A total of 58.6 million people watched the cloud opening ceremony on 40 live streaming websites and platforms, while the total number of views has reached 392 million.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Wan Gang, Vice Chairman of CPPCC and Chairman of China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), pointed out that the congress is a high-end platform for artificial intelligence communication jointly created by Tianjin and CAST.
"We will open up big data, apply blockchain and innovate in cloud services during the pandemic prevention and control; promote the development of new industries, further drive the intelligent process and digitization of the entire industry chain, and continuously boost the close combination of artificial intelligence with real economy; create a new platform for employment and build an open source sharing platform,” he said.
“We will also forge the "Sci-Tech Innovation China" brand; continuously deepen basic research, build a world-class artificial intelligence development platform and industrial ecosystem; and promote international cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence," he added.
In his turn, CPC Tianjin Committee Secretary Li Hongzhong, said that Tianjin comprehensively promotes the strategic layout of the new generation artificial intelligence industry, adding that intelligent technology is becoming the core driving force for high-quality development in the city.
“Tianjin will take the initiative to embrace the new era of intelligence, push forward the construction of a pioneer city in the fourth industrial revolution, build itself into an innovative city in intelligent technology, an energization city of the intelligent industry, and an ecological city of intelligent development, continuously optimize its business environment, and strengthen cooperation in intelligence fields with various parties from home and abroad,” he said.
For his part, Li Xiaohong, President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), stressed that Tianjin has embarked on a new way of innovation-driven development with the intelligence technology industry as the lead, noting that Tianjin Intelligent Port shows a promising future.
Park Won Soon, Mayor of Seoul, Republic of Korea, said that this year is a crucial year for the construction of 5G networks in Tianjin.
He hoped Seoul and Tianjin will strengthen communications and share experience on the construction of intelligence industrial infrastructures.
The congress was presided over by Gong Ke, Chairman of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations.
At the congress, representatives from the global intelligence technology industry and academia delivered speeches on site or via video accesses.
Among them were Gao Wenjiu, academician of CAE, Ma Huateng, Chairman of the Board of Tencent, Max Tegmark, tenured professor at the MIT Department of Physics, Yang Yuanqing, Chairman of Lenovo Group, Yang Xu, Global Vice President of Intel Corporation, Edmund Phelps, laureate of Nobel Economics Award, Wang Jian, Chairman of the Technical Committee of Alibaba Group, and Raj Reddy, foreign academician at CAE and winner of Turing Award.
Themed "Intelligence New Era: Innovation, Energization and Ecology", the Fourth World Intelligence Congress includes meetings, exhibitions and several contests.
The event features six cloud events, namely cloud promotion, cloud release, cloud bilateral talk, cloud intelligence experience, cloud intelligence technology exhibition, world intelligent driving challenge contest, "Fifth Space" intelligent safety competition, Tianjin "Haihe Talents" Entrepreneurial Competition, as well as 13 cloud parallel forums, cloud and on-site contract signing activities.