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On December 26, 2017, Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission (HEREINAFTER referred to as the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission) issued the Guidelines on Accelerating scientific and technological Innovation and Developing a New generation of information technology Industry in Beijing. “We have clearly indicated the development goals and tasks of next-generation information technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence.”


Since the rapid development of ARTIFICIAL intelligence in 2017, the world has been increasing research and development and investment in ARTIFICIAL intelligence-related technology industry. According to AI Frontier, As the capital and high-tech industry gathering place, The investment and financing scale of Beijing ranks the first in China. From January to September 2017, 51 projects in the field of ARTIFICIAL intelligence received investment in Beijing, with a total investment of about 10.24 billion yuan, accounting for 50.9% of the national investment in the same period.

In addition to clearly planning the development goals of the AI industry, the guidelines also detail the development tasks of chips, cloud computing, big data, network security, fifth-generation communications (5G) and other technologies (see the picture below).

The guideline also pointed out that by 2020, innovation capacity should be greatly improved, a group of world-leading core technologies and intellectual property rights should be mastered, a group of internationally renowned brands and multinational enterprises with strong international competitiveness should be cultivated, and a group of technology-leading industrial clusters should be formed. A pattern of coordinated regional development has basically taken shape, and the new generation of information technology is deeply integrated with economic and social development.

The full text of the Guidance is linked below:

Beijing Science and Technology Commission innovation reform Guidelines on Accelerating scientific and technological Innovation in Beijing to develop the new generation of information technology Industry

AI Front has compiled the key points from the guidance for your convenience:

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