ZHEJIANG: THERE ARE PLANS TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PLANNING OF A MAJOR AI PROJECT RESERVE TO ACCELERATE THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE AI INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT HIGHLANDS

On 22 July, according to the Zhejiang daily newspaper, on the afternoon of 22, the Governor of Zhejiang province, Liu Jie, presided over a plenary meeting of the provincial government. Liu Jie pointed out that the economic performance of the province during the first half of the year had been steady, new and successful, and that the “half-time and half-missions” had been successfully achieved, and that the responsibility for the “bringing of the economic province” had been strongly assumed. The provincial government system is to anchor the main objectives of economic and social development for the second half of the year, with a firm commitment to focus, specificity and depth, to further strengthen the incentives expected, to stimulate resilience, to adapt and apply the best practices, and to effectively increase the penetration of the implementation process, and to bring about overall productivity gains in key areas, key links and breakthroughs at key points. Zhejiang should be fully encouraged to develop a comprehensive approach to innovation, establish a sound government-led, market-led, multi-investment mechanism for basic research, improve the quality of science and innovation platforms, deepen the development of a test base for the application of national artificial intelligence, provide a comprehensive mapping of artificial intelligence and related industrial chains, and plan to develop a reserve for major artificial intelligence projects and accelerate the development of artificial intelligence innovation in highlands。