Hubei: Accelerate the development of the artificial intelligence industry and create a new highland in the development of the artificial intelligence industry with international competitiveness.

On the afternoon of May 29, a special training class for provincial and municipal level leaders in Hubei Province was held, as well as a collective study session for the provincial Party committee's theoretical study center group. 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 emphasized the need to accurately grasp the development trend of artificial intelligence, leverage strengths and focus on overcoming challenges, and build a development system for artificial intelligence that is driven by technological innovation, based on industrial capabilities, supported by digital foundations, guided by application scenarios, and safeguarded by talent cultivation. Accelerating the creation of a new highland for the development of the artificial intelligence industry. Wang Zhonglin emphasized the need to focus on key areas and layout systematically, comprehensively promote the scientific and technological innovation, industrial development, and empowering applications of artificial intelligence in our province. It is necessary to adhere to scientific and technological innovation leadership, accelerate breakthroughs in key core technologies, build an enterprise-led collaborative innovation system for industry-academia-research integration, and strive to launch more original and leading achievements. It is necessary to expand the scale of the industry, accelerate the growth of a group of leading enterprises in the industry, continuously enhance the industrial chain, supply chain, and value chain, and build an internationally competitive cluster of artificial intelligence industries. It is necessary to strengthen the foundation of the digital infrastructure, accelerate the construction of a group of new infrastructure, and build a national-level artificial intelligence innovation platform in Wuhan of high quality to provide enterprises with a full range of services for artificial intelligence research and development applications. It is necessary to expand and empower applications, accelerate the creation of a group of pilot demonstration scenarios, continue to do well in articles such as AI+ industry, AI+ healthcare, AI+ social governance, and better empower various industries. It is necessary to do well in talent cultivation and attraction, accelerate the aggregation of a group of high-end scarce talents, improve the mechanism for contact and services for high-level talents, and attract, retain, and develop more talents effectively.