en.Wedoany.com Reported - The "Safety Standard Consensus for Intelligent Unmanned Mining Vehicles" of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China, will be officially released and signed on July 16, 2026, during the 2026 Silk Road Mining Cooperation Forum in Urumqi. Initiated by organizations including the Xinjiang Mining Federation and the Silk Road Mining Cooperation Forum, this consensus focuses on standardizing the full-chain safety requirements for unmanned mining trucks in core areas such as equipment performance, safe operation, emergency response, and personnel training.
In recent years, Xinjiang has vigorously promoted the intelligent transformation of mines. Technologies such as local unmanned mining trucks, intelligent dispatching, and remote monitoring have been rapidly deployed, providing practical experience for the construction of smart mines nationwide. On December 31, 2025, the Emergency Management Department of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, together with the Autonomous Region Development and Reform Commission and the Xinjiang Bureau of the National Mine Safety Administration, formulated and released the "Notice on Further Strengthening the Normalized Operation of Intelligent Coal Mines," which took effect on February 1, 2026. This became the first local policy in China to refine "normalized operation" into scoring standards and regulatory bases. The formulation of this "Safety Standard Consensus for Intelligent Unmanned Mining Vehicles" is a concrete action to implement China's "15th Five-Year Plan" and enhance the intrinsic safety level of mines, as well as an important support for cultivating new productive forces in the Silk Road mining industry.
Unmanned mining vehicle companies such as EACON, CiDi, and BoLe Tech have confirmed their participation. Among them, EACON is a Shanghai-headquartered provider of unmanned mining solutions, founded in 2018, focusing on the R&D and large-scale operation of L4-level unmanned mining trucks. Currently, over 2,500 unmanned mining trucks equipped with its autonomous driving system are operating routinely in more than 30 mines across China, with large-scale deployments at a major coal mine in Xinjiang's Zhundong region and the Guoneng Xinjiang Hongshaquan Open-pit Coal Mine. CiDi (03881.HK) is an autonomous driving technology company headquartered in Changsha, Hunan, founded in 2017, specializing in unmanned driving and vehicle-infrastructure cooperation technologies for mining areas and closed scenarios. As of June 2025, it has delivered 414 units (sets) of autonomous mining truck systems, and recently completed the delivery of 40 new energy mining trucks at a mine in Xinjiang, with the deployment scale exceeding 120 units. BoLe Tech is a Shanghai-headquartered provider of electric unmanned mining trucks and zero-carbon unmanned mine solutions, founded in 2015, having built a full-stack technology closed loop of "L4 unmanned driving + unmanned battery swapping + intelligent dispatching."
The release of the "Consensus" will help address industry pain points such as the difficulty of coordinating equipment from different manufacturers and the lack of selection criteria for mining enterprises, driving the transformation of the mining industry towards intelligence, green development, and safety.
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