Ye shengji: The Essence of Automotive Testing is Defining Industry Standards with Scientific Methods

From July 10 to 12, 2025, the China Automotive Forum will be held in Jiading, Shanghai. The theme of this forum is "Enhancing Quality, Embracing New Opportunities, Winning the Future." More than 200 guests from government departments, automotive companies, supply chain enterprises, and industry organizations have been invited to give speeches, discuss industry policies, explore future trends, analyze critical issues, and jointly promote the sustainable development of the automotive industry, fostering deep exchanges and cooperation in the global automotive sector.

On the morning of July 12, at the "Theme Forum Eight: Smart Empowerment, the Path of 'Intelligent' Inspection - Empowering High-Quality Development of the Automotive Testing Industry," Ye Shengji, Chief Engineer of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, delivered a speech.

He stated that currently, the global automotive industry is undergoing an unprecedented transformation in a century. The wave of "new four modernizations"—electrification, intelligence, connectivity, and sharing—sweeps in, intertwining the restructuring of the industrial chain with technological revolution. The complex changes in the international situation further pose severe challenges to industry development. At the same time, the automotive industry is accelerating its transformation from "mechanical manufacturing" to "intelligent mobile space," which also brings rare development opportunities.

In this process, automobile testing is no longer merely a performance verification stage in the traditional sense; it has become a "quality lifeline" and "innovation catalyst" that runs through the entire lifecycle of research and development, production, and application. From chip testing to whole vehicle testing, from simulation testing to real vehicle testing, every breakthrough in testing technology is laying a solid foundation for the high-quality development of the industry.

The essence of automotive testing is to define industry standards for "safety," "reliability," and "efficiency" using scientific methods. The injection of intelligent and digital technologies is redefining the boundaries of these standards and enriching their connotations. To this end, Ye Shengji has proposed three initiatives:

First, consolidate the foundation of testing through technological innovation.Encourage enterprises to increase their R&D investment in fields such as AI algorithms, big data analysis, and virtual simulation, promoting the intelligentization of testing equipment, digitalization of testing processes, and visualization of testing results, so that testing technology becomes an "incubator" for product innovation.

Second, promote industry collaboration through standard co-construction.Call on industry peers to participate in the formulation and improvement of testing standards, especially in emerging fields such as digital intelligence infrastructure and AI large models, to accelerate the establishment of technical specifications.

Thirdly, expand the global perspective through open cooperation.Currently, the situation for China's automotive industry going global is very promising, with export volumes hitting new highs year-on-year. We will take this opportunity to strengthen exchanges and mutual learning with international testing and certification organizations, promote mutual recognition of standards in fields such as new energy vehicles and intelligent connected vehicles, assist Chinese automotive brands in going abroad, and accelerate the internationalization of the automotive industry.

"The wave of transformation in the automotive industry is already surging. The intelligent and digital transformation of testing technology is both a challenge and a great opportunity to win the future. Today, we plant the seed of 'intelligent and data empowerment' in Anting, hoping it will take root and grow in the fertile soil of multi-party collaboration, becoming a towering tree that supports the high-quality development of China's automotive industry."