Artificial Intelligence: China is a big country, Xiamen is a highland

Published time: 2021-09-09 Category: Industry News

As one of the important parallel forums supporting the China International Fair for Investment and Trade, the 2021 China International Fair for Investment and Trade and the 20th World Business Leaders Roundtable were held at the Xiamen International Convention and Exhibition Center.

The current World Business Leaders Roundtable, with the theme of "AI Empowering, Reshaping New Momentum in the Industry" invites influential experts, scholars, and institutional leaders in the field of artificial intelligence at home and abroad to share and exchange ideas on new digital economic models such as the deep integration, promotion, application, and development innovation of AI technology and industry, explore investment hotspots, and cultivate new engines and driving forces for sustained economic growth in the post pandemic era.

China has become a global artificial intelligence powerhouse

Artificial intelligence, as the core driving force of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, has injected a continuous stream of innovative vitality into economic development and social progress.

Zhang Shenfeng, Vice President of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, said that since the COVID-19, AI has played a positive role in epidemic prevention and control, diagnosis and treatment, resumption of work and production, and livelihood security, further stimulating the demand for intelligence from all sectors of society.

According to the China Internet Development Report 2021, the scale of China's AI industry will reach 303.1 billion yuan in 2020, an increase of 15% over the previous year, higher than the global growth rate. As of now, there are over 1450 artificial intelligence companies in China, ranking second in the world and becoming one of the main concentration areas for global unicorn companies.

Obviously, the digital transformation led by innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence is sparking a new round of industrial revolution globally, and China has become the most innovative and dynamic market in the world today. From indicators such as market size and number of patent applications, China has become a global artificial intelligence powerhouse.

Xiamen gradually becomes a highland of artificial intelligence

Xiamen is one of the earliest economic special zones in China to implement the reform and opening-up policy, and also a strategic pivot of the Maritime Silk Road. Zhang Shenfeng believes that in recent years, Xiamen has vigorously promoted the development of the artificial intelligence industry, comprehensively carried out the construction of a smart city, and gathered numerous excellent intelligent enterprises to invest and develop here. The development of the artificial intelligence industry is at the forefront of the country and is accelerating the construction of an artificial intelligence industry gathering highland.

Regarding this, Liu Yusheng, Deputy Secretary of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Xiamen Municipal People's Congress, stated that in recent years, Xiamen has vigorously promoted the integration of new generation information technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, 5G, and big data with the real economy, accelerating the creation of a digital economy innovation highland. In 2020, the scale of Xiamen's digital economy was 365 billion yuan, accounting for 57% of GDP. Through innovation led and application driven approaches, Xiamen will promote the large-scale development of the digital economy, including the new generation of artificial intelligence industry, and build a strong engine for digital Xiamen. Liu Yusheng stated that as the landing city of the BRICS New Industrial Revolution Partnership Innovation Base, Xiamen has 619 core digital economy enterprises above designated size, and will further seize the strategic opportunities brought by the digital technology revolution and digital economy in the future.

Xiamen enterprises are optimistic about the prospects of artificial intelligence

The application of artificial intelligence in different scenarios has created a large number of new products and services, driving diversified investment and forming a strong market for artificial intelligence products and services. As an empowering technology, the significance of artificial intelligence lies not only in the output value itself, but also in its catalytic significance, which is greater than the output value. Empowered by AI, the next possibility for the world. ”Jiang Zhiguo, Dean and Vice President of iFlytek Smart City Research Institute, has great confidence in the future of artificial intelligence. He stated that the industrial ecosystem of iFlytek's artificial intelligence open platform is thriving, with 2.37 million developers and 19000 developers in Xiamen. He also has strategic partnerships with Xiamen University, Xiamen Public Security Bureau, Torch High tech Zone Management Committee, and Xiamen Industry and Information Technology Bureau. "In the future, I hope our intelligent technology can become everyone's personal companion.

LoPuTe Technology Group Co., Ltd. is a local enterprise in Xiamen that has been committed to artificial intelligence, especially in the field of image recognition, for many years. Its vice president Zhang Xiang stated that they will continue to adhere to their philosophy, sinking artificial intelligence technology to users, and creating very practical product solutions and concepts.

Wu Chengdong, the director of the Strait Intelligent Technology Research Institute, also said that there are many small and medium-sized AI enterprises in Xiamen, many of which are PhDs and masters from prestigious foreign universities who have returned to start businesses. Strengthening exchanges in the future will inevitably become the backbone of Xiamen's artificial intelligence industry.

Artificial intelligence has a strong driving force and "leading goose" effect on product development, service innovation, and industrial upgrading, which is conducive to the formation of new economic growth points and new industrial momentum. Zhang Quanjun, President of Xiamen Council for the Promotion of International Trade, stated that the current period is an important strategic opportunity for the development of artificial intelligence. Further promoting the development of the artificial intelligence industry plays a positive role in cultivating new growth points in Xiamen's digital economy and forming new driving forces for the industry.

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