The third season of "Wit" is a strong attack: "hardcore" variety show respects China.

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  Cctv news  On August 2nd, the launching ceremony of the theme activity "Wisdom and Respect for China" and the press conference of the third season of "Wit" were held in Shougang Park, Jingxi.

  This large-scale science and technology challenge program, which focuses on the frontier development of artificial intelligence in China, takes "Wisdom and Respect for China" as the theme, focusing on "Smart Plus" in many fields such as agriculture, manufacturing, medical care and environmental protection, and presents a science and technology gift for the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.

  Wit is co-sponsored by the Central Radio and Television General Station and the China Academy of Sciences, and co-produced by the CCTV Comprehensive Channel of the Central Radio and Television General Station, the Science Communication Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Changjiang Culture Co., Ltd., starting from July 27th, it will be broadcast on the CCTV Comprehensive Channel at 8 o’clock every Saturday night.

  "Hard core technology" confides in the heart

  There are 85 million disabled people in China, of whom 24 million are physically disabled. Wang Junjing, a frontier soldier of Tibet Military Region who was amputated by high-voltage electric shock while performing his duties, is one of them.

  Wu Xinfen, his wife who has been with me for more than 20 years, said, "As a woman, I especially long for my husband to give me a hug."

Experiencing myoelectric hand

Experiencing myoelectric hand

  The research team used non-invasive EMG neural sensor array and artificial intelligence algorithm to realize the intention recognition of human hand movements, and realized the intention by bionic hands.

  Wang Junjing with a myoelectric hand gave his wife a hug. This first hug is a gift from technology to this loving couple.

  In the first program of the third season of "Wit" broadcast on July 27th, the intelligent myoelectric hand, intelligent designer and unmanned straddle carrier appeared in turn, showing the changes brought by the development of artificial intelligence to human life from different perspectives.

  “王俊景是一名坚毅勇敢的军人,即使没有双臂,他也已经掌握了很多日常生活的基本技能。但是有没有手这件事依然很重要,重新拥有双手,能自己扣好扣子、能亲自夹起佳肴,能再次拥抱爱人,执子之手、与子偕老。人工智能实现了这对患难夫妻对美好生活的向往,而且一定可以更美好。”《机智过人》项目总制片人张越说。

  “这双‘手’是机械的,也是有温度的,让我20多年的心愿实现了。”王俊景说,“这是‘八一’前夕,我收到的珍贵礼物!”撒贝宁在现场也动情感慨:“不管你相信或者不相信,爱情其实就在那里。”

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  发布会上,节目组与陆军某扫雷排爆大队战士杜富国现场连线。在7月31日的中央军委授予荣誉称号仪式上,他荣获了“排雷英雄战士”荣誉称号、习近平总书记为他佩挂英模奖章并颁发证书。

  在边境扫雷行动中掩护战友突遇爆炸失去了双眼和双手的杜富国,在康复训练中重新学习吃饭走路,如今已能独立吃饭、洗脸、刷牙、跑步、写字。

  “我希望大家更多关注残疾人,他们需要什么,有什么困难。以后的科技难以想象,我相信科技会达到领先的技术,我相信中国。”杜富国说。

Zhang Guofei, director of CCTV channel

Zhang Guofei, director of comprehensive channel of Central Radio and Television General Station

  At the press conference, Zhang Guofei, director of the comprehensive channel of the Central Radio and Television General Station, concluded that the research results of artificial intelligence in China have reached the national leading level in some aspects, and artificial intelligence covers all aspects of our lives, covering every corner of society and economy.

  Deep integration of artificial intelligence charm out of the circle

  "In terms of program content, the third season of" Wit "pursues the upgrading of texture and quality; In terms of communication, we are constantly exploring new possibilities of radio and television. How to maximize the dissemination of high-quality program content has always been a problem we are thinking about. " At the press conference site, Zhang Yue said that in the macro-ecology of media integration, linking various platforms, giving full play to the strengths of each family and realizing "one fish to eat more" of high-quality content has become an important strategy for the third season of "Wit". In the new media era, traditional TV media still has great potential.

  Every Saturday, CCTV 1 will focus on the cutting-edge technology of artificial intelligence in 93 minutes of prime time, and show the intelligent achievements of artificial intelligence to empower the industry and benefit the people’s livelihood.  

  Under the background of media integration, this "hardcore" variety show adopts the form of all-media linkage, creating a media integration matrix, which fully embodies integration and innovation in both creation and promotion. In the third season of Wit, the theme activity of "Wisdom and Respect for China" was launched, which linked all walks of life to pay tribute to the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, and relying on the media matrix, various media and platforms were allowed to produce distinctive new media products according to their own advantages and attributes.

  The series of activities of "Zhijing China" have been launched in full swing: during the filming of the project, the program group launched a series of live broadcasts of "Zhijing China" in conjunction with many new media platforms such as CCTV News, CCTV, and Vibrato Short Video. The unmanned harvesters, Jiefang brand unmanned trucks and other projects interacted with netizens through live webcasts, with a total of more than 6.7 million viewers; In the studio recording stage, the program group started the second stage of communication mode, and the recording site was open to netizens. CCTV News and CCTV.com jointly conducted four live broadcasts, with a cumulative audience of more than 15 million. In the "Rubik’s Cube Man-Machine Battle" live broadcast, netizens threw out "Can the mechanical arm understand garbage classification?" "Can the mechanical arm do sign language translation?" And other interesting issues, which opens up a new interactive mode of recording and broadcasting programs and truly realizes the infinite spread of limited space.

  During the warm-up period of the program promotion, Cecilia Han and Sa Beining recorded interesting interactions on the spot, and the short video of Cecilia Han’s "routine" was played over 50 million on the vibrato short video platform, which won 2.2 million praises. When the first program was broadcast, it was the first in the whole network when it reached the top of the variety show. The official Weibo’s single Weibo reading broke a million in an hour; The story of Wang Junjing and his wife has been read by more than 100,000+in WeChat official account such as CCTV News and People’s Daily, and the related programs have been reprinted by many mainstream media such as CCTV News, People’s Daily, Guangming, China Daily, Beiqing, Henan Daily and China Military TV.

Leng Song, Program Planner and Secretary-General of World Media Research Center of China Academy of Social Sciences.

  Leng Song, the program planner and secretary-general of the World Media Research Center of the Journalism Institute of China Academy of Social Sciences, said that the program "Wit Beyond Man" chose a vertical category of science and technology and made a depth of one kilometer within a width of one centimeter. On the surface, the program is conducted in the way of artificial intelligence and human testing confrontation. In fact, it is the machine that realizes the harmonious symbiosis and game mutual assistance between machines and people with the help of human operation.

  "We don’t produce AI. We are welders of human wisdom. Although the technology is good, there will be a future with the control and guidance of human beings, especially with the guidance of China scientists, China scientific community and China TV people." Leng Song said.

  Focus on Struggle and Respect China

  This year, "Smart Plus" first appeared in the government work report. In his government work report, Premier Li Keqiang pointed out that it is necessary to build an industrial Internet platform, expand "Smart Plus" and empower the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry.

  "Wit" is honored to witness the rapid development of artificial intelligence in China for three years. " Shen Jun, vice president of Changjiang Culture, pointed out, "Artificial intelligence technology has entered our daily life, such as finding abducted children. This is the power of science and technology, the care of science and technology. If we used to think about the future, then today is the future. "

  "In this season’s program, we pay special attention to the contents of China manufacturing and China construction, and learn a lot about China Railway, China Construction and China Communications ‘ National team ’ Many stories are shocked and moved again and again. If there are no conditions to create conditions, we must go on, and no matter how tight the time is, we must complete it with good quality and quantity. This spirit of struggle is something in the bones of China people. Whether it is the progress of science and technology or the ability of industry experts, in fact, the things behind it are unified. We hope to extract these spiritual cores of China people, such as benevolence, harmony, innovation, struggle and so on. " Zhang Yue, the chief producer of the project, summed up the significance of this program, "Respect China, respect China people."

Qu Xiangming, Chief Marketing Officer of Midea Group

  Mr. Qu Xiangming, chief marketing officer of Midea Group, said that as the first domestic program focusing on the field of artificial intelligence, it is at the historical moment of the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, Wit Beyond Man is offering a gift to China with cutting-edge scientific and technological development achievements, presenting people with a scientific and technological feast of artificial intelligence to promote a better life, which is highly consistent with Midea Group’s vision of perfect life in science and technology. Mr. Qu Xiangming gave full affirmation and appreciation to the new China "Wisdom" by showing the scientific and technological innovation with temperature, which warmed, touched and shocked everyone’s heart.

  This program, which focuses on the 70-year struggle history of the Republic, also specially designed the "wisdom and respect moment" link: at the end of each project, technical representatives pay tribute to industry predecessors, scientific and technological progress, and the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, "wisdom and respect for life", "wisdom and respect for efficiency", "wisdom and respect for peace", "wisdom and respect for future" and "wisdom and respect for creation".

"DOU wit" plan released

  At the press conference, the third season of "Wit Beyond Man" also jointly released a popular science content cooperation plan — — "DOU wit" includes providing secondary creation and support of short videos for program content, providing a joint stage for short video popular science creators, and jointly launching joint action of online and offline knowledge popularization, and awarding Tik Tok the status of "exclusive short video partner of popular science knowledge". This plan aims to provide more comprehensive support for the creators of popular science, and continue to explore the innovative mode of popular science, actively spread scientific knowledge and convey scientific spirit through short videos, and promote the arrival of the era of popular science for all.

  In addition to showmanship and confrontation, the third season of "Wit Beyond Man" condensed the review of history, the prospect of the future, and the extraction of struggle and development into its own spiritual core.

The National Seminar on Children’s Film Sunflower Squadron was held.

On March 19th, a national seminar on children’s film Sunflower Squadron was held in Beijing. Xia Chao, Chairman of China Literary Critics Association, Nie Zhenning, Writer and Publisher, Jiang Ping, President of China Xia Yan Film Society, Rao Shuguang, President of China Film Critics Association, Chen Yingxian, President of China Puppet Shadow Play Art Society, Huang Jun, President and Secretary General of China Education Association, Yang Yinfu, Professor Peking University, Vice President of China Film Critics Association, and Huang Yichuan, President and Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Film, Su Yi, Vice President of China Xia Yan Film Society, Jiang Zhitao, critic, Jia Yang Sang Zhu, young director and deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Office of China Film Group, Yan Zhen, secretary general of Jiangsu Film Association, and other experts and scholars, as well as Wu Xinlin, the third-level researcher of the Propaganda Department of Nantong Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, Fan Xiaoyan, member of the Standing Committee of Tongzhou District Committee of Nantong City, director of the Propaganda Department, Fei Chunhua, deputy director of Nantong Civilization Office, and Wu Zhixiang, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Tongzhou District Committee of Nantong City of the Communist Party of China. Xu Jun, Chairman of Nantong Tongzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Feng Zhang, Vice Chairman of Nantong Tongzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Deputy Director of Children’s Sound Base and producer of Sunflower Squadron, Qiu Yongkang, Vice Chairman of Nantong Tongzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Deputy Director of Children’s Sound Base attended the meeting.

National Seminar on Children’s Film Sunflower Squadron

This seminar is supported by China Literary Critics Association, China Film Critics Association, China Xia Yan Film Society and china children film association, sponsored by the Propaganda Department of Nantong Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and Nantong Civilization Office, and hosted by the Propaganda Department of Tongzhou District Committee of Nantong City, Nantong Civilization Office and Nantong Tongzhou "China in Children’s Voice" Children’s Art Innovation and Research Base, and specially hosted by Qian State, President of Jiangsu Children’s Culture and Art Promotion Association and Professor of Nanjing Art College.

Xia Chao, chairman of the Chinese Literary Critics Association, said: "Sunflower Squadron is an excellent children’s film that shows the features of the new era, guides children to establish correct values and aesthetics, not only touches people’s hearts with characters, plots and emotions, but also expresses our new pursuit in the new era. It is a rare and good film with enlightening power."

Nie Zhenning, a writer and publisher, commented: "I am very much in favor of this film of love. It vividly presents the education of love in a very poetic and bright way, full of truth, goodness and beauty, and educates people with love, so I think the success of this children’s film Sunflower Squadron is inevitable."

Jiang Ping, president of China Xia Yan Film Society, praised: "Sunflower Squadron is a rare excellent children’s film in the new era, which has broadened the horizons of children’s films in our eyes. I think we can use four words’ new’ to represent this film, that is, new era, new children, new landscape and new atmosphere. It stands in a new angle of the times and focuses on the spiritual outlook and mental journey of children in today’s society. It is a positive and sunny film, just like a warm current of love coming towards us. "

Rao Shuguang, president of China Film Criticism Society, said: "Aesthetic education plays an important role in children’s education, and children’s films are an important and effective means to strengthen aesthetic education. I think "Sunflower Squadron" is a children’s film with light. The style and lens of the whole film are very bright. Through the characters and stories in the film, an inner, positive and upward emotional force is constantly conveyed, forming a unique artistic style and aesthetic temperament. I hope to carry out a far-reaching spread, so that this good film can reach more audiences and let the audience see the film they want to see, and realize a two-way trip.

Chen Yingxian, president of the Chinese Puppet Shadow Play Art Society, said: "The children’s film Sunflower Squadron performed very well in detail. The characters in the film encouraged each other and grew up with each other. The images of sunflowers were superimposed in different ways, giving people a warm power. As an audience, I was also inspired and enlightened."

Huang Jun, president of china children film association, said: "This is a movie that knocks people’s hearts. It has a theme of great love, especially the love of special groups and minors, which requires the careful, vigorous and wholehearted love of the whole society. From the visual point of view, the whole film is warm and cold from beginning to end, and the spring tone dominated by warmth is picturesque, full of vitality and pleasing to the eye. The visual tone blends well with the narrative and characterization of the film, which enhances the aesthetic and ideological strength of the whole film. The viewing experience of Sunflower Squadron is very enjoyable, enjoying four beauties-human beauty, emotional beauty, beautiful scenery and musical beauty. "

Yang Yinfu, vice president and secretary general of China Education Association, said: "Sunflower Squadron is a children’s film and an educational film. The theme of the film reflects inclusive education, so that no child is left behind and every child has a chance to shine in life. The film is full of sunshine, friendship and positive energy, expressing warm realism. It is precisely because of the teachers’ love, care and patience that miracles happen and Mo Li is cured because of their attitudes, emotions and wisdom. "

Professor Peking University and Zhang Yiwu, vice president of China Film Critics Association, affirmed: "I think this film is really a very meaningful and weighty work. It pays attention to such a unique theme as’ integrated education’, and integrates poetic and romantic spirit into the film, which strengthens the symbolic significance of sunflower, not only showing the gradual growth of the protagonist Mo Li, but also the spiritual improvement of other children and the improvement of value and cognition due to the arrival of Mo Li in the whole class, including We should further increase the spread of the film and realize the long tail effect. "

Huangfu Yichuan, president and editor-in-chief of Contemporary Film, said: "Sunflower Squadron, a children’s film, is a vivid film that pays attention to teenagers’ mental health, shows integrated education and cultivates teenagers’ healthy values. It provides a love education and artistic aesthetic experience at the social, school and family levels, and at the children’s psychological and aesthetic levels. From the perspective of film and television education for primary and secondary school students, children want to watch and deserve to watch, and should be recommended to primary and secondary school students. "

Su Yi, vice president of China Xia Yan Film Society, said: "Sunflower Squadron is a well-intentioned children’s work, which is full of the love of the creative team for children. Both adult actors and children actors have performed brilliantly and found a very good combination of real life and artistic truth. For such an excellent film, we should think about how to maximize its social benefits. " Jiang Zhitao, editor of the critic, said with deep feelings: "This is a work of conscience full of great love in the world. As an old audience of nearly 80 years old, I felt a lot after watching the film. I want to express my gratitude to the film creative team. Thank you for offering healthy and delicious spiritual food for the children, so that the children can grow up in happiness and beauty."

At the seminar, the film’s creative representatives shared their feelings about the film’s creation. Yingqi Chan, the "Top Ten Directors" in China and the director of the children’s film Sunflower Squadron, told the behind-the-scenes story emotionally. He said: "The film’s creation lasted for seven years, and it was easy to draft it. We always held a persistent attitude of being meticulous and striving for perfection, hoping to present an excellent children’s film for children in the new era and guide them to embrace the world with love." Brush brush, a children’s literature writer and the original author of Sunflower Squadron, said: "Thank you for putting my literary works on the screen, showing them to small audiences in a more vivid way, bringing them new experiences and giving this work new meaning and connotation." Xue Mei, the screenwriter of Sunflower Squadron, also described the psychological process of script creation, and revealed his heartfelt wishes of creating for children in persistence, exploration and development.

Fan Xiaoyan, member of the Standing Committee of Tongzhou District Committee of Nantong City and Minister of Propaganda Department, said in his speech: "The experts and critics present here are flag representatives in the fields of film and television art and children’s education, and they have rich experience and unique opinions. I believe that through today’s exchange, we will benefit a lot, collide with sparks of thought, help Sunflower Squadron go deeper, higher and further, and provide valuable inspiration and reference for our future research work. Fei Chunhua, deputy director of Nantong Civilization Office, expressed his gratitude to experts and scholars, film creative teams and cast members, children’s literary and art workers and literary volunteers on behalf of the seminar organizers, and further said: "I hope that all children’s literary and art workers and volunteer service teams will make persistent efforts under the careful guidance of experts, constantly innovate forms and enrich carriers, create more masterpieces to guide the healthy growth of children, promote the cultural construction of children and the prosperity and development of children’s literature and art, and make more contributions to promoting the growth of children."

The children’s film "Sunflower Squadron" was directed and supported by the Propaganda Department of CPC jiangsu provincial party committee and the Civilization Office of Jiangsu Province, jointly created by the Propaganda Department of CPC Nantong Municipal Committee, Nantong Civilization Office and the Propaganda Department of CPC Nantong Tongzhou District Committee, jointly produced by Nantong Tongzhou "China in Children’s Voice" children’s art creation and research activity base and Jiangsu Film Association, jointly produced by Nantong Grand Hyatt Culture and Art Communication Co., Ltd. and Nantong Intercontinental Virescence Expo Co., Ltd., and adapted from the novel of the same name brushed by the writer. Directed jointly by Yingqi Chan, the "Top Ten Director" in China, and Chen Juzhi, a young director, and written by Yingqi Chan, Xue Mei and Yang Xiaomeng, the young actors Yang Jinchen, Tian Yulin, Li Zixi, Jia Zixuan and Cao Yile were invited to star, and famous actors Hou Yong and Guo Guangping, Xiaohuan Wei, Sun Lan, Gao Fei, Cao Jun, He Da and Zhang Songnian were invited to participate in the performance.

Producer Feng Zhang introduced that since its release, the children’s film Sunflower Squadron has been shown in urban cinemas and primary and secondary schools, and has been invited to be shown in the training class of minors’ mental health counseling of the Central Civilization Office and the National Education and Training Conference of the National School of Education Administration, and broadcasted in the prime time of CCTV6 movie channel, winning two nominations of "Best Screenplay Award" and "Best Actress" at the 2nd Hong Kong Bauhinia International Film Festival and "Light Year Cup" as the "Outstanding Film of the Year" at the 13th Beijing International Network Film Festival.

In order to give full play to the educational function of the film, actively use excellent films to carry out film and television education activities in primary and secondary schools, and implement the fundamental task of educating people in Lide, the children’s film "Sunflower Squadron" organized a campus tour, which was shown in more than 500 primary and secondary schools one after another, benefiting more than 600,000 children and pushing the film into the campus, classes and children. In addition, we also cooperated with Jiangsu Women and Children Welfare Foundation to establish the "Sunflower Squadron Charity Fund", and opened up channels for public fundraising. All the funds raised were used to organize the children’s film Sunflower Squadron to watch movies, as well as to carry out public welfare activities related to youth film and television education, which widely condensed social charity forces, effectively promoted the normalization of film and television education activities, and created a strong atmosphere in which the whole society cared about the growth of young people. (Tong Xuan)

Development Status of Artificial Intelligence AI Industry in China

     1. Development status of AI

    With the advent of the fourth industrial revolution, artificial intelligence has gradually entered reality from science fiction. Since the concept of artificial intelligence was first put forward in 1956, the development of artificial intelligence has experienced ups and downs. With the breakthrough of core algorithms, the rapid improvement of computing power, and the support of massive Internet data, artificial intelligence finally ushered in a qualitative leap in the second decade of the 21st century, and became the focus of science and technology attracting worldwide attention.
 
    For China, the development of artificial intelligence is a historic strategic opportunity, which is crucial to alleviate the pressure of population aging in the future, meet the challenges of sustainable development and promote the transformation and upgrading of economic structure. As the core driving force of the new round of industrial transformation and the strategic technology leading the future development, the state attaches great importance to the development of artificial intelligence industry. In 2017, the State Council released the "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan" to strategically deploy the artificial intelligence industry; In the government work reports in March 2018 and March 2019, it was emphasized that it is necessary to accelerate the development of emerging industries and promote research and development of artificial intelligence.app; applicationCultivate a new generation of information technology and other emerging industrial clusters to expand the digital economy.
 
    Since the deep learning algorithm was put forward in 2006, the application of artificial intelligence technology has made a breakthrough. Since 2012, the explosive growth of data has provided sufficient "nourishment" for artificial intelligence, and deep learning algorithms have achieved breakthroughs in speech and visual recognition, making it possible for the artificial intelligence industry to land and commercialize.
 
    2. Development layout of AI


    On the whole, China’s artificial intelligence industry has formed a pattern of coordinated development in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, Yangtze River Delta region and Pearl River Delta region, especially in the eastern coastal areas. According to IDC’s Evaluation Report on the Development of Artificial Intelligence Computing Power in China in 2019-2020, the TOP5 cities in China’s list of artificial intelligence cities in 2019 are Beijing, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Guangzhou in turn.
 
    Among them, Beijing has a relatively mature layout and a relatively complete industrial chain. In particular, Zhongguancun Science City and other institutions provide favorable policies, technologies and talents for the development of Beijing’s artificial intelligence industry. At present, the number of enterprises with artificial intelligence in Beijing ranks in the forefront of the country, about 300.
 
    The number of artificial intelligence enterprises in Shanghai is less than that in Beijing, but it is also ahead of other provinces and cities. Shanghai plans to build an artificial intelligence highland and create a first-class artificial intelligence innovation ecology. At present, it has laid out a "human-shaped" spatial structure, which is distributed in 8 regions and 11 industries. In addition to Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places are also actively deployed, and artificial intelligence enterprises are more concentrated.
 
    Guangdong’s scientific and technological innovation ability is also in a leading position, especially the planning and development of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area attaches importance to the layout of artificial intelligence. Up to now, Guangdong Province has successfully identified two batches of 8 parks as "Guangdong Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park". In addition, relying on the important opportunities of national characteristic towns, thousands of enterprises and thousands of towns projects, the Pearl River Delta National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone and the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, Guangdong encourages local cities to speed up the application layout of artificial intelligence industry and build a number of artificial intelligence towns.
 
    Hangzhou attaches great importance to the basic research of artificial intelligence. The "Xiangyun" DRMS system is the first data resource platform based on artificial intelligence in China. It is a full-volume, real-time "data warehouse" of Hangzhou’s urban data brain, which can provide functions such as real-time data collection, data Rubik’s cube and data governance, and creatively apply artificial intelligence to data exchange, sharing and opening. Driven by leading enterprises such as Alibaba, Netease, zhejiang dahua, Hikvision and Straight Flush, Hangzhou has formed a number of distinctive applications in smart cities, finance and other fields. In addition, Hangzhou actively builds an artificial intelligence industrial cluster, taking Hangzhou High-tech Industrial Development Zone and Hangzhou Chengxi Science and Technology Innovation Corridor as the core, optimizing the layout of the city’s artificial intelligence industrial structure and realizing orderly competition and dislocation development.
 
    3. Market demand and scale of AI
 
    China’s artificial intelligence industry focuses on diversified application scenarios. Under the guidance of China’s national conditions and market demand, it aims at the practical needs of intelligent transformation and upgrading in transportation, medical care, finance, security and other fields, and focuses on selecting one or several key areas for key layout, focusing on the whole life cycle of big data in the industry, and taking the lead in promoting commercialization by optimizing scene design. In recent years, the competitive situation of differentiation and regionalization has attracted a large number of emerging artificial intelligence enterprises in China, which has promoted the continuous outbreak of China’s industrial scale.
 
    According to the statistics of Gaozhan think tank, the scale of China’s artificial intelligence industry reached 8.31 billion US dollars in 2018, and by 2019, the industrial scale exceeded 10 billion US dollars, reaching 10.55 billion US dollars. Among them, the industrial scale of AI basic layer, technology layer and application layer reached 1.99 billion US dollars, 3.06 billion US dollars and 5.5 billion US dollars respectively. Driven by policies and markets to accelerate the implementation of a new generation of artificial intelligence application scenarios, it is estimated that the industrial scale will approach 30 billion US dollars in 2022.
 
    Chart: The scale of artificial intelligence industry in China from 2015 to 2019 (USD 100 million)
    Source: Gaozhan think tank
 
    4. Number of AI enterprises
 
    According to the statistics of Gaozhan think tank, by the end of 2019, there were 779 artificial intelligence enterprises in China, accounting for 21.9% of the total number of artificial intelligence enterprises in the world, second only to the United States. In terms of the distribution of start-up time, the establishment time of artificial intelligence enterprises in China concentrated in 2010-2016, accounting for 67.3%, and reached its peak in 2015, and the number of enterprises established in 2016-2019 gradually declined.
 
    Chart: Time distribution of artificial intelligence enterprises in China as of 2019.
    Source: Gaozhan think tank
 
    In terms of geographical distribution of enterprises, artificial intelligence enterprises in China are mainly concentrated in the three metropolitan areas of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta, accounting for 44.8%, 28.7% and 16.9% respectively. Among the provinces and cities, artificial intelligence enterprises are mainly distributed in Beijing, Guangdong, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places, accounting for 88.4% of the total.
 
    Chart: Regional distribution of artificial intelligence enterprises in China in 2019
    Source: Gaozhan think tank
 
    5. Market structure and market share of AI enterprises
 
    The artificial intelligence application market mainly includes three aspects: computer vision application, speech semantic application and machine learning algorithm platform. Among them, computer vision application scenarios are rich and have great commercial value, and about 40% of artificial intelligence enterprises are concentrated in the field of visual artificial intelligence. According to the statistics of Gaozhan think tank, in 2019, the largest manufacturers in China’s artificial intelligence computer vision application field included Shangtang Technology, Defiance Technology, Yuncong Technology, Yitu Technology, Hikvision, Innovative Qizhi, Smart Eye Technology and Dahua Co., Ltd., accounting for 79.5% in total; The manufacturers occupying the largest market in the field of artificial intelligence speech semantic application include Iflytek, Tulsi and Xiao I.robot, Baidu Net News, Jietong Huasheng, Yunzhisheng, Shenzhou Taiyue, Alibaba Cloud and Spirits, accounting for 39.2% in total; The leaders of artificial intelligence algorithm learning platform include Fourth Paradigm, Alibaba Cloud, Baidu, Tencent Cloud, AWS and Microsoft. The main participants include Merrill Lynch Data, Jinshan Cloud, Jiuzhang Yunji, Intelligence Explorer, Xinghuan Technology, Xinhua III and Neusoft.
 
    Chart: China artificial intelligence market pattern in 2019