To facilitate the metro network with enhanced quality and promote industry innovation, on December 18, 2020, Beijing Collaborative Innovation Rail Traffic Research Institute (hereafter referred to as ‘BCII’) was formally established in Beijing. BCII is initiated by BII, and invested by Beijing Metro Operation (‘Beijing Metro’ for short), Beijing MTR, China Academy of Railway Sciences (‘CARS’ for short), Beijing Electronics, Tsinghua Unigroup, Tsinghua University and Beijing Jiaotong University. BCII is an integration fruit of Beijing rail transit resources from enterprises, customers, science & technology institutes and Universities, it is on the way to be the world famous scientific research institutions of rail transit industry.

In the ceremony, the Shareholder Agreement of BCII was signed by BII, Beijing Metro, Beijing MTR, CARS, Beijing Electronics, Tsinghua Unigroup, Tsinghua University and Beijing Jiaotong University.

In the primary stage, BCII plans to build five major science innovation centers named Intelligent Train, Intelligent Control, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing & Big Data and Communication Network.