A New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Development Plan, Translated
A New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Development Plan, Translated
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Artificial intelligence has developed into a new stage. After 60 years of evolution,
especially in the motivation of new theories and technologies (i.e mobile Internet, large
data, super-computing, sensor network, brain science) and strong demand for economic
and social development, artificial intelligence has accelerated with new features of deep
learning, cross-border integration, man-machine collaboration, open group intelligence
and autonomous control. Knowledge learning driven by large data, cross-media co-
processing, man-machine collaboration to enhance intelligence, group integration
intelligence and autonomous intelligence systems have become the focus of the
development of artificial intelligence. Brain science research results inspired by the brain
intelligence are ready, chip hardware platform development trend is more obvious and
artificial intelligence has developed into a new stage. At present, the whole promotion of
a new generation of artificial intelligence related disciplines, theoretical modeling,
technological innovation, hardware and software upgrades is triggering chain
breakthroughs and propelling the development of the economic and social fields from
digitalization and networkization to automation.
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Weiming
Chen
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Research
Assistant),
and
Adrian
Lo
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Research
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China has a good basis for the development of artificial intelligence. The State has
deployed special projects, such as intelligent manufacturing and other key research and
development projects, issued three years implementation program of the "Internet+",
made a series of measures in aspects of research and development of science and
technology, application and promotion and industrial development etc. After years of
continuous accumulation, China has made important progresses in the field of artificial
intelligence, the number of international scientific papers published and the amount of
patented invention has been ranked second in the world and some key technologies have
achieved an important breakthrough. Voice recognition, visual recognition technology
are world-leading, adaptive autonomous learning, intuitive perception, comprehensive
reasoning, mixed intelligence and group intelligence, etc., are with the ability of crossing
development, Chinese information processing, intelligent monitoring, biometric
identification, industrial robots, service robots, unmanned driving have gradually
developed into the practical application, artificial intelligence innovation and
entrepreneurship are increasingly active and a number of leading enterprises growing
remarkably have been widely concerned and recognized. The organic combination
between the accelerating accumulation of technical capacity, massive data resources,
huge application requirements and open market environment forms China's unique
advantages of artificial intelligence development.
At the same time, we must also clearly see that the overall level of development of
China's artificial intelligence and that of the developed countries still have gaps. China
lacks major original results and there are huge gaps in the basic theory, the core algorithm,
key equipment, high-end chips, major products and systems, components, software and
interface and so on; scientific research institutions and enterprises have not yet formed
the ecological circle and industrial chain with international influence in short of
systematic research and development layout; artificial intelligence cutting-edge talent is
far from meeting the demand; the infrastructure, policies and regulations and the standard
system adapted to the development of artificial intelligence need to be improved.
Facing the new situation and new demands, we must take the initiative to change the
strain, firmly grasp a major historical opportunity for the development of artificial
intelligence, closely judge the general trend, take the initiative to grasp the direction,
seize the initiative, lead the artificial intelligence development trend of the world, serve
the economic and social development, support national security, and promote the overall
competitiveness of the country and leapfrog development.
We shall comprehensively implement the spirit of the 18th CPC National Congress,
as well as the third, fourth, fifth and sixth plenary sessions of the 18th CPC Central
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Committee, and thoroughly study and implement the new spirit of the speeches delivered
by Xi Jinping and his new series of ideas. In accordance with the overall plan to seek
economic, political, cultural, social, and ecological progress and the Four-pronged
Strategy, we shall conscientiously implement the decision-making arrangements by CPC
Central Committee and State Council and the in-depth innovation-driven development
strategy to accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence and economy, society and
defense and enhance a new generation of artificial intelligence scientific and
technological innovation capacity as the main direction. We shall develop intelligent
economy, construct intelligent society, safeguard national security, build the ecosystem
with cluster integration of knowledge, technology, industry and mutual support of talent,
system, culture, foresee the risks and challenges, propel sustainable development as the
center of the intelligent, and as a result comprehensively enhance the social productive
forces, national strength and national competitiveness for the purpose to speed up the
construction of innovative countries and the science and technology power of the world,
to achieve "two hundred years" goals and to provide strong support for the great
rejuvenation of the nation.
Market-oriented. We shall follow the rules of the market, adhere to the application-
oriented, highlight the main role of enterprises in the choice of technology companies and
the making of industry product standards, accelerate the commercial applications of
artificial intelligence technology and form the competitive advantage. We shall handle
the relationship between the government and market and make the best of governments’
role in planning guidance, policy support, security, market regulation, environmental
construction, ethical regulations and other aspects.
Open Source. We shall advocate the concept of open source and sharing, promote
the sharing of the production, research and innovation. We shall follow coordinated
development law of the economic development and national defense construction,
promote the two-way conversion application of military and civilian scientific and
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technological achievements, build and share military and civilian innovation resources,
form the new pattern of military and civilian integration of all elements, multi-field, high
efficiency. We shall actively participate in global R & D and management of artificial
intelligence, optimize the allocation of innovative resources on a global scale.
The first step, by 2020, is to keep up the overall technology and application of
artificial intelligence with the advanced level of the world. Artificial intelligence industry
has become a new important economic growth point, and artificial intelligence
technology application has become a new way to improve people's livelihood, s
supported the goal of the struggle of China’s entry into the ranks of innovative countries
and the achievement of a moderately prosperous society.
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The third step: by 2030, we shall make artificial intelligence theory, technology and
application achieve the world's leading level to be the major artificial intelligence
innovation center of the world, intelligent economy, intelligent society achieve
remarkable results, and lay an important foundation for China’s entry into the forefront of
the innovative countries and economic powers.
- We shall form a more mature and new generation of artificial intelligence theory
and technology system. We shall make a major breakthrough in the brain intelligence,
independent intelligence, mixed intelligence and group intelligence and other areas, have
an important impact in the field of international artificial intelligence and occupy the
commanding heights of artificial intelligence technology.
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team, promote innovation and interaction with the main body and form continuous
innovation ability of artificial intelligence.
Fully support science and technology, economic, social development and national
security. Through artificial intelligence technology, we will make a break-through in
comprehensively reaising the innovation capability of our country. We shall strengthen
the artificial intelligence industry, cultivate the smart economy to create a new growth
cycle for future ten years or even decades of economic prosperity of China; we shall
build an artificial intelligence society for the development of the world's science and
technology, for the improvement of people's livelihood and welfare in the society and for
the implementation of the ideology of people-centered development; we shall enhance
the national defense strength of artificial intelligence to protect and safeguard national
security.
Based on the national development of the overall situation, we shall accurately grasp
the development trend of global artificial intelligence, identify breakthroughs and the
main direction, comprehensively enhance the basic ability of scientific and technological
innovation, comprehensively expand the depth of application of key areas, and
comprehensively enhance the economic and social development and national defense
application level.
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deployment of the frontier basic theory, the key common technology, the basic platform,
personnel and other aspects and the promotion of open source sharing and the ability of
the continuous system innovation enhancement.
We shall focus on the major scientific frontier issues of artificial intelligence, take
into account the current needs and long-term development, break through the basic theory
of artificial intelligence bottlenecks as the focus, and ensure that advanced layout may
lead to artificial intelligence paradigm transformation of basic research, promote cross-
integration of disciplines for sustainable development and depth applications of artificial
intelligence and provide strong scientific reserves.
Layout the basic theory of frontier research. On basis of the direction of artificial
intelligence paradigm change, we shall forward-looking layout advanced machine
learning, brain-like intelligence calculation, quantum intelligence computing and other
cross-domain basic theory research. Advanced machine learning theory focuses on
breakthroughs in adaptive learning, autonomous learning and other theoretical methods to
achieve strong ability of artificial intelligence high interpretability. The theory and
method of brain-like intelligence focuses on the breakthrough of the theory and method
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computing architecture and other core technologies, we shall build adaptive environment
to adapt to the hybrid intelligent system, man-machine group hybrid enhanced intelligent
systems and support surroundings.
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technology.
4. Hybrid enhanced intelligent new architecture and new technology. We shall do
research on hybrid enhanced intelligent core technology, cognitive computing framework,
new hybrid computing architecture, man-machine sharing and online intelligent learning
technology and the parallel management and control of the hybrid enhanced intelligent
framework.
5. Independent unmanned system of intelligent technology. We shall do research on
intelligent robot, marine robot, polar robot technology, unmanned workshop / intelligent
factory intelligent technology, high-end intelligent control technology and autonomous
unmanned operation, and so on. This paper studies the autonomous control technology of
robot and robot arm based on computer vision localization, navigation and recognition in
complex environment.
6. Virtual reality intelligent modeling technology. This paper studies the mathematical
expression and modeling method of intelligent behavior of virtual object, the problem of
natural, continuous and deep interaction between virtual object and virtual environment and
users and the technology and method system of intelligent object modeling.
7. Intelligent computing chip and system. We shall do research and develop neural
network processor and energy-efficient, reconfigurable brain computing chip, a new type of
sensor chip and system, intelligent computing architecture and systems, artificial
intelligence operating system, and mixed computing architecture suitable for artificial
intelligence.
8. Natural language processing technology. We shall study the short text of the
calculation and analysis technology, cross-language text mining technology and machine-
aware intelligence for semantic understanding of technology and the man-machine dialogue
system of multimedia information understanding.
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basic data and security detection platforms focus on the construction of artificial
intelligence for the public data resource library, the standard test data set, cloud service
platform and form artificial intelligence algorithms and platform security test evaluation
methods, techniques, norms and tools. We shall promote all kinds of open source of
common software and technology platform. All kinds of platforms shall be in accordance
with the requirements of the depth of integration of military and civilian and related
provisions and promote the sharing of military and civilian sharing.
We shall regard the construction of high-end talent team as the most important
development of artificial intelligence, adhere to the combination of training and
introduction, improve the artificial intelligence education system, strengthen the talent
pool and echelon construction, especially to accelerate the introduction of the world's top
talent and young talent, and form China's talent highland of artificial intelligence .
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We shall cultivate high level of artificial intelligence innovation talent and team,
support and cultivate the development potential of artificial intelligence leading talent,
strengthen the basic research of artificial intelligence, applied research, operation and
maintenance aspects of professional and technical personnel training. We shall draw
attention to the training of compound talents, focus on cultivating through the artificial
intelligence theory, methods, technology, products and applications of vertical composite
talents, and master the "artificial intelligence" economy, society, management, standards,
law and other horizontal compound talents. Through major research and development
tasks and base platform construction, we shall converge high-end talents of artificial
intelligence and form a number of high-level innovation teams in a number of artificial
intelligence. We shall encourage and guide domestic innovative talents and strengthen
cooperation with the world's top research institutions of artificial intelligence.
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important economic model. Personalized demand and customization are new consumer
trends. There is a significant increase in productivity. Industries strive towards high-end
value chains, acting as strong support for real economic development, and
comprehensively enhancing its quality and efficiency.
Smart robots. Capture the core components of intelligent robots, special sensors,
improve the intelligent robot hardware interface standards, software interface protocol
standards and safety standards. Develop intelligent industrial robots, intelligent service
robots. The aim is to to achieve large-scale applications for these robots and eventually
enter the international market. Develop and promote of space robots, marine robots, polar
robots and other special intelligent robots. Establish safety standards and standard
physical characteristics for these intelligent robots.
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and other mobile smart terminal products and equipment to encourage the development
of smart watches, smart headphones, smart glasses and other end products that can be
worn to expand product form and application services.
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services. Develop new financial formats. Encourage the financial industry to apply
intelligent customer service, intelligent monitoring and other technologies and
equipment. Establish financial risk early detection, prevention and control systems.
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Combine the regional basis and advantages, according to the field of AI applications
related to the layout of the relevant industries. Encourage local around the AI industry
chain and innovation chain, gather high-end elements, high-end enterprises, high-end
talent. Build AI industry clusters and elevate innovation to new heights.
Carry out pilot demonstrations for applications of AI. In the areas where the AI is
better and the development potential is bigger, the organization will carry out the national
AI innovation experiment. Explore the system mechanism, policy regulations, the
cultivation of talent and so on the big reform, promotes the transformation of the AI
achievement, the big product integration innovation and the demonstration application.
Form replicable, promotable experience, leading to promote intelligent economy and
intelligent social development.
Around the goal of improving people's living standards and quality, speed up the
depth of the application of AI, develop all-encompassing, ubiquitous intelligent
environments, which will significantly increase the whole society's level of
intelligence. More and more simple, repetitive, dangerous tasks are completed by AI,
through which individual creativity has been greatly utilized. This has led to the creation
of more high-quality and high-comfort jobs; precision intelligent services are more
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diverse, and people can enjoy high-quality services and a more convenient life in general;
social governance, due to the substantial increase in the level of intelligence, has led to
more secure and efficient social operations.
Around education, health care, pension and other urgent needs in society, accelerate
the application of innovative AI for the public to provide personalized, diversified, high-
quality services.
Intelligent medical care. Promote the use of new AI methods of treatment for new
ways to establish a rapid and accurate intelligent medical system. Explore smart hospital
construction. Development man-machine coordination in surgical robots, intelligent
clinic assistants. Research and development of flexible, wearable, biologically
compatible physiological monitoring systems. Research and development of human-
computer collaboration in clinical intelligent diagnosis and treatment programs to achieve
intelligent image recognition, pathological classification and intelligent multi-
consultation. Based on AI, carry out large-scale genome recognition, proteomics,
metabolomics and other research and development of new drugs to promote intelligent
pharmaceutical regulation. Strengthen epidemic intelligence monitoring, prevention, and
control.
Intelligent health and old age. Strengthen collective intelligent health management.
Break through in big data healthcare analytics, Internet of Things and other key
technologies. Research and develop health management wearable equipment and home
intelligent health testing and monitoring equipment. Promote health management from
discrete monitoring to continuous monitoring, and change from short process
management to long process management. Construct smart old-age communities and
institutions. Build a safe and convenient smart pension infrastructure system. Improve
the intelligence and intuitiveness of elderly products. Develop audio-visual aids, physical
auxiliary equipment and other intelligent home care equipment. Expand space for
activities for the elderly. Develop mobile social and service platforms for the elderly and
companion care services to enhance the quality of life of the elderly.
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Smart cities. Construct the infrastructure for smart cities. Develop smart
construction, and promote the upgrading of underground corridors and other municipal
infrastructure. Construct big data urban platform to build a multi-heterogeneous data
integration of urban operation and management system to achieve the urban
infrastructure and urban green space, wetlands and other important ecological elements of
the comprehensive perception and the depth of urban complex system operation
awareness. Research and develop community public service information systems to
promote community service systems and residents of intelligent home system
collaboration. Promote periodical updates to smart urban planning, construction, and
management.
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Promote further applications of AI in the field of public safety, and promote the
construction of public safety intelligent monitoring and early warning and control
systems. Research and develop a variety of detection sensor technologies, video image
information analysis and identification technology, biometric identification technology,
intelligent security and police products, around the comprehensive management of the
community, criminal investigation, anti-terrorism and other urgent needs. Establish an
intelligent monitoring platform. Strengthen the intelligence of security equipment in key
public areas. Support the conditions of the community or the city based on AI to carry
out public security regional demonstration. Strengthen the AI of food safety protection.
Establish an intelligent food safety early warning system for food classification, warning
levels, and food safety risks and assessment. Strengthen the effective monitoring of
natural disasters. Build a comprehensive intelligent monitoring and early warning
response platform around earthquake disasters, geological disasters, meteorological
disasters, floods, marine disasters, and other major natural disasters.
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2. Big data infrastructure. Relying on the national data sharing exchange platform, data
open platform and other public infrastructures, construct government governance, public
services, industrial development, technology research and development and other fields of
large data base information database that support the implementation of national governance
data applications. Integrate various types of social data platforms and data center resources.
Form integrated service capabilities that cover the entire country, the layout is reasonable.
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(F) Lay out a new generation of AI major science and technology projects.
Focusing on China's AI needs and weak links, establish a new generation of major
scientific and technological projects in AI. Strengthen the overall co-ordination. Clarify
task boundaries and R&D focus. Form a new generation of major scientific and
technological projects in AI as the core. The existing R&D layout should support the
"1+N" AI Program.
Continue to carry out the development of predictions and research in AI. Strengthen
the economic and social impacts of AI on the economic and social impact as well as their
countermeasures.
"N" refers to the national planning and deployment of AI research and development
projects. The focus is on strengthening the convergence of the new generation of major
scientific and technological projects. Collaboratively promote research in artificial
technology for breakthroughs and product development applications. Strengthen the
convergence of major national science and technology projects, in the "nuclear high base"
(core electronic devices, high-end general-purpose chips, basic software). Integrate
circuit equipment and other national science and technology major projects to support AI
hardware and software development. Strengthen the support between "Technological
Innovations 2030 - major projects." Speed up brain science and brain computing,
quantum information and quantum computing, intelligent manufacturing and robotics,
big data and other research, to provide support for major breakthroughs in AI. The
national key research and development program will continue to promote high-
performance computing and other key special implementations, increasing support for
research and development of AI applications. The National Natural Science Foundation
will strengthen support for cross-disciplinary research and exploration in the field of
AI. In the deep sea space station, health protection and other major projects, as well as
smart cities, smart agricultural equipment and other key national R&D projects are
focused on special deployment, strengthening the technical applications of AI. Other
types of science and technology projects to support the basic theory of AI and common
technology research results should be open and shared.
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on the "One Belt, One Road" strategy to promote the construction of international AI
scientific and technological cooperation bases and joint research centers, and to speed up
the AI technology in "One Belt, One Road" along the country to promote the
application. Promote the establishment of international AI organizations to jointly
develop relevant international standards. Support the relevant industry associations,
alliances and service agencies to build AI services for global service platforms.
V. Assurance Measures
Based on China's need to promote the healthy and rapid development of AI, it is
necessary to deal with the possible challenges of AI by forming an institutional
arrangements to adapt to the development of AI. Build an open and inclusive
international environment and reinforce the notion of AI development as the foundation
for society.
(A) Develop laws and regulations and ethical norms that promote the
development of AI.
Strengthen the research on legal, ethical and social issues related to AI, and establish
laws, regulations and ethical frameworks to ensure the healthy development of AI. Carry
out research on legal issues such as civil and criminal responsibility confirmation,
privacy and property protection, information security utilization related to the application
of AI. Establish a traceability and accountability system. Clarify the legalities of AI and
related rights, obligations and responsibilities. Focus on automatic driving, service robots
and other applications based on the better subdivision areas. Speed up the study and
development of relevant safety management laws and regulations, lay the legal
framework for the rapid application of new technology. Carry out AI in behavioral
science, the study of ethics and other issues. Establish ethical and moral multi-level
judgment structure and the ethical framework in human-computer collaboration. Develop
a code of ethics for R&D designers of AI products. Strengthen assessments of potential
hazards and benefits of AI, and build solutions for emergencies in complex
situations. Actively participate in global governance of AI. Strengthen the study of major
common international problems such as robot alienation and safety supervision. Deepen
international cooperation in AI laws and regulations, international rules and so on, and
jointly cope with global challenges.
Implement tax incentives for small and medium AI enterprises and start-up
enterprises. Through high-tech enterprises tax incentives and R&D additional deductions
and other policies to support the development of AI enterprises. Improve the
implementation of open data and protection-related policies. Expand public data to open
the use of reform pilot to support the public and enterprises to fully tap the commercial
value of public data, and promote the application of AI innovation. Study and perfect the
incorporation of AI into education, medical care, insurance and social assistance.
Effectively deal with social problems brought by AI.
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(C) Establish standards and the intellectual property system for AI technology.
(E) Vigorously strengthen training for the labor force working in AI.
Accelerate the study of how AI affects the employment structure, the change of
employment methods and the skills demands of new occupations and jobs. Establish
lifelong learning and employment training systems to meet the needs of intelligent
economy and intelligent society, and support institutions of higher learning, vocational
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schools and socialization training Institutions to carry out AI skills training, substantially
increasing the professional skills of workers to meet the demands of the high-quality jobs
in China's AI research. Encourage enterprises and organizations to provide AI skills
training for employees. Strengthen re-employment training and guidance for workers to
ensure that simple and repetitive work and the smooth transition of workers due to AI.
In accordance with the unified arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the
State Council, the leading group of national science and technology system reform and
innovation system construction should take the lead in coordinating and reviewing major
tasks, major policies, major issues and key work arrangements to promote the
construction, guidance, coordination and supervision of relevant laws and regulations on
AI. The relevant departments to do the deployment of planning tasks. Relying on the
national science and technology plan (special, fund, etc.) management inter-ministerial
joint meeting, the Ministry of Science and Technology, in conjunction with the relevant
departments, will be responsible for promoting a new generation of major scientific and
technological projects in AI to strengthen coordination with other planning
tasks. Establish AI planning and promote it to offices. The office is located in the
Ministry of Science and Technology, specifically responsible for promoting the
implementation of planning. Establish the AI strategy advisory committee, which will
study the scope and strategic major issues of AI. It will provide advisory assessment for
any major decision-making. Promote the construction of AI think tanks. Support all
kinds of think tanks to carry out major research on AI, and offer strong intellectual
support for AI development.
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Clarify division labor in planning tasks. Clarify responsibility units and schedule.
Develop annual and phased implementation plan. Establish annual assessments, mid-term
assessments and other implementations of the monitoring and evaluation
mechanism. Adapt to the rapid developments of AI according to the progress of the tasks.
The completion of the stage objectives, new trends in technology development.
Strengthen the planning and project dynamic adjustment.
On the major tasks of AI and key policy measures, develop specific programs to
carry out pilot demonstrations. Strengthen coordination efforts between various
departments for local pilot demonstrations, summarize timely the promotion of replicable
experience and practices. Through pilot first, demonstration lead, promote the healthy
and orderly development of AI.
Make full use of the variety of traditional media and new media, timely publicity of
new progress in AI, new results, to inform the public of healthy developments in AI.
Mobilize the whole society to participate in supporting the development of AI
initiatives. Timely public opinion guidance, better response to the development of AI
may bring social, ethical and legal challenges.
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