The 2021 World Intelligent Connected Vehicle Conference will be held in Beijing from Sept. 25-28, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Wednesday.

The conference, to be held in the new pavilion of the China International Exhibition Center, will include one high-end dialogue, two closed-door sessions, seven thematic summits and three special sessions.

The exhibition is expected to be 50,000 square meters in size, with 10 specialized zones planned, said Qu Guochun, secretary-general of the World Intelligent Connected Vehicle Conference Organizing Committee and director of the Equipment Industry Development Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

It includes self-driving demonstration and experience area, intelligent winter Olympic demonstration and experience area, and interactive experience area of car and life.

The conference will hold the "New Energy Vehicle Industry Development Achievement Exhibition" at the same time to showcase the development history and achievements of China's new energy vehicle industry, Qu said.

This year's conference will also hold the first national intelligent driving test competition, the intelligent driving field cutting-edge technology and models for authoritative, professional live test evaluation.

It will be preceded by the 2021 China (Shenyang) International Conference on Intelligent Intelligent Connected Vehicles to be held in Shenyang, northern China, on September 9.

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