News from Xinhua about 2024 WIC Wuzhen Summit

11-22,2024

China Focus: World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit eyes people-centered digital futureHANGZHOU, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- The 2024 World Internet Conference (WIC) Wuzhen Summit kicked off on Wednesday morning in the ancient water town of Wuzhen in east China's Zhejiang Province, highlighting efforts to build a people-centered and AI-for-good digital future.The 2024 edition, themed "Embracing a People-centered and AI-for-good Digital Future -- Building a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace," includes 24 sub-forums on topics such as the Global Development Initiative, digital economy and artificial intelligence (AI) technology governance, along with a series of activities."AI is transforming lives at an unimaginable pace," said Li Junhua, UN under-secretary-general for economic and social affairs, via video link at the opening ceremony. "We can only harness the incredible potential of AI if we do so through a people-centered approach and foster dialogue to understand global needs and perspectives."Nii Narku Quaynor, chairman of Ghana Dot Com, said Africa faces the task of how to introduce AI and how to ensure participation in both its development and usage.Regional cyberspace communities and technical institutions across Africa are coordinating efforts to bring better connectivity infrastructure to the region, he said while addressing the main forum on Wednesday afternoon.The main forum of this year's summit underscored the dual priorities of advancing AI innovation and fostering a people-centered digital future. The event brought together over 1,800 participants, including representatives from international organizations, government agencies, leading internet companies, as well as experts, scholars and media professionals.Participants called for advancing innovation in artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and blockchain, while accelerating the conversion of scientific achievements into practical applications.In the future, smart healthcare will enable precise diagnoses and universal access to top medical services, intelligent education will provide personalized digital tutors for every student, care robots will enhance the well-being of the elderly, and autonomous driving will redefine travel, said Zhou Hongyi, founder of 360 Group."We are living through a historic technological revolution, and I feel deeply proud to witness and contribute to this transformative era," said Zhou.A consensus was reached by many speakers at the main forum to promote the development of artificial intelligence aimed at improving human well-being. This effort should prioritize social security, respect for human rights, shared global values and a people-centered, ethical approach to AI.Teo Nie Ching, Malaysian deputy minister of communications, said Malaysia is accelerating the deployment of 5G networks. Through digital technology, it aims to achieve more efficient resource allocation, bridge the digital divide, and bring greater benefits to more Malaysians."AI offers humanity the opportunity to build a better future. How to seize this opportunity and ensure that technology genuinely contributes to improving health and longevity, eradicating poverty and hunger, addressing waste and pollution, and resolving conflicts and disputes has become a shared challenge for all of humanity," said Chen Tianshi, founder and CEO of Cambricon.The main forum also included an award ceremony honoring 18 WIC 2024 Global Youth Leaders. Established in 2023, the WIC Global Youth Leadership Program identifies outstanding young talent in the internet field worldwide, and carries out various activities emphasizing industry advancement and governance.Following the award ceremony, the summit witnessed the launching ceremonies of the WIC think tank cooperation program and WIC Digital Academy.The WIC Digital Academy is meant to train professionals with global perspectives, as well as digital thinking and skills, particularly for developing countries. By facilitating the global flow of knowledge and technology, the institute seeks to bridge the digital divide and ensure that the benefits of internet development reach more nations and people.This year's WIC Wuzhen Summit is scheduled to close on Friday.Notice: the above news is transferred from Xinhua just for information sharing. Here, we respect your intellectual property right and your other lawful rights. As any content here violates any of your lawful rights, please contact us, and we will delete related content.

The 26th CHTF kicked off, and Longgang District would exhibit 105 high-tech products during the 3 days’ event

11-15,2024

On November 14, The 26th China Hi-Tech Fair (CHTF) kicked off at Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center (Bao’an). With the theme of “pursuing scientifically- and technologically-driven development and promoting industrial integration and growth”, the 26th CHTF would last 3 days, attracting over 5,000 well-known enterprises and international organizations from over 100 nations and regions, with more than 1,000 specialized purchasing groups.The 26th CHTF boasts exhibitions covering 22 sectors including artificial intelligence and robotics, electric information and big data, high-end apparatus and manufacture, biotechnology and high-end medical apparatus, low-altitude economy and aerospace. And, it is the first time that CHTF has exhibitions of the nation’s significant technologies and devices, of the technologically-leading industrial chains, of specialized and sophisticated industries and new-quality productive forces, of innovation, entrepreneurship and financial services, as well as of industry- and education- integration. Moreover, during the term of the 26th CHTF, over 160 relevant events including the releasing conferences of the nation’s key achievements, global trade-matching conferences, world-level investment negotiation conferences, would take place, which would release over 4,300 new products, new technologies and new achievements.And, the 26th CHTF also has Longgang Exhibition, which takes place at No.A080 booth of No.15 Exhibition Hall of Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center (Bao’an). Covering about 270 square meters, Longgang Exhibition showcases the innovative and entrepreneurial environment, higher education resources, scientific and technological development of Longgang District. The venue of Longgang Exhibition could be classified specially into various parts for exhibiting Longgang District’s certain development in the sectors like consumer electronics, medicine and biology, low-altitude economy.It’s introduced that at Longgang Exhibition of the 26th CHTF, 38 enterprises and related units would exhibit 105 high-tech products, over 90% of which belong to consumer electronics and smart terminal products. This could just reflect Longgang District’s achievements in the high-tech development.Pictures of Longgang Exhibition at the 26th CHTFNotice:Some information is from CCTV.com.Some pictures are from the official website of the 26th CHTF.Here, we respect your intellectual property right and your other lawful rights. As any content here violates any of your lawful rights, please contact us, and we will delete related content.

Longgang District’s GDP (first three quarters of 2024)

11-14,2024

According to the related statistical data publicized, Longgang District of Shenzhen has generated the gross domestic production of 374.485 billion yuan during the first three quarters of the year, increasing by 7.2% as compared with the same period of the last year on the constant-price basis. Specifically, Longgang District of Shenzhen, during the first three quarters of the year, witnessed the added-value of the primary industries (agriculture, forestry, husbandry and fishing) decrease year-on-year by 15.3% to 95 million yuan, the added value of the secondary industries (mining, manufacturing, electric power industry, construction industry and etc.) increase year-on-year by 9.4% to 248.544 billion yuan, the added value of the tertiary industries (the industries otherwise the first and secondary industries) increase year-on-year by 3.0% to 125.846 billion yuan.

China’s services trade grew by 14.5% year on year during the first 3 quarters

11-06,2024

During the first three quarters of this year, China’s trade in services sustained a sound growth momentum, with the import and export value of the services having a year-on-year increase of 14.5% to 5518.14 billion yuan. Specifically, the exports of the services increased by 15.3% to 2273.34 billion yuan, while the imports of the services rose by 14% to 3244.8 billion yuan, resulting in a service trade deficit of 971.46 billion yuan.Knowledge-intensive services trade rose continually during the first three quarters, with the import and export value growing by 5.3% to cover 2133.42 billion yuan. In the mean time, the exports of knowledge-intensive services witnessed an increase of 4.8% to 1206.31 billion yuan, among which the two sectors -- personal culture and entertainment service, other commercial services, increased faster, respectively by 21.4% and 8.7%. The imports of knowledge-intensive services saw an increase of 6% to cover 927.11 billion yuan, among which the two sectors -- personal culture and entertainment service, other commercial services, rose faster, respectively by 36.6% and 11.5%.Travel services kept a rapid growth during the first three quarters, to be a top sector in services trade, with the combined import and export value hitting 1505.28 billion yuan, up by 42.8%.Some source material is from Economic Daily.Notice: Here, we respect your intellectual property right and your other lawful rights. As any content here violates any of your lawful rights, please contact us, and we will delete related content.

2024 Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality Forum & Shenzhen International Low-carbon City Forum began in Longgang District

10-30,2024

On October 28, 2024 Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality Forum & Shenzhen International Low-carbon City Forum began in Longgang District of Shenzhen. This year, the Forum was hosted by The People’s Government of Shenzhen Municipality, and organized by Development and Reform Commission of Shenzhen Municipality, Shenzhen Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau and The People’s Government of Longgang District. With the theme of “developing new-quality productive forces and promoting comprehensive transition to green development approach”, the Forum of this year would last to October 30. During the term, a wide range of activities and events would take place, including 1 opening ceremony, 10 theme forums and seminars. The Opening Ceremony of the Forum occurred at Shenzhen International Low-carbon City in Longgang District of Shenzhen. At the Opening Ceremony, an awarding presentation for “2024 Urban Green and Low-carbon Scenario Demonstration Bases” was given, awarding the titles to 8 projects of convention and exhibition center, campus community, industrial park, research base and etc. At the Opening Ceremony, Shenzhen municipal certification system for green and low-carbon industries was publicized. Being China’s first one with the characteristics of Shenzhen, the system consists of 1 catalogue, 1 piece of certification regulations, 1 peice of certification guide and certain pieces of technology specifications, as well as the data banks of green and low-carbon enterprises and projects. It contributes to the mutual approval of green and low-carbon industries in GBA, and to the acceleration of high-quality development of the green and low-carbon industries in GBA.At the Opening Ceremony introduced were the achievements in implementing the scheme for the certification of carbon footprint labels, which belongs to the first one of the sort in China. With perfect working plans, scientific standards and unified examination and certification platforms, GBA resorts to massive practices for the certification of carbon footprint labels and has got its own special labels. Besides, many academicians, professionals, as well as the representatives of outstanding enterprises attended the Opening Ceremony of the Forum and gave their speeches. Zhao Tianshou -- an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the director of Energy Institute for Carbon Neutrality under Southern University of Science and Technology, gave a speech on “the development of energy-storage technologies to promote the transition to green and low-carbon development”.Zou Caineng -- an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and a chief new-energy specialist of China National Petroleum Corporation, gave a speech on “the green transformation of energy to produce new-quality productive forces”. Zhu Qingfeng -- a standing member of CPC Committee in China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group, introduced in his theme speech the enterprises’ practices and actions for green and low-carbon development in the aspect of smart energy utility, recyclable water use, diversified energy supply.Zhao Jianping -- the vice president of BYD, expressed in his speech that new-energy automobiles represent a direction of the high-end, smart and green transformation and are in a high-tech, efficient and high-quality path necessitated by the development of new-quality productive forces. Notice:The source material is from CHINANEWS, YANG PAI, SZNEWS. Here, we respect your intellectual property right and your other lawful rights. As any content here violates any of your lawful rights, please contact us, and we will delete related content.

Guangdong Province witnessed over 140,000 AI patents

10-24,2024

On October 23, 2024 GBA AI Industrial Conference was held in Nansha District of Guangzhou Municipality. At the conference, the White Paper on Guangdong Provincial AI Industrial Development (2024) was issued. According to the White Paper, the AI industry of Guangdong Province hit the scale of about 180 billion yuan until 2023, up about 18% year on year. By December 2023, Guangdong Province witnessed over 140,000 AI patents totally, ranking the first across the nation.AI enterprises are of great significant for the industrial development. The White Paper indicated that Guangdong Province boasted over 1,500 prominent AI enterprises by September 2024, including 101 national specialized “little-giant” AI enterprises, 26 “unicorn” AI enterprises, 90 AI listed enterprises.The conference publicized Guangdong Province’s first 66 classic cases involved in applying AI to 12 sectors like technological breakthrough, manufacture, medical treatment, transportation, education.“AI technologies are penetrating into every economic sector of the province.Thus are AI equipment, AI factory, AI service and many other AI application scenarios triggered. Accordingly do new manufacture, new service, new business format and new product come into being,” expressed by the person in charge of Digital Industry Promotion Office under Department of Industry and Information Technology of Guangdong Province. It has been realized among the enterprises of Guangdong Province that AI technological revolution and AI industrial reform could bring great strategic chances.Currently, advanced AI technologies are mainly applied to manufacture, operation, management and the key sectors alike, so would they be applied to the sectors like research, design, storage, logistics. For some instances, AI could help to shorten a day’s design work to only several minutes’, raise the efficiency of production by 30%, and improve storage capacity by 50%. “At present, big models have enter into the stage for the accelerated development,” expressed by the fore-mentioned person in charge. But, there are still a series of problems, such as the inadequacy of big models in the vertical sectors, the little appropriateness between the big models and the production scenarios, the high application costs.“Our next step is to establish a public service platform for the application of AI in the manufacturing sector and to regularly launch classic AI application cases, the terminal products, big models and the application scenarios, so as to make AI benefit more industries and especially the new industrialization,” expressed by the fore-mentioned person in charge.There would be an explosive surge in the number of AI trainers. The White Paper forecasted that there would be over 1,000 applicants in Guangdong Province for the professional titles to work in AI sector in 2024.Besides, at the conference were GBA (Nansha) AI Industrial Empowerment Center and GBA (Nansha) AI Industrial Innovation Center inaugurated, which would aim at promoting the cultivation of AI professionals as well as the transformation and upgrade of the AI sector in GBA, so as to further enhance the innovative development of AI sector in GBA.Notice:The source material is from Nanfang Daily.We respect your intellectual property right and your other lawful rights. As any content here violates any of your lawful rights, please contact us, and we will delete related content.

Longgang District launches a 1-billion-yuan fund for the AI industrial development

10-18,2024

According to the recent news, Longgang District of Shenzhen acts in accordance with Shenzhen Municipal Action Plan to Promote the High-quality Development of the AI Industry and the High-standard Application of the AI Technologies (2023-2024), and plans to launch an AI-industry-oriented fund with about 1 billion yuan, which would be the first one of Shenzhen on such a scale. Longgang District for the first time cooperates with a state-owned financial enterprise of Guangdong Province -- Technology Financial Group, in launching a fund, with Longgang District initiating the guide fund and the enterprise investing in the fund. And, Technology Financial Master Fund Investment and Management Company would be in charge of managing the fund.It’s introduced that the fund would exist for 12 years, maybe longer. It would be input into AI sector, giving monetary support for the technological research and the enterprise growth, to promote the industrialization of AI and further to push the AI-assisted development of other industries. Moreover, the recipients of the fund would benefit from relative preferential policies and other supporting services.Notice:The source material is from YOUNG PAI.Here, we respect your intellectual property right and your other lawful rights. As any content here violates any of your lawful rights, please contact us, and we will delete related content.

China’s import and export volume hit 32.33 trillion yuan during the first 3 quarters of 2024

10-15,2024

At the news conference held by The State Council News Office of the People’s Republic of China on Oct. 14, Wang Lingjun -- the deputy administrator of China Customs introduced that China’s import and export volume, during the first 3 quarters of 2024, hit 32.33 trillion yuan, increased by 5.3% as compared with the last year. Specifically, China’s export volume, during the first 3 quarters of 2024, increased by 6.2% year on year to 18.62 trillion yuan, while the import volume increased by 4.1% year on year to 13.71 trillion yuan.Notice:Related data are from Southcn.com.Here, we respect your intellectual property right and your other lawful rights. As any content here violates any of your lawful rights, please contact us, and we will delete related content.

The Box-office Revenue Reached 2.104 Billion Yuan in China During the Past National Day Holiday

10-09,2024

According to the data released by China Film Administration on Oct. 08, box office takings in China totaled 2.104 billion yuan during 2024 National Day holiday lasting from Oct. 01 to Oct. 07, with 52.09 million tickets sold. And, the ticket revenue of China’s domestic films reached 2.017 billion yuan, accounting for 95.87% of China’s total box-office revenue. The Volunteers: The Battle of Life and Death became the biggest box-office success of the period, with a ticket revenue of 805 million yuan.Moreover, according to other statistical data generated before 21 o’clock of Oct. 07, Guangdong Province boasted the highest box-office revenue in China, which reached 248 million yuan. More specifically, Guangzhou Municipality and Shenzhen Municipality respectively took 61.401 million yuan and 60.586 million yuan at the box office.Notice: related source materials from Xinhuanet and Southcn.comAnd, we respect your intellectual property right and your other lawful rights. As any content here violates your lawful right, please contact us, and we will delete related content.