According to Xinhua, localities in China are currently developing AI according to their own advantages, forming a complementary ecosystem.
The capital Beijing, Shanghai city and Guangdong province are focusing on developing AI technology, semiconductor chips and robots. Beijing has completed the registration of 259 AI models and 195 AI products. Shanghai has 169 large-scale AI models approved dossiers. Meanwhile, the scale of the core AI industry of Guangdong province has exceeded 300 billion yuan.
Other localities choose their direction based on their own strengths. Anhui province focuses on developing AI and semiconductor chips, in which Hefei city is home to large chip manufacturing enterprises such as ChangXin Memory Technologies. Hubei province promotes its strengths in optoelectronics industry. Henan province promotes the development of AI computing infrastructure.
In addition, areas such as Uygur (Xinjiang), Inner Mongolia and Guizhou province take advantage of renewable energy, hydropower and climate conditions to develop data centers, green computing and AI infrastructure.
In Lichuan (Hubei), the cool climate and abundant hydropower resources help the locality develop the Lichuan Artificial Intelligence Computing Center with a capacity of about 150 PFLOPS, equivalent to the ability to perform about 150 million billion calculations per second, of which more than 80% of the capacity is used.
This computing power not only serves businesses but is also used in culture, tourism and state management. Large data from more than 20 million tourist arrivals each year is also used to develop AI models for tourism.
According to Xinhua, China is continuing to expand its computing center system, regional computing and frontier computing, aiming to form an AI infrastructure capable of meeting the needs of industrial and service development in many localities.
