Universiade AI Town

Universide AI Town in Longgang District of Shenzhen plans one “axis”, two “belts” and three “centers” in its layout, to be a national-grade AI town with R&D, production and living functions. Oriented towards a platform for the transformation of industry-university-research achievements, a base for the cooperation between Hong Kong and Shenzhen and a platform to lead AI industrial development, Universiade AI Town, with AI technology as the dominant power, with Internet, big data and cloud computing technologies as the base, and with new-generation communication technology as the supplementary power, focuses on whole AI industrial chain (including the fundamental layer, the technological layer and and application layer). It builds AI computing resource center, AIOS universal supporting platform and the like, to build the industry’s ecological system with the industry public service platform as the core, to speed up the industrialization of AI core technologies, to empower traditional enterprises to make them smart and to attract upstream and downstream enterprises for linked development. 

It locates in the southern extension area to Universiade Shenzhen and Hong Kong International S&T Town in Longgang District of Shenzhen. Surrounded by mountains in its east, west and north, it covers a land of 341,400 square meters, with its floorage reaching 626,400 square meters. According to Longgang District’s development strategy of building one “center”, two “cores” and multiple “branches”, it comprises the “intelligent core in east GBA”. Longgang District Industrial Investment and Service Group Company Ltd is incharge of the comprehensive management, to improve and renovate the AI Town’s functions, optimize the space layout, build a industrial ecology including factory, R&D office space, hotel, apartment and the like, and to reshape the industrial parks’ structure and ecology. The total investment reaches about 979 million yuan. Universiade AI Town consists of two phases now. One phase, covering 360,000 square meters, is completed and open on 12 August 2021, and the other, covering 250,000 square meters, is planned to be open at the end of 2023. The AI Town would take AI technologies as the leading factor, to be a high-end ecological town characterized by AI research and production and available for industrial development, living and tourism.