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.

China’s major industrial firms grew in the first 8 month

09-27, 2024

(Sep. 27) In the January-August Period, China’s major industrial firms (with annual revenue of at least 20 million yuan), saw a year-on-year increase of 0.5% in the net profit, with the total reaching 4652.73 billion yuan.And, according to the latest data released by Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Statistics, Shenzhen major industrial firms with annual revenue of at least 20 million yuan, in the first 8 months of this year, increased the added value by 10.6% as compared with the same period of the last year.Source of related data: CCTV NewsShenzhen Municipal Bureau of StatisticsNotice: 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.

Data on Longgang District’s Tourism during 2024 Mid-Autumn Festival Holiday

09-20, 2024

According to Longgang District Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports, Longgang District, during 2024 Mid-Autumn Festival holiday (Sep. 15--Sep. 17), received 1,336,000 visitors, increased by 6.4% as compared with 2023, with the tourism revenue having a year-on-year increase of 10.11% to 570 million yuan. Features:Longgang District became more attractive to tourists from other cities, with 405,400 tourists travelling across cities to Longgang District. And, 295,200 tourists, during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, chose to spend their holiday night in Longgang District. During 2024 Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, the commercial districts here welcomed over 3 million customers, being 16% more than that of last year, with the gross revenue growing year on year by 15% to over 350 million yuan. And, around and during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, many cultural and tourist events took place in Longgang District, which helped to attract more tourists. Specially, Jay Chou, Chinese famous pop singer, held his concerts from Sep. 12 to Sep. 15 at Shenzhen Universiade Center located in Longgang District. During the concerts, visitors to Shenzhen Universiade Center reached at most 195,000 in a single day. In general, the increasing integration and development of culture, tourism and commerce in Longgang District made great contributions to its popularity during 2024 Mid-Autumn Festival holiday.

Gross foreign trade value of the 9 inland cities in GBA reaching 5.71 trillion yuan during the first 8 months, Shenzhen contributed about 51.8%

09-11, 2024

According to related statistical data from customs authorites, the gross foreign trade value of the 9 inland citites in GBA (Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area) increased year on year by 13.2% to 5.71 trillion yuan during the first 8 months of 2024, which accounted for 20% of the nation’s gross import and export vlaue generated during the same period, breaking the historical record. And, Shenzhen contributed about 51.8% of the gross foreign trade value of the 9 inland cities in GBA.

Another Effort of Longgang District to Promote the Low-altitude Industrial Development

09-03, 2024

On August 28, Longgang District Industry and Information Technology Bureau issued its 2024 Guide for applying for the special fund stipulated in Detailed Rules for Utilizing Longgang District’s Industry and Information Technology Development Fund to Support the Low-altitude Industrial Development. It aims at supporting the establishment of advanced low-altitude technological application platforms and the development of low-altitude passenger flight services.The low-altitude research institutions specialized in establishing low-altitude intelligence-fusion infrastructure and playing a prominent role in the implementation of Shenzhen Municipal Plan for the Innovative Development of the Low-altitude Industry (2022-2025), would be subsidized for they get located or set up branches in Longgang District. As a low-altitude research institution is proved to meet related standards, it would be granted the subsidies that are no more than 40%, 35% or 30% of its yearly operation cost generated actually (mainly including decoration expense, equipment expense, human resource cost, R&D expenditure, site cost, expenditure on integrated flying simulation and control equipment, basic operation cost), during each of their first 3 years in Longgang District. The yearly subsidies could not exceed 40 million yuan. Specifically, the subsidies in the first year should be granted in two parts. The first part, amounting to 1/4 of the year’s total subsidies, should be granted as the low-altitude research institution has been in Longgang District for 4 months; then the second part, equaling 40% of its actual operation cost of the year minus the amount of the first part but no more than 40 million yuan, would be granted in a complete year since it registered in Longgang District.Enterprises and institutions engaged in providing low-altitude passenger flight services and making great contributions to Longgang District’s economic development, would be rewarded in accordance with the “Flying at ease in Joyful Longgang District” : Working Plan for Promoting the Consumption in Low-altitude Field, as being approved by relative industry authorities. The yearly reward could not be more than 15 million yuan. Relative institutions and enterprises could submit their application through Longgang District enterprise service platform from Sep. 02 to Sep. 20.

Market exchange rates in China -- Aug. 22 | News from Xinhua

08-22, 2024

BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- The following are the central parity rates of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, against 25 major currencies announced on Thursday by the China Foreign Exchange Trade System:Currency Unit Central parity rate in yuanU.S. dollar 100 712.28Euro 100 794.63Japanese yen 100 4.9139Hong Kong dollar 100 91.411British pound 100 932.54Australian dollar 100 480.72New Zealand dollar 100 438.81Singapore dollar 100 545.95Swiss franc 100 837.33Canadian dollar 100 524.40Pataca 112.74 100Malaysian ringgit 61.37 100Ruble 1,283.56 100Rand 250.54 100Korean won 18,714 100UAE dirham 51.556 100Saudi riyal 52.658 100Hungarian forint 4,938.74 100Polish zloty 53.809 100Danish krone 93.92 100Swedish krona 142.97 100Norwegian krone 147.39 100Turkish lira 476.177 100Mexican peso 270.63 100Thai baht 481.03 100The central parity rate of the yuan against the U.S. dollar is based on a weighted average of prices offered by market makers before the opening of the interbank market each business day.The central parity rate of the yuan against the Hong Kong dollar is based on the central parity rate of the yuan against the U.S. dollar and the exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar against the U.S. dollar at 9 a.m. in international foreign exchange markets on the same business day.The central parity rate of the yuan against the Pataca is based on the central parity rate of the yuan against the Hong Kong dollar and the exchange rate of the Pataca against the Hong Kong dollar at 9 a.m. in international foreign exchange markets on the same business day.The central parity rates of the yuan against the other 22 currencies are based on the average prices offered by market makers before the opening of the interbank foreign exchange market. Notice: the passage is transferred from Xinhua just for information sharing.As any content here violates your intellectual property right and other lawful rights, please contact us, and we will delete related content.