Authored by: Mark Schaub , Zhao Xinhua and Danni Sima
Shanghai accelerated the pace of promoting the development of intelligent connected vehicles (“ICVs”) in 2022.
On November 23, 2022, the Standing Committee of the Shanghai People’s Congress adopted the Provisions of Shanghai Pudong New Area on Promoting Innovative Application of Driverless Intelligent Connected Vehicles (the “Pudong Innovative Provisions”) which will come into force on February 1, 2023.
Prior to this the Shanghai Administrative Measures for Testing and Application of Intelligent Connected Vehicles (the “Shanghai Administrative Measures”), which came into force on February 15, 2022, provide that the Pudong New Area government may formulate administrative measures for the testing and application of fully self-driving ICVs.