S&T Daily (operating model).
Official link. Gov.cn (full text); Gov.cn (interpretation)
工信部联通装〔2023〕268号 [vehicle-road-cloud pilot]
Notice on Launching Application Pilots for "Vehicle-Road-Cloud Integration" of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles
《关于开展智能网联汽车"车路云一体化"应用试点工作的通知》
Issuing authority. MIIT, MPS, Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), MOHURD, and MOT.
Summary. Deploys 2024-2026 vehicle-road-cloud integration (车路云一体化) pilots, building intelligent roadside infrastructure and cloud-control platforms; issued Jan 2024; 20 pilot cities/consortia announced 3 July 2024.
Official link. Gov.cn (full text); Gov.cn (pilot city list)
交办运〔2023〕66号 [AV transport services]
Guidelines for Transport Safety Services of Autonomous Vehicles (Trial)
《自动驾驶汽车运输安全服务指南（试行）》
Issuing authority. General Office of MOT.
Summary. Governs commercial use of autonomous vehicles in buses, taxis, road passenger, and freight transport: permissible scenarios, operator and vehicle requirements, staffing (for driverless taxis, one remote safety operator may supervise at most three vehicles), safety assurance and oversight; dangerous-goods transport prohibited; issued 5 Dec 2023.
Official link. MOT (full text)
工信部联科〔2023〕109号 [ICV standards master plan]
Guidelines for the Construction of the National Internet of Vehicles Industry Standards System (Intelligent and Connected Vehicles) (2023 Edition)
《国家车联网产业标准体系建设指南（智能网联汽车）（2023版）》
Issuing authority. MIIT and SAC.
Summary. The master plan for the ICV standards system: Phase 1 (to 2025) targets 100+ standards supporting driver assistance and general automated-driving functions; Phase 2 (to 2030) completes the system. The programmatic basis for most standards in development listed here; further plans continue to be approved under these guidelines, and progress can be tracked by searching "自动驾驶" or "智能网联汽车" at std.samr.gov.cn.
Official link. Gov.cn (full-text PDF); MIIT-EIDC (issuing notice)
自然资源部公告2023年第10号 [AD map standards plan]
Guidelines for the Construction of the Intelligent Vehicle Basic Map Standards System (2023 Edition)
《智能汽车基础地图标准体系建设指南（2023版）》
Issuing authority. Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR).
Summary. Top-level design for the standards system for intelligent-vehicle basic maps (automated driving / high-definition maps), covering basic common standards, production and updating, application services, quality inspection, and security management; targets an initial system by 2025 and a mature one by 2030; issued March 2023.
Official link. Gov.cn (announcement); MNR (announcement)
Unofficial link. Csrcare (full-text PDF mirror)
Recommended National Standards in Development
The following are approved national standard plans (国家标准计划) that have not yet been issued; standard numbers and dates are therefore not yet assigned, and some plans have been suspended (暂缓). Unless otherwise noted, administered by MIIT through the National Technical Committee of Auto Standardization (TC114); to be issued by SAMR and SAC. Further registered plans not detailed here include an ICV operational-safety supervision platform (20255462-T-312), operational emergency handling (20255463-T-312), and accident reporting and safety evaluation (20262472-T-469).
Plan nos. 20250898-T-339 and 20250938-T-339 [inertial and fused positioning]
On-board positioning systems—Technical requirements and test methods—Part 2: Inertial navigation; Part 3: Fused positioning
《车载定位系统技术要求及试验方法 第2部分：惯性导航》《车载定位系统技术要求及试验方法 第3部分：融合定位》
Issuing authority. Administered by MIIT through TC114: Part 2 by the electronics and EMC subcommittee (SC29), Part 3 by the ICV subcommittee (SC34).
Summary. Complete the three-part on-board positioning series begun by GB/T 45086.1-2024 (satellite positioning): Part 2 (plan no. 20250898-T-339, under review) covers inertial navigation, and Part 3 (plan no. 20250938-T-339, in public consultation) covers fused positioning combining GNSS, inertial, and other sources—the localization basis for automated driving.
Official link. Plan record (Part 2); Plan record (Part 3)
Unofficial link. None (no text published)
Plan no. 20242300-T-348 [AV operation services] (suspended)
Specification for automated driving vehicle operation service
《自动驾驶汽车运营服务规范》
Issuing authority. Administered by MOT through the national road transport standardization committee (TC521); lead drafter is the MOT Research Institute of Highway; to be issued by SAMR and SAC.
Summary. Planned national standard governing operation services of autonomous vehicles in commercial transport, extending the 2023 trial transport-safety guidelines (交办运〔2023〕66号, above) into a formal standard. Plan approved 25 July 2024; current official status is suspended/deferred (暂缓).
Official link. Plan record
Unofficial link. None (no text published)
Plan nos. 20242298-T-348 and 20242301-T-348 [safety operators] (suspended)
Skill requirements and specifications for training and assessment of autonomous operation vehicle—Part 1: In-vehicle safety officer; Part 2: Remote safety officer
《自动驾驶营运车辆安全员技能要求与培训考核规范 第1部分：车内安全员》《第2部分：远程安全员》
Issuing authority. Administered by MOT through TC521; to be issued by SAMR and SAC.
Summary. Planned national standards specifying skill requirements and training/assessment rules for in-vehicle and remote safety operators of autonomous commercial vehicles, operationalizing the staffing requirements of the 2023 trial transport-safety guidelines (one remote operator per at most three vehicles for driverless taxis). Plans approved 25 July 2024; current official status of both parts is suspended/deferred (暂缓).
Official link. Plan record (Part 1); Plan record (Part 2)
Unofficial link. None (no text published)
