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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) — At China's steel mills, noisy factory floors are giving way to intelligent systems where control centers analyze production data streams in real time, artificial intelligence (AI) adjusts furnace temperatures based on the situation, and robots spot defects with pinpoint accuracy.
For industry veterans, the transformation is astounding, and experts say it shows how cutting-edge technology is breathing new life into traditional sectors.
“As a cutting-edge technology in the digital era, AI offers new hope for breaking through long-standing bottlenecks in the steel industry,” said Zhang Longqiang, head of the China Institute of Metallurgical Information and Standardization. He added that intelligent algorithms are already driving progress in process optimization, quality control and supply chain management.
Data from the China Iron and Steel Association shows that 95.1 percent of Chinese steel enterprises have incorporated digital transformation strategies into their overall development plans, 82.9 percent have established centralized intelligent control centers, and 63.4 percent have adopted 3D visualization and simulation systems to build digital factories.
Steel companies are also using AI to advance their green transition. The group’s upgraded carbon-neutral digital platform, HBIS, designed as a multi-functional and multi-scenario intelligent system, provides accurate energy consumption forecasting and can double the efficiency of carbon demand analysis.
Looking ahead, Wang Guodong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, stressed that the steel industry should accelerate the integration of industrial internet, big data and AI technologies; move from end processing to source control and whole-process control with elements of human-machine interaction and autonomous unmanned operations; and make coordinated progress in reducing carbon emissions, reducing pollution, expanding green development and achieving sustainable growth.
From factory floors to farmland to service centers, AI initiatives are spreading across China’s economy. Drones are streamlining logistics in Shenzhen, southern China’s Guangdong Province, AI-powered robots are helping manage greenhouses in eastern China’s Shandong, and intelligent voice systems in Hefei, the capital of eastern China’s Anhui Province, are serving users around the world. These elements of China’s AI development highlight the country’s advantages in rich data resources, a mature industrial system, and wide application scenarios.
China's State Council recently released a set of guidelines for promoting the AI initiative, providing a systematic action plan for the application of AI in various sectors and supporting high-quality socio-economic development.
Experts say the AI initiative marks a new stage in the digital revolution. Zhong Xinlong, a researcher at the China Information Industry Development Center, made a powerful analogy: If the last decade was about building a vast information superhighway, the next decade will be about deploying countless groups of intelligent agents with decision-making and collaboration capabilities on that highway.
The guidelines propose supporting the creation of open AI communities and the pooling and opening of models, tools and datasets to advance them, which will address key needs of technological innovation and reduce barriers to R&D.
Vice President of AI unicorn MiniMax Yan Yijun said that this will provide a solid foundation for technology-oriented enterprises to conduct R&D, provide development guidance and market space to expand industry solutions and participate in the intelligent transformation of traditional industries, and create more business opportunities and accelerate global cooperation.
According to a statement from China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the implementation of the AI initiative will include introducing supportive policies and accelerating the development of standards for various sectors and industries. It will facilitate major projects such as the development of AI vouchers and encourage demonstration cases by guiding AI model developers, research institutes and leading enterprises to form interdisciplinary teams, while encouraging local governments and companies to explore new development models.
The launch of the initiative is not only a key step in stimulating the creation of productive forces of new quality, but also an inevitable requirement for advancing the digital economy towards an intelligent economy and an intelligent society, said Ho Fupeng, director of the innovation-oriented development center of the State Research and Development Corporation.
As industry experts have noted, what is truly transforming society is not the technology itself, but the depth and breadth of its integration into production and everyday life. As AI permeates a wide range of industries in China and innovation flourishes with institutional support, the systemic restructuring of the country's socio-economic development is gaining momentum. -0-
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