The South Automotive Proving Ground of China Automotive Engineering Research Institute Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Certification & Inspection Group (CCIC), started operation on March 20 in Shaoguan City in South China’s Guangdong Province.
Covering nearly 5.73 square kilometers and authorized to use almost 100 square kilometers of airspace for testing, it is the largest comprehensive proving ground in China.
As Guangdong’s first pilot platform for intelligent connected vehicles and low-altitude aircraft, the new infrastructure can test smart driving, low-altitude flight and finished vehicles’ performances on real roads.
It has an 8.5-kilometer-long circular highway, an aero car power system lab, China’s largest single dynamic plaza with a diameter of 300 meters and the country’s first comprehensive aircraft warehouse, which covers 3,645 square meters. It has six long, straight gliding runways, more than four vertical take-off and landing helipads, 240-kilowatt ultrafast chargers, 5G-A base stations and a low-altitude digital supervision platform.
The ground can be used for tests, R&D and technology commercialization, offering comprehensive and accurate analysis. It is an important infrastructure for aircraft’s airworthiness and security testing, thereby facilitating the progress and commercialization of low-altitude technologies.
In the future, CCIC will intensify efforts to offer one-stop services, thereby contributing to advancing industrial transformation, building China into a transport and manufacturing powerhouse and boosting high-quality development during the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) period.
(Executive editor: Yuan Ting)
