Hubei Province: accelerate the creation of a new national highland for the development of artificial intelligence industry, focusing on implementing demonstration projects of "artificial intelligence +" application scenarios.

On the morning of September 16th, the provincial and municipal level leading cadres' special training class and the collective study of the provincial party committee's theoretical study center were held. Wang Zhonglin, the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and the Director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, chaired the meeting and delivered a speech. He emphasized the need to seize the strategic opportunities for the development of the data-driven artificial intelligence industry, focus on building a new national highland for the development of the artificial intelligence industry, and provide strong support for the important strategic fulcrum for the rapid rise of the central region. Wang Zhonglin stressed the need to firmly grasp the key tasks of the development of data-driven artificial intelligence, focus on implementing the innovation-driven leadership project, promote the concentration and breakthrough in key areas such as deep learning universal chips, integrated storage and computing AI chips, vehicle-grade intelligent cockpit chips, 3D flash memory, and overcome key common technologies such as 6G networks, innovative large-scale model infrastructure, and multimodal data processing, promote the innovative leap from "following" to "leading" in artificial intelligence; focus on implementing the basic support capacity enhancement project, strengthen computing power, algorithms, and data support, accelerate the construction of national new internet exchange centers and other national-level node projects, build an ecological and open artificial intelligence industry public service system, strive to build a central hub for data circulation, and build a data-strong province; focus on implementing the industrial agglomeration and cultivation project, give full play to the powerful role of artificial intelligence in driving industrial transformation, empower traditional industries with "intelligent transformation and digital conversion," grow and develop emerging industries, and advance future industrial layout, promote the deep integration of virtual and real sectors, provide strong support for the development of new productive forces, and shape new dynamics and advantages for development; focus on implementing the "AI +" application scenario demonstration project, promote the high-quality development in manufacturing sectors such as high-end optical chips, metaverse, autonomous driving, and low-altitude flight, enhance the governance efficiency in social sectors such as government services and urban governance, innovate new scenarios, models, and formats in education, healthcare, elderly care, and childcare in the field of people's livelihood, continuously meet the aspirations of the people for a better life.