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Xi says countries need to bolster ties on Internet, big data and AI

COUNTRIES should cooperate in developing the Internet, big data and artificial intelligence, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a letter to the China International Big Data Industry Expo in the southwestern city of Guiyang.

“The new generation of information technology, represented by the Internet, big data and artificial intelligence, is booming at present and has significant and profound impacts on the economic development, social progress and people’s lives of all countries,” Xi said.

Different countries need to strengthen cooperation, deepen exchanges, grasp the opportunities of digital, Internet-based and intelligent development, and properly address the legal, security and governance challenges in the development of the big data industry, he said.

China attaches great importance to the development of the big data industry, and is willing to share opportunities of the digital economy’s development with other countries and jointly explore new growth drivers and development paths by exploring new technologies, new business forms and new models, Xi said.

Xi added that he hopes delegates and guests at the expo discuss plans for the industry’s development and cooperation in the field to contribute to the common development of all countries and the building of a community with a shared future for humanity.

The international expo on big data opened yesterday in southwest China’s Guizhou Province, focusing on the latest innovation of the technology and its applications. The four-day event in the provincial capital of Guiyang will be attended by 448 enterprises from 59 countries and regions, according to the organizing committee.

Among them are more than 150 foreign companies, including 39 Fortune 500 firms.

The expo will feature nine high-level dialogues, including one on big data and global efforts on poverty alleviation, as well as more than 50 forums. It will also include a global competition on artificial intelligence and autonomous driving.

“Today, the Internet, big data and artificial intelligence have integrated deeply with the real economy, while the digital economy has enjoyed rapid growth,” Miao Wei, China’s minister of industry and information technology, said at the opening ceremony of the expo. “Such integration has become the key driving force for high-quality development of the economy.”

By the end of 2018, the scale of China’s digital economy reached 31 trillion yuan (US$4.5 trillion), accounting for about one-third of the national GDP, Miao said.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has sent a message for the big data expo, expressing his best wishes for a fruitful event. “From medicine to transportation to farming, big data presents the world with a remarkable tool to advance global progress,” Guterres said.

He also encouraged participants of the big data industry to reflect on the analysis provided by the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation launched by the UN, so that “we can create a digital world that we are proud to pass on to our children and grandchildren.”

Since 2015, the expo has been held four times in Guiyang. As China’s first big data pilot zone, the mountainous province of Guizhou has attracted heavyweight players, including Apple, Qualcomm, Huawei, Tencent, Alibaba and Foxconn, to establish cloud computing and big data centers as well as regional headquarters.




 

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