CiDi has reached a major milestone in its collaboration with TCC (Yingde) Cement Co., Ltd., delivering the second phase of its fully autonomous haulage truck fleet, bringing the total to 18 in full operation at the Yingde site. With this milestone, TCC Yingde Cement officially achieves full quarry-wide autonomous haulage operations.

Located at Guanyin Mountain in Yingcheng, Yingde City, TCC Yingde Cement operates on a site covering over 267 hectares, with affiliated mining areas totaling nearly 533 hectares. The company has an annual clinker capacity of 8 million tons and annual cement production capacity of 8.6 million tons, supported by two limestone quarries and one cement raw material quarry.

In recent years, open-pit mining operations have faced persistent pain points including labor shortages, high training and management costs, heavy workloads, and elevated safety risks. In response to national initiatives promoting mining intelligence, unmanned operations, and safer production, TCC Yingde Cement began deep collaborations with CiDi in 2024 to accelerate the deployment of autonomous haulage trucks.

Phase I of the Dapashan mining area has already achieved 24/7, all-weather, and all-scenario autonomous operation with 10 autonomous trucks. The successful delivery of Phase II reflects CiDi's ability to execute under tight timelines. Throughout vehicle production, testing, logistics, and commissioning, the project team maintained end-to-end closed-loop execution, ensuring on-time delivery and fulfilling commitments to the customer.

Full-Stack Autonomous Driving Empowerment

As a leading enterprise in autonomous mining in China, CiDi provided a customized, full-stack intelligent mining solution for TCC Yingde Cement. The deployed pure-electric autonomous mining trucks serve as the core operational carriers of this solution.

Each vehicle is equipped with an advanced multi-sensor fusion perception system incorporating multi-layer redundancy. At least two independent sensor modalities provide cross-coverage within a 50-meter perimeter, significantly reducing single-point failure risks.

This architecture effectively mitigates safety risks associated with human driving, including equipment failure, operational errors, and driver fatigue. It also ensures reliable multi-object detection and tracking under adverse conditions such as rain, fog, snow, and dust, enabling stable, all-weather, all-scenario autonomous operations.

Powered by CiDi's self-developed centralized autonomous mining dispatching platform, the fleet of 18 autonomous trucks operates in coordinated formation. The system integrates intelligent route planning and dynamic shovel-matching algorithms, enabling flexible "truck-follows-shovel" dispatching across multiple loading platforms and dumping points.

By dynamically optimizing resource allocation based on real-time production rhythms, the system significantly reduces empty hauling rates and idle time, delivering a measurable improvement in overall haulage efficiency.

The concurrently implemented MetaMine virtual operation technology further establishes a digital twin system for the mining area. Through this platform, operators can conduct remote real-time monitoring, fault diagnostics, and intelligent decision-making without entering high-risk operational zones. This approach fundamentally reshapes mining safety management at the system level.

Industry Intelligence Benchmark

The successful commissioning of quarry-wide autonomous haulage at TCC Yingde Cement marks a critical step in the company's intelligent transformation and provides a replicable, scalable reference for the broader mining and quarrying industries.

Three key lessons stand out:

First, technology selection must prioritize proven reliability. CiDi's MetaMine solution has been validated across multiple mining sites, supporting stable autonomous operations under complex conditions and enabling seamless mixed traffic with human-driven vehicles.

Second, implementation should follow a phased, progressive roadmap. TCC Yingde adopted a structured transition—from single-group autonomous operations to multi-group coordination, and ultimately to fully autonomous operations without safety operators—ensuring alignment between technology readiness and production needs.

Third, long-term collaboration creates shared value. As early as 2022, CiDi and TCC jointly delivered the world's first fully electric, quarry-wide autonomous haulage project at TCC Jurong Cement. Over three years of operation, the project has maintained zero accidents, zero emissions, zero drivers, and efficiency exceeding manual operations, saving tens of millions of RMB in operational costs.

CiDi will continue to advance autonomous mining technologies through deeper innovation and broader scenario deployment. By delivering more mature full-stack solutions and high-quality lifecycle services, CiDi aims to help mining enterprises overcome transformation barriers, accelerate large-scale adoption of autonomous mining trucks, and contribute to the industry's high-quality, low-carbon development.