China to further boost AI competitiveness
By He
Xinyu and Wang Hailin from People’s Daily
China
will strengthen R&D and the application
of big data and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, foster clusters of
emerging industries like next-generation information technology, high-end
equipment, biomedicine, new-energy automobiles, and new materials, and expand
the digital economy, according to the Government Work Report 2019.
It has
been the third time that AI was included into the government work report since
its first appearance in the report in 2017, demonstrating great importance the
Chinese government lays on AI development
China
has entered the first echelon around the world in AI development, a report
indicates. The country’s booming AI development has attracted worldwide
attention.
China
has become the most attractive country for AI investment and financing, with
the number of AI enterprises ranking the second in the world. The market value
of the country’s AI industry reached 23.74 billion yuan in 2017, up 67 percent
year on year, according to the report.
Nowadays, AI application is no longer
limited to the fields of science and technology. More AI products related to
daily life have been launched in recent years, bringing convenience to people
in terms of clothing,
food, housing and transportation.
The Xiongan New Area
in north China’s Hebei province has opened its
first unmanned supermarket. Customers can enter the store by scanning their
faces and complete automatic settlement in their own because the digital price
tags are backed by electronic chips, which can be automatically identified by
mobile phones. The technologies of facial recognition and motion capture enable human-free and effective checkout.
The Beijing International Book City
hosts Beijing’s first unattended smart bookstore, which opens
24 hours a day. The bookstore covers 30 square meters and all the procedures,
including entering the store through facial recognition, selecting books,
automatic settlement and checkout, are unattended here.
The world’s first driverless
street sweeper made its debut in Songjiang of Shanghai. The machine is not much
different from an ordinary street sweeper at a first glance. But it will
automatically "wake up" every morning, and then leave the parking
place to start the day's work. A number of sensors are placed at the head and
body parts of the vehicle so that it can sense its location, recognize traffic
lights and automatically bypass obstacles or passers-by during operation.
China should vigorously promote AI development
and application, and strengthen
prevention and guidance to ensure that they are safe and controllable, Zhang
Yesui, spokesperson of the second session of the 13th National People's
Congress (NPC), told a press conference.
The
NPC Standing Committee has included in its legislative plan a number of laws
related to AI, such as the digital security law, the personal information
protection law and the revision to the law on scientific and technological
progress. Meanwhile, it will include AI-related legislation into its research,
in a bid to provide a strong legal guarantee for AI innovation.
Photo taken on February 26, 2019 shows a bus resembling a panda stops at a square in Ganjiang New Area in Nanchang, east China’s Jiangxi province. What attracts people is not only its shape, but also the technological elements of this smart bus. Equipped with more than 10 of the world’s top technologies, it can realize automatic driving. Passengers can pay by simply placing their palms on the identification device. The bus also has a smart unmanned vending machine, through which passengers can buy beverages, food and other goods only by scanning their fingerprints. (Photo from People’s Daily Online
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