China News Agency, Xiamen, July 9 (Yan Xu, Huang Yongsi) "This is the first cross-strait economic and trade forum since the epidemic. New infrastructure and new intelligence issues, I think it has very positive significance for the exchange of cross-strait smart manufacturing. "The 2020 Cross-Strait Economic and Trade Forum was held in Xiamen on the 9th," said Wu Jiaying, chairman of the Xiamen Taiwan Businessmen Association.

  This forum is an important event of the 2020 Xiamen Industry Expo and the 24th Cross-Strait Machinery and Electronic Commodities Fair. With the theme of "New Infrastructure, New Intelligence, Empowering New Era of Smart Manufacturing", many industry experts, enterprises and industries on both sides of the Strait The association carried out exchanges and discussions around industrial artificial intelligence, industrial Internet and cloud technology.

  Wu Jiaying said that all Taiwan-funded enterprises above the Xiamen scale have resumed production and resumed production, and the current Xiamen Industry Fair has been commendably postponed to overcome the impact of the epidemic.

  According to Chen Haoying, deputy director of the Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Commerce, there are currently more than 30 smart industry companies in Xiamen, and nearly 100 companies in the pan-smart field. They are in areas such as face recognition technology, intelligent voice technology, and data security. Forefront in the country.

  Wu Jiaying, who has been developing in Xiamen for more than 20 years, is now also investing in the fields of smart manufacturing and ergonomics. "The future development in this field is very good, and there are great opportunities for Taiwan-funded enterprises." Wu Jiaying said that recently the National Development and Reform Commission, the State Taiwan Affairs Office and other ten departments jointly printed and issued "11 Articles" to help Taiwan-funded enterprises and support the participation of Taiwan-funded enterprises. The R&D, production and construction of new infrastructure such as 5G, industrial Internet, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things in the mainland, "our Taiwan-funded enterprises are deeply confident in the development in the mainland."

  Zhang Kelin, executive vice president of the China Machinery Industry Federation, believes that in recent years, Taiwan's machinery industry has adhered to technological innovation and achieved remarkable results in cultivating specialized, sophisticated, special, and new backbone enterprises. This has many points of agreement with the mainland machinery industry.

  Xu Guansheng, chairman of the Taiwan Artificial Intelligence Development Association, is also optimistic about cross-strait cooperation opportunities in the field of intelligent manufacturing. According to its disclosure, the Taiwan Strait Artificial Intelligence Development Association, the Xiamen Artificial Intelligence Industry Association, and the Xiamen Science and Technology Exchange Center jointly established the Strait Intelligent Technology Research Institute in Xiamen, which will be unveiled on July 23.

  Xu Guansheng believes that there are advantages and disadvantages between the two sides in the development of artificial intelligence. "There is a lot of room for academic exchanges, technical exchanges, and product cooperation between the two sides," he said.

  In the Taiwan exhibition area of ​​this year's Industrial Fair, a Taiwan-funded enterprise established in 2001, Dongguan Alfa Automation Technology Co., Ltd. brought the newly developed horizontal walking robot arm. The company's deputy general manager Zhang Jialu said that although the company's performance this year was affected by the epidemic, it has recently begun to pick up slowly. We hope to achieve a win-win situation with customers and suppliers in mainland China in the future, and make a fortune in mainland China. (Finish)