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Longhua to host 1st national AI contest finals next month

Source: Longhua Government Online Release time:2021-10-16 [font:largemediumsmall ]

The finals of the first China AI Innovation and Application Competition will be held in Longhua District from Nov. 7 to 8, the event’s organizers announced at a press conference held at the Civic Center in Futian District yesterday.


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A scene at yesterday's press conference. Photos courtesy of the organizer


Hundreds of finalists will compete for awards on Nov. 7, and winners will be announced and awarded on Nov. 8.


The competition, which was launched on Aug. 13, has attracted over 7,000 contests from across the country as of Tuesday. About 25 percent of the participants are from Guangdong Province and nearly one-third of them are from Shenzhen.


The thematic contest is revolved around eight events, including AI city transportation, AI robotics, AI calculations, industrial intelligence, etc. Around 5,000 contestant have signed up for in the four events hosted by Shenzhen.


At the press conference, Yu Xiaohui, director of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, said that China’s AI industry is characterized by a continuously expanding AI core industry and the deepening integration of the technology with the real economy. The competition aims to meet a growing demand for AI talent, with a focus on the construction of an open AI ecosystem.


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Yu Xiaohui, director of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, delivers a speech yesterday.


Yu Xiquan, head of the city’s industry and information technology bureau, said the city’s AI industry has a variety of AI application scenarios and a booming consumption need.


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Wang Wei, secretary of the CPC Longhua District Committee, delivers a speech yesterday.


Wang Wei, secretary of the CPC Longhua District Committee, said that the contribution of digital economy industries towards the overall industrial growth reached 50 percent. Longhua has over 24,800 cloud strategy enterprise projects and 317 AI-related companies. The district is a provincial AI industry key area, and a city’s AI high-end manufacture key industry base.


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