China News Service, Xiamen, September 7 (Reporter Yang Fushan) The 21st China International Investment and Trade Fair ("CIFIT") is about to kick off. As one of its important opening events, the 20th World Business Leader The round table took the lead on the 7th.
Influential experts, scholars, heads of institutions, and heads of international organizations from domestic and overseas in the field of artificial intelligence gathered in Xiamen to explore how to leverage AI to inject new momentum into the world's industries.
Since its establishment in 2002, the World Business Leaders Roundtable has always focused on economic hotspots and built a platform for exchanges, cooperation, and win-win sharing between the international business community.
This roundtable conference organized by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, the CIFIT Organizing Committee, and the World Trade Center Association, and organized by the Xiamen Council for the Promotion of International Trade and the Xiamen International Chamber of Commerce, focused on the theme of "AI empowers, reshaping the industry's new kinetic energy" and attended the meeting. Industry elites share the wisdom and achievements of the integrated development of industries and industries around the development trend of artificial intelligence.
As the core driving force of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, artificial intelligence has injected a steady stream of innovative vitality into economic development and social progress.
Since the sudden outbreak of the new crown epidemic, artificial intelligence-enabled technologies and products have played an important role in epidemic prevention and control, diagnosis and treatment, resumption of work and production, people’s livelihood protection, and restoration of the normal order of economic and social development, inspiring all sectors of society to become intelligent. Multi-faceted and deep-seated needs.
The World Business Leaders Roundtable has discussed artificial intelligence as the theme for three consecutive years.
Zhang Shenfeng, vice chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, believes that, in the critical period when countries around the world work together to fight the epidemic and help economic recovery, it is of great significance to discuss the development trend of innovation in the smart era and promote international exchanges in the field of smart technology.
According to the "China Internet Development Report (2021)", the scale of China's artificial intelligence industry will reach 303.1 billion yuan (RMB, the same below) in 2020, an increase of 15% over the previous year, which is higher than the global growth rate.
Up to now, there are more than 1,450 artificial intelligence companies in China, ranking second in the world, and it has become one of the main centers of "unicorn companies" in the world.
Robin Van Poonbrobeck, CEO of the World Trade Center Association (WTCA), who participated in the video session, believes that in today's world, people have seen a new technology globalization, which has a high level of global interconnectivity. This is "very resilient, a business opportunity, and it also increases business challenges."
He said that WTCA has launched a business platform empowered by artificial intelligence, hoping that more than thousands of companies can find opportunities on the platform and connect with each other.
He sincerely invites Chinese companies to make full use of this business platform and look for opportunities on the platform, "Only when we are together can we contribute to global trade."
Austria has been committed to promoting the development of the artificial intelligence industry in recent years, and many outstanding AI companies and research institutions have emerged.
Ms. Birgit Murr (Ms. Mu E), Commercial Consul and Acting Director of the Austrian Consulate General in Guangzhou, also shared the development of Austrian artificial intelligence with the participants at the round table.
After citing many examples of successful cooperation with the Chinese industry, she said that she hopes to have more opportunities for cooperation with China in the future, "to jointly create a digital and more competitive future."
Baidu Vice President Xie Guangjun believes that China's economy has gone from the trough of the epidemic to the current stage of normal rapid development. The digital economy has become the main driving force of economic development, and the digitalization of the industry will release a large number of opportunities for digitalization and intelligence.
Tian Qi, chief scientist in the field of artificial intelligence in Huawei Cloud, said that he hopes that artificial intelligence will go deeper in industries such as urban traffic governance, medical care, and finance.
"In the past, traditional scientific computing fields, such as ocean, meteorology, energy, including pharmaceuticals, etc., may encounter bottlenecks in terms of computing speed. However, if the new AI method is used to solve the problem, it may be greatly accelerated."
Jiang Zhiguo, dean and vice president of the iFLYTEK Smart City Research Institute, believes that now the whole people have entered an era of digital survival, and artificial intelligence has been initially applied in many fields.
"I hope that in the future artificial intelligence can provide everyone with an artificial intelligence assistant and contribute to a better life." (End)